NCAA President Mark Emmert confident there won’t be a need for Division 4
By Jack Crosby
At the SEC meetings recently, conference commissioner Mike Slive made some noise once again in regards to the possibility of a “Division 4” forming, should the new NCAA governance not be approved in August. For years there has been talks of the larger teams eventually breaking away from the NCAA, especially given how large college football has become.
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Well, NCAA president Mark Emmert doesn’t foresee that having to take place because he believes that everything in August will go off without a hitch.
“The reality is, they’re not that far apart on the various ends of that and I’m pretty confident the whole thing is going to work out and probably be successful,” Emmert said following a closed-door meeting with more than 100 Division I athletics directors at the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA) convention.
Emmert then went on to mention some of the specific details on the table with the negotiations and their progress.
“People are interested in the transfer rules and whether that’s going to be inside or outside autonomy and then everybody wants to make sure the different economic strata are well represented in the governance model,” Emmert said. “I thought it was very constructive.”
Finally, he expressed his confidence in everything working out eventually once again.
“We’re so close (on resolution),” he said.
Aside from the start of the college football regular season, the focus of the entire month of August will be on these negotiations and the impending result.