UCLA getting lots of blowback on move to Big 10

[18IsTheMan]

Records reveal fan-driven blowback from UCLA's exit of Pac-12

247Sports acquired more than 160 pages of emails from UCLA as part of an ongoing open records request, and while those emails don’t shed much light on the Bruins’ process of negotiating with the Big Ten, they do provide a window into the blowback within the UCLA community that’s since sprung...

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Also getting getting strong opposition from UCLA’s Board of Regents, some of whom have threatened to block the move.

 

[Lurker123]

Records reveal fan-driven blowback from UCLA's exit of Pac-12

247Sports acquired more than 160 pages of emails from UCLA as part of an ongoing open records request, and while those emails don’t shed much light on the Bruins’ process of negotiating with the Big Ten, they do provide a window into the blowback within the UCLA community that’s since sprung...

247sports.com

Also getting getting strong opposition from UCLA’s Board of Regents, some of whom have threatened to block the move.

Looking a few years down the road, I think it would be a huge mistake to block the move and stay in the P12.

Can you imagine that conference once the B10 takes a few more teams?

 

[18IsTheMan]

Looking a few years down the road, I think it would be a huge mistake to block the move and stay in the P12.

Can you imagine that conference once the B10 takes a few more teams?

I guess. It certainly puts to death the notion of the student athlete. At some point, those kids will have to fly cross country for game, fly back across country to get home and then fly back across country a few days later.

I would love it if they somehow figured out a way to block a move. Regents are pretty powerful. It'd be nice to see some rationale heads prevail in all this madness.

 

[TopHook]

What do they say?,,.... Go broke?

 

[18IsTheMan]

What do they say?,,.... Go broke?

Nobody’s going broke because they don’t join a particular conference.

 

[TN-Gamecock]

Take Standford instead...then add Oregon and Washington...

 

[Psycock]

Bet Big 10 would go hard after Notre Dame if UCLA was to back out or get blocked. Southern Cal + Notre Dame not bad.

 

[KingWard]

Bet Big 10 would go hard after Notre Dame if UCLA was to back out or get blocked. Southern Cal + Notre Dame not bad.

Notre Dame's new deal will keep them independent unless the B1G beguiles them with unequal distribution of revenue, basically making a Texas out of them. That ain't gonna happen.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

Bet Big 10 would go hard after Notre Dame if UCLA was to back out or get blocked. Southern Cal + Notre Dame not bad.

Notre Dame has been saying "no" to the Big Ten for decades. What has changed? ND is far more likely to join the ACC (on an uneven basis), given their contractual ties there.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

Looking a few years down the road, I think it would be a huge mistake to block the move and stay in the P12.

Can you imagine that conference once the B10 takes a few more teams?

That may not happen as many had originally suspected.


EDIT: I attempted a couple of times to inset a link that was stating B!G no loner interested in PAC 12 schools but it did not take. If interested there is a article from Bleacher Report 20hrs ago that stated as such.

 

[Lurker123]

That may not happen as many had originally suspected.


EDIT: I attempted a couple of times to inset a link that was stating B!G no loner interested in PAC 12 schools but it did not take. If interested there is a article from Bleacher Report 20hrs ago that stated as such.

Interesting. I wonder if that means a temporary stop of expansion, or if they're eyeing something more southern and eastern.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

Interesting. I wonder if that means a temporary stop of expansion, or if they're eyeing something more southern and eastern.

During the TV contract announcement their Commissioner stated they were not done expanding. Southern expansion would be the most
likely target area. Think in terms of a minimum of 3 schools at one time.

 

[KingWard]

Notre Dame has been saying "no" to the Big Ten for decades. What has changed? ND is far more likely to join the ACC (on an uneven basis), given their contractual ties there.

I currently don't see them joining anybody anytime soon. NBC is about to make it possible for them to remain independent for several years to come. The only thing that could upset that is if some league agrees to give them more money than other conference members. Unequal distribution of TV money has been broached, but only lightly. In that case, things could blow up in conferences that do it, especially if it is to hook one particular school.

 

[muscleknight]

This is as long as ND has a good team. What happens if ND starts going say 3-9? Will people still want to watch them?

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

This is as long as ND has a good team. What happens if ND starts going say 3-9? Will people still want to watch them?

Yes.
Some will watch to see them win, some will watch to see them lose, but they will watch

 

[BattleshipTexas]

I currently don't see them joining anybody anytime soon. NBC is about to make it possible for them to remain independent for several years to come. The only thing that could upset that is if some league agrees to give them more money than other conference members. Unequal distribution of TV money has been broached, but only lightly. In that case, things could blow up in conferences that do it, especially if it is to hook one particular school.

I agree. They love being independent in football. Both for the money and not being under the thumb of a conference. The Big ten courted them for years, they aren't going there.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

Yes.
Some will watch to see them win, some will watch to see them lose, but they will watch

They (ND) have a built in nationwide fan base like no other college team. Some teams have huge fan bases like Texas, Ohio State, Florida etc, but it is all regional. Big schools from big states, but few fans on the other side of the country. ND has fans in every state where there is Catholicism.