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Bowlsby discusses what the NCAA Oversight Committee will examine

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he recently read some headlines he saw in a newspaper, noting that reporters wrote that “athletes aren’t real students, and coaches are paid too much.” “It was from a 1927 New York Post,” he said with a grin. “Not much has changed. Somehow we’re sustaining.” In a recent appearance, Bowlsby talked about some of  the items that the NCAA’s Oversight Committee, of which he is a member, is examining, including the graduate transfer rule, the new fall signing period for high school football players,…

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Bowlsby: What would help the Big 12? A better Texas

Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby made a visit to the central Texas earlier this week. He announced he was meeting with new Texas head football coach Tom Herman and then eating lunch with former University of Texas President Bill Powers. He credits Powers, former Athletics Director Deloss Dodds, and several Oklahoma administrators for wooing him away from Stanford as the athletics director to take over the Big 12 as commissioner five years ago. “I’m going to thank (Powers) and not thank him,” Bowlsby joked. Since he became commissioner, the…

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