With bloom off move to SoFi Stadium, UCLA must commit to Rose Bowl

Take a knee.Run out the clock.

Admit it’s over.The only thing left for UCLA to do in its runaway disaster of a legal fight with the Rose Bowl is concede defeat and move on.Commit to staying at your longtime football home through the end of your lease and stop all this madness.Forget those SoFi Stadium dreams.There’s no point in dragging this out any further as the embarrassing court setbacks — and untold millions in attorney fees — continue to pile up.Show some integrity and acknowledge that your word is your word.UCLA’s latest amendment to a stadium lease that runs through the end of the 2043 season was signed in 2014 by Janet Napolitano, the onetime U.S.

secretary of Homeland Security who was then president of the University of California system.Napolitano was also once the Arizona attorney general and governor of that state, meaning that the amendment wasn’t signed by someone who doesn’t fully understand contracts.The contract locked in UCLA for decades to come and did not include an opt-out clause — something the school has refused to recognize as part of its efforts to defect to a newer, shinier stadium closer to campus.Sure, the Rose Bowl isn’t the jewel that it once was.

Its historic splendor can’t mask cramped seating or outdated bathrooms.In a telling sign of how the century-old stadium stacks up against modern venues, it did not host a single game in the recently completed World Cup. There’s also the not-so-insignificant matter of all that revenue that could go to UCLA via suite sales and other sources being pocketed by the stadium.But that’s all part of the deal.

The Rose Bowl isn’t charging rent and has paid a fortune for stadium renovations and upgrades.That’s why it needed assurances that the Bruins would remain tenants for the long haul.Showing that it understands UCLA’s financial concerns, the stadium agreed to allow the school to keep revenue generated from the sale of premium seats associated with a new field-lev...