How threatened is the NCAA by new legislation which passed the California State Assembly recently, allowing student athletes to profit off their image and likeness?
They’re throwing out a pretty wild threat: Barring schools in the state, like USC, UCLA, Stanford and Cal, from participating in NCAA championships.
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“When contrasted with current NCAA rules, as drafted the bill threatens to alter materially the principles of intercollegiate athletics and create local differences that would make it impossible to host fair national championships,” NCAA president Mark Emmert wrote in a letter to the assembly, as reported by Steve Berkowitz of USA Today.