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NCAA president Mark Emmert’s $3.5 billion mistake will define failed tenure

By Pete Thamel, Yahoo Sports: When choosing from the Cheesecake Factory menu of NCAA president Mark Emmert’s biggest failures over his decade-long tenure, there appears to be a clear low point.

Emmert has bungled many things, ranging from allowing politicians and judges to control the issue of athletes profiting off their likeness to the impotence of the enforcement department. There are plenty of other lowlights, including the equity issues that arose with the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.

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