Commission continues its reform efforts at September 8 meeting Washington, D.C. — Myron Rolle, a Rhodes Scholar and former football All-American at Florida State, joins the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics as its newest member at its meeting today in Washington, D.C. Rolle is now a second-year medical student at the Florida State University College…
Legendary Kansas State Football Coach Bill Snyder echoed many of the concerns expressed in the Knight Commission’s 2010 report about the direction of major college sports. The Associated Press reports that Snyder said universities have “sold out” for money. Snyder’s concerns include the lengthening of the season and the number of games and said “it’s…
New and future health and safety initiatives will be featured Who: The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, co-chaired by William E. “Brit” Kirwan, chancellor, University System of Maryland, and R. Gerald Turner, president, Southern Methodist University, will be joined by Brian Hainline, chief medical officer, NCAA; Oliver Luck, athletics director, West Virginia University; Alan Ashley,…
In its 2010 report, Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values and the Future of College Sports, the Knight Commission called for greater financial transparency in college sports and specifically, for NCAA financial reports to be made public. A House bill introduced on July 14 would make this recommendation a federal law. USA TODAY reports that Rep.…
The United States Senate Commerce Committee release on its July 8 hearing on college sports cited the Knight Commission’s call for greater financial transparency to improve the accountability in college sports. The release noted the following: “For Chairman Rockefeller and other critics of the NCAA, another major concern has been the NCAA’s opaqueness when it…
A USA Today analysis of college athletics budgets found subsidies were reduced at five of 227 public NCAA Division I institutions between 2009-10 and 2012-13. The article states, “roughly one in three of the other 48 power-conference public schools have reduced subsidies for athletics while one in 13 of the non-power-conference schools have done so.”…
A column in the Sedalia Democrat quotes University of Central Missouri (UCM) President Chuck Ambrose who describes his concerns that the “strategic vision for what college sports should look like is not there.” Ambrose is a former college soccer player who served as chairman of the NCAA Division II President Council in 2006-07. UCM recently…
Knight Commission Executive Director Amy Perko is quoted in the Washington Post‘s April 3 article, “NCAA stages its gaudiest spectacle, while its amateur foundation is under question.” The article summarizes the recent debate over whether athletes should receive more benefits and whether they should be represented by a players’ union. “What impact, if any, one…
AP’s “The Big Story” on March 22, 2014 was a report on the remarks Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby made at the Knight Commission’s March 17, 2014 meeting. The report noted that Bowlsby’s panel was “tasked with forecasting how college sports may change over the next decade…if Bowlsby got his way, the model would change—considerably.”…
On March 28, the New York Times published on its opinion page the following statement by Knight Commission Executive Director Amy Perko: The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics continues to strongly promote its principle that institutions must treat college athletes as students first and foremost, not as professionals. The commission supports many of the benefits…