UCLA hoops legend Invoice Walton opposes Bruins transfer to Large Ten

UCLA legend Invoice Walton mentioned Tuesday he doesn’t help the Bruins’ proposed transfer to the Large Ten and his “hope and dream” is that the transfer “will probably be rescinded.”

Walton supplied a written assertion to longtime Oregon columnist John Canzano. In it, he expressed disappointment at his alma mater’s potential transfer from the Pac-12 to the Large Ten.

“I’m not in favor of UCLA’s current introduced choice to depart the Pac-12 Convention of Champions,” Walton wrote, “nor their need to affix the Large 10[.] I do not like this tried transfer, I do not help it, I hope it doesn’t occur[.]

“I do not consider that becoming a member of the Large 10 is in the perfect curiosity of UCLA, its college students, its athletes, its alumni, its followers, the remainder of the UC system, the State of California, or the world at massive.”

Walton cites the elevated price and elevated journey for student-athletes as one of many fundamental causes behind his emotions, additionally saying that it is “all about soccer, and cash.”

“I went to UCLA – gladly, willingly, and proudly, it was my dream, that dream by no means included the Large 10,” Walton wrote, “I’ve spoken to nobody, apart from the highest-level administrators of athletics at UCLA, who assume that this proposed transfer to the Large 10 is a good suggestion.”

“My hope and dream is that this proposed transfer by UCLA, my alma mater, will probably be rescinded,” he added.

Walton was one of many biggest faculty basketball gamers of all time, profitable three consecutive Nationwide Participant of the 12 months awards from 1972-74, whereas additionally main UCLA to 2 nationwide championships. The Bruins went 86-4 throughout Walton’s time in Westwood, profitable his first 73 faculty video games.

He went on to be chosen first total within the 1974 NBA draft and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in 1993.