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The Valenti Show

Can Hiring A NCAA CEO Change College Football For The Better?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico discuss a report about the NCAA hiring a CEO, wondering how this could affect the landscape of college sports.

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0:00.0

All right, we'll get more of your calls momentarily, but I want to add something to the mix.

0:05.1

No rigor oversell, and there's no smarm or sarcasm. I'm just dealing direct with you.

0:11.1

I think this, if this happens, this is equal parts positive and impactful.

0:18.1

And I think it would bring a lot of people back to college football. I want to read you an excerpt. Pete Thamele had a piece about this new CEO of college football position and kind of how it would work. Now, obviously, you've got the, the house has to settle on things this summer,

0:40.2

but the minute that happens, it sounds like this could happen.

0:44.5

Quote, most prominent among the changes will be a change in how enforcement works,

0:49.5

as the NCAA will no longer be in charge of traditional enforcement,

0:53.9

and a CEO would be put in place

0:55.8

with powers that never existed before. What have I always compared college football to?

1:01.1

Horse racing. No central, effective governing body. Archaic process. I mean, think about it. Yeah,

1:08.7

part of it is the fact Michigan was dumb and just didn't take

1:11.4

their punishment last year, but reality is the NCAA takes years to adjudicate things that should

1:18.1

take 10 minutes. This would fix that. The CEO of College Sports New Enforcement Organization,

1:25.0

called the College Sports Commission, would have final say in doling

1:29.3

out punishments and deciding when rules have been violated, a level of singular power that's

1:35.0

never existed during the NCAA's era of struggling to enforce its rules. The CEO hire is expected

1:42.2

to come quickly after the House settlement is finalized and has been spearheaded by the power for commissioners from the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, and ACC.

1:51.6

Their pick to lead the new agency will quickly become one of the most powerful and influential people in all of sports.

1:59.8

The hiring of the new CEO of the commission

2:02.9

is deep in the process. That's per ESPN sources. The association agreement could also include a

2:09.2

clause when schools, quote, agree to waive any right to a jury trial with respect to disputes

2:17.3

arising or relating to the agreement.

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