UCLA and USC confirmed Thursday evening they’ll be a part of the Huge Ten in 2024. Right here’s the complete launch from every college:
From UCLA:
Pricey Bruin Neighborhood:
For the previous century, choices about UCLA Athletics have all the time been guided by what’s finest for our student-athletes, initially, and our followers. Our storied athletics program, primarily based in one of many largest media markets within the nation, has all the time had distinctive alternatives and confronted distinctive challenges. Lately, nevertheless, seismic modifications in collegiate athletics have made us consider how finest to assist our student-athletes as we transfer ahead. After cautious consideration and considerate deliberation, UCLA has determined to depart the Pac-12 Convention and be a part of the Huge Ten Convention initially of the 2024–25 season.
UCLA has deeply valued our membership within the Pac-12 for a few years, and we intend to be a member of the convention for the subsequent two years. We have now grown near the opposite member colleges and have super respect for his or her dedication to the student-athlete expertise. The Pac-12 has all the time shared our values and continues to innovate, working onerous on behalf of its student-athletes and lots of followers. On the similar time, every college faces its personal distinctive challenges and circumstances, and we consider that is the most effective transfer for UCLA right now. For us, this transfer provides larger certainty in quickly altering occasions and ensures that we stay a frontrunner in school athletics for generations to come back.
Because the oldest NCAA Division I athletic convention in the USA and with a footprint that may now lengthen from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Huge Ten membership provides Bruins thrilling new aggressive alternatives and a broader nationwide media platform for our student-athletes to compete and showcase their skills. Particularly, this transfer will improve Title, Picture and Likeness alternatives by larger publicity for our student-athletes and provide new partnerships with entities throughout the nation.
Entry into the Huge Ten will even assist make sure that UCLA preserves and maintains all 25 present groups and greater than 700 student-athletes in our program. Moreover, it means enhanced assets for all of our groups, from tutorial assist to psychological well being and wellness. And though this transfer will increase journey distances for groups, the assets supplied by Huge Ten membership might enable for extra environment friendly transportation choices. We might additionally discover scheduling lodging with the Huge Ten that finest assist our student-athletes’ tutorial pursuits.
For our followers, Huge Ten membership equates to raised tv time slots for our street video games, however the identical variety of house video games both on the Rose Bowl, in Pauley Pavilion or different UCLA venues. We are going to make efforts to protect our conventional regional rivalries and are happy that our crosstown rival, USC, will even be becoming a member of the Huge Ten in 2024–25. Whereas we’re fierce opponents on the sector, we’ve a wealthy custom of collaboration that we stay up for persevering with.
We acknowledge these are large modifications. We worth the expertise and dedication of our student-athletes in addition to the eagerness of Bruins followers far and large. The easiest way to respect that’s to guard our program from the nice uncertainty it could face if we didn’t make this transition. Due to our distinctive circumstances, we consider that is the proper transfer for the UCLA Bruins and the proper time. We hope you’ll share our enthusiasm as we take this step to protect the legacy, custom and excessive requirements which have epitomized the UCLA Bruins for the century that has handed and the centuries that lie forward.
Sincerely,
Gene D. Block
Chancellor
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— UCLA Athletics (@UCLAAthletics) June 30, 2022
From USC:
LOS ANGELES – The College of Southern California will take the historic step of becoming a member of the Huge Ten Convention in 2024, a transfer that may place USC and its student-athletes for long-term success in each athletics and teachers.
“Over the previous three years, we’ve labored onerous to floor our college choices in what’s finest for our college students,” stated USC President Carol L. Folt. “With the Huge Ten, we’re becoming a member of a storied convention that shares our dedication to tutorial excellence and athletic competitiveness, and we’re positioning USC and our student-athletes for long-term success and stability amidst the quickly evolving sports activities media and collegiate athletics landscapes. We’re delighted to start this new chapter in 2024.”
The Huge Ten Convention has voted to simply accept each USC and crosstown rival UCLA as full members of the convention efficient August 2, 2024, enabling each colleges to stay within the Pac-12 Convention during the Pac-12’s present media rights agreements.
“Finally, the Huge Ten is the most effective house for USC and Trojan athletics as we transfer into the brand new world of collegiate sports activities,” Athletic Director Mike Bohn stated. “We’re excited that our values align with the league’s member establishments. We additionally will profit from the soundness and energy of the convention; the athletic caliber of Huge Ten establishments; the elevated visibility, publicity, and assets the convention will deliver our student-athletes and applications; and the flexibility to broaden engagement with our passionate alumni nationwide.”
USC additionally shared that, starting this upcoming tutorial yr, all student-athletes, whether or not on scholarship or not, can have the chance to obtain as much as $5,980 yearly in direct monetary assist within the type of tutorial achievement awards, in line with the Supreme Court docket’s current Alston ruling. The particular particulars and standards for the Alston awards shall be disclosed previous to the beginning of the upcoming fall semester.
USC has greater than 550 student-athletes who compete in 21 sports activities, and they’re supported by greater than 250 coaches and workers. Trojan groups have received 134 nationwide championships, and women and men have taken house 483 particular person NCAA titles. The USC soccer program, which competes within the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, has received 11 nationwide championships, competed in 34 Rose Bowls (with 25 wins), and produced 519 NFL draft picks. USC athletes even have received 326 Summer season Olympics medals, with 153 of them being gold. In 2021, USC posted its highest-ever NCAA Commencement Success Price (92 p.c).
OFFICIAL: USC will be a part of the Huge Ten Convention in 2024.
— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) June 30, 2022
The addition of UCLA and USC will deliver the Huge Ten to 16 colleges, however there’s loads of hypothesis the league could possibly be wanting so as to add further colleges.
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