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I can't see how the NCAA can do anything but disqualify any team with professional players from competing in NCAA sanctioned activities.  They'll have a majority of their membership wanting that.  California football and basketball will necessarily disassociate from universities and become some sort of minor league, with all the attendance issues that such minor leagues have.   Yeah, there might be a few years of intra-California football and basketball, but I don't think there will be enough interest to sustain it.    In one possible scenario, NCAA football could continue in 49 other states, after California takes its ball and runs home just because it doesn't like the rules.

Heck, the NCAA might look at this as a good way to shed the future potential legal/health mines fields of football and basketball.  Drop two sports and there are still 22 sports for which the NCAA would hold championships.

I won't mind seeing football and basketball minor leagues form and taking the players that aren't interested in the 40-year or even 4-year commitment.    Whether any form of collegiate football and basketball remain, I can't say.  But  what remains of the big budget days of collegiate football, at least in California, may be gone, at least unless California back-pedals from this law (but when was the last time California ever admitted it was wrong, except when one political party gets to blame another political party).

Really, with all the interest of the people on the Cardboard for Stanford football, how many of you would still be interested to see the Palo Alto Trees play the Berkeley Slip-Faults, where the players aren't students and might be 30 years old, but not good enough for the NFL?   If you think attendance is bad now, . . .

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I can't see how the NCAA can do anything but disqualify any team with professional players from competing in NCAA sanctioned activities.  They'll have a majority of their membership wanting that.  California football and basketball will necessarily disassociate from universities and become some sort of minor league, with all the attendance issues that such minor leagues have.   Yeah, there might be a few years of intra-California football and basketball, but I don't think there will be enough interest to sustain it.    In one possible scenario, NCAA football could continue in 49 other states, after California takes its ball and runs home just because it doesn't like the rules.

Heck, the NCAA might look at this as a good way to shed the future potential legal/health mines fields of football and basketball.  Drop two sports and there are still 22 sports for which the NCAA would hold championships.

I won't mind seeing football and basketball minor leagues form and taking the players that aren't interested in the 40-year or even 4-year commitment.    Whether any form of collegiate football and basketball remain, I can't say.  But  what remains of the big budget days of collegiate football, at least in California, may be gone, at least unless California back-pedals from this law (but when was the last time California ever admitted it was wrong, except when one political party gets to blame another political party).

Really, with all the interest of the people on the Cardboard for Stanford football, how many of you would still be interested to see the Palo Alto Trees play the Berkeley Slip-Faults, where the players aren't students and might be 30 years old, but not good enough for the NFL?   If you think attendance is bad now, . . .