[Goose]

I think COVID turned out to be a "stress test" of the NCAA, and it failed miserably.  I take no delight in that.  I think a weaker NCAA will in the long run be a bad development for Stanford Athletics in particular.  But the NCAA looks like an organization on the decline, unable to keep up with the times.

I agree that the NCAA failed the COVID-19 test. In fact, I think it has "failed" just about every test it has been given in the last 15 years. It certainly hasn't figured out how to deal with the money infused into what used to be a somewhat quaint sports tradition. I think the NCAA is doomed by trying to be all things to all schools. The concerns of the Ivy League are different than those of the SEC, and both are different than the Div III schools. Probably it is time to split up the "Governing Bodies" of these various world's apart groups. Each conference or school can decide where it want's to reside and what the rules need to be.

[Goose]

I think COVID turned out to be a "stress test" of the NCAA, and it failed miserably.  I take no delight in that.  I think a weaker NCAA will in the long run be a bad development for Stanford Athletics in particular.  But the NCAA looks like an organization on the decline, unable to keep up with the times.

I agree that the NCAA failed the COVID-19 test. In fact, I think it has "failed" just about every test it has been given in the last 15 years. It certainly hasn't figured out how to deal with the money infused into what used to be a somewhat quaint sports tradition. I think the NCAA is doomed by trying to be all things to all schools. The concerns of the Ivy League are different than those of the SEC, and both are different than the Div III schools. Probably it is time to split up the "Governing Bodies" of these various world's apart groups. Each conference or school can decide where it want's to reside and what the rules need to be.