The Big Ten/UCLA Train Seems to Be Leaving the Station Without the Regents

Although some of the Regents have asserted the possibility that they could kill the UCLA Big Ten deal, nobody else is behaving as though that will happen. For example, there's nothing on the UCLA news website about the Big Ten matter.

As noted in a prior posting, if you view what is happening in public as a de facto negotiation, then one strategy might be to create the impression of a done deal which can't be unraveled.

From the LA Times: ...The Big Ten, which officially adds USC and UCLA in 2024, announced the long-awaited media deal Thursday. The seven-year pact that begins in 2023 is worth more than $1 billion per season. In fact, the total value of the deal is nearly $8 billion, with financial escalators that could push it to nearly $10 billion, according to individuals with knowledge of the negotiations but not authorized to speak about it on the record. The massive deal could give UCLA some high-caliber ammunition in its bid to secure Big Ten membership and ward off the University of California regents who have openly raised the possibility of blocking the school’s planned move from the Pac-12...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-08-18/big-ten-reaches-tv-agreement.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/08/big-ten-affair-if-it-quacks-like.html.

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