To the casual observer, the NCAA has a lot of seeming problems: Gender equity issues, the impending wave of name, image, and likeness legislation from states, a potentially crushing ruling from the Supreme Court waiting in the wings ... all leading to a public perception that it’s a tone-deaf organization that refuses to face the realities of the year 2021.
So, the NCAA board of governors — made up primarily of university presidents up and down the various divisions — did the only logical thing: Retain the man who has overseen the blossoming of these seeming problems for the last decade by extending the contract of its president, Mark Emmert, until 2025.