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Aug 13, 2020Liked by Rick Chen

I had the opportunity to meet Knowlton last year and was really impressed with the guy. Smart, committed and a natural leader. I think he is absolutely right to lean in here and see where there is common ground rather than taking an adversarial position...again, smart, committed leadership.

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It will be interesting to see what happens when eventually a season materializes. I do think the group will have trouble collecting on the 50% revenue share with some sort of stipend being offered up by the Pac-12 as a more likely scenario. It is difficult to know if the players will accept this...

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Agreed. When they joined forces with #WeWantToPlay, the scope of their demands narrowed to health-related concerns.

Knowlton said Cal student-athletes would still have access to their resources like tutors, etc., but with classes remote for the fall semester, they miss out on things like food.

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