The world according to Jim:

• If indeed Saturday night’s game against Washington will be the last football home game UCLA plays at the Rose Bowl – and I’m not at all convinced that will be the case – this will be the latest, and most egregious, unforced error by an athletic department that hasn’t exactly served its flagship sport admirably over the past decade. …

• And yes, you can criticize that “flagship sport” characterization because UCLA is a basketball school, but football at UCLA pays most of the athletic department’s bills, as it does everywhere big-time football is played. What has occurred in UCLA’s program the past eight seasons is tantamount to administrative malpractice. …

• The idea of abandoning the Rose Bowl – a stadium synonymous with the soul of college football –

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