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Pac-12 Commissioner Urges UC Regents to Block UCLA's Move to Big Ten

Kliavkoff wrote that the financial benefits that UCLA would reap from the Big Ten’s $7.5 billion media rights deal would be offset by increased coaches salaries and travel costs. He claimed that UCLA’s travel budget, currently about $8 million annually, would nearly quadruple if all flights were chartered. According to Kliavkoff, UCLA athletes would double their time spent in airplanes and increase by nearly half their time on buses traveling to the Central and Eastern time zones, potentially ta...