http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/02/21/college-basketball-former-ucla-coach-ben-howland/23569565/
A year ago, Howland says, he could have had three different jobs. Two were rebuilding jobs. He passed on all of them, hoping for a bigger job developing late. Missouri and Tennessee opened up, but Missouri hired Kim Anderson of Central Missouri and Tennessee hired Southern Mississippi's Donnie Tyndall.
"I thought I'd be a candidate for those jobs," he says. "I thought if I was patient, a really good opportunity might materialize. It just didn't happen."
"I wish I had taken one of the jobs I turned down last spring," he says. "I miss it so bad."