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It's a shame that USC/UCLA shattered the ties between the California Four as well as the Pac-12.  Was it the doing of athletic directors who have zero west coast ties?  Or an ineffectual conference commissioner?  Or was the money just too much (blame Fox Sports)?

I really hope we don't schedule USC or UCLA in the future.

In terms of football or basketball, we probably won't. But in the Olympic sports, I expect we'll continue to schedule them when it makes sense, if only because we don't have too many other options for high-level opponents in a number of sports that aren't several hours away. 

And it's not the Olympic sports that are driving this madness anyway, so I wonder how much ill will there is at that level. If you're a UCLA women's tennis player or coach (Stella Sampras Webster has to hate this change), I would think you'd much prefer staying in the Pac-12 than having road trips to Ann Arbor, Piscataway, State College, or College Park. I think it benefits both us and them to keep playing them in certain sports like tennis. (And, for those of you who have been around a while and have heard me bemoan our relatively weak non-conference schedules in women's tennis due to the relative weakness of the Pac-12, if we kept playing UCLA/USC (plus Pepperdine) out of conference, we'd go from one of the weaker schedules to one of the stronger ones given how much better our in-conference competition is about to be.)

[ColoradoTree]

It's a shame that USC/UCLA shattered the ties between the California Four as well as the Pac-12.  Was it the doing of athletic directors who have zero west coast ties?  Or an ineffectual conference commissioner?  Or was the money just too much (blame Fox Sports)?

I really hope we don't schedule USC or UCLA in the future.

In terms of football or basketball, we probably won't. But in the Olympic sports, I expect we'll continue to schedule them when it makes sense, if only because we don't have too many other options for high-level opponents in a number of sports that aren't several hours away. 

And it's not the Olympic sports that are driving this madness anyway, so I wonder how much ill will there is at that level. If you're a UCLA women's tennis player or coach (Stella Sampras Webster has to hate this change), I would think you'd much prefer staying in the Pac-12 than having road trips to Ann Arbor, Piscataway, State College, or College Park. I think it benefits both us and them to keep playing them in certain sports like tennis. (And, for those of you who have been around a while and have heard me bemoan our relatively weak non-conference schedules in women's tennis due to the relative weakness of the Pac-12, if we kept playing UCLA/USC (plus Pepperdine) out of conference, we'd go from one of the weaker schedules to one of the stronger ones given how much better our in-conference competition is about to be.)