Young: Not Interested in NCAA Job
Chancellor Charles Young of UCLA, whose name has surfaced as a candidate to replace Walter Byers as executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. when Byers retires next year, said Thursday he was not interested in the job.
Young said: “I don’t know where it’s coming from. I guess it’s just because I have been active in the NCAA. But I’m not a candidate.”
Instead, he indicated that he supported John Ryan, president of Indiana University and the first chairman of the Presidents Commission. Ryan, 57, will leave Indiana next September.
Ryan said that although it was not out of the question that he might wind up with the position, he was not running for office.
The favorite seems to be Harvey Schiller, 47, Southeastern Conference commissioner. Also mentioned are Dave Gavitt, 48, Big East commissioner and former chairman of the NCAA’s men’s basketball committee, and Dick Schultz, 57, Virginia athletic director and chairman of the NCAA basketball committee.
The appointment will be made this spring.
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