Archives Archive June 2007

What happens now

The override period for legislation considered by the Board in April closed yesterday. According to LSDBi, a smattering proposals had override requests attached to them, but only three received at least 30 override requests:

•  2006-040 (text/instant messaging ban)—34
•  2006-087 (golf dates of competition)—69
•  2007-009 (baseball financial aid/squad size)—72

The Board will review its actions to adopt these three proposals at its August meeting. If it does not change its position, then the membership will vote on the proposals at the January 2008 Convention, with a 5/8 majority needed to override the actions of the Board. If the Board does change its position, that action(s) will enter a new 60-day override period. A helpful page on the NCAA website has more detail.

The rest of the proposals that were in the override period are finished with the legislative process (asterisked items are effective immediately):

Adopted--2006-017-A, 2006-020, 2006-022, 2006-024, 2006-030*, 2006-032*, 2006-045, 2006-046-A, 2006-047, 2006-055, 2006-058 + 2006-058-1, 2006-060, 2006-063-A, 2006-064*, 2006-065-A, 2006-072, 2006-073, 2006-075*, 2006-078, 2006-081, 2006-083, 2006-089, 2006-107, 2006-113. 2007-001, 2007-003*, 2007-004*, 2007-005*, 2007-006*, 2007-007, 2007-008.

Defeated--2006-027, 2006-082, 2006-100.

Jun 26, 2007 10:51 AM

What the Board did

The report of the April 2007 meeting of the Board of Directors is out. Highlights:

• 31 proposals were adopted (asterisked items are effective immediately): 2006-017-A, 2006-020, 2006-022, 2006-024, 2006-030*, 2006-032*, 2006-040, 2006-045, 2006-046-A, 2006-047, 2006-055, 2006-058 + 2006-058-1, 2006-060, 2006-063-A, 2006-064*, 2006-065-A, 2006-072, 2006-073, 2006-075*, 2006-078, 2006-081, 2006-083, 2006-087, 2006-089, 2006-107, 2006-113, 2007-001, 2007-003*, 2007-004*, 2007-005*, 2007-006*.

We've updated our NCAA Manual Updates page accordingly.

• Just three proposals were defeated: 2006-100 (regarding the authority of the Presidential Advisory Group, which was tabled from the January meeting), 2006-027 (dealing with reciprocal marketing agreements with pro teams in football and basketball), and 2006-082 (no missed class time for spring competition in selected fall sports). The latter two were in the package sent to the Board by the Management Council in April.

• Proposal 2006-017-B (one of two gambling alternatives) was tabled, probably because, like us, the Board couldn't figure out how the Management Council approved both 2006-017-A and 2006-017-B if they were supposed to be alternative proposals. But that's strictly a guess on our part.

• The Board used its emergency legislative authority to adopt the complete package of recommendations proposed by the Baseball Academic Enhancement Working Group. None of the recommendations go into effect until August 1, 2008, but institutions will have to start planning sooner than that. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

• The Board established a Supplemental Support Fund which was recommended by the Committee on Academic Performance. The SSF is designed to support campus-based initiatives to foster student-athlete academic success at limited-resource institutions.

Jun 26, 2007 10:28 AM

Maintenance at NCAA Clearinghouse

The NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse website will be down for maintenance from Saturday, June 23 at 6 p.m. until Sunday, June 24 at noon. Those are Central times, presumably.

Jun 21, 2007 1:08 PM

Override update

New numbers from the NCAA. Looks like we may be voting on at least two proposals come January:

2006-020 (off campus recruiting for certain sports):  11 requests
2006-040 (Text messaging):  19 requests
2006-046-A (IRL and registration before visit and aid):  13 requests
2006-065-A (Core course time limitation):  17 requests
2006-087 (Golf number of dates of competition):  35 requests
2006-100 (FCS PAG):  10 requests
2007-007 (Baseball no midyear certification or transfer):  14 requests
2007-008 (Baseball no one-time transfer exception):  3 requests
2007-009 (Baseball financial and squad size restrictions):  47 requests 

Jun 19, 2007 9:20 AM

NCAA sports sponsorship form

The NCAA has created a new on-line form (and training video) for institutions to use to submit sports sponsorship and gender and ethnicity data.

Jun 18, 2007 3:00 PM

MSi video--Certification

There's a new MSi Educational Video about the Certification Program. (Windows Media Player required. Ugh.)

Jun 15, 2007 3:32 PM

Another agenda is out

The agenda for the June meeting of the Championships/Competition Cabinet is online.

Jun 8, 2007 9:48 AM
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