Shocky1 said:
calalum, jarmond got no intention of ever scheduling cal again in football, he's saying the right things now because of the specter of calimony
wut cal (or ucla fans want unless their last name is wasserman) is 100% irrelevant in today's college football biz
there is zero upside for ucla financially, allowing cal to compete recruiting wise in so cal or automatic wins to ensure bruins bowl eligibility by scheduling cal
it's an end of an era...period
UCLA recruits NorCal too, and with all the traveling they will ge doing, also needs quality West Coast opponents. Here are UCLA's longest series:
1T Cal 93 games
1T Stanford 93 games
3. USC 92 games
4. UW 76 games
5. Oregon 72 games
6. OSU 64 games
7. WSU 62 games
8. Arizona 45 games
9. ASU 39 games
10. Utah 20 games
And here is USC:
1. Cal 102 games
2. Stanford 98 games
3. Notre Dame 93 games
4. UCLA 92 games
5. UW 85 games
6. OSU 77 games
7. WSU 76 games
8. Oregon 61 games
9T Arizona 39 games
9T ASU 39 games
And finally here is Cal:
1T USC 102 games
1T Stanford 102 games
3. UW 98 games
4. UCLA 93 games
5. WSU 83 games
6. Oregon 81 games
7. OSU 74 games
8. Arizona 36 games
9. ASU 35 games
10. San Jose State 33 games
The idea that UCLA and USC don't want to play us is preposterous. Why wouldn't they? It is a long-standing series that their fans enjoy and travel to, in an area with their most alumni outside of SoCal, a prime recruiting area and they almost always win. What's not to like? They need the local OOC games just like we do. You honestly think they are afraid Justin Wilcox is going to out recruit them in SoCal? Especially given the impending income gap?
Now if we decide to end the series for good reasons, fine, but we should not do it just do it out of spite and in any case we should be honest enough to say we are the ones ending the series instead of saying Jarmond is lying about wanting to continue the series.