Coach Al Scates announces plans to retire after 2012 season, hopes to cap 50 year tenure with one final UCLA men’s volleyball NCAA Championship

Forty-nine years ago, Al Scates took the reigns of the UCLA men’s volleyball program. Since then, Scates has solidified himself as one of the best coaches of all time in any collegiate sport.

Inconsistency was the only constant for UCLA men’s volleyball, though the team says it has the pieces to win an NCAA Championship in 2012

There is a bitter irony related to the word “inconsistency” when it comes to sports: A team has to be consistently inconsistent in order to earn the dubious designation. This season, the UCLA men’s volleyball team fit the mold to be labeled with such a title.