Deregulation | Compliance Corner

Inspirational thoughts

Wed, 03 May 2006 15:02:58 -0700

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

–-Albert Einstein

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

--Margaret Mead

"We have regulated ourselves into paralysis. We no longer seem able to stop ourselves from abusing the spirit of sport and instead, rely on legislation to keep us in check."

--Cedric Dempsey, January 7, 2001

"Clearly, more NCAA rules are not the means to restoring the balance between athletics and academics on our nation's campuses."

--Knight Commission report, June 26, 2001

"When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws."

--G.K. Chesterton, 1905

"Policies are organizational scar tissue. They are codiﬁed overreactions to unlikely-to-happen-again situations."

--Jason Fried, founder of 37signals

Ideas

Wed, 03 May 2006 15:01:16 -0700

Eliminate the restrictions on note cards and computer recruiting presentations.
Eliminate 14.6. Here's an easy one.
The May 14, 1999, report (in PDF format) of a small group of CCA compliance administrators who took a fresh look at deregulation. It's a good starting point. (208K, posted 6/9/00)
If we set up the playing and practice season schedules with a specific starting date for practice (based upon the date of the NCAA Championship), then let's set a specific date beyond which a student-athlete cannot compete and still get a hardship waiver. For example, if the first date of football practice is August 1, then the drop dead (groan) date for hardship waivers is September 15. Thanks, Jennifer Heppel.

Items of interest

Wed, 03 May 2006 14:57:50 -0700

General resources

Join the dereg-talk mailing list, a place to exchange ideas about deregulation of NCAA rules. Put the words "subscribe dereg-talk" (without the quotes) in the subject line. This list has been dormant for some time; time to get it going again.

Interesting reading

Rules for Revolutionaries, by Guy Kawasaki. Lots of what he says can be applied to the plan for selling the idea of deregulation.
The very first NCAA Manual, circa 1906, as a PDF file. A whopping 25 bucks a year got you six--count 'em, six--pages of rules. (17K, posted 5/16/00)