UCLA Mega-Donor Ridiculously Proposes Bailing on Pac-12 for the ACC

Money can buy a lot of things, but it apparently can't buy a sound decision-making process.

A wealthy UCLA athletics booster, entertainment mogul Casey Wasserman, has absurdly suggested that the school should bail on the Pac-12 Conference, the one they've called home since 1928. His proposal? Bolt for... why, yes, the ACC!

You read that right. A big-time donor for a school based in California wants to make a shameless leap clear across the country. And why would he want that? Well, first of all, Wasserman is currently an advisor for the ACC, notes sports business site JohnWallStreet.

If one thing's for certain, UCLA would need a whole boatload more of boosters to be able to sustain the switch even if it were even remotely entertained, won't they?

Naturally, travel costs would be outlandish even for revenue programs. The expenses for non-revenue generating teams would be downright unthinkable. They'd have to travel from coast to coast routinely. It would be a nightmare logistically and economically, to say noting of what it would mean for student-athletes' coursework and attendance.

Sure, these are college kids entering their physical primes, but there's no denying that traveling back and forth between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts would place undue stress on their bodies and minds.

How the move was even suggested in the first place is beyond thinking. It makes absolutely no logical sense, and poses no benefit to the school or its programs.

Sure, the Pac-12 might be in a state of unrest, but re-upping there is the only choice that makes any sense for the Bruins' athletic programs. It's simply a sneering, self-serving move from Wasserman, and nothing more.