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UCLA moving to the Big Ten, along with USC, caused a big stir for Pac-12 commissioner Geoge Kliavkoff. The leader of the conference previously doubted UCLA’s move to the conference, citing numerous financial issues. But in a reported last ditch effort, Kliavkoff sent a letter to the UC Board of Regents in another attempt to block the Bruins’ departure from the Pac-12, according to Billy Witz of the New York Times.

“With the Pac-12 negotiating a new media rights deal — with or without (UCLA) — the letter by Kliavkoff may be considered a last-ditch effort to maintain a football presence in the lucrative Los Angeles television market,” Witz wrote. “(The University of Southern California, which is private, also said it would move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.).”

The commissioner pointed to travel time and financial hardship as a big reason for UCLA to not move to the Big Ten and requested the Board of Regents block the move from the Pac-12.

“In his letter, Kliavkoff, who declined an interview request, wrote that U.C.L.A. athletes would more than double their time spent in airplanes and increase by nearly half their time on buses traveling to the Central and Eastern time zones, which would affect their physical and mental health and hurt their academic performance,” Witz wrote. “And with 70 percent of U.C.L.A.’s alumni on the West Coast, he wrote that it would be more arduous and expensive for them — and athletes’ families — to attend away games in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maryland …

“Kliavkoff acknowledged it was a heavy ask, but wrote that ‘for the current and future generations of U.C.L.A. student-athletes, we would strongly support a decision by the U.C. Board of Regents to reverse the decision made by U.C.L.A.’”

“There’s a couple of key reasons why we think overturning the decision would not be a bad idea,” Kliavkoff said earlier this week. “We’ve kind of done back-of-the-envelope calculations on the negative impact of UCLA’s expenses. Travel expenses and coaches expenses just to get to the average Big Ten athletic budget. We think that the incremental money they’re going to receive from the Big Ten media rights deal will be more than 100% offset by additional expenses. So you end up taking that money that you earned and it goes to airline and charter companies and coaches and administrators. It does not go to supporting student-athletes.”
 
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UCLA moving to the Big Ten, along with USC, caused a big stir for Pac-12 commissioner Geoge Kliavkoff. The leader of the conference previously doubted UCLA’s move to the conference, citing numerous financial issues. But in a reported last ditch effort, Kliavkoff sent a letter to the UC Board of Regents in another attempt to block the Bruins’ departure from the Pac-12, according to Billy Witz of the New York Times.

“With the Pac-12 negotiating a new media rights deal — with or without (UCLA) — the letter by Kliavkoff may be considered a last-ditch effort to maintain a football presence in the lucrative Los Angeles television market,” Witz wrote. “(The University of Southern California, which is private, also said it would move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.).”

The commissioner pointed to travel time and financial hardship as a big reason for UCLA to not move to the Big Ten and requested the Board of Regents block the move from the Pac-12.

“In his letter, Kliavkoff, who declined an interview request, wrote that U.C.L.A. athletes would more than double their time spent in airplanes and increase by nearly half their time on buses traveling to the Central and Eastern time zones, which would affect their physical and mental health and hurt their academic performance,” Witz wrote. “And with 70 percent of U.C.L.A.’s alumni on the West Coast, he wrote that it would be more arduous and expensive for them — and athletes’ families — to attend away games in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maryland …

“Kliavkoff acknowledged it was a heavy ask, but wrote that ‘for the current and future generations of U.C.L.A. student-athletes, we would strongly support a decision by the U.C. Board of Regents to reverse the decision made by U.C.L.A.’”

“There’s a couple of key reasons why we think overturning the decision would not be a bad idea,” Kliavkoff said earlier this week. “We’ve kind of done back-of-the-envelope calculations on the negative impact of UCLA’s expenses. Travel expenses and coaches expenses just to get to the average Big Ten athletic budget. We think that the incremental money they’re going to receive from the Big Ten media rights deal will be more than 100% offset by additional expenses. So you end up taking that money that you earned and it goes to airline and charter companies and coaches and administrators. It does not go to supporting student-athletes.”
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Do none of these dumb fuckers out West have have competent legal counsel to advise them before they do dumb fucking shit. Congrats, George. If the UC Regents do breach the contract with the B1G, not only will the B1G, FOX, CBS and NBC be reigning down righteous anger and furious vengeance upon the Regents, but they're going to go after you and the PAC now since you blatantly and publicly just tampered with a signed and valid business contract. You dumb motherfucker.

Oh, and have you considered the possibility that the first thing the B1G will do is take Stanford, Washington and Oregon from you and nuke your entire god forsaken shit heap of a conference into oblivion while depriving the UC schools of their traditional local rivals and setting up the inevitable exit of the 4 corners schools to the B12. You're fucking with forces whose power you can't begin to fathom. Go back to Vegas and run some off-strip poker room.
 
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