I was stunned when I logged on to my Twitter feed and saw that Dr. Myles Brand, NCAA President, had died from pancreatic cancer. He was 67.

Brand was known mostly for being the Indiana University President who fired Bob Knight.

When Dr. Brand took over the NCAA a few years later he was the first academic to lead the organization.

While I didn’t always agree with certain elements of how the NCAA functions (and I still don’t), I do believe that Dr. Brand’s commitment to making sure that the f...

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