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COIA (2002) is an organization of FBS Faculty Senates to support
NCAA reform. (http://blogs.comm.psu.edu/thecoia/)
– 63 of 125 FBS programs are COIA members, 8 Pac 12 schools (USC,
UCLA, ASU, and Utah)
– Produced a series of policy papers outlining best practices for
faculty engagement and over sight of intercollegiate athletics
(http://blogs.comm.psu.edu/thecoia/?page_id=182)
– I am OSU rep to COIA, in 4th year of 5 year term
– Today’s objective - provide you with an over view of this year’s
COIA activities.
2014 Annual Meeting
This year’s meeting included talks or discussions on:
1. UNC scandal
2. NCAA reorganization
3. Concussions
4. Athletics finances
5. NCAA antitrust exemption
1. UNC Academic Integrity scandal
Presentation from Dr. Bob Malekoff, co-author of the Rawlings Report
• College sports programs have no clear “ownership group”
• University Presidents, ADs and others may all express commitment
to academic values, they are subject to many external forces,
some of whom have greater power.
• High number of special admits challenges the system
• Lack of public concern in many places about academic issues in
sports
• Lack of fiscal transparency in athletic departments
2a. NCAA decentralized governance
NCAA asked COIA to engage in discussions about decentralization.
i.
NCAA asked COIA to propose a model to increase
faculty involvement in NCAA governance
ii. COIA created a framework that increased
faculty senate engagement in athletics oversight.
The proposal met with mixed response:
- NCAA and D1A FARs did not like an approach
requiring campuses to support faculty senate
engagement.
- Reactions of individual senates and campuses varied, but
the general goals of the proposal had broad support.
- COIA’s effort moving forward will be to assist senates
interested in using the plan as a model.
2b. NCAA Reorganization
This year COIA has been involved in discussions about
reorganization of D1.
1. Emphasis on giving Big – 5 conferences more autonomy to deal
with student athlete concerns
2. D-V doesn’t sound likely.
3. Seemed clear that COIA and Faculty Senates more generally will
not be given a place at the decision making table at the national
level.
4. FARs will, along with the ADs.
5. Suggestion that COIA, D1-FARs and FARA need to collaborate.
3. Concussions
Heard from Dr. Brian Hainline, NCAA Chief Medical Officer
• COIA created a survey with NCAA about concussion management
practices
• Medical knowledge about concussions is very poor.
• Current return-to-play criteria may be sufficient, but they are not
linked to any biological data about physiological recovery following
a concussion.
• Creation of Dr. Hainline’s position seems a very good idea;
4. Athletic spending
Heard from Amy Perko, Executive Director of the Knight
Commission
- Spending on student-athletes continues to outpace
spending on regular students and gap is widening
- New web site containing a searchable database for
Athletic and Academic Spending in D1
(http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/ ).
- Projections indicate that media revenue will increase from
$390 million in 2004 to around 2.2 billion on 2020.
5. Legislation concerning NCAA
We heard from Allen Sack and Gerald Gurney of the Drake
Group
- they outlined a draft piece of legislation called the
College Athlete Protection Act.
- the act would provide the NCAA with a limited antitrust
exemption if the NCAA operated under a set of guidelines
that prioritized academics over athletics.
- discussions centered around the practicality of the
act – most comments were critical