NCAA President Charlie Baker sits down with ADU’s Jason Belzer to discuss the future of college athletics, including the development of the NCAA’s fan database, transparency issues in NIL, the impact of sports wagering on the integrity of competition and his belief in the power of the student-athlete voice.

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0:26 - You've been in your role for about a year; if you could go back to a year ago and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?
1:16 - With that hindsight, how would you grade your performance over that first year?
4:49 - It seems like the analytical approach you and your team are taking to creating this fan database is about increasing fan attendance, social media views, eyeballs at the end of the day.
5:31 - Has there been conversation about leveraging the student-athletes themselves in this process?
7:15 - What is working well at the NCAA? What is working well in college athletics? Where do you think there could be some improvement?
9:19 - You said the operating model for the top schools is different; is it based on the amount of money that's coming into those institutions and their ability to allocate those dollars in ways that other DI institutions can't?
11:52 - Has the NCAA gotten too big in terms of the way that it's governed and structured?
14:27 - Are the larger institutions merely in the position of needing to move faster or is it that the environment and political landscape and the court systems pushing for a decision to be made faster than what the NCAA can do based on its processes?
15:54 - NIL has been in effect for nearly three years now and in any capitalistic system, there's always an equilibrium - just like in the stock market, the market's going to correct itself.
18:22 - Why three years in?
18:50 - Some say a potential solution is to have institutions more involved.
20:14 - If schools get more involved, then there would have to be more Title IX compliance.
21:13 - In a situation where an institution is deploying up to $10-15M [in NIL money for male student-athletes], is the expectation that the same amount would be deployed to female student-athletes? If donors are more interested in supporting football and men's basketball, where does the institution find the money to be able to create comparable opportunities for female student-athletes?
22:11 - Student-athlete employment is a big concern, arguable a bigger concern than NIL. We have issues around sports wagering. There are a lot of things that need to be assessed. You have a diverse constituency, each with their own state laws and beliefs; if tomorrow, every student-athlete could become an employee, it just wouldn't work in some states.
22:57 - What is the NCAA doing to prepare for or prevent something like that from happening? What is the NCAA doing to prepare for a day when some states are forced to do that?
27:06 - A scandal may be unavoidable based on the number of students on college campuses participating in sports betting.
28:50 - How do you navigate the issue of student-athletes unionizing and seeking employee status? Or do you just deal with it on a case-by-case basis?
31:40 - Does it make sense for student-athletes to have some sort of mechanism to have a greater say on big picture decisions like realignment?
34:44 - What are you most optimistic about?