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."
Next season, though, he intends to participate.
"It doesn't matter where," he says. "I'll go anywhere. I'll come back here to this house and Santa Barbara someday. This will always be here for me. But I'm fired up to get back to coaching. I think I'm ready to do my best job."
Edited by FIJItiger at 10:23:32 on 01/12/21