Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) Meeting

Big Ten (Twelve) Conference OfficesChicago, Illinois

January 21-23, 2011

COIA History• Emerged in 2002 as an alliance of faculty

senates from NCAA FBS schools whose mission is to provide a national faculty voice on intercollegiate sports issues.

• Currently, 57 of the 115 FBS schools are members

COIA Policy Papers• A Framework for Comprehensive Athletics

Reform (2003)• Campus Athletics Governance: The Faculty Role,

Principles, Proposed Rules, and Guidelines (2004)• Academic Integrity in Intercollegiate Athletics:

Principles, Rules, and Best Practices (2005)• Framing the Future, Reforming Intercollegiate

Athletics (2007)

2011 COIA Speakers• Graham Spanier, President, Penn State• Jim Delany, Commissioner, Big Ten Conference• Jim Phillips, Northwestern AD• Vince Ille, Associate AD Illinois• Susan Young, CFO, Associate AD, Illinois• Jeff Bolin, FAR, Purdue• Mark Emmert, president, NCAA• Diane Dickman , NCAA • Amy Perko, executive director, Knight Commission • Chad Hawley, Associate Commissioner, Big Ten Conference

2011 COIA Conference Issues Raised• Fiscal Reform• Compliance• Faculty Role• Initial Eligibility• Academic Standards• Transfers

2011 COIA Actions TakenVote to support in principle/concept the recommendations made by the Knight Commission in “Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports”1. Requiring greater transparency, including better measures to compare

athletics spending to academic spending– Transparency

• Make NCAA financial reports public• Publish additional information about long-term debt and capital spending• Report annually on growth rates in academic and athletic spending

– Strengthened Oversight• Reform the NCAA Division 1 certification process• Strengthen accreditation• Reinforce board responsibilities.

2011 COIA Actions TakenVote to support in principle/concept the recommendations made by the Knight Commission in “Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports”2. Rewarding practices that make academic values a priority

– Strengthening eligibility standards for participation in championships

– Distributing revenues according to educational values and priorities• Change revenue distribution formulas to prioritized educational values

over winning• Academic-Athletics balance fund

2011 COIA Actions TakenVote to support in principle/concept the recommendations made by the Knight Commission in “Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports”3. Treating college athletes as students first and foremost – not as

professionals– Ensuring that athletes are students first by limiting intrusions on

academic responsibilities and limiting commercial activities• Structure all postseason competitions to benefit and protect student-athletes• Reduce length of seasons and number of events• Prevent use of athletes’ identities to promotion commercial entities or

products

2011 COIA Actions TakenVote to support in principle/concept the recommendations made by the Knight Commission in “Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports”

– Curbing the trends toward professionalization of athletics staffing devoted to athletic development• Enforce current coaching limitations• Establish new rules on the number of non-coaching personnel.• Coaches’ compensation

– Examining scholarship offerings to assess whether costs can be reduced without eliminating equitable participation opportunities for men and women

2011 COIA Actions TakenVote to support in principle/concept and encourage the NCAA to pursue changes for two-year colleges and transfers• Qualifiers & Nonqualifiers

– Raise GPA gap from 2.00 to 2.50– PE limit of two credits to transfer (currently can be up to 12)

• Nonqualifiers– Core requirements of three math, three English, and three science (adds

science)– Eliminate three semester/four quarter full-time attendance requirement– A year of “academic readiness” – practice but not play (NCAA clock

would not start this year)

2011 COIA Meeting

• Request that member schools’ Faculty Senates vote to support the Knight Commission “Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports” recommendations and

• Vote to support the NCAA proposed rule changes for two-year colleges.