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" Knight Commission endorses FBS split from NCAA
1:14 PM CT
Dan Murphy
ESPN Staff Writer
A commission of college athletics leaders recommended Thursday that the best way to repair the NCAA's "broken governance model" is to remove the football teams of the Football Bowl Subdivision from the association, forcing the top level of college football to govern itself as a separate entity.
The Knight Commission, a reform-minded independent group of university presidents, former athletic directors and others, spent the past year studying the current state of college sports before making its recommendation.
After surveying a wide swath of college sports stakeholders, the group said it discovered that many leaders in the industry believe the time has come for significant change. It decided that the most effective way to solve a variety of problems was to separate football -- an outlier of a sport because of the vast and quickly increasing difference in the revenue it generates.
"Every other sport looks like a duck and walks like a duck and probably is a duck," Knight Commission co-chair Arne Duncan told ESPN. "That one [football] looks like a pterodactyl. It's not like the others, and it's had a wildly disproportionate impact on everything else. It doesn't make sense." "
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30444422/knight-commission-endorses-fbs-split-ncaa
" Knight Commission endorses FBS split from NCAA
1:14 PM CT
Dan Murphy
ESPN Staff Writer
A commission of college athletics leaders recommended Thursday that the best way to repair the NCAA's "broken governance model" is to remove the football teams of the Football Bowl Subdivision from the association, forcing the top level of college football to govern itself as a separate entity.
The Knight Commission, a reform-minded independent group of university presidents, former athletic directors and others, spent the past year studying the current state of college sports before making its recommendation.
After surveying a wide swath of college sports stakeholders, the group said it discovered that many leaders in the industry believe the time has come for significant change. It decided that the most effective way to solve a variety of problems was to separate football -- an outlier of a sport because of the vast and quickly increasing difference in the revenue it generates.
"Every other sport looks like a duck and walks like a duck and probably is a duck," Knight Commission co-chair Arne Duncan told ESPN. "That one [football] looks like a pterodactyl. It's not like the others, and it's had a wildly disproportionate impact on everything else. It doesn't make sense." "
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30444422/knight-commission-endorses-fbs-split-ncaa