For years under NCAA president Charlie Baker’s predecessor, Mark Emmert, administrators across the country begged for some semblance of leadership out of the organization’s national office. Some direction amid trying times, some rallying cry amid legal losses or some newfound approach to get behind.
Such wishes appear to have been granted as Baker is now firmly advocating for what portends to be the biggest foundational change to how the NCAA operates since freshmen were fully allowed to participate in college athletics back in 1972. Crucially too, he wants it done in the next few months—akin to the speed of light in comparison to how the slow-moving bureaucracy in Indianapolis usually operates.
