Mark Emmert Will Create A Spectacle When Mark Emmert Wants To Create A Spectacle

So much for listening to the little guys: Tentative college football playoff proponent Mark Emmert, who also happens to be the NCAA president, is bailing on a meeting with North Dakota officials over the university’s Association-contested Fighting Sioux nickname:

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Grant Shaft, vice president of the state Board of Higher Education, said last week that [Emmert and] executive vice president Bernard Franklin confirmed they would not attend the April 22 meeting in Bismarck after UND President Robert Kelley informed them it might be public.

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