Emails obtained through a records request showed backlash to U.C.L.A.’s planned move to the Big Ten among alumni and parents.
Within hours of the stunning news last summer that U.C.L.A. was bolting the Pac-12 Conference, along with the University of Southern California, for a rich Big Ten media contract, emails began peppering the inbox of U.C.L.A.’s athletic director, Martin Jarmond.
“I’m glad my father did not live to see this,” wrote Brian Birkenstein, class of ’96, who did not miss a home football game as a student.