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Rodney Bennett wants to be heard.
The University of Southern Mississippi president, who was recently elected to a two-year term as chairman of Conference USA’s board of directors, has watched over the past decade as the NCAA landscape has transformed radically. Gradually at first and more intensely so in recent years.
And the makeover, from his perspective, has not necessarily been for the good of the whole.
“Conference USA is part of a larger organization (the NCAA),” Bennett said. “And we don’t want to lose our footing as part of that organization.