The NCAA Division I Board of Directors took a large, but necessary, step forward on Monday to codify the forthcoming House v. NCAA settlement into the organization’s sprawling rule book as college athletics continues to move toward a fairly significant overhaul.
Among nine key legislative proposals approved, 153 rules and bylaws will be eliminated in anticipation of new direct compensation from schools to athletes that the decade-long House settlement calls for. This will end many of the longstanding amateurism rules the NCAA had held on to so closely over the years.
