You almost have to feel bad for Steve Alford.
He was a golden boy from way back and coaching was supposed to be easy for him.
Things didn’t work out so well for him at Iowa so, to some surprise he took off for greener pastures in New Mexico (figuratively speaking).
Just as he got a 10-year extension, he took the UCLA job. And while he’s generally been successful, UCLA has an impossible standard to live up to in John Wooden, who did things in the 60s that will never happen again.
Wooden won 10 national championships but that’s only one way to measure what UCLA was like then.