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During his remarks at SEC Media Days today, Commissioner Mike Slive made some really curious remarks.

Quote:Speaking at his address to kick off SEC Media Days, Slive said determining the proper role, function, composition and size of the board of directors should be addressed. Slive also questioned whether members need all of the services provided by the NCAA office and wants streamlined NCAA committee processes.

Quote:During an interview after the speech, Slive would not specify what changes he would like to see with the board of directors structure. Rather, he said, the NCAA's ongoing review of its governance structure should be realistic, include all constituents and the NCAA should decide what the nature of the board should be.

Quote:Slive said conferences and their members "must be allowed to meet the needs" of their athletes.

"In recent conversations with my commissioner colleagues, there appears to be a willingness to support a meaningful solution to this important change," he said. "... I think I really do speak for my colleagues when I say we want the NCAA to be an effective organization, and the conversation stops there."

When asked what's the alternative to the NCAA not changing, Slive replied, "I'm going to let you decide that."

To be clear, Slive says he wants changes made to the scope and direction of the Board of Directors (a panel within the NCAA that is comprised of 18 university presidents, 11 from FBS (or former FBS) conferences and 7 from the rest of D1), but does not specify what he thinks those changes should be.

It's almost comical to hear him say these things when his own university presidents are ones who continue to shoot down some of those very same proposals that he advocates. Then the media jumps on the bandwagon to say that the top of FBS needs to break away because the small schools are holding them back. Yet it isn't only the small schools that submit override proposals for new legislation.