Within one year, the NCAA will be undergoing "a lot of change" in regards to Division I athletic governance, the Associated Press reported.

This from the NCAA's president Mark Emmert in an address to more than 100 Division I athletic department faculty and representatives. He said NCAA officials are considering the "changes" to be made over the next six to eight months.

"I've said publicly on a number of occasions the only thing everybody agrees on with Division I governance is that it doesn't work," Emmert said in his opening remarks of the meeting.

"I think the board anticipates a lot of change," he said. "They're going into their October and January meetings expecting to look at a whole different governance model for Division I. So it will be significantly different."

The NCAA will have its annual convention in January, followed by an April meeting, by which time the board will hope to adopt the proposals. The next meeting for the full membership will be next summer. Monday's meeting focused on transparency and the NCAA's public image, both of which have been called into question for the better part of the past year.

Emmert's critics have been heard on the historically harsh penalties levied against Penn State for its alleged cover-up of Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of several young children. He was also questioned for the investigation of the University of Miami athletic department after Yahoo Sports reported a plethora of violations on the Hurricanes' football team.

More recently, Emmert was criticized for his punishment of Johnny Manziel for a suspension of 30 minutes of game time. Manziel's situation is part of a wider issue of the compensation of NCAA Division I athletes. Emmert has held firm that college athletes will not lose their amateur status under any circumstance, but the changes he is forecasting are not clear.

"To think that the president of the NCAA has ever been anything like the commissioner of baseball is ludicrous," Emmert said, "but yet that would be the most popular perception I suspect that people have of what my job is."

Emmert said he is aware of the public perception of the NCAA, but that it is hard to help people understand it is not just him and a board of directors pulling strings. He said a panel of made up of hundreds of member schools help drive various decisions.

While it was not clear what the changes to the NCAA's governance of Division I athletics would be, an informational packet shed some light on how they would be made.

Read the packet, "The simpler the governance structure, the better."