..well, Newsom sucks anyway! But, more and more college athletics -- particularly football and basketball -- are becoming professional in every respect. Travel hardships for coast to coast road games come with the territory. The Niners, Rams, Chargers play one game per week and travel coast to coast often so the Bruins and Trojans can as well.
Classes? My son is in the USAF and stationed in Japan and earning a degree from ASU in criminology over the internet. Football and basketball players can do do as well. I went to UH for a semester so I could graduate from UCLA on time. Where there's a will, there's a way!
The move to the big ten will be really hard on the football program but it'll probably shake the Chipster out of the tree (so he can get his catering biz going) and get the program on the stick. As for recruiting, how many kids from Michigan and Ohio and the frozen Midwest would prefer to play MOST of their schedule in 70 degree weather at the Rose Bowl anyway?
Block & Jarmond made an incredible move, unparalleled in my view, to alleviate UCLA's woeful athletic finance in the first place and, in one fell swoop, lifting its football status nationally. Those Terry Donahue days seemed such a distant memory to me. His successors have been mediocre, uninspiring on the field.
Who cares anyway ? By the time UCLA took the field out west, football fans in the mid west had all been satiated, inebriated too, during the day by the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska and my other alma mater Wisconsin going fiercely at each other, thrilling everyone glued to the big screen TV in every town, every bars in the heartlands of America. For them to try to stay awake to see Jim Mora engineering another turnover, another punt ( LOL ) to Karl Dorell staring quizzically at the field, wondering what was going on to Rick Neuheisel's frantic but futile hand gestures at everyone and no one at the same time were indeed too much to bear. The current one has one more chance at it because the buyout terms would be optimun to cut him loose then. We could hire - this time it better pans out - from a wide open field of candidates from coast to coast.
Forget about the regents. They cannot do a darn thing but orally fart.
Kudos to Block, Jarmond, et al for being pro-active in securing funding for ALL Ucla sports programs for years to come...If Gavin Newsom had this much sense our State would be dealing with some of the many issues that plague it, but I guess that's another topic entirely lol
I'm not sure what "events of the last week" prove. We already knew that the Big 10 had a better TV deal and market. Alas, this continues to prove that this deal was all about the $$$$, which I guess UCLA Athletics needs.
Can't believe it's already football season! We play Bowling Green (ugh) in 11 days!
Until we know what arrangement the Regents will make to subvent Cal and what the TV rights agreement is for the Pac-12(10), I think it's probably premature to declare.
Remember this is about more than TV rights. Overall attendance at the Rose Bowl should be higher (just may not be rooting for UCLA), plus access to the future playoffs is likely better.
The non P5 conferences never felt like they have a fair path to the existing playoffs, and I'd bet everybody not in the SEC and B1G will feel the same about whatever new format comes out.
All the reporting mentions that the AD and President of Oregon are not involved (neither is Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren) which means this is Phil Knight trying to get Oregon an invite on his own. My read is that the Big Ten is going to hold off on any further non-Notre Dame expansion for five years or so, waiting until before their next contract negotiations are set to begin.
Didn't these regents know that USC also figured the travel in the B1G for all of their sports too? Duh!
UCLA moving to the B1G is an absolute must!!!
Dear Regents:
Don't cry for me, Argentina!
..well, Newsom sucks anyway! But, more and more college athletics -- particularly football and basketball -- are becoming professional in every respect. Travel hardships for coast to coast road games come with the territory. The Niners, Rams, Chargers play one game per week and travel coast to coast often so the Bruins and Trojans can as well.
Classes? My son is in the USAF and stationed in Japan and earning a degree from ASU in criminology over the internet. Football and basketball players can do do as well. I went to UH for a semester so I could graduate from UCLA on time. Where there's a will, there's a way!
The move to the big ten will be really hard on the football program but it'll probably shake the Chipster out of the tree (so he can get his catering biz going) and get the program on the stick. As for recruiting, how many kids from Michigan and Ohio and the frozen Midwest would prefer to play MOST of their schedule in 70 degree weather at the Rose Bowl anyway?
Block & Jarmond made an incredible move, unparalleled in my view, to alleviate UCLA's woeful athletic finance in the first place and, in one fell swoop, lifting its football status nationally. Those Terry Donahue days seemed such a distant memory to me. His successors have been mediocre, uninspiring on the field.
Who cares anyway ? By the time UCLA took the field out west, football fans in the mid west had all been satiated, inebriated too, during the day by the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska and my other alma mater Wisconsin going fiercely at each other, thrilling everyone glued to the big screen TV in every town, every bars in the heartlands of America. For them to try to stay awake to see Jim Mora engineering another turnover, another punt ( LOL ) to Karl Dorell staring quizzically at the field, wondering what was going on to Rick Neuheisel's frantic but futile hand gestures at everyone and no one at the same time were indeed too much to bear. The current one has one more chance at it because the buyout terms would be optimun to cut him loose then. We could hire - this time it better pans out - from a wide open field of candidates from coast to coast.
Forget about the regents. They cannot do a darn thing but orally fart.
It’s a sad day for me, but time marches on.
Kudos to Block, Jarmond, et al for being pro-active in securing funding for ALL Ucla sports programs for years to come...If Gavin Newsom had this much sense our State would be dealing with some of the many issues that plague it, but I guess that's another topic entirely lol
Is Oregon the next domino to fall? https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/report-oregon-big-ten-have-preliminary-realignment-discussions/ar-AA10Xix0
I'm not sure what "events of the last week" prove. We already knew that the Big 10 had a better TV deal and market. Alas, this continues to prove that this deal was all about the $$$$, which I guess UCLA Athletics needs.
Can't believe it's already football season! We play Bowling Green (ugh) in 11 days!
Until we know what arrangement the Regents will make to subvent Cal and what the TV rights agreement is for the Pac-12(10), I think it's probably premature to declare.
Remember this is about more than TV rights. Overall attendance at the Rose Bowl should be higher (just may not be rooting for UCLA), plus access to the future playoffs is likely better.
The non P5 conferences never felt like they have a fair path to the existing playoffs, and I'd bet everybody not in the SEC and B1G will feel the same about whatever new format comes out.
I’ve read Oregon and Big 10 are talking. Is that true?
All the reporting mentions that the AD and President of Oregon are not involved (neither is Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren) which means this is Phil Knight trying to get Oregon an invite on his own. My read is that the Big Ten is going to hold off on any further non-Notre Dame expansion for five years or so, waiting until before their next contract negotiations are set to begin.