Santa Barbara (ranked in the top 20 in D1 baseball), Irvine, San Diego, and Riverside all play D1 Sports. They don't have football teams. Davis is a D1 school for sports, but they're 1AA/FCS for football, ironically, they and their top rival (Sacramento State, a CSU school) have beaten Stanford in football in the past 10-15 years (Sac State beat them last year, when the former Sac State coach was in his first year at Stanford). UCSF is a medical school, and nothing else. Santa Cruz and Merced dp not field any division 1 sports.
Ca; didn't "start to hate' when they didn't get an invite, the Regents were ****ed that UCLA did this on their own without notification. the Regents give a ****load more money to UCLA than the B1G ever will and could have prevented UCLA from leaving if they wanted. But, UCLA's finances are miserable, and the easiest path out of their mess was to allow them to leave, thus saving state money that would have otherwise bailed out the UCLA athletic funding. But the price for leaving Cal behind was sharing the money, plus guarantees to play the other UC schools as often as possible in football (Cal) or other sports (everyone else who is D1A and in Southern California.
“But the Regents began to ask questions because U.C.L.A.’s departure would result in a financial hit for a sister school, the University of California, Berkeley. Its revenue from a Pac-12 television contract would be reduced by millions of dollars because the conference would be losing the Los Angeles market.”
This is a direct quote. On top of that, I know for a certain Carol Christ was blindsided by the news of UCLA departing & they were looking for immediate recourse from the UC Board of Regents. There was even speculation that maybe there was a little bit of favoritism going on b/c there wasn’t an immediate outrage from The UC President, who overlapped w/ UCLA’s AD while they were both at Ohio State.
So:
1. I have no idea why u’re bringing up all those UC Schools, when:
-Not one of them r in the Power 5/4 Conference &
-None of them have D-1 Football programs, & r zero factors in any conference expansion decision, as I stated.
2. I actually have connections, like legit connections which is why I tend to drop Easter eggs all over CIS well b4 chit happens. I live in PAC-12 country, in the heart of PAC-12 country actually, & I’m deeply connected to both SC & UCLA due to infamous alumni that are in my circle.
I know for a certain when UCLA made the move, The Regents were upset primarily for Cal b/c Cal was like ‘WTF; what about us?’ They’ve been at the hip since 1928. The UC HQ in the backyard of Cal, & Newsome immediately wanted to know how all of this would affect Cal. To appease The Regents, UCLA agreed to pay between $2 - $10m to Cal. They now r pushing $10m b/c Cal had to come to the ACC at a discounted rate, not being a full member + Cal has its own financial issues.
In essence, The Regents r trying to punish UCLA b/c Cal is affected due to them not finding suitable financial stability from a conference. If Cal went to the B1G as well, do u actually think The Regents would have an issue of a “courtesy notice?”
Everything u’re stating has already been discussed pages ago, but that’s neither here nor there. At the end of the day, the crux of the matter is about revenue, period. UCLA AD has been operating in the red & the PAC-12 offered zero incentives for UCLA to stay. UCLA athletics have debt upon debt, so yes the move to the B1G was by far the most beneficial. The Regents couldn’t do **** to keep UCLA in the PAC-12 b/c the PAC-12 was a **** stain conference corrupted by **** poor decision makers, so what r u talking about?
U’re acting as if the PAC-12 didn’t just implode on itself. So again, I have no idea regarding any of what u posted.
