Jack Nicholson with Michael Jordan

The most famous fan of the Los Angeles Lakers has also been spotted cheering the UCLA Bruins to victory. Maybe he’s doing some scouting.

If Jack Nicholson decides that the acting life is no longer for him, he’d make one hell of a college basketball coach. Really. He developed his appreciation for the game while growing up in the 1950s, playing pick-up ball on the Jersey Shore. He played guard for one year at high school before he was kicked out of sports after taking a baseball bat to an opponent’s locker room.

You won’t find many college kids willing to question Jack’s authority. Nicholson is highly intelligent, and his alpha male persona is ideally suited for coaching at the college level. But it’s the 30-plus years he’s spent sitting three seats away from the visiting bench at Lakers games that has given Nicholson the experience he needs to be successful.