HARRICK: LAVIN WON'T KEEP TOP JOB.Byline: Daily News Deposed UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach Jim Harrick Jim Harrick (born July 25, 1938 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a former college basketball head coach who coached at Pepperdine University, UCLA, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia. says he doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. believe his interim replacement, Steve Lavin Steve Lavin (born September 4,1964), a San Francisco, California native is a former college basketball coach and current ABC and ESPN TV analyst. As UCLA head basketball coach from 1996-2003, Lavin compiled a record of 145-78. , will keep the job beyond this season. ``Steve is a very, very bright young guy, potentially a very fine basketball coach,'' Harrick said in an interview on ESPN's ``Up Close,'' which aired Friday. ``An interim job is very, very difficult. . . . ``When you get your first job and it's a high-profile job like UCLA, it's very, very difficult. I do not think so (Lavin will coach UCLA next season), that's just my opinion.'' Harrick, 58, was fired Nov. 6 - two weeks before the start of the season - because he falsified an expense account and later lied about it. |
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