Robert Gates Ran the Pentagon. Can He Help Save the N.C.A.A.?

Robert Gates Ran the Pentagon. Can He Help Save the N.C.A.A.?

The New York Times-Sports·2021-09-21 06:03

The Washington State home of Robert M. Gates — closer to Canada than to Seattle, adorned with a mounted elk head and occupied by one of America’s semiretired spymasters — would seem an improbable place to try to reshape college sports in less than six months.

But perhaps this was inevitable for Gates, the 77-year-old former defense secretary and director of central intelligence. He is, after all, still bristling over the strictures of college athletics 19 years after he became Texas A&M’s president, the post he left in 2006 for the Pentagon’s top job.

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