In Reply to: Here you go, @sshole posted by ClockBlocker on October 16, 2024 at 22:28:52
Your use of this "gotcha" article is entertaining on two levels. One, you use it to conflate the NCAA "guidelines" with legality. Do you see that? Can you see that NCAA guidelines are not the same as civil law? They aren't that and have never been, yet over time you've been brainwashed into believing the NCAA has legal authority. It doesn't and never has had that.
Their power is limited to to allowing or disallowing your participation in their club, like a bridge club or a bingo club. They have no legal authority, yet your earlier post claimed that Ucla couldn't "legally" organize a collective. Of course they could!
Since 2014, several lawsuits against the NCAA have produced court rulings that have essentially eliminated the NCAA's ability to enforce its club rules including its meddling in NIL. The NCAA that brainwashed you no longer exists in the practical world, though it appears to still exists in your head. CFB is now a business. It's no longer a club.
The second entertaining element here is that you still regard the NCAA as relevant to college football and still quake at the idea of running afoul of their dispatched club rules. This was Ucla's cowering and timid posture following the outbreak of capitalism in college football. That frame is obsolete and so is Morgan Center. Would you at least consider the (overwhelming) possibility that they may be a large problem for the football program?
Ucla can't and won't succeed in the newly capitalist, competitive market of CFB because they are not capitalist nor competitive. Their retreating reaction to the market-based changes in college football captures this in broad relief for all to see. Would you at least look at that?
Morgan Center and Ucla don't have the skills to compete any longer since the NCAA autocrat model was dismantled (by a Ucla athlete of all people). Ucla did well in the now defunct command-control autocrat world of the NCAA because that world matched their bureaucratic, collectivist nature and their "skill set" which is light on business talent and long on organizational politics.
You may not see that mismatch just yet, but you will as time goes by and Ucla falls further and further behind its competitors who embrace the new capitalist model in college football. Instead of leading, as a self-proclaimed "elite" institution, Ucla cowers and dawdles in the shadows. WAFJ. Please stop accepting their mediocrity. They should not be allowed to destroy the historic program we have. We should fight back.
To steal a line from Hemingway, Fan in 2034: "Ucla athletics, how did you go bankrupt?" Ucla athletics in 2034: "Gradually, and then suddenly".