Cal vs. UCLA: Previewing the Alford-less Bruins

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I’m not usually the type to dance on the grave of a coach, even at a rival school. And especially when his continued employment is probably in Cal’s benefit. But Alford was given 3.6 million to leave, has a more than checkered moral past that hasn’t stopped him from weird moralizing on his way out. Good riddance.

Former UAB, East Tennessee St., and South Florida (interim) head coach Murry Bartow is the UCLA interim while the Bruins spend time being perpetually disappointed that John Wooden’s reincarnated soul hasn’t yet been identified. He led UCLA to an impressively easy 22 point home…