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The NCAA is forming a task force of
university presidents to help athletic departments cope with soaring costs.
NCAA president Myles Brand announced
the initiative last week during a speech before the City Club of Cleveland.
The price of college sports was a key
element of Brand's speech Jan. 9 at the NCAA convention in Grapevine, TX. He
has said that price is increasing at twice the rate of average university
expenses, and winning teams do not significantly increase donations or
revenue.
"The competition for student recruits,
especially in the two revenue sports, has led to excesses of the kind that
have played out on the headlines," Brand said in his Cleveland speech. "The
competition for good coaches has resulted in a market that yields
compensation packages for a selected few that puts them in the rarified air
of celebrities and professional sports coaches, and at odds with faculty and
others on campus."
Wally Renfro, a spokesman for Brand,
said the task force would work to find solutions for universities whose
athletic departments aren't self-sustaining.
"What the issue here is that there
should be a deeper integration between athletics and the university," Renfro
said.
Peter Likins, president of the
University of Arizona, will be chairman of the group, which is expected to
complete its work in one and a half to two years, the NCAA said. Likins also
is a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a
privately funded group composed mostly of college presidents.
The task force does not intend to form
a policy or in any way limit compensation to coaches. Brand and Likins said
doing so would violate antitrust law.
C-USA, Carolinas players on Cousy Award list
One Conference USA star and three
players from Carolinas schools made the cut as finalists for one of college
basketball's most prestigious individual awards.
Travis Diener of Marquette, Chris Paul
of Wake Forest and Raymond Felton of North Carolina were among six repeat
finalists and Julius Hodge of N.C. State was on the list for the first time
as the contenders for the Bob Cousy Award were announced last week.
Chris Hernandez of Stanford, Josh
Mueller of South Dakota and Chris Thomas of Notre Dame are also finalists
for a second straight season.
The honor is given to the outstanding
point guard in college basketball and is presented by the Naismith
Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.
A total of 18 finalists from all three
divisions were selected. The inaugural award was presented last year to
Jameer Nelson of Saint Joseph's.
The other finalists for 2005 were: Jose
Juan Barea of Northeastern, J.D. Byers of Lebanon Valley, Tim Forbes of
Bentley, Tom Harrington of Baldwin-Wallace, Jarrett Jack of Georgia Tech,
Erik Jackson of Macalester, Carl Krauser of Pittsburgh, Dave Logan of
Indianapolis, Aaron Miles of Kansas, Rob Monroe of Quinnipiac, C.J. Watson
of Tennessee and Deron Williams of Illinois.
The award, named for the Hall of Fame
guard for the Boston Celtics, will be presented in St. Louis on April 4.
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