College recruiting has always been a hit or miss affair.  The more talent your able to commit to your school the better chances at least one or two win work out.  Very rarely does a program hit it big and most or all the recruits from a single  incoming class jell from the outset and establish themselves as a power from their first season together.

     The best of these classes has been universally reconized as Michigans Fab Four.  Who's players from the first season together made Michigan a power.  UCLA has had it's share of successful classes in the past and has been able to pick up a key component to fit in nicely with Ben Howards Program. 

     It's success can be measured by the three straight NCAA Final four appearances, with UCLA Losing in the finals to Miami three years ago.  Most Analysist throughout college ball have viewed this as a blown oppotunity for UCLA.  Why with all of their starting lineup with the exception of the All-American guard Darren Collison, declaring thier elgibility for this years draft and with the foregone conclusion that both Kevin Love and Westbrook would be taken early in the first round, coaches in the Pac10 and around the country let out a long sigh of relief.

     Though UCLA's current recruiting class was rated #1 by multiple services, The loss of Kevin Love and the athletic Westbrook would leave UCLA weak inside and the thought was being excepted that UCLA while still good would have to go through a sort of rebuilding period that most University go through when more then one star player is lost to a program. Especially a freshman center and sophmore gaurd they seemed to try to build around.

     Fast forward.  Kevin Shipp decides to return for his senior year and chances are Mbah a Moute will follow suit.  That would mean that UCLA would have two of last years starting guards and one of the two bigmen returning.  Then came the real big news.  UCLA was going to be getting the #2 rated Five Star center in the nation last year Morgan, fresh off his Dallas SOC Texas 4A Championship.  He had been releases from his original LOI, due to a coaching change at his initial choice.

     Coaches started shaking there heads once more on how the richer continue to get rich, and then as a crowning testement to this the Number #2 rated and Five Star strong Forward Stephenson seem destine to add his name on the dotted line insuring UCLA a dominance not only in there league and a continual appearance it seems in the final four or better.

     UCLA already has a Five Star guard in Holliday coming to Pauley and three Four Stars recruits in small foward Gordon, and guards Anderson and Lee.  It now seems not only will their not be a rebuilding year, but that UCLA may have pulle off the best recruiting class in the last quarter century.  Bruin fans thought last year arrival of Love was big.  This incoming class makes last year look like a joke.  UCLA could now have a Five Star recruit at each position, with the returning classmen.   Suddenly what looked like a front court of Aboya, Mata and Keefe, which would be good but not fearful, now looks to be.  Mbah a moute,  Morgan and Stephenson.  A back court that was viewed as just as good as last year with Collison, Holliday and now Shipp if Howad returns to his three guard set though with the strength up front and two guard set would suit UCLA better with possibly Anderson or Lee coming off the bench.

     UCLA fans will be coming up with diffrent monikers to fit this class and possible the rest of the country if they pan out as most think they will.  Perhaps the Super Six, or playing in the Pac 10 perhaps the Six Pac, what ever the moniker UCLA will be the focal point to this upcoming college basketball season.

     What looked like a one and done, in regards to the Confrence and Tornament Championships now look like a double they'll be able to pull off for the next couple of years.  And as for as the Tornament goes, expect UCLA to stamp their reservation in the final four once again.  With this incoming class UCLA will undoubtably be the concensus #1 pick next year.  Remember you heard it hear first Bruin Fans.