Mark Emmert says public losing confidence in NCAA

[Jason Svoboda]

Lots of tough talk from Mark... but what are the solutions to fix it?

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...ng-confidence-governance-collegiate-athletics

 

[Bluethunder]

That would imply that we had any confidence in that organization to begin with.

 

[BrokerZ]

At least Mark Emmert is self-aware. This is something he has to have known for a long time, but must have not cared until now.

The NCAA is eating itself. It's gotten so big and out of control that it's killing itself from within. What can they do to fix it? Well, they can't. The NCAA already gave itself away when it gave the P5 schools more voting control than everyone else. It's now firmly a system of the haves and the have-nots, and people feel that, sense that, and are choosing not to have faith in that going forward.

It's like the U.S. government. You have to have a vibrant middle-class in order for the system to work. The NCAA continues to take steps and make changes to ensure there is no need for the middle class of collegiate athletics.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

People often forget the NCAA is made up of it's membership and ran by them, too. Emmert is a figurehead but is basically the Goddell of the NCAA. His goal is to protect the schools and of course he's going to protect those that make the most money because they typically wield the most power a la Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones. Just look at how those two guys are now torpedoing Goddell's contract extension because he isn't dancing how they're pulling his strings.

If the NCAA is going to work for all, there needs to be massive reorganization and change in how they do business. The problem with that is the P5 schools won't go for it no matter how much they're playing it up for the cameras in the wake of the recent scandals. The fact a B1G team collects a media rights check that equates to 4 years of our athletics budget every year is ridiculous.

Some ideas I've got:

- Tear up the NCAA rule book and start over with a simpler, more modern set of rules that actually function with common sense and favor the student-athletes. A lot of the rules have been around since the 50s because of cheating that happened in the SWAC, for example.

- Create a coaching banishment policy. License all coaches through the NCAA and if a coach is convicted of 2 major offenses, he's permanently banned from coaching for a NCAA member institution ever again. If he gets minor infractions, you can have 3 minors equate to 1 major.

- Create a third party investigation organization that handles all investigations turned over to it by the NCAA or member schools. They will be an independent arbitrator that does not report to Emmert so they can leave political pressure or bias at the door. Align them with the government (if you have to) so they can have subpoena power to actually be able to investigate shit.

- Create a "expense cap" for each individual sport and if a school wants to go over said cap, they get hit with a luxury tax similar to the NBA. Any luxury taxes collected are then dispersed to "small market" schools.

- The one and done rule is a NBA rule, not an NCAA one so they need to get with Adam Silver and get him to remove it.

- Further, if you're going to have the APR rule, make it actually mean something. Considering you can get exemptions for damn near anything, only schools that take risk and keep academic risks around end up getting hit. Nothing says we value the mission more than that when UNC can have their athletes take fake classes and then leave halfway through the 2nd semester to do NCAA/NFL prep and they don't even get a blip on the radar.