This Is What Happens When Jim Harrick Doesnt Prepare For Special Situations

WHY PREPARING FOR SPECIAL SITUATIONS IS A GOOD IDEA: Sometimes life just isn’t fair. UCLA enters the Pac-10 basketball tournament today as the top seed, and is a favorite to garner a similar position in the NCAA tournament.

Ben Howland UCLA Coed


Meanwhile, 112 miles north of Staples Center at the ass-end of the San Joaquin Valley, the last man to coach the Bruins to a national title, Jim Harrick, is coaching the NBDL Bakersfield Jam to a dead-last finish (it’s gotten so ugly that the NBDL bogarted the Jam’s team stats page).

Jim Harrick NBDL Bakersfield Jam Last Place


Guess the coach didn’t take his own advice.

Jim Harrick Harrick's Hounds


As a Univ. of Georgia alumnus, I can’t tell you how through-the-roof ecstatic melancholy this makes me.