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UCLA, Coliseum Commission Talk : College football: Dalis, Blackman hear a proposal to move the Bruins back to the facility from the Rose Bowl.

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UCLA’s apparent dissatisfaction with the Rose Bowl as its football home has surfaced again.

UCLA Athletic Director Pete Dalis and Vice Chancellor Peter Blackman met with the new president of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission, John Ferraro, and other Coliseum representatives Monday and heard an informal suggestion that UCLA move back to the Coliseum.

Dalis said Tuesday that such a move would be “really difficult” because of conflicts in the Pacific 10 football schedule that put both UCLA and USC, already a Coliseum tenant, in Los Angeles on some of the same dates.

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But Dalis also said that UCLA is not happy with the Rose Bowl, and that he will meet again today with Hollywood Park officials to discuss the possibility of moving to a proposed new stadium there.

“The Rose Bowl is a grand old stadium--and I emphasize old,” Dalis said. “They seem reluctant to make improvements in that facility. Maybe they just don’t have the financing to do it.”

Dalis said the meeting at the Coliseum was at the request of Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who had met with UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young.

Rose Bowl General Manager David Jacobs said that UCLA has said it wants only a two-year extension of its lease. The Rose Bowl is pressing for a 10-year agreement.

Coliseum Commissioner Steve Soboroff characterized the UCLA response to the suggestion it move back to the Coliseum as “between no and maybe.”

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