Green, Don W. - The University of Kansas

Q: Yes.
representative for KU. In fact, when I began Bob Frederick was the AD. You saw about
his untimely death.
A: So anyway I started then and did that until 2007. In 2007 I went half time for two years.
Anyway, I was the faculty athletic representative and I enjoyed that.
Q: What did you do as representative?
A: The governance of the conferences in the NCAA generally consist of groups, the
presidents, of course, they control. Then there is a group, athletic directors from each of
the conference schools, and then a group of faculty athletic representatives. These
consist of one representative from each university. There is a council of senior women
administrators. What did we do? Well, the NCAA is a very bureaucratic organization,
lots of rules. So much of our time—we would meet three or four times a year—and
much of our time was spent looking at the rules, sometimes making new rules for our
specific conference that are consistent with the NCAA rules, interpreting rules, issues that
relate to waivers and requests. For example, someone is declared ineligible and maybe
they are about to lose a year of eligibility under the current rules, but they have a valid
reason for getting an extension, a so-called waiver. So we would spend time in deciding
whether the waiver was justified or not. We spent a lot of time on academic issues. I
think the faculty reps sort of viewed themselves as keepers of the faith, if you will, in
trying to maintain the academics. So there are rules that would pertain to what is called
satisfactory progress in order for a student athlete to remain eligible. Those kinds of
issues we would address.
Q: And there were certain perks to the position.
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