What Exactly Is Neutral About Playing In Arlington?

The payout isn't the same. The recruiting allowances aren't the same. So, aloof what is aloof about arena in Arlington? Not much.

This Saturday, UCLA will comedy the Texas Longhorns in a bold that is technically at a aloof site. But, as we've accent before, arena UT in the Dallas suburb of Arlington isn't the aforementioned as arena Notre Dame or Florida in there because the Dallas breadth has a huge Texas fanbase and the two-hundred mile drive from Austin to Arlington would be agnate to UCLA arena a "neutral site" bold in Fresno or arena Syracuse at Yankee Stadium. That's not neutral.

But all this has been accounting actuality before.

Let's allocution about a few things that put UCLA at a disadvantage which we haven't discussed before, like the payout. Earlier today, Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman tweeted about the payouts anniversary aggregation will receive.

WAIT! What?!?

So, let's get this straight. We're travelling 1,400 afar beyond two time zones and we're not accepting the aforementioned payout as Texas? WTF? That's not neutral.

That adeptness be added than what we would accomplish from a home-and-home adjoin addition Power 5 academy at the Rose Bowl, but it may not be.

OK, so, maybe, aloof maybe, the cruise will accretion us $2.5M account of recruiting allowances afresh to antithesis things out. Guess again. We will get about no recruiting abstract out of this trip.

Coach Mora said so in today's post-practice columnist conference. Thanks to Ryan Kartje of the OC Register for sharing.

In acknowledgment to a catechism about recruiting constraints, Mora said:

It's adverse because it is a aloof site, but we are not the home aggregation and that's aloof the way it breaks. So, we're not accustomed to allure recruits to the bold and that's aloof the way it is. If we were the home team, we'd be able to and Texas wouldn't. So, maybe abutting time it works out that way...We don't accept the adeptness to accompany guys to the bold as our guests.

This is aloof yet addition acumen this bold should not accept been appointed after a home bold at the Rose Bowl included. That's not neutral.

While speaking about how the aggregation is activity to appointment and airing about AT&T Stadium on Friday, Coach Mora additionally said:

No amount area you arena or who you're arena against, unless you out actuality practicing, it's the exact same...field...measurements. Everything's the same.

Well, he's right. It's true. Unless you are out there at Spaulding Acreage area the fields are alone 80 yards long, the breadth of a football acreage is 100 yards long. This is article that should be rectified back the Wasserman Center is built, but it apparently won't be.

But, I digress.

I accede the abstracts of the acreage are the aforementioned everywhere but Spaulding, but I can agreement that Saturday's army won't accomplish babble on third bottomward to activation our aegis and accomplish the Bruins feel like they're at home at the Rose Bowl. That's not neutral.

The basal band is that, no amount how you attending at it, there is absolutely actual little about arena UT in Arlington that is neutral.

Perhaps the admiral will be from the SEC, ACC or B1G. Afresh maybe article will assuredly absolutely be neutral.

A bearings like this should never appear afresh after accepting an according payout, according recruiting allowances and actuality a absolutely aloof site. The Athletic Department absolutely alone the brawl on this one.

What Exactly Is Neutral About Playing In Arlington?

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