During an interview with Clark Kellogg today, NCAA president Mark Emmert seemed to hint at potential major changes coming to college basketball soon.
Mark Emmert said today that they might have to re-write the rules because of the change of times…allow players to have interactions with agents like baseball and hockey players are allowed to
— Christopher Peak (@chrispeak5280) February 24, 2018
Here are details from NBC Sports:
In an interview with CBS Sports prior to the start of Saturday’s college hoops action, Emmert said that the “systemic changes” that he is hoping to implement will, ideally, be in place for the start of the 2018-2019 season.
“They’re going to be putting forth their recommendations and bringing them forward during the month of April, and then the boards are going to act on them and act on them quickly,” Emmert said. “We need to act and have changes in place before tipoff of next season. Failure to do that will really erode everyone’s confidence in what this wonderful game is truly all about.”
What are the changes going to be?
Emmert didn’t spill the beans there, but it does seems like the NCAA will consider changing the rules involving agents and college basketball players. When asked why there’s a difference between the way the NCAA views hockey/baseball players and basketball players with regards to agents, Emmert said, “It makes perfect sense to me that it ought to be very different than it is now.”
