It has been almost exactly a year since Desireé Reed-Francois left Missouri to become Arizona’s athletic director. She didn’t take long to establish herself as one of the most important figures in the future of college sports.
Reed-Francois is one of 10 members of the newly created "transition team" — Power 4 ADs charged with creating concepts to oversee, manage and enforce the compensation system for NCAA Division I sports.
UA AD Desireé Reed-Francois has shown she won’t sit idle in a rapidly changing NCAA landscape.
Other ADs on the committee include those from heavyweights like Ohio State, Clemson, Texas A&M and Washington. Reed-Francois spent last weekend in Washington D.C. with the new committee.
The enforcement arm of college athletics has been impotent since the NCAA’s power evaporated in recent years. Reed-Francois’ duty will include helping to create a salary cap for NIL transactions, to police violators of the industry’s new revenue-sharing policies and develop a corresponding penalty structure for violators.
This overdue development should be called the Return To Sanity Committee.
