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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1919627, member: 40"]
Right--so not employees of the NCAA.  They are volunteers who are participating on a limited basis for a short-term duration to shape the rules of the regulatory agency their institutions belong to that, and in some capacities to support specified aspects of operations [i.e., appeals committees, NCAA basketball selection committee, etc.].

But the main body of the NCAA is a separate entity from these volunteers / committee members.  A few years back, I sat on a national committee to help adjust a subset of SEC rules.  My employer at the time was a Fortune 100 financial services institution, and I represented not only them, but all financial institutions in our market segment.  Helping to frame those rules and work on the way that the statues were written didn't make me a member of the SEC, or an SEC auditor--it only meant that I was authorized to represent the regulatory agency in a limited capacity, using temporary "powers" that they sanctioned.

And just as the SEC was not the member institutions [despite their affiliation, and the regulatory agency's jurisdiction over that group], the NCAA is also is a separate entity [out of necessity, since it enforces the rules against them] that involves the membership to shape policy, sanctioning these volunteers to act on the agency's behalf in a limited capacity.

Again, not worth getting into over a second time.
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