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The recent news of a federal investigation into fraud in college basketball made it very clear the NCAA needs to make substantive changes to the way we operate," Emmert said in a statement, "and do so quickly. Individuals who break the trust on which college sports is based have no place here. While I believe the vast majority of coaches follow the rules, the culture of silence in college basketball enables bad actors, and we need them out of the game. We must take decisive action. This is not a time for half-measures or incremental change."
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The commission will focus on “the relationship of the NCAA national office, member institutions, student-athletes and coaches with outside entities,” the effect of the NBA’s one-and-done rule on college basketball and “creating the right relationship between the universities and colleges of the NCAA and its national office to promote transparency and accountability.”
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