Is Gov. Charlie Baker going to make the NCAA markedly better as new president? Would love to see it. Would also love to see unicorns and the Wing-T.
Less than four years later, athletes around the country are competing at their third or even fourth school. The NCAA changed its transfer portal rules, because when it comes to college sports, nothing is real. Not the one-time transfer exception, not amateurism, not gender equity or even a sense of fair play.
“Yeah,” he said during his introductory NCAA news conference Thursday, “it’s big and complicated. So have been a lot of things I’ve done in my life, but most of the time, they were absolutely worth doing.” Playing basketball at Harvard in 1978 is like being fifth-grade president at French Lick Elementary. No offense to Harvard. It just did nothing dirty or awful in 1978 to prepare Charlie Baker for what awaits him in March 2023, when he officially replaces Mark Emmert as president of the NCAA.
For years, the NCAA has been a rabid dog wagged by the SEC as the other Power 5 conferences followed the SEC’s lead like ticks up the tail. It’s an infestation of NIL money and player mobility that will take a system that has never been truly equitable – Florida and Ohio State in the same classification with James Madison and something called, let me see, Texas State? – and make it so outrageously unfair that massive change is coming.
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