Committed to Change
The future of college sports
COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS
Create Realistic Pathways for Student-Athlete Success
- Separate the collegiate track from the professional track by ending one-and-done.
- Allow student-athletes to test their professional prospects and maintain their eligibility if they do not sign a professional contract.
- Permit students to receive meaningful assessment of professional prospects earlier with assistance from certified agents.
- Provide resources to make the promise of a college education real.
Establish Professional Neutral Investigation and Adjudication of Serious Infractions and Hold Institutions and Individuals Accountable
- Implement independent investigation and adjudication of complex cases.
- Enact and impose core punishments with significant deterrent effect.
Mitigate Non-Scholastic Basketball’s Harmful Influence on College Basketball
- Reform non-scholastic basketball and make its finances transparent.
- Enlist the apparel companies in transparency and accountability efforts.
- In cooperation with partners, establish NCAA youth basketball programs.
- Enact changes in rules governing recruiting and coaches’ interaction with recruits and student-athletes.
Add a Significant Cadre of Public Members to the NCAA Board of Governors
- Change rules to include at least five public members to the NCAA Board of Governors, the Association’s highest governing body.
- Include one public member on the Board of Governors’ Executive Committee.
Read the Full Report.
Working Groups
The Division I Council has developed eight working groups to address recommendations from the independent Commission on College Basketball.
The groups are focusing on the four strategic areas identified by the commission.
Working Group Rosters.
