Walton hopes UCLA move to Big Ten is 'rescinded'

UCLA fable Bill Walton said Tuesday helium does not enactment the Bruins' projected determination to the Big Ten and his "hope and dream" is that the determination "will beryllium rescinded."

Walton provided a written connection to longtime Oregon columnist John Canzano. In it, helium expressed disappointment astatine his alma mater's imaginable determination from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.

"I americium not successful favour of UCLA's caller announced determination to permission the Pac-12 Conference of Champions," Walton wrote, "nor their tendency to articulation the Big 10[.] I don't similar this attempted move, I don't enactment it, I anticipation it does not happen[.]

"I don't judge that joining the Big 10 is successful the champion involvement of UCLA, its students, its athletes, its alumni, its fans, the remainder of the UC system, the State of California, oregon the satellite astatine large."

Walton cites the accrued outgo and accrued question for student-athletes arsenic 1 of the main reasons down his feelings, besides saying that it's "all astir football, and money."

"I went to UCLA - gladly, willingly, and proudly, it was my dream, that imagination ne'er included the Big 10," Walton wrote, "I person spoken to nary one, different than the highest-level directors of athletics astatine UCLA, who deliberation that this projected determination to the Big 10 is simply a bully idea."

"My anticipation and imagination is that this projected determination by UCLA, my alma mater, volition beryllium rescinded," helium added.

Walton was 1 of the top assemblage hoops players of each time, winning 3 consecutive National Player of the Year awards from 1972-74, portion besides starring UCLA to 2 nationalist championships. The Bruins went 86-4 during Walton's clip successful Westwood, winning his archetypal 73 assemblage games.

He went connected to beryllium selected archetypal wide successful the 1974 NBA draught and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame successful 1993.