NCAA President Mark Emmert said sweeping reforms currently in the works, including new eligibility requirements, will have a lasting impact on the governing body?s 1,100 schools and 450,000 student athletes.
While college sports has some high-profile challenges, it is heading in the right direction, the leader of the NCAA told an audience Monday at Wright State University.
NCAA President Mark Emmert said sweeping reforms currently in the works, including new eligibility requirements, will have a lasting impact on the governing body?s 1,100 schools and 450,000 student athletes.
?This is a terrific moment for college athletics,? said Emmert, the featured speaker at WSU?s Tip-Off Basketball Luncheon.
In front of a capacity crowd of about 200 people in the Berry Room of WSU?s Nutter Center in Fairborn he also lauded Wright State for the academic performance and community service efforts of its athletes
Emmert, who became the fifth president of the NCAA in October 2010, is probably best known for dishing out harsh sanctions to Penn State University in the wake of the sex abuse scandal.
WSU President David Hopkins ? who serves on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors ? told the audience Emmert is leading major positive reforms that will impact college sports for decades.
Meanwhile, WSU men?s basketball coach Billy Donlon said his team may be younger, but is faster than it has been in recent years and he expects to be competitive in every game. The men?s team opens its home season on Nov. 16 with North Carolina A&T.
And women?s basketball coach Mike Bradbury told the crowd he expects his team to finish better than 3rd place in the league, which is where the lady Raiders were projected to finish in the preseason poll. The women?s team opens its home season on Nov. 14 with IUPUI.
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