UCLA’s basketball team will make some news this week just by stepping on a plane. The Bruins will be taking charter flights for the first time this season.
The lack of charter flights has become a point of contention among some alumni who hope it doesn’t deter top coaching candidates in the school’s search to replace Steve Alford.
“When you talk to any head coach of a program that is of national note, they are chartering not just to some games but to all games,” Sean Farnham, a former Bruins forward who is now an ESPN college basketball analyst, said last week.