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Message: [QUOTE="Rufus, post: 4459861, member: 7277"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2022/12/ucla-athletic-director-martin-jarmond-benefits-of-moving-to-big-ten-far-outweigh-some-of-the-challenges.html?outputType=amp[/URL] Most accurate statement ever…. “I’m going to be respectful; obviously we have next week there’s a regents meeting and that’s great,” Jarmond said. “I don’t want to say too much except for, people travel all the time. This is straight from our student-athletes; when you’re elite level, you play club and you travel everywhere. It’s not like you stay in the same state and play all the time. You’re in California. You’re in Florida. You’re in Texas. Elite athletes have been doing this since they were 12 years old. So that’s no different.” Jarmond said “people go to extremes” in portraying the travel that will be involved for UCLA’s teams in the Big Ten. Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff has even stated that the impending move will be more costly than beneficial to UCLA. “You’d think we’re going to play Rutgers every week,” Jarmond said. “You’re not going across (the country) every week. You might be in a conference or a situation where you’re talking about five trips, five times, then by the way one might be different; it might be a leg that’s combined so you might be talking about four. You’re talking about four times a year where you may have two hours here, two hours there, whatever more. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not that much. [/QUOTE]

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