As outside factors continue to push for change, college sports’ governing body’s leaders know the window to solve their problems is closing fast.
NEW ORLEANS — As Mike Krzyzewski was leaving the dais at the end of his Final Four press conference here Thursday, he murmured a parting shot into the microphone in front of him: “Good luck with the next one.”
The next one on the dais, as Coach K and everyone else in the room knew, was Mark Emmert. For years, the president of the NCAA has served as a bloated target for millions of Americans disenchanted with the leadership of college athletics—but Mike Krzyzewski is hardly just another critic in the peanut gallery.