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Chancellor Young essentially advanced the major arguments we have outlined in BN in recent months criticizing the hasty and not so well thought out expansion efforts under Larry Scott. Per Glenn Dickey of the San Francisco Examiner, Chancellor Young has been "sending e-mails to the chancellors and presidents of Pac-10 schools, urging them to block the expansion." His objections range from "academic grounds" to preserve tradition of our conference. He is receptive to Colorado, but he is certainly not crazy about Utah (channeling BN):
Well those are concerns we specifically discussed on BN this summer.
There is no doubt UCLA officials will now closely pay attention to what Chancellor Young has to say. He is a legendary figure around Westwood for his accomplishments in both in the world of academics and athletics. It is a sure fire bet that officials from California Pac-10 schools are going to pay very close attention to Chancellor Young, given the track record of success he piled up at UCLA and at Florida.
Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. "Colorado is on a par with Oregon," he said. "Utah isn't even in the picture."
He is also worried about compromising natural yearly matchups involving California schools:
"You have two schools in Washington, two in Oregon, two in northern California, two in southern California, two in Arizona, so you can have a complete round robin in football. I don't see any way the other schools can be brought in without affecting the rivalries between the southern and northern California schools, for instance."
"You have two schools in Washington, two in Oregon, two in northern California, two in southern California, two in Arizona, so you can have a complete round robin in football. I don't see any way the other schools can be brought in without affecting the rivalries between the southern and northern California schools, for instance."
There is no doubt UCLA officials will now closely pay attention to what Chancellor Young has to say. He is a legendary figure around Westwood for his accomplishments in both in the world of academics and athletics. It is a sure fire bet that officials from California Pac-10 schools are going to pay very close attention to Chancellor Young, given the track record of success he piled up at UCLA and at Florida.
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