Things Change - Part 2

Yesterday, we posted about the seeming collapse of the PAC-12 and the possibility that, when the dust settled, UC-Berkeley might follow UCLA into the Big Ten, thus potentially obviating the rationale for a revenue subsidy from UCLA to "Cal."* We provided links to various speculations,

Now there is more speculation that Cal and Stanford might somehow be orphaned or maybe have to join the Big Ten, but under disadvantaged conditions:

https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/08/06/potential-power-five-exclusion-stanford-cal-team-usa-olympics.

As we noted before, it's not clear what the Regents might have to say. They were supposed to set up a special committee on athletics to deal with such situations, but it's not clear that they did. However, it does seem that their prior decision concerning what UCLA was supposed to do with regard to revenue sharing with Berkeley is becoming obsolete. Yours truly has less expertise in these matters than the Regents. Nonetheless, he is betting that the governor won't enmesh himself in the fallout from his last intervention there.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/08/things-change.html.