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NCAA Prez Charlie Baker Uses Sports Business Journal Forum In Las Vegas To Elaborate On His Major Proposal To Pay $30,000 To Some D1 College Athletes

NCAA President Charlie Baker at SBJ Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in Las Vegas Wednesday. Photo credit: Tony Florez/SBJ

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

Sports Business Journal Publisher Abe Madkour’s timing could not have been better.

At SBJ’s Intercollegiate Athletics Forum Wednesday, Madkour interviewed NCAA President Charlie Baker before a crowd of sportsbiz movers and shakers only a day after Baker made a big news splash with his plan to give Division 1 universities in a new proposed tier the option to pay some athletes at least $30,000 a year in a trust fund.

NCAA President Charlie Baker (left) and Abe Madkour, publisher of Sports Business Journal (right). Photo credit: Tony Florez/SBJ

These universities would be a “subdivision” of schools that have the highest resources to invest in their student-athletes.

 

Baker, the former Massachusetts governor who started his NCAA job in March, said in a letter to Division 1 schools that “we need to make several fundamental changes.”

Here are some key points outlined in Baker’s letter that was posted by the AP on X:

Madkour did a nice job asking Baker about a variety of topics.

Baker mentioned he wants the NCAA to create what he called the biggest data base on college sports fans in the world.

And if there was a theme to Baker’s comments, it was his concern about the disparity of sports resources between the top layer of powerful Division 1 universities and other Division 1 schools, and even Division II and III institutions.

 

Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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