ANAHEIM, Calif. — The annual NCAA convention will play out here this week, in fitting proximity to Disneyland. The centerpiece of Walt Disney’s original theme park is Sleeping Beauty’s castle, and this convention may mark the slumbering NCAA’s wakeup call.
If it sleeps through this alarm, the credibility hit could be irreversible.
This year, the governing body of college sports must show it is awake, alert and adroit enough to get a handle on two things: a new approach to compensating student-athletes, and an effective means of administering justice in the wake of the college basketball scandal.