I have made no secret, either in this space or on Twitter, that I think 1) Steve Alford is unfit to coach UCLA basketball and 2) he should be fired immediately. Like, an in-the-locker-room-in-Las-Vegas-after-the-Pac-12–Tournament-loss-to-USC-‘That-was-so-awful-that-you-have-to-leave-right-now’ kind of immediately.
I hated the hire from the moment I heard of it. The search and announcement were embarrassing, and it’s only gone downhill from there. I was heartbroken when I fell for BruinsNation.com’s 2014 April Fools prank that he’d been hired away by Indiana. I would have been fine (ecstatic, rather) if he’d been fired mid-season after the humiliating loss to Kentucky last season.