Washington – Who is one of the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC leaders gathered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet the prosecutors and lobby for federal instructions for zero – a strong demonstration of unity from the largest and richest NCAA conferences only a few days after the federal court heard college athletics.
University presidents and Chancellors, athletic directors and several coaches and players closed the day of reception of cocktails at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, where the Sec Greg Sankey Commissioner, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark attended a daily short panel.
“We’re a little at a key moment,” Phillips said. “We are trying to find something that has sustainability. It is a modernization of university sports. I think we are all enthusiastic about the access and availability of higher education … There are opportunities for young men and women.
While the Commissioners made several trips to the capital of the country to promote the federal legislation of the Nile, it is often not – if at all – that they have joined such a great emergency of their relevant leagues and all four at the same time.
Auburn The event was attended by male basketball coach Bruce Pearl, fresh from the final four look Texas Football coach Steve Sarkisian.
“We were repeatedly here,” Sankey said about commissates. “The fact is the timing of the house, the new congress, and when we planned to be there a month ago, there was a connection between questions. We know that conversations are taking place. We raised, I think, effectively members of the House and the Senate, and we have to promote it and do it with our universities. A coordinated manner in a coordinated way in a coordinated way in a coordinated way in a coordinated way in a coordinated way in a coordinated way, in a coordinated manner, and “in a coordinated manner, in a coordinated manner,”
Monday occurred hearing of the federal court In Oakland, California, in terms of a highly promoted settlement in which NCAA agreed to pay about $ 2.8 billion to compensate for damage to past and current athletes.
Wednesday’s meeting also came on the heels of March Madness and a week after the opening of the spring portal window.
“Everyone knows there is an urgency,” Yormark said. “Time is not on our side, so we have to move quickly and quickly.
“The settlement is one thing, but it is necessary to codify it on the hill.”
