Standing Tall: 3-Time National POY Lew-CLA Believes Bruins Are in Ruins

September 26th, 2015 - 20:03

Lew Alcindor is the best player in college basketball history. But Kareem Abdul-Jabbar might be the worst analyst in college basketball annals. The three-time national player of the year is unimpressed with the current state of affairs at his alma mater (UCLA) despite a couple of upcoming Top 10 recruiting classes.

The Ghost of Sugar Daddy Sam Gilbert and the fast times there in the late 1960s under Bruins coach John Wooden comes to mind when struggling to comprehend Jabbar's jaded view of their fast break under present mentor Steve Alford. Did Gilbert promise Kareem he would eventually become king (head coach) or, at least, act as pilot of their Airplane? Any suggestion along those lines would make as much sense as majority of Jabbar's TIME(-warped) whining columns on racism and other predictable liberal-drivel themes. The journalistic jewel needs to listen to some jazz and chill out a little.

If not pants on the ground, then it's brains in the clouds. In today's gimme-gimme-gimme culture, it always seems to be discrimination when something isn't handed to you. Numerous All-Americans have dabbled at coaching in the low minors or as an assistant but never been a DI bench boss. In the wake of Patrick Ewing expounding on his belief employers are biased against tall coaches, following is a list of individuals such as Alcindor/Jabbar who might think they deserve to be guiding their alma mater if they weren't so damn tall: