Tar Heels Drop Bruins . . . and Vice Versa?
That old basketball god in the sky has really figured a way to sock it to us spoiled Bruin followers. How shabbily we treated Bartow, Cunningham, Brown and Farmer. But, in Westwood, they rolled the dice once too often and up came Walt Hazzard.
Last year’s bickering over calls, undisciplined offense and invisible defense set the stage for last Sunday’s performance. Hazzard takes his playground team to North Carolina and gets taken apart by a well-coached, talented team. That’s not a disgrace, it’s going to happen to a lot of teams. But, an eight-point technical, declaring to want out of the series and not play them again--what if he met them in the NCAA (which he won’t), would he forfeit?
Finally, his not wanting to talk until he found someone to fight marked the end of my Bruin watching during his regime.
JERRY KELVOS
Rancho Palos Verdes
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