NCAA Football Television Plan is created.

National rules enforcement program is developed.

Member institutions, conferences required to participate in NCAA championships if invited.

Five-year rule established.

Academic initial-eligibility rules enhanced, starting with creation of 1.600 rule.

Freshmen permitted to compete.

Membership classifications of Divisions I, II and III (and eventually Divisions I-A, I-AA and I-AAA) are created.

Dispute with the U.S. Olympic Committee arises over regulation of amateur sports; USOC membership terminated in October 1972, re-established in April 1978.

National office moved from downtown Kansas City, Missouri, to Mission, Kansas.

NCAA challenges how Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is to be interpreted.

Agreement with ESPN reached to televise series of NCAA championships.

Governance plan approved that allocates NCAA Council positions to women and creates the sports committees necessary to conduct women's championships. First women's championships approved.

Proposition 48 approved at 1983 Convention; strengthens previous initial-eligibility standards.

Involvement of chief executive officers increased; NCAA Presidents Commission established in 1984.

Federal court rules NCAA Football Television Plan violates Sherman Antitrust Act; decision upheld by U.S. Supreme Court in 1984, leading to deregulation of college football television.

Catastrophic-injury insurance provided for all member institutions.

NCAA drug-testing program established in 1986.

Congress investigates NCAA enforcement program; fails to establish wrongdoing, but the probe leads to changes in NCAA enforcement practices.

"Death penalty" imposed on Southern Methodist University football in 1987, the only time an institution has been required to shut down operations for rules violations.

Byers retires in 1987; University of Virginia Athletics Director Richard D. Schultz is named as his replacement.

States that a major priority of his administration will be to improve the public's perception of intercollegiate athletics.

Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics is established in 1989; report issued in 1991 states that greater chief executive officer involvement in intercollegiate athletics is essential.

NCAA signs $1 billion television contract with CBS in 1991; NCAA revenue-distribution plan is subsequently established to distribute the revenue as equitably as possible.

Presidential leadership gains strength as "reform agenda" prevails in late 1980s, early 1990s.

National office moved from Mission, Kansas, to Overland Park, Kansas.

Congress approves the Student-Right-to-Know Act, which leads to the annual NCAA graduation-rate reports. The first graduation-rate study in 1992 shows that student-athletes graduate at about the same rate as other students but that black student-athletes graduate at lower levels, especially in revenue-producing sports.

"Restricted-earnings" coaching position approved at 1991 Convention.

Proposition 16 approved at 1992 Convention; further strengthens initial-eligibility standards.

NCAA defeats state "due-process laws" that are designed to undermine the NCAA enforcement program.

Five conferences and the University of Notre Dame reach agreement in 1992 with postseason bowl games to make a national championship football game more likely.

First NCAA gender-equity study in 1992 shows significant differences in the treatment of male and female student-athletes.

Division I athletics certification program and NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse established in 1993.

Schultz resigns as executive director in 1993 after an independent fact-finder concludes he knew of improper loans provided to a student-athlete while he was athletics director at the University of Virginia. University of Arizona Athletics Director Cedric W. Dempsey is named as his replacement.

Black Coaches Association threatens boycott of Division I men's basketball games after 1994 Convention defeats a proposal to increase the number of men's basketball grants-in-aid from 13 to 14. Threat is subsequently averted.

Conference commissioners announce a plan to restructure NCAA governance and eliminate the one-school, one-vote principle for Division I.

NCAA and CBS agree on new $1.725 billion, eight-year television contract.

Federal judge rules that NCAA restricted-earnings coaching position is illegal. The NCAA and the plaintiffs eventually reach a $54 million settlement.

NCAA opens governmental relations office in Washington, D.C.

The Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education issues a document clarifying the three-part Title IX compliance test.

New "super alliance" bowl arrangement announced, guaranteeing a matchup between the top two Division I-A football teams.

NCAA reaches a $75 million marketing agreement with Host Communications.

Final part of governance restructuring approved at 1997 Convention; federated structure takes effect in August 1997.

National office relocates from Overland Park, Kansas, to Indianapolis.

Plaintiffs challenge legality of Division I initial-eligibility standards.

The NCAA reaches an 11-year, $6 billion bundled-rights agreement with CBS Sports.

Football Oversight Committee formed to examine Division I-A membership requirements, postseason bowl issues and enhancement of Division I-AA football.

Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics produces a second report that seeks action on academic reform, financial pressures and excessive commercialization in intercollegiate athletics.

11-year agreement reached with ESPN to televise the Division I Women's Basketball Championship and 20 other NCAA championships.

Division I presidential task force appointed to examine forces that affect the behavior of Division I institutions.

The Bush Administration conducts a series of public hearings to determine if changes are needed in the way Title IX is to be applied to athletics.

Dempsey announces in January 2002 his plans to retire at the end of 2002.