Or could it be that EB couldn't find another job and had to feed his family?  COuld it be that he couoldn't put Walberg on his resume because of the way he went out at Pepperdine and that he probably won't be able to get a D1 job for a long time?  Look for him to stay for one year and look to step in at Willamette, where his former Santa Cruz AD is.  lol.

What it means is that the coach left before getting fired and that Bridgeland is in good with the AD.  To keep potential recruits and current players, keeping Bridgeland is a good move.  It will be interesting to see what happens after the season.  Do they keep him or find another coach?  I would think it is what Bridgeland wanted(being a head coach that is), but you sometimes beware of what you ask for.  That level very different from D3.  I personally think Bridgeland will be fine, but you never know in these cases what happens behind the scenes.

Ups's style caught the league by surprise some years ago.  It is basically an "I have better players than you" style of playing.  If you ran the same style with Willamette's players or that of Whitmans, they would lose every game by 50.  The league has caught up to UPS in a sense that the other schools have figured they need better guards to compete.  The only problem is that UPS has stockpiled good guards, and oh by the way Foster is the best player period in the league.  Bridgeland had it figured out.  I think in a few years you will really see what UPS is about when all of Bridgeland's guys (Bridgeland is now the head coach of Pepperdine by the way) graduate.  That junior class is a very good one and they seemed to have run off the only seed that kinda brought them down, although I cannot remember his name(delone maybe?).  Everything comes down to getting better players to offest the other team's better players and UPS has players on their second five that would start for any team in this league.  Whitworth has a chance because they are big strong and talented.  They play like men.  Lewis & Clark can beat them because they have guys who can handle the pressure that UPS gives and enough good players to offest those of UPS.  Linfield always gives Linfield trouble because they always have straight up athletes who play like football players.