UCLA Basketball: 3 Storylines You’ll Get Sick Of Hearing This Season

3. Ben Howland is on the hot seat

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You know this. I know this. The entire college hoops world knows this. National championships in any sport don’t earn you more than three years of horrible performances from your teams (ask Gene Chizik at Auburn) and three Final Four appearances at UCLA don’t immortalize you either.

But I don’t need to tell you this; you know Howland is likely let go if he has a mediocre season. The pundits, the broadcasting booth, though? They think you’ve forgotten, and they’ll bring up Howland’s job security every chance they get.

Whether you want to hear it or not is out of your control.