Tuesday’s announcement that NCAA commissioner Mark Emmert would be stepping down by June 2023 sent shockwaves throughout the college athletics world. Now, leaders have begun weighing in on who could fill Emmert’s shoes—or, more precisely, who would want to.
“It’s a unicorn,” Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff said, per ESPN’s Heather Dinich. “That’s a really, really difficult job. Not an enviable one, and I’m not sure anyone would want it.”
With seismic shifts in how the transfer portal is used, and the growing impact that name, image and likeness rules have already had on programs, the regime change comes at what feels like a pivotal point in college sports. That’s why the timing for new leadership feels both apt and critical to power brokers around the country.
