http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/sports/walter-byers-ex-...

The man who gave birth to the student athlete.

He had a great line about giving perks like cars: " is it morally wrong to give a car or just wrong because we say it is."

Nice article. Historically, it kills me to talk to folks who have no clue how things happened and how we got where we are. They speak from a here and now perspective without understanding the progression. Imagining the NCAA working out of a little room in the Big10 headquarters growing to the beautiful digs they have in downtown Indy and the dollars that NON PROFIT generates is an amazing story and a tribute to what this individual got started.

Additional back story obit http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/sports/walter-byers-ex-...