Since the Pac-12 couldn’t contribute much to the college basketball season other than investigations, allegations, suspicions and eliminations, it was nice that it offered something potentially worthwhile off the court: The conference’s task force’s 50 pages of recommendations for advancing and enhancing — read: cleaning up — the college game.
There are some good ideas in that mix if they can be made real, real effective in their implementation, but there are misjudgments and complications, too.
The more comprehensive proposals include strengthening enforcement of NCAA rules, regulating recruitment, identifying and disclosing contracts between shoe-and-apparel companies and coaches/schools, educational programs for future college athletes and getting rid of the current one-and-done deal that has fogged the college landscape since its inception 12 years ago.