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Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - sctvman - 06-24-2019 12:19 PM
The site “JohnWallStreet” suggests that Casey Wasserman, UCLA mega-donor, is trying to steer his alma mater to the ACC after their contract with the PAC-12 runs out in 2023 (where he is an advisor)...
https://johnwallstreet.com/early-entrants-nba-all-digital/
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - Michael in Raleigh - 06-24-2019 12:28 PM
Nothing screams Atlantic Coast like California-Los Angeles.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - 10thMountain - 06-24-2019 12:32 PM
Quote:Wasserman Trying to Steer UCLA to ACC?
Sources tell JohnWallStreet that UCLA mega donor Casey Wasserman “is advising the school not to re-up with the Pac-12 [beyond the conference’s existing Grant of Rights agreement, which expires in 2023].” Logic says that Wasserman is trying to steer his alma-mater to the Atlantic Coast Conference where he serves as an advisor, but it doesn’t seem feasible for the school’s non-revenue generating sports to play half their schedule 3,000 miles from campus (and they wouldn’t be welcomed to stay in the Pac-12 without football and basketball). Geographically speaking, the Big-12 Conference makes the most sense, but as one P5 athletic director suggested ”do not underestimate the academic arrogance of the California schools. Joining open-access state schools like Iowa State and Texas Tech is and has always been a non-starter for them.”Heavy money remains on UCLA sticking with Cal, Stanford, USC and the Pac-12 Conference.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - EvilVodka - 06-24-2019 12:46 PM
(06-24-2019 12:28 PM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote: Nothing screams Atlantic Coast like California-Los Angeles.
Conferences names are meaningless, just look at the Big 10 and Big XII
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - IWokeUpLikeThis - 06-24-2019 01:04 PM
Watch for ACC to rebrand as BCC (Bi Coastal Conference).
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - Stugray2 - 06-24-2019 01:23 PM
More realistic is Texas to the ACC in 2025.
In fact the more I think over Austin's attitude, the more I think that is the direction they will go. In the B1G it's collaborative, ditto the SEC. I think the SEC would be worse for them because they'd be just another cruiser weight running head up against all the SEC West powers struggling to get out of the toughest Division in Football (it's even worse the B1G East). But the ACC is a bunch of mini-towers leaning over weaklings. Texas, North Carolina, Duke and Virginia make a mighty leadership group, with Notre Dame the leader of the privates. Florida State and Clemson replace your Oklahoma.
As for the P12, the California schools and Washington are joined at the hip. Any conference change has to include all five. And as for the ACC, it's the same mess. But Sure if you could take those 5 P12 schools, add Texas, UNC, Duke, Virginia and Notre Dame and pretty much junk all the others, I think they'd go for that.
Otherwise they are going to stand pat. The Administrations of these schools are empires where athletics is a much smaller component of the overall budget than even B1G schools. It's a completely different ratio at almost 10:1 than the SEC of "open access" schools where Athletic and research dollars are 1:1. The power ratio of athletics is proportionately an order of magnitude smaller as a result.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - Attackcoog - 06-24-2019 01:31 PM
(06-24-2019 12:19 PM)sctvman Wrote: The site “JohnWallStreet” suggests that Casey Wasserman, UCLA mega-donor, is trying to steer his alma mater to the ACC after their contract with the PAC-12 runs out in 2023 (where he is an advisor)...
https://johnwallstreet.com/early-entrants-nba-all-digital/
Does she own a map?
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - Cyniclone - 06-24-2019 01:32 PM
ACC: All Coasts Conference
Time to get an UAlaska campus in Utqiaġvik (what you might have remembered as Barrow), then you get all three U.S. ocean coasts covered.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - SoCalBobcat78 - 06-24-2019 02:19 PM
(06-24-2019 12:19 PM)sctvman Wrote: The site “JohnWallStreet” suggests that Casey Wasserman, UCLA mega-donor, is trying to steer his alma mater to the ACC after their contract with the PAC-12 runs out in 2023 (where he is an advisor)...
https://johnwallstreet.com/early-entrants-nba-all-digital/
When did Casey Wasserman become God? He is going to steer UCLA to the ACC? Right, that is hilarious. If he is some damn powerful, could he please get rid of Larry Scott. That would impress me.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - ken d - 06-24-2019 02:20 PM
(06-24-2019 01:31 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:(06-24-2019 12:19 PM)sctvman Wrote: The site “JohnWallStreet” suggests that Casey Wasserman, UCLA mega-donor, is trying to steer his alma mater to the ACC after their contract with the PAC-12 runs out in 2023 (where he is an advisor)...
https://johnwallstreet.com/early-entrants-nba-all-digital/
Does she own a map?
If not, maybe one of the 120 followers of this site could provide one.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - Rube Dali - 06-24-2019 02:43 PM
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - AllTideUp - 06-24-2019 02:55 PM
I think the idea of "UCLA to the ACC" was the inference of this blog. I haven't seen anything that suggests Wasserman himself was calling for that.
But anyway, also from that site:
Quote:Formation of a Pac-12/Big-12 Strategic Alliance Deemed “Very Likely”
UCLA isn’t going to become the Big-12’s 11th member, but one former Big-12 athletic director deemed the eventual formation of a strategic alliance between the Pac-12 and the Big-12 – on tier-one rights (as was first discussed back in ’12) – as “very likely.” The move simply makes too much sense for it not to happen. 24 schools, spread across 4 time zones, would generate the leverage needed to ensure future growth in the value of their collective media rights; and the addition of several new opponents on each school’s home schedule would help to solve college football’s attendance problems (at least in the short-term).
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - JRsec - 06-24-2019 02:58 PM
It's interesting to be sure. However there is an impasse looming between the state of California and the NCAA. A proposed law in California would allow pay for players beyond the limits recently hashed out by the NCAA. If passed the California law might cause the withdrawal from NCAA sanctioned events including championships.
