Read the Pac-12 Letter to the University of California Regents

We all know from printed medical analysis by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, research carried out by the NCAA, and discussions with our personal student-athlete leaders that important extra journey, together with repetitive journey throughout 3 time zones, impacts student-athletes’ bodily and psychological well-being and their tutorial pursuits.

These elevated journey calls for require student-athletes to journey throughout a number of time zones commonly, which disrupts sleep, temper, and bodily and cognitive perform for days after journey and has cascading private results. In reality, a typical medical guideline is {that a} physique requires at some point to regulate for every time zone crossed.

From our calculations primarily based on 9 of the UCLA groups with common season convention journey schedules (soccer, males’s and girls’s basketball, girls’s volleyball, girls’s soccer, baseball, males’s and girls’s tennis, and softball), UCLA student-athletes competing within the Huge Ten will fly 159% extra air miles and drive 44% extra bus floor milles than they do right this moment within the Pac-12. Longer flight and bus instances add up over the season and can lead to fewer days on campus with their fellow college students centered on schooling. Even when UCLA athletics decides to constitution extra flights, UCLA student-athletes will face, on common, double the times missed on campus.

2. Important hardship for the households of UCLA student-athletes and UCLA alumni

Past the journey hardship for student-athletes, we’re additionally involved by the numerous extra burden UCLA’s resolution places on households of student-athletes and constant, invested alumni.

With nearly all away, convention video games occurring at the least 2,000 miles from campus, the households of UCLA scholar athletes will face longer and dearer journeys to look at their children compete. 70 % of UCLA alumni dwell on the West Coast and can face related journey and expense to look at the Bruins play away video games.

3. Important adverse affect on UCLA bills

Regardless of all the reasons made after the very fact, UCLA’s resolution to affix the Huge Ten was clearly financially motivated after the UCLA athletic division managed to build up greater than $100M in debt over the previous three fiscal years. The monetary uplift to UCLA as an impetus for its resolution has been extensively touted by the media and in public discourse.

Whereas it’s true that the Huge Ten Convention has not too long ago introduced a big media rights deal and distributions from the Huge Ten to its member colleges will probably be bigger than distributions obtainable to Pac-12 colleges from the Pac-12 Convention for the close to future, UCLA membership within the Huge Ten may also require important extra athletic division expenditures. By our estimates, UCLA’s extra journey prices, aggressive salaries, and sport assure bills will greater than offset ALL the extra revenues that UCLA will generate from the Huge Ten’s media rights deal.

UCLA at the moment spends roughly $8.1M per 12 months on journey for its groups to compete within the Pac-12 Convention. UCLA will incur a 100% improve in its staff journey prices if it flies industrial within the Huge Ten ($8.1M improve per 12 months), a 160% improve if it charters half the time ($13.1M improve per 12 months), and a 290 % improve if it charters each flight ($23.7M improve per 12 months).

Past journey, we additionally count on UCLA to extend bills to compete with the typical Huge Ten athletic division. Primarily based on UCLA’s newest bills, normalized to the typical Huge Ten athletic departments’ funds and measurement, UCLA must improve its head coaches’ salaries & bonuses by 19%, its assistant coach salaries by 13%, its assured bills by 122%, and its administrator salaries by 27%. This represents roughly $15M in extra annual bills simply to compete at an “common” Huge Ten funds. Lastly, UCLA will probably face different elevated annual bills to compete as a member of the Huge Ten in advertising and marketing, fundraising, recruiting, and sport operations.

Any monetary features UCLA will obtain by becoming a member of the Huge Ten will find yourself going to airline and constitution firms, directors and coaches’ salaries, and different recipients quite than offering any extra assets for student-athletes.

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