HawaiiDuck Moderator No. 1 Share Posted December 15, 2022 UCLA required to subsidize Cal $2-10M per year. After months of haggling, UC regents finally bless UCLA's move to the Big Ten WWW.LATIMES.COM UC regents are done fighting UCLA's... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceaniaDuck No. 2 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Saddened to hear this. I was holding out hope that perhaps UCLA would stay in the PAC but it wasn't meant to be I guess. The loss of both USC and UCLA is definitely a serious blow to the PAC. Although I know that there are other factors leading to this, thanks goes out to Mr. Larry Scott for destroying the conference. The only other school that maybe should be added at this point is SDSU. The other schools mentioned in other posts would probably only have a marginal benefit at best to the PAC or otherwise would be a poor fit. This is a call now for the remaining PAC schools to try their darndest to win against both LA schools in their last season in the PAC so they can have proper sendoffs to the B1G with below .500 records. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 3 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Don't let USC win the conference in 2023, and UCLA in basketball this year and next. Show everyone they actually did not win titles that often in the last 20 years in the Pac. Don't schedule any sport for non-conference contests; make them figure their own west-coast pod out. I am sure they will make a GREAT jump to the B1G... 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktmguy2018 No. 4 Share Posted December 15, 2022 (edited) AS if I already didn't have enough to dissect this off-season...NOW they go and throw this in the mix. I do NOT appreciate this and may have to craft a strongly worded letter to those regents using some bold and CAPITAL fonts! I gotta tell ya, what is an over-anxious, over-thinking, over-analyzing, over-zealous Duck fans supposed to do?? Welp, time to call the doc and up the mg's on the BP med. Edited December 15, 2022 by Ktmguy2018 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandaian No. 5 Share Posted December 15, 2022 It will be really interesting to hear how much UCLA will be paying CAL every year. The UC regents haven't decided how often UCLA is to pay CAL. UCLA also said they will be spending an additional 11-12 mil per year on athletes with this move. So, add another 10 mil per year for CAL, that is 21-22 mil per year. Hope it is worth it. Love how UCLA AD said they won't be playing Rutgers every week, so in the grand scheme of things it isn't that much. Nearly all of the B1G TEN schools are more than double the distance than all but UW. Sorry, but UCLA AD is a dope thinking it isn't all that much. Flight time/flight miles I used the same flight calculator, so I have no idea why it would have some place closer have longer flight times, but it gives the jist of the differences. Pac 12 Big Ten WSU 2.1 886 Nebraska 3.02 1269 UW 3 955 Minnesota 3.03 1524 UO 1.3 748 Iowa 3.22 1437 OSU 1.33 775 Wisconsin 3.51 1671 Cal 0.57 347 Northwestern 3.31 1746 Stanford 0.57 347 Illinois 3.54 1701 AU 1.03 440 Purdue 3.37 1555 ASU 0.59 370 Indiana 3.33 1810 Utah 1.25 589 MSU 4.2 1913 CO 1.47 825 Michigan 3.5 1948 tOSU 3.48 1978 PSU 5 2249 Rutgers 4.46 2442 Maryland 4.32 2304 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennsylvania Duck Moderator No. 6 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Jon Gold: Winners and losers from UCLA's big Board of Regents meeting In less than 2 years, UCLA — as well as its crosstown rival USC — will head east, helping the Big Ten extend its footprint to four time zones. That means increased travel, yes, and plenty of headaches. It also means grander possibilities than could ever have been achieved by staying pat. This is a bold move. The type of move a bold program makes, detractors be damned. And that’s the thing: Some people will end up damned. Who will come out ahead and who will be left behind with this big decision? Gold: Winners and losers from UCLA’s big Board of Regents meeting SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM Now that UCLA's move to the Big Ten is official after the UC Board of Regents voted to approve the decision, we can finally focus on... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haywarduck Moderator No. 7 Share Posted December 15, 2022 A lemming jumping off a cliff is the perfect symbol for what UCLA is doing. Lemming don't actually often die when they jump into the water to get to where they are going. They only die when the swimming distance is too far. Joining the BIG is going to be too big of a distance for their student athletes to be expected to traverse. The academics will suffer, but what is new in this new age of opportunistic decisions. Chase after the money at all cost. With the ability to transfer and NIL money it seemed like the student athlete was going to come out ahead. With the decisions of the Universities, and their leadership some of the school aren't thinking in the best interest of the student athletes. Maybe their will be a backlash, it will be interesting to see. I wouldn't want to send my child to a university with travel expectations like those laid out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Ducky No. 8 Share Posted December 15, 2022 The pack should cancel all games with both schools and let them wallow around trying to fill a schedule with the the likes of Rising slow state and mid evil college. Of coarse weight till about a month before the season starts. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandaian No. 9 Share Posted December 15, 2022 I definitely wouldn't have issues with all Pac-12 teams to never schedule games with USC/UCLA again. Bitter and petty, yep! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeotechDuck No. 10 Share Posted December 15, 2022 On 12/15/2022 at 11:00 AM, Tandaian said: I definitely wouldn't have issues with all Pac-12 teams to never schedule games with USC/UCLA again. Bitter and petty, yep! Agree with this. The PAC should have pushed them out the door and and not scheduled another game with those two schools. Instead, the PAC rolled over and is allowing both USC and UCLA to keep their beach volleyball teams in the PAC conference after the transition to the BIG. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyin Vee No. 11 Share Posted December 17, 2022 boot them to the curb now. Let the lawyers sort it out. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
