How do SC and UCLA alumni feel about their schools leaving the prestigious, glamorous, academically sterling, ancient football conference on the West coast for the lucrative, less prestigious, no-glamour, academically solid, ancient football conference clustered around the Great Lakes?
How do the student-athletes at SC and UCLA feel about the effect on their studies, hell, they're student-athlete life, at the Los Angeles schools now that they must travel to Buttfuck. Pennsylvania where boys are buttfucked? to the armpit of America, New Jersey?; to the frozen tundra of Minneapolis-St. Paul?; to Maryland?
The move by the SoCal schools made complete sense for $$ and to the B1G for $$ and for added glamour and enhanced academic prestige. For all other metrics it was bad, bad, bad, and worse, catastrophically, unworkably worse, for the most vulnerable of all the schools' constitutes, the kids.
The regents of the the gold standard in U.S. higher education, the California System, have said they had no jurisdiction to prevent, or approve, no say at all, in the move. How about the governor? A California institution, the Pacific Conference has just been raped. The governor, Gavin Newsom, has spoken out, saying UCLA owes him an explanation. The governor owes the sole West Coast conference his best efforts to block the moves, by going to court if necessary, by legislation in Sacramento if need be. He owes the academic integrity of the member schools of the conference a fight against the moves. Most of all he owes the student-athletes of the Los Angeles schools his best efforts to stop this dead in its tracks. Can the California legislature pass legislation to stop the move? I don't know the answers to any of these questions but all political powers in the Golden State need to be opposing this with every arrow in their quiver and the threat to obtain and use nuclear arrows, and so far they have responded with quaking. There are too many quakes in California. The state and the conference members need some--bare knuckle, no holds barred--fight.
