Is it just more rivalry smack talk, this time from a website attached to one of the two teams involved in the game, or is it a point of fact?
We report, you decide: It is a point of fact that UCLA is keeping several thousand seats covered by a tarp and therefore unavailable to be sold to the public for the USC game this Saturday.
Keep in mind that UCLA is preventing the Rose Bowl Stadium’s full seating capacity from being used at a time when the program is hemorrhaging money and is significantly in debt. The move to the Big Ten is being made to address this cash-flow problem and wipe out this money deficit.
UCLA is still going to prevent nearly 12,000 tickets from being sold? One can reach only one possible conclusion: The Bruins don’t want 12,000 more USC fans in the building.
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