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NCAA President Mark Emmert steps down from position, effective 2023

NCAA President Mark Emmert will step down from his position next year

NCAA President Mark Emmert will step down from his position next year.

The massive NCAA news was announced on Tuesday evening, with many expressing their thoughts on social media about the news. Emmert will officially remain in his role until June 30, 2023.

“Throughout my tenure I’ve emphasized the need to focus on the experience and priorities of student-athletes,” Emmert said in a statement. “I am extremely proud of the work of the Association over the last 12 years and especially pleased with the hard work and dedication of the national office staff here in Indianapolis.”

Click on the tweet below to read the complete release on Emmert’s decision to step down as President of the NCAA:

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NCAA President Mark Emmert has a strong opinion on the upcoming season

NCAA President Mark Emmert told congress that they could shorten the season due to COVID-19, the only problem is he doesn’t have the power.

According to Zach Barnett of Football Scoops, NCAA President Mark Emmert told congress they could shorten the college football season. In Barnett’s article he stated what Emmert participated in conference call with other commissioners.

NCAA president Mark Emmert told Congressional leaders that the upcoming college football season could be shortened and some schools may not play.

Emmert participated in a call Wednesday alongside commissioners of the NFL, NHL, PGA and NASCAR, which served to update the White House’s re-opening task force on various sports return-to-play plans.

In the call, Emmert said the season could be shortened where, at the FBS level, conference championship games are played by Thanksgiving, according to the New York Times. This change would shorted the regular season by two weeks; it would also mirror the schedule many universities have adopted, where the fall semester will begin on time but in-person instruction will end at the Thanksgiving break.

The biggest problem with the comments from Emmert is that he doesn’t have the power to take such a stance. While he can rule over the NCAA March Madness tournaments, football is a completely different animal. When it comes to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) or Division I, it is the conference commissioners who run the college football landscape.

Essentially the Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby has more power than Emmert. All scheduling is done at the collegiate level with schools allowed to schedule their own non-conference opponents and the conference decides on their remaining schedule.

In the Barnett piece, he goes on to state that the College Football Playoff committee is expecting to play a full schedule in 2020.

NCAA to allow on campus voluntary workouts starting June 1st

NCAA has voted to allow voluntary on campus workouts for three major sports starting June 1st. This is a big step towards sports this fall.

The big question surrounding fall sports during this COVID-19 quarantine mostly began with when teams would be allowed back on campus. According to multiple reports, that date has now been set. According to multiple reporters including Brett McMurphy of Stadium.

Football, men’s and women’s basketball can resume athletic activities on a voluntary basis as of June 1st. This is just another domino that needed to fall in order athletics to resume in a somewhat normal fashion. With this new ruling, players such as Sam Ehlinger who have been holding workouts in his garage can return to campus.

There isn’t a date set as of yet for organized team activities but his falls right in line with some schools who have set June 1, 2020 as a date for athletes to return to school to begin football practice. With Tom Herman and the staff already back on campus, it should only be a matter of time before the team is on the practice field and getting acclimated to the new offense under Mike Yurcich.

It was recently reported by the Austin American-Statesman that Longhorns football games are not likely to transpire per the Austin Public Health Officials. Athletic Director Chris Del Conte stated that the school has no intentions to alter their plans when it comes to the 2020 football schedule so that remains to be one situation to monitor.

There is quite a bit of money at play here with football returning. Based on the revenue generated by the Big 12 Conference’s television deals, they could survive the 2020 season without fans but beyond that it would be hard to fathom they could keep football alive without fans in attendance.

Texas Longhorns football staff to return to campus

The Texas football staff is set to return to campus on a part-time basis per Anwar Richardson of Orange Bloods.

While the entire football program has been operating from home in regards to schooling and virtual meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the coaching staff plans to return to campus on Monday.

Anwar Richardson of OrangeBloods.com recently reported that some coaches will be in their offices for particular days of the week moving forward, where social distancing practices will be stressed.

Although the coaching staff is currently only returning to their offices on a part-time basis, this feels like a small step towards some normalcy on the Forty Acres.

It’s particularly important for all new football coaches who recently joined Tom Herman’s staff. It will allow more time for each of them to get accustom to a new routine, office space, etc.

It’s still unclear when students will return to campus, but this news provides hope that it could come sooner rather than later.

Dueling opinions: can sports be played without students attending campuses

NCAA President Mark Emmert and Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby don’t see eye to eye on a return to sports if students aren’t on campus.

With each passing day as we await a return to college athletics, it seems that everyone has provided their take on whether or not a return is likely this fall. Recently NCAA Chief Medical Office Brian Hainline stated that we could have sports in the fall. Also the NCAA released their three phase plan on how sports could return to college campuses.

The NCAA President Mark Emmert recently spoke about the return to sports and it seems he and Big 12 Commissioner aren’t on the same page.

If you don’t have students on campus, you don’t have student-athletes on campus,” he said. “That doesn’t mean it has to be up and running in the full normal model, but you’ve got to treat the health and well-being of the athletes at least as much as the regular students. So if a school doesn’t reopen, then they’re not going to be playing sports. It’s really that simple. – NCAA President Mark Emmert

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby recently spoke with the Athletic about the situation and he believes that teams can in fact play even if operating online.

So who exactly do you believe? Well if you ask Dan Wolken of USA Today Sports then you should probably be prepared for chaos. Not that we aren’t already under said chaos at this point in time.

It is, fundamentally, a sport run by a committee of bureaucrats with little incentive to do anything but advance whatever is in the perceived competitive and financial interests of their conferences. While the NCAA manages certain elements, like the rules of play and recruiting restrictions, most of the important dynamics for FBS run through the conferences. – Dan Wolken

With teams such as Iowa of the Big Ten Conference and Arkansas of the vaunted Southeastern Conference openly discussing their return to football, it is hard to imagine that football won’t be played in some sort of capacity. Like Dan said, it’s the conferences that run NCAA football. While that might be an opinion, there is little out there that disproves that thought.