UC regents delay final decision on UCLA’s Big Ten move until December
The search began for a new men’s basketball coach at UCLA on Monday, when University President George Jean is scheduled to meet with school President Michael Levin and Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.
The search began for a new men’s basketball coach at UCLA on Monday, when University President George Jean is scheduled to meet with school President Michael Levin and Athletic Director Dan Guerrero.
They’ve been waiting since early this week to make the decision on UCLA’s Big Ten membership.
The Big Ten Conference has been waiting since early this week to make the decision on its Pac-12 membership.
“We’ll have to wait and see what the Big Ten comes up with,” UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero said Tuesday afternoon.
The Big Ten Conference announced Sunday that it would make its decision on its membership by November 20.
Levin has made it clear, however, that the timing of the Big Ten’s decision is purely academic, as opposed to athletic.
“I’ve emphasized that this is a purely academic decision,” Levin said on the conference-wide media call. “It’s not a decision about basketball.
“I think there is a possibility that the Big Ten could make a decision that would make the men’s basketball team go to a school in the Big Ten that would not be the best for the program at the end of the day.”
Levin has previously said that he doesn’t think the decision will come before March. He’s made it clear that he’s trying to make UCLA competitive in March after losing four straight to end the regular season (16-14).
This is a big decision for several reasons, and several people are in a position to know what the final decision will be.
It has come to the final decision that it’s going to be UCLA.
“It’s going to be UCLA,” Dean Spanos, the founder and head of Spanos Companies told me on Monday. “We’ve been waiting for weeks now.”
John Doig, the former coach and athletic director at Utah, has had conversations with people in the Big Ten. He said that he’s a little surprised that the Big Ten has kept waiting. But he said he’s not surprised that the conference is waiting for a decision before the NCAA gets involved.
I was asked by a source on the Big Ten media call if the
