The NCAA’s Division I Transformation Committee, the entity created to chart the course for the future of Division I, is getting ready to submit its final set of governance reform recommendations to the DI Board of Directors, winding down after a year of weekly meetings. The Board of Directors will receive the recommendations and a full report from the group at its meeting on Jan. 12. Here’s what you need to know:
- Not everything will be decided by January, Transformation Committee co-chair Julie Cromer told The Athletic on Wednesday. “You’ll see a combination of recommendations for immediate action, concepts to be considered in the future and also basically a roadmap for a new governance structure,” Cromer said.
- SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, who co-chairs the committee, reiterated on Wednesday the group’s commitment to “the big tent,” the idea that all of Division I can remain under one umbrella despite varying budgets and differences among schools. The key, he said, is to streamline the governance model and give people who should have it the ability to make changes.
- Cromer, the athletic director at Ohio University, said that the biggest change to the governance model will be the formation of sport management committees that would free all sports to govern…
