Big should say ok, call stanford and say you'r on deck then tell ucla to get the regents in line or you'll be outside looking in. Then after that is done, you go get the rest and cal and ucla wither and die
There is, apparently, an effort in the works at the UC system level to exercise control over the ability of individual campuses to make their own decisions regarding athletics. This could screw up UCLA's plans.
When someone says we believe they have the authority to do something they usually don't. People in those positions know what they have to power to do and not do.