I think it’d go the other way, Athletes go to USC to collect a few dollars on their way to the NBA, NFL, etc... USC, UCLA, Stanford, etc get better and are either ranked #1 and then dont get into the postseason, staining the entire postseason. Or the NCAA just tosses them out, loses a ton of money, and California has…

Or, he stays on the roster, UCLA plays USC and Stanford and Berkeley and, now that they can recruit the South by offering actual moneymaking opportunities, UC Davis and Fresno State and Cal Poly and whoever else in a league filled with the country’s best players all actually getting paid and enjoying the last few good…

I think just California would be enough. That’s a big, important state. California schools probably aren’t winning any football championships any time soon, but a lot of them go to the basketball tournament. Fans would be livid with the NCAA, not the schools.

I guess the hope is that once you have 4-6 states that pass similar laws, all of a sudden, you start losing a large amount of schools and players due to those laws, the NCAA has to start paying more attention. 

The USC/San Diego State/Cal/Fresno State playoffs are gonna be dope.

Discipline the schools would ultimately have to enforce. Which would be illegal. So either the NCAA changes, or it loses every school in the most populous state in the country.

In the letter, Emmert suggested that colleges in California could be prohibited from competing for NCAA championships, because the bill might give those schools unfair advantages in recruiting athletes 

it would prohibit schools in California from revoking scholarships or scholarship eligibility from athletes who profit off their own name, image and likeness.

Not so much “set the tone” as harmonized with the tone that has resonated through this franchise for decades. 

“Adam Gase had a chance to set the tone for the Jets’ season.”

And like that, the laughs of a million Steelers fans were suddenly silenced.

Yeah, I doubt there is any contract you can sign in any business where you get $30M guaranteed and then immediately jet off to live in the Mediterranean and never be seen again, while the other side just shrugs their shoulders and says “Oh, well. I guess we have to keep paying him.” I would bet that the “guarantee”…

[cue audience hooting and hollering]

If Terrence Malick and Spike Lee had a baby together, that’s the movie it would make.

If the Raiders did want to drag this out, they could maybe look into the fact that California is a two-party consent state, 

Hey, remember when the Bears were facing a 1st & 30 and they converted it only for it to get called back on an offensive penalty that put them at 1st & 40? That was awesome.

Aww man, I was excited to see Brown run forty yards downfield then thirty-five yards back to catch Carr’s deep ball.

i mean, the steelers missed the playoffs last year, and the chiefs lost a close game to the patriots in the afc champtionship. would having kareem hunt or lev bell had helped those teams accomplish more? i’d argue yes.

Every stripper I’ve ever seen genuinely wants to fuck me. It’s clear.