The ink is barely dry on our spanking new NCAA Manual, and already our Manual Updates page needs, well, an update.
At its meeting last week (the report is now available), the Board of Directors adopted two pieces of legislation that are both obscure and effective immediately:
• 2009-007: Revises the definition of the NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) cohort. [Not a real big change and it doesn't change the current definition of the cohort. But it does give the Committee of Academic Performance (CAP) to change the definition without a legislative amendment.]
• 2009-008: Revises the NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program (APP) penalty structure. [This proposal doesn't change the current penalty structure, but it does give the CAP the flexibility to make changes without a legislative amendment.]