MINUTES OF THE
NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
DIVISION II MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
Hyatt Regency
Participants:
Sallie Beard,
Thomas J. Brown,
David R. Brunk,
Northeast-10 Conference
Deborah Chin,
Michael Covone,
Carl Timothy Griggs,
Carole L. Harris,
Eugene Hermitte, Johnson C.
Smith University
Larry Holstad,
Daniel Mara,
John Meisel, Southern
Illinois University-Edwardsville
Curtis Outlaw Jr.,
Roberta Page,
Gwendolyn Reeves,
David Riggins,
Glenn D. Stokes,
Roger Thomas, North Central
Conference
Phil Hunt, NCAA
Jay Jones, NCAA
Rich McGlynn, NCAA
David Pickle, NCAA
Stephanie Quigg, NCAA
Mike L. Racy, NCAA
Ruth Reinhardt, NCAA, recording secretary
Karina Siam, NCAA
Marcie
Reynolds, Colorado State University-Pueblo, was unable to be in attendance for
the meeting.
Sharon
Cessna, Elsa Cole, Diane Dickman, Kevin Lennon, and Delise O’Meally, NCAA;
and
The
meeting was called to order at
1. Announcements. Ms. Willson welcomed the new members to
the Management Council and noted that
2. Review
of Previous Minutes.
a. Minutes
of
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council approve
the minutes of the January 6 Management Council meeting, as distributed.”
b. Minutes
of
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council approve
the minutes of the January 9 Management Council meeting, as distributed.”
c. Minutes
of
d. Minutes
of the
e. Minutes
of the
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council approve the minutes
of the February 1 teleconference, as distributed.”
3. Division II
Strategic Plan Accomplishments.
The Management Council reviewed the listing of completed initiatives
taken from the Division II strategic plan.
No formal action was taken.
4. Committee Recommendations
Affecting Division II.
a. Association-wide
and Common Committees.
(1) Competitive
Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports Committee.
(a) 2004-05
Drug-Testing Results.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council
approve for publication the results of the NCAA drug-testing program for the
period from 2004-05, effective immediately.”
(b)
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend that the
Presidents Council permit committee members to attend drug-testing training at
the UCLA Sports Analytical Laboratory in Spring 2007.”
(c) Coaches
Sport Safety Training.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend that the
Presidents Council sponsor legislation for the 2007 NCAA Convention to mandate
that all coaches who conduct practice, competition, skill instruction, and
strength and conditioning sessions be certified in first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and to have reviewed emergency plan activation
policies, effective August 2007.”
(d) Bylaw
31.2.3.5 (Medical Exceptions).
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend
that the Presidents Council adopt an administrative regulation to amend Bylaw
31.2.3.5 (medical exceptions) so that the banned drug class (b) Anabolic Agents
be added to the list of classes for which a medical exception may be requested,
effective August 2006. Further, it
was recommended that this administrative change be an Association-wide common
provision.”
(e) Committee
Chair.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend
that the Presidents Council ratify the appointment of Jerry Koloskie, senior
associate director of athletics,
(2) Minority
Opportunities and Interests Committee.
The Management Council reviewed the committee’s report. No formal action was taken.
(3) Olympic
Sports Liaison Committee.
(a) NCAA/USOC
Task Force Value Statement.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council endorse the value
statement from the NCAA/USOC Task Force report, as follows:
[Insert name
of organization or institution] believes that participation in
intercollegiate athletics represents a uniquely valuable educational experience
for student-athletes and enriches the quality of campus life generally. As such, there is great benefit,
consistent with the academic mission of American colleges and universities, in
ensuring that diverse athletic opportunities are available to students, especially
in those sports that connect to the Olympic ideals, inspire young people and attribute
to a lifelong commitment to fitness.
We are committed to doing all we reasonably can to help ensure that
those diverse athletic opportunities continue to exist as part of intercollegiate
athletics in
(b) Bylaw
16.8.1.3 (Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and
Competition––Other Competition).
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council adopt
noncontroversial legislation to amend Bylaw 16.8.1.3 (b) to permit institutions
to provide expenses for student-athletes to participate in one qualifying
competition for each of the listed elite events per academic year.”
(4) Postgraduate
Scholarship Committee. The
Management Council reviewed the committee’s report, noting that one of
the awardees was Cory Cangelosi, a Division II Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee member. No formal action
was taken.
(5) Committee
on Women’s Athletics––Male Practice Players.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council refer the
recommendation concerning the issue of male practice players to the Division II
Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Division II Championships Committee
for their review and recommendation.”
[Note that the issue will also be taken by Management
Council representatives back to their conference meetings for feedback at the
July Management Council/Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Summit.]
b. Division
II Committees.
(1) Academic
Requirements Committee––Bylaw 14.5.4.1 (Eligibility for Competition,
Practice and Athletics Aid.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend that the
Presidents Council sponsor legislation
for the 2007 NCAA Convention to amend NCAA Bylaw 14.5.4.1 (eligibility
for competition, practice and athletics aid) by adding a new bylaw to permit a
transfer student from a two-year college, who has not previously attended a
four-year collegiate institution and who was a qualifier, to be eligible for
competition at a Division II institution during the student’s first
academic year in residence only if the student has spent at least one full-time
semester or one full-time quarter in residence at the two-year college
(excluding summer sessions). Also,
the transfer student must have presented a minimum grade-point average of 2.000
and satisfactorily completed an average of at least 12-semester or 12-quarter
hours of transferable-degree credit acceptable toward any baccalaureate degree
program at the certifying institution for each full-time academic term of attendance
at the two-year college.”
