The woman seems to be running college sports. The former U.S. secretary of state served as the head of the "Commission on College Basketball," in response to some rather apparent major problems in the sport, and in April the commission put out a list of recommendations designed to clean up what it felt were the biggest problems facing the sport. In August, many of the recommendations were adopted by the wonderful overlords at the NCAA (the summary from an article I read):
- Recruits can now take up to 15 official visits, 10 more than they could previously.
- Players who declare for the NBA draft and aren't picked can return to college, but only if they were invited to the combine before the draft.
- High school and college players can sign with agents, but those agents can only pay for certain expenses near the player's house/school, and the agents must be let go if the player enrolls in college or decides to come back to school. Oh, and the only players who are eligible to sign with agents are the high schoolers who have been deemed "elite" by USA Basketball and the college players who have been approved by something called the "NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee." Meanwhile, the only agents who can make deals in these instances are those who go through an NCAA program and receive certification.
- Scholarship players who were enrolled at a college for two or more years before leaving to pursue a professional career can return to the same school within 10 years to finish their degree while having their tuition, books, and fees covered.
- Parties in dorms with hookers, like the ones that led to Louisville having to vacate its 2013 national championship, are now permitted as a method of recruiting if Connie is invited (not really).
- School presidents and athletic department members are contractually required to cooperate fully in NCAA investigations, which is another way of saying that the NCAA essentially gave itself subpoena power.
- The NCAA can now use information obtained from probes done by outside agencies as part of its own investigations. In other words, the NCAA can outsource all of its investigating to actual law enforcement officials. At the risk of understatement, this raises a lot of questions.