CC Cabinet report available
The report from the February 2007 meeting of the Championships/Competition Cabinet is out.
Archives Archive February 2007
Handbook Update 2
There's a brief update to the Pac-10 Handbook, to cover changes in football television revenue sharing policies.
Convention follow-up
At long last, here it is.
The Board of Directors reviewed 39 proposals and:
• Adopted 37 of them. You can get compilation of them in detail or in a table form from the NCAA, or look them up individually (2006-018*, 2006-019, 2006-021, 2006-028-B, 2006-031*, 2006-037, 2006-039, 2006-043*, 2006-044*, 2006-048*, 2006-051*, 2006-052*, 2006-053*, 2006-056*, 2006-061, 2006-069, 2006-070, 2006-074, 2006-076-B, 2006-077, 2006-079, 2006-084, 2006-088, 2006-090*, 2006-091, 2006-092, 2006-095*, 2006-096*, 2006-097, 2006-101, 2006-102, 2006-103, 2006-104, 2006-106*, 2006-108-A*, 2006-124*, 2006-125*). Asterisked items are effective immediately. The NCAA has posted details about the override period which ends March 9. Questions and answers for specified proposals that were circulated in advance of the Convention have been added to the proposal listing in LSDBi as educational columns.
• Delayed action until April on 2006-100 (which gives certain powers to the Division I Presidential Advisory Group on FCS football matters) and 2006-107 (which eliminates the event-certification program in sports other than football and basketball).
The Management Council, meanwhile, defeated 17 proposals (2006-016, 2006-023, 2006-028-A, 2006-034, 2006-035, 2006-041, 2006-046-B, 2006-049, 2006-050, 2006-066, 2006-067, 2006-068, 2006-076-A, 2006-080, 2006-093, 2006-098, 2006-105, 2006-108-B) and referred a few others (2006-025 and 2006-026).
Proposals 2006-036, 2006-054, and 2006-110 were withdrawn.
The remaining proposals (2006-017-A, 2006-017-B, 2006-020, 2006-022, 2006-024, 2006-027, 2006-030, 2006-032, 2006-038, 2006-040, 2006-042, 2006-045, 2006-046-A, 2006-047, 2006-055, 2006-057, 2006-058, 2006-060, 2006-062, 2006-063-A, 2006-063-B, 2006-064, 2006-065-A, 2006-065-B, 2006-071, 2006-072, 2006-073, 2006-075, 2006-078, 2006-081, 2006-082, 2006-083, 2006-085, 2006-087, 2006-089, 2006-112, 2006-113) received initial Management Council approval and are in a comment period until March 9.
The Board also fleshed out the details about Occasion Two Historical Penalties for teams who fail to meet the APR requirements and will wait until April to consider the establishment of a supplemental support fund to help foster student-athlete academic success at limited-resource institutions.
Finally, the Board set up a subcommittee to work on implementing the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics.
More details are in the joint report from the Board of Directors/Management Council meetings.
And one more note on the fallout from the override of Proposal 2005-054. As you may recall, student-athletes may continue to use the current NCAA 14.1.9.1 only during the 2006-07 regular academic year. This would not include the summer. So, a student-athlete who enrolls in graduate school during the summer of 2007 at an institution other than the one s/he graduated from may not use the provisions of Proposal 2005-054 to be immediately eligible and his/her new institution.
Sims
When we renovated our website and moved it to the Mac OS X platform, one of our goals was not just to put a prettier face on things (though we think we've accomplished that, especially if you like the color blue), but to give us directions for future growth.
So, here's a step on that path: streaming video.
What you'll need: QuickTime. If you have iTunes, you have QuickTime. And if you don't have iTunes, what's up with that?
Trouble getting the stream? Our QuickTime Streaming Server sends data using User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets. Firewalls designed to protect information on a network often block UDP packets. Client computers located behind a firewall that blocks UDP packets can’t receive streamed media.
If you have problems viewing media through a firewall or via a network that uses address translation, you should upgrade your client software to QuickTime 5 or later. If you still have problems, your network administrators can also set your firewall software to permit RTP and RTSP throughput.
You can watch the stream for our first foray into this new area: Sims, helpful info about game day simulations that are prohibited during unofficial and official visits by prospects to campus.
We'll be adding videos to a new part of the Tools area, appropriately titled--wait for it--Movies.
Widget debuts
Got a Mac? Get our widget.
Thanks to Apple's excellent Dashcode software, you can add a widget to your Mac OS X Dashboard that shows the most recent items from our Hot Topics area, like so:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later required.
NCAA Directory enhancements
The NCAA's online directory (user ID required) has a few new enhancements, including:
• Lists of sports sponsored.
• Lists of individual sport divisions.
• Lists of sport specific conferences.
• Notation of reclassification division if institution is reclassifying.
• List of all schools in the reclassification process.
• Hot links to e-mail contacts, additional information concerning specific sports and conferences.
February cabinet meetings
Materials for the February meetings of the Championships/Competition Cabinet (agenda) and Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (agenda, PDF version) are online.
Water polo gets ARS blanket waiver
The Divisions I, II and III Management Council Administrative Review Subcommittees (ARS) approved a blanket waiver involving outside competitions and the sports of men's and women's water polo for the Speedo Top 40 and Premier League. Read more for details, including the text of the waiver...