(2) Budget
and Finance Committee.
(a) Guiding
Principles.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend
that the Presidents Council approve amending Guideline No. 6 of the Division II
budget guiding principles, to state that the membership trust reserve maintain
a three-year average balance of $3,000,000. For averaging purposes, this would
include the prior, current and subsequent years.”
(b) Biennial
Budget Requests.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend
that the Presidents Council approve the Division II biennial budget requests,
as presented.”
(c) Budget
to Actual Results. The
Management Council reviewed the budget-to-actual results as of January 31. No formal action was taken.
(3) Championships
Committee
(a) Appointments.
It was VOTED
“That the Management
Council ratify the following sports and sports rules
committee appointments, effective September 1, unless otherwise noted.
(i) Baseball. Nathan Salant, commissioner, Gulf South
Conference, to replace Britt Bonneau, head coach, Abilene Christian University,
and
(ii) Men’s
Basketball. Claudie Mackey,
faculty athletics representative, Elizabeth City State University, to replace
H. Michael Hall, athletics director, University South Carolina Upstate, and
Steve Kirkham, athletics director, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, to
replace Butch Raymond, commissioner, Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
(iii) Field
Hockey. Betty Wesner, head coach, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, to
replace Lauri Mondschein, former associate director of athletics, Kutztown,
effective immediately, and Jeff
(iv) Football. Butch Raymond, commissioner, Northern Sun Intercollegiate
Conference, to replace Jack Bishop, athletics director, Central Washington
University, and Joel Erdmann, athletics director, University of North Alabama,
to replace
(v) Women’s
Golf. Julie Garner, women’s golf coach at
(vi) Women’s Soccer.
Jennifer Fraser, senior woman administrator, Metropolitan State College of
Denver, to replace Chalese Connors, athletics director, Texas Woman’s University,
and Beth Goetz, head coach, the University of Missouri, St. Louis, to replace
Jim Regan, athletics director, Wheeling Jesuit University.
(vii) Softball.
Steven Johnson, head softball coach at University of North Carolina at
Pembroke, to replace Scott Whitlock, head softball coach at Kennesaw State
University; Tracee Passegi, assistant athletics director and senior woman
administrator at San Francisco State University, to replace Doug Hupke, associate
athletics director at San Francisco State University, effective immediately;
and Laura Liesman, athletics director at Georgian Court University, to replace
Risa Ott, assistant athletics director at Pace University; and Kevin
Blaskowski, head softball coach at West Texas A&M University, to replace
Kristin Mort, head softball coach at Mesa State University.
(viii) Men’s
and Women’s Swimming and Diving Committee. Mark Mullin, athletics
director, University of Missouri, Rolla, to replace Jerry Wollmering, athletics
director, Truman State University, effective immediately.
(ix) Men’s
Volleyball. Brian Summers, assistant athletics director,
(x) Baseball
Rules. Jerry Hughes, athletics director,
(xi) Women’s
Basketball Rules. Lynn Griffin, senior woman administrator, University of
Indianapolis, to replace James Middleton, head coach, Southwest Baptist
University, and David Marsh, associate athletics director, Northwood University,
to replace Linda Raunig, head coach, Regis University (Colorado)
(xii) Football
Rules. William Rees, head coach, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania,
to replace Charles Broyles, head coach, Pittsburg State University, and Gil
Cloud, athletics director, Upper Iowa University, to replace Jerry Vandergriff,
former head football coach, Angelo State University.
(xiii) Softball
Rules. Jamie Brown, head coach,
(b) Playing
and Practice Seasons Request.
The Management Council noted that, per its request, the committee had
reviewed Bylaw 17.1.5.2.1 (skill instruction) and agreed to forward the
legislation to Division II sports committees for their comment with regard to
possible amendments. No formal
action was taken.
(c) Regionalization. The Management Council received an
update concerning Division II regionalization. Considerable discussion ensued.
It was VOTED
“That the Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association be moved from the Atlantic region to the Southeast region.” [Defeated––5 for; 13 against]
It was VOTED
“That contests between
the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the Central Intercollegiate
Athletic Association be counted as in-region contests.” [Defeated––6 for; 13
against]
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council endorse
a new regional structure to support the regionalization policy for Division II
championships selection that divides the
[Note that the Championships Committee will review
relevant information related to historical conference/institutional rivalries
to determine whether a principle should be established.]
[Note that the regionalization structure is consistent
with Division II’s philosophy, which is to group schools by geographic
area to limit missed class time and reduce travel costs and is more consistent
and understandable then the current policy on regionalization, which is very
sport-specific. This structure will
become effective for all sports beginning with the 2008-09 academic year;
however, individual sports committees may determine to implement the new policy
for a the 2007-08 academic year, particularly if there are few changes.]
(4) Committee
on Infractions––Administrative Regulations.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend
that