(06-24-2019 10:32 AM)Rube Dali Wrote:  Mark Emmett is trying his best to ruin California members of the NCAA. Here is his latest threat.

It's just a bluff. IMO there is no realistic scenario in which any NCAA athletes in California would be barred from competing against NCAA athletes in other states if the bill becomes law. The PR would be absolutely terrible. Can you imagine? I mean, I can't think of a quicker way to bring about direct pay for play (revenue sharing) than for Emmert and the Cartel to crap all over athletes in Cali – the only place where those young men and women would be treated more like the human beings that they are rather than, as one Republican California state senator puts it, "chattel." The national debate would rage like it never has before. More and more people would question the appropriateness of gazillion dollar locker rooms, scoreboards that can be seen from Neptune and highly paid coaches, athletic department personnel etc. profiting off the backs of the laborers on revenue-generating teams while those laborers get nothing but scholarships and small COA stipends.

That said, I think the amendment Assemblymember Chu sought and got suggests that he and his committee may fold tomorrow. Kind of an "OK, but we've got our eyes on you" type deal. We'll see. Hearing is at 12:00 ET.