The NCAA announced it will be furloughing the entirety of its Indianapolis-based staff of about 600 employees for three to eight weeks in a cost-saving move, as reported by the Associated Press. The furloughs will not affect senior executives.
Starting Sept. 21 through the end of January 2021, all national office staff will be subjected to a mandatory three-week furlough, NCAA President Mark Emmert wrote. Some staff will be furloughed up to eight weeks, depending on position and “seasonal timing of their duties.”
The NCAA took a massive financial hit when the organization made the difficult decision to cancel the Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament last season amid the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the entirety of the 2020 spring sports season. The basketball tournament accounts for almost all of the NCAA’s annual revenue, which reached $1.1 billion last year, according to the AP.
Many colleges will not be participating in fall sports this semester, although that decision was not made by the NCAA but rather by the individual conferences across the three divisions. Among the Power 5 Division I schools, the Pac-12 and Big Ten will not be participating in fall sports as the winter sports teams, including swimming and diving in some places, start a cautious return to practice beginning this month. Because of this, the NCAA has agreed to award all the Division I fall sports athletes an extra year of eligibility if they had their season taken away from them out of their control. The NCAA made the same decision for the spring sports athletes last year that did not get to compete at all.
“We are committed to supporting our member schools and conferences and student-athletes in every way possible, and yet I expect that some of our services to membership may be limited or delayed during this period furloughs,” Emmert wrote. “I ask for your patience as we all strive to weather these difficult times together.”
Is Emmett the first and longest?
No bueno
Of course not the Senior Execs!!!!!