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Aug 12, 2022·edited Aug 13, 2022

If we do pull the trigger I hope it won’t be another retread. However the big 10 isn’t until 2024 right? So if I had to guess I’d say 8-4 or even 7-5 buys him another year. Good news is I don’t have to see the stupid SEC all over every network every weekend. Just stay off ESPN and I should be golden. Now if we could just get rid of Notre Dame all will be peachy.

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My thoughts exactly, and I agree that Dave Aranda would be the perfect coach to target. Love him as a coach and what he represents as a leader.

I think had UCLA fired Chip this past season they would have targeted him (and probably were talking with him behind the scenes) before he signed that extension with Baylor.

And that’s sad to be honest. We were pulling in 4 and 5 stars who have been consistent starters the last decade—the recruiting approach is not sound. You are in one of the top recruiting areas in America, period. If you’re UCLA you should not be losing talent like CJ Stroud and Bryce Young to schools outside the conference. And yet that’s exactly what happened with Chips slow approach and fumbling out the gate when he first got here.

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Aug 14, 2022·edited Aug 14, 2022

UCLA better be careful what is wishes for if it fires Chip. We aren’t getting Aranda. We are not getting anyone elite. We will just be getting someone else on Chip’s level.

UCLA basketball can always at least have a discussion with just about any coach. But just by being UCLA, we are limited in football coach options.

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Also, since it’s on my mind…that feasibility report by the regents on UCLA leaving for the Big 10 is due in a couple of days.

What kind of litigation can we expect to see? I don’t imagine the Regents can force UCLA to stay in the PAC, but can they actually force the AD to divert money towards Berkeley or the other schools?

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OK I’ve read everything I can find and given myself a day to think it over. And my considered take now is this: SCREW THE BIG 10. Newsom’s got a good point. Let those money grubbing spoiled children across town go who needs ‘em. I DGAF if we never play those nitwit cheaters again. The last thing I want to do is watch us lose in friggin Wisconsin in November in a 7-6 slog in a blizzard. We need to figure it out, not cut and run just because effing $C can’t pay their bills (how you livin’ Caruso?). I hope the regents put the kibosh on the whole deal. They have that power. Anyway that’s my take, as they say your mileage may vary.

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