The position they had relative to the rest of their conference in the PAC 10 era is gone. Then they typically had two tough conference games in a given year. With the recreation of the Big Ten, they face perhaps four tough games a year, given the new travel situation from LA for them. They find themselves in an uncomfortably competitive environment, and will dump us to try to minimize tough OOC games.
It’s too bad. Hating that entitled, media-darling program was one of the real, solid things you could build a meaningful life around. I will be sad when it is gone.