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Jim Mora frets over impact of midweek games on UCLA players' schooling

UCLA's Jim Mora has stepped into an unwinnable argument.

The Bruins play back-to-back Thursday night games, traveling to Stanford this week and hosting California in the Rose Bowl next week.

"I'm not unhappy about a Thursday night game," Mora said. "I don't think it's fair to the student athletes — and remember we call them student-athletes — to have to play back-to-back Thursday games, especially before midterms."

UCLA has midterms the week after its game against California.

This, of course, is the deal since the Pac-12 Conference sold its product for $3 billion in television pacts.