Restructure!

by TexCane

For decades, the NCAA has struggled to keep the association viable and alive. After years of contemplation...

I HAVE A PLAN to fix it

My plan may not be perfect, but it will begin to fix the problems facing the NCAA. I’m not professing to get rid of the NCAA. Just restructure and streamline it.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll take you through the “steps to sanity” again in college athletics.

In today’s segment, I will begin to take you through a major organizational restructuring of the NCAA.

The NCAA is an association with no true management structure.

Currently, the NCAA is run by conferences/schools at multiple levels of competition. While operating with limited operational authority, the association has no direct management authority over member conferences and schools.

Division I, the highest level of competition, consists of 10 conferences with a total of 133 schools. Much too large to properly manage with available resources.

STEP ONE: Hire a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who has authority over the entire association.

Hypothetically, that’s me.

STEP TWO: Establish a new national headquarters, preferably in the central part of the country with a good air hub. I would choose Kansas City to avoid any embedded conference culture.

STEP THREE: Hire eight division senior vice-presidents to lead our eight product businesses (formerly called conferences). Consolidate all current conference operations to the new national headquarters. Streamline for more consistent performance.

STEP FOUR: Form an executive council consisting of the eight division SVPs, CFO, COO, CLO, and CMO. This council will run the day-day business. Yes, I did say BUSINESS.

BOTTOM LINE:

We’ve eliminated the competitive warring tribes running the business on a day-day basis. The sooner we get rid of the academic-minded culture the better. It’s now a BIG business. Run it like it is a business.

Enough of the Coom-ba-yah stuff!

In part three of our series, I’ll continue the restructure of the NCAA. This is where it begins to hurt…the conferences

GO CANES!