Study: Women still underrepresented in FBS leadership ranks

By AARON BEARD
AP Sports Writer

A diversity study finds women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership positions at the Football Subdivision level of college athletics. The report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) issued another F for gender hiring, a C for racial hiring and an overall grade of D+ for 2022. Those grades largely look as they have in past editions of the study. Leadership positions such as president or chancellor, athletics director and conference commissioner are dominated by white men. TIDES director and lead report author Richard Lapchick calls the lack of significant change “incredibly discouraging.”