What makes the UCLA story intriguing is that the GOR in the PAC expires within a year of that of the Big 12. The top schools in one could essentially form a new conference with the top schools of the other. That would be quite an interesting potential to explore.
But, if the California law turns that states schools sideways with the NCAA things could get really interesting. Would recruits flock to California to get paid? Would the other conferences pressure the NCAA to change? Would the non Cali schools break away from the PAC?
Anyway you look at it there's a boat load of change coming down the pike.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - ken d - 06-24-2019 03:11 PM
(06-24-2019 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote: It's interesting to be sure. However there is an impasse looming between the state of California and the NCAA. A proposed law in California would allow pay for players beyond the limits recently hashed out by the NCAA. If passed the California law might cause the withdrawal from NCAA sanctioned events including championships.
What makes the UCLA story intriguing is that the GOR in the PAC expires within a year of that of the Big 12. The top schools in one could essentially form a new conference with the top schools of the other. That would be quite an interesting potential to explore.
But, if the California law turns that states schools sideways with the NCAA things could get really interesting. Would recruits flock to California to get paid? Would the other conferences pressure the NCAA to change? Would the non Cali schools break away from the PAC?
Anyway you look at it there's a boat load of change coming down the pike.
The California legislature pretty much lives in its own fantasy world when it comes to sports. This isn't the only law that creates a circular firing squad for Cali publics. Their mandated restrictions on travel to less "enlightened" states, which include Texas and Oklahoma, would pretty much put the kibosh on any kind of alliance with the Big XII (or any conference except maybe the B1G).
At some point, they would have to just form a new governing body for all their state supported schools. Just drop the "N" and call it the CAA - California Athletic Association.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - GTFletch - 06-24-2019 03:12 PM
No Thank you... Cali & Pac can keep em!
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - Wedge - 06-24-2019 03:21 PM
This comment would be appropriate in dozens of threads and seems especially appropriate here...
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - ChrisLords - 06-24-2019 03:49 PM
(06-24-2019 12:32 PM)10thMountain Wrote:Quote:Wasserman Trying to Steer UCLA to ACC?
Sources tell JohnWallStreet that UCLA mega donor Casey Wasserman “is advising the school not to re-up with the Pac-12 [beyond the conference’s existing Grant of Rights agreement, which expires in 2023].” Logic says that Wasserman is trying to steer his alma-mater to the Atlantic Coast Conference where he serves as an advisor, but it doesn’t seem feasible for the school’s non-revenue generating sports to play half their schedule 3,000 miles from campus (and they wouldn’t be welcomed to stay in the Pac-12 without football and basketball). Geographically speaking, the Big-12 Conference makes the most sense, but as one P5 athletic director suggested ”do not underestimate the academic arrogance of the California schools. Joining open-access state schools like Iowa State and Texas Tech is and has always been a non-starter for them.”Heavy money remains on UCLA sticking with Cal, Stanford, USC and the Pac-12 Conference.
"Logic says", huh? So, logic puts UCLA in the ACC. If that's logic, I'll take nonsense any day.
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - Attackcoog - 06-24-2019 04:22 PM
(06-24-2019 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote: It's interesting to be sure. However there is an impasse looming between the state of California and the NCAA. A proposed law in California would allow pay for players beyond the limits recently hashed out by the NCAA. If passed the California law might cause the withdrawal from NCAA sanctioned events including championships.
What makes the UCLA story intriguing is that the GOR in the PAC expires within a year of that of the Big 12. The top schools in one could essentially form a new conference with the top schools of the other. That would be quite an interesting potential to explore.
But, if the California law turns that states schools sideways with the NCAA things could get really interesting. Would recruits flock to California to get paid? Would the other conferences pressure the NCAA to change? Would the non Cali schools break away from the PAC?
Anyway you look at it there's a boat load of change coming down the pike.
Just throwing it out there for general information sakes---Im pretty sure that California schools are banned from traveling to several states where ACC schools reside. Ask Wasserman just exactly how's that going to work out?
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - XLance - 06-24-2019 04:28 PM
Where would they urinate?
RE: Financial site suggests Wasserman trying to steer UCLA to ACC - P5PACSEC - 06-24-2019 04:58 PM
(06-24-2019 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote: It's interesting to be sure. However there is an impasse looming between the state of California and the NCAA. A proposed law in California would allow pay for players beyond the limits recently hashed out by the NCAA. If passed the California law might cause the withdrawal from NCAA sanctioned events including championships.
What makes the UCLA story intriguing is that the GOR in the PAC expires within a year of that of the Big 12. The top schools in one could essentially form a new conference with the top schools of the other. That would be quite an interesting potential to explore.
But, if the California law turns that states schools sideways with the NCAA things could get really interesting. Would recruits flock to California to get paid? Would the other conferences pressure the NCAA to change? Would the non Cali schools break away from the PAC?
Anyway you look at it there's a boat load of change coming down the pike.
What I find hilarious is a "P5 AD talks about Iowa St and Texas Tech as a non-starter" based on some stupid belief that those 2 schools are open access. To me, it sounds like an arrogant AD who is spouting his mouth off without looking at the facts.
Fact--Iowa St is an AAU school.
Fact-Of the 22 schools in the Big XII and Pac 12, Tech is #10 in lowest acceptance rate and has a lower acceptance rate than 6 schools in the Pac 12.
I think the "P5 AD" needs to shut his mouth and worry about his own school. Tech had an invite to the PAC with OU, OSU and Texas.
If Wasserman wants to see his Bruins play conference schools in Tallahassee, Miami, Boston and Pittsburgh, be my guest. Enjoy those cross country flights for volleyball, basketball and baseball. LOL