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Bill Walton thinks Barack Obama should be the next head coach at UCLA

By Brad Berreman

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 03: ESPN Announcer Bill Walton looks on before a college basketball game between the UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans on March 3, 2018, at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 03: ESPN Announcer Bill Walton looks on before a college basketball game between the UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans on March 3, 2018, at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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Bill Walton is a distinguished UCLA alum, and he has some thoughts on who should be the next men’s basketball coach.

Now that the college football season is nearly over, and the NFL season is heading toward the playoffs, college basketball gets a piece of the sports stage. That also means, as long as we can ignore the dismal play that’s sure to come on the court, Bill Walton will now get run on ESPN as an analyst for Pac-12 games

Quite often, to the chagrin of some people, Walton gets on wonderful, ridiculous tangents that can’t be interfered with by the actual game action. On Thursday night he was on the call of Stanford-UCLA, which was, of course, the Bruins’ first game since coach Steve Alford was fired on Monday.

Walton may or may not have serious thoughts on who the next UCLA coach should be. But those serious thoughts don’t have a place in his routine, and he went the direction of someone with inherent leadership qualities from his previous job as a candidate to replace Alford.

As play-by-play man Dave Pasch tried to mine for some actual candidates, surely knowing he would get nowhere, Walton replied: “I’m sticking with Barack Obama until he says no.”

On a post-game SportsCenter hit after the Bruins’ 92-70 in Murry Bartow’s debut as interim head coach, Walton jokingly went further when asked about the search by suggesting co-host/interviewer Neil Everett should be the next UCLA coach. Everett then said he’d only take the job if Walton would agree to be his lead assistant. To which Walton said, “but I don’t know anything about basketball.”

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Love him or hate him, the college basketball fans are set to have more of Walton in their lives again. As conference play just starts across the country, he appears to already be in midseason form with lines that regularly make us laugh and shake our heads simultaneously.