{"id":550,"date":"2022-07-01T00:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T00:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ucla-and-usc-are-expected-to-leave-the-pac-12-for-the-big-ten\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T00:16:39","slug":"ucla-and-usc-are-expected-to-leave-the-pac-12-for-the-big-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ucla-and-usc-are-expected-to-leave-the-pac-12-for-the-big-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA and USC Are Expected to Leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beyond football and men’s basketball, UCLA and USC are forces in the so-called Olympic sports. USC, for instance, has won national championships in beach volleyball, women’s outdoor track and field and men’s tennis in the last decade. For its part, UCLA has won recent titles in baseball, beach volleyball, women’s gymnastics, women’s soccer, softball and women’s tennis. Both schools have also won titles in water polo, which is not a Pac-12-sponsored sport for men or women.<\/p>\n

Overshadowed by the potential financial windfall is the increased burden placed on athletes, be they football players or distance runners, who will regularly travel to make round trips from Los Angeles to far-flung campuses in State College, Pa.; New Brunswick, NJ; and College Park, Md., for competition.<\/p>\n

The deal could lift a shadow from the tenure of Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner since 2019, who drew criticism in 2020 when his league initially decided not to play the fall football season because of the pandemic. Although the conference ultimately reversed its decision and staged a fraction of the games it had planned, the episode has followed Warren since. (The Pac-12, under Larry Scott, also canceled and revived its 2020 football season.)<\/p>\n

At the same time, the departures of USC and UCLA pose a sharp test for George Kliavkoff, who became the Pac-12 commissioner a year ago. Last August, in the wake of the decisions by Oklahoma and Texas, the league said it did not plan to expand \u201cat this time,\u201d in part because of \u201cthe current competitive strength and cohesiveness of our 12 universities.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, at least, the conference’s membership includes California, Oregon, Stanford, Utah and Washington.<\/p>\n

Kevin Draper contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beyond football and men’s basketball, UCLA and USC are forces in the so-called Olympic sports. USC, for instance, has won national championships in beach volleyball, women’s outdoor track and field and men’s tennis in the last decade. For its part, UCLA has won recent titles in baseball, beach volleyball, women’s gymnastics, women’s soccer, softball and …<\/p>\n

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