Dan Murphy and Heather Dinich of ESPN quote Knight Commission CEO Amy Perko regarding the future of the NCAA constitution. “Some advocates for change have suggested that the NCAA’s best path forward would include separating FBS-level football from the rest of the association. Amy Perko, the CEO of the Knight Commission, which suggested that change…
Ralph Russo of Associated Press cited Knight Commission meeting NCAA Board of Directors Chair John G. DeGioia to discuss the reform of the NCAA constitution and highlight DeGioga’s comment that the Commission’s recommendations should be considered in the next phase of NCAA reform. “The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a group of former and current…
Laine Higgins of The Wall Street Journal quotes Knight Commission CEO Amy Perko regarding the NCAA’s new constitution and distribution of powers to each division. “‘The big takeaway of the constitution is that the NCAA loses a lot of authority over Division I,’ said Amy Perko, chief executive officer of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate…
Amanda Christovich of Front Office Sports cites Knight Commission’s financial C.A.R.E. Model. “The C.A.R.E. Model would change how the NCAA and Division I schools use the billions they generate — prioritizing education over ones ‘associated with seeking competitive advantages,” Though the College Football Playoff operates separately from the NCAA, the Commission called on it to…
Amanda Christovich of Front Office Sports cites the Knight Commission’s financial C.A.R.E. Model. “The Commission noted the draft includes the same principles as the C.A.R.E. model. But ‘the problem has been that the principles have not been fully put into practice,’ CEO Amy Perko told reporters.” “’The C.A.R.E. Model addresses the concerns we repeatedly hear…
Intercollegiate Coach Association Coalition Supports Knight Commission Model for Division I Transformation (November 10, 2021) – Twenty-One members of the Intercollegiate Coach Association Coalition (ICAC), representing over thirty intercollegiate sports of which 240,000 NCAA athletes compete support the Knight Commission proposal to tie revenue distribution and spending in NCAA Division I programs to the broad…
Paula Lavigne and Mark Schlabach of ESPN quote Knight Commission CEO Amy P. Perko, citing the C.A.R.E. Model. Read the full article here. The dead money paid to coaches is an example of the broken financial structure of big-money college sports, said Amy Perko, Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics CEO. “Institutions threw away more than…
On October 20, 2021 the Knight Commission co-chairs sent a letter to President Jere Morehead, Chair, NCAA Division I Board of Directors, calling for independent representation on the committee to be appointed to oversee rewriting Division I rules following expected changes to the NCAA Constitution this coming January. This committee will have significant impact on the…
Knight Foundation president and CEO Alberto Ibargüen and Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Co-Chairs Arne Duncan, Len Elmore and Dr. Nancy L. Zimpher have announced the appointment of Jonathan Alger, president, James Madison University as a member of the Knight Commission. Alger is in his tenth year as president at James Madison. He is a…
Tom Dart of The Guardian quotes Knight Commission CEO Amy P. Perko and cites the C.A.R.E. Model. Read the full article here. “When the College Football Playoff was created, when the conferences began their [broadcast] networks, billions of dollars of new revenues flowed into college sports and those revenues disproportionately were spent on coaches’ salaries,…