Fourth Most Athletic College In the Country: UCLA

by Tydides on Aug 9, 2011 7:44 PM PDT

A website named "CampusSplash" has compiled a ranking of the most athletic colleges taking into account things like number of sports, number of titles, revenue (and others). UCLA ranks fourth in the nation behind Stanford, Texas, and Florida, which is somewhat surprising considering our recent struggles. It only goes to show the potential that is inherent in the four letters, and reinforces our attitude here on BN to never settle for mediocrity and being second rate.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to access CampusSplash directly, so I did not get to take a look at the full methodology, but they had this to say about us:

I think I may have just discovered the winner of the ongoing battle for Los Angeles between UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans. If you can't guess based on the bolded area above, the winner is UCLA. The UCLA blue and gold have racked up 53 national titles in 14 different sports, both stats being the second highest behind only Stanford. UCLA has been dominant in softball, women's water polo, and men's volleyball for the past 25 years.

Of course, we discovered the same thing ages ago about the Trogans, and it's really too bad we haven't had the revenue or the leadership to compete in the same number of sports as the schools ahead of us on the list. Given our circumstances, we're doing well, but I think we all agree that we can do better. Hopefully the revenue from the Pac 12 deal helps us achieve that end, and we'll have to keep the pressure on Morgan Center to make sure they're not pissing away our advantages like they usually do.

(And the Trogans? They're seventh. Behind Oregon.)

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of BruinsNation's (BN) editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of BN's editors.

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Methodology can't have come from tWWL...

not with three Pac-12 schools in the top 7!

Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.

by KSBruin on Aug 9, 2011 7:52 PM PDT reply actions

Not bad for a team without a football program

by Alcides on Aug 9, 2011 9:23 PM PDT reply actions

I'm not saying the report has no credibility

But did you notice that the link took you to a Huffington Post page that had a link right below the UCLA athletic picture to the vaunted “Arizona Razorbacks” athletic program?

Just sayin’.

Good news, though, above the picture it says “$10 million donation to UCLA law school.” I know you’re thinking it was me (not true). Great that our prestigious law school got that, and let’s hope that our football team so impresses alumni this fall that our athletic program gets a nice gift or 8 like that soon.

by GoldenGate93 on Aug 9, 2011 10:59 PM PDT reply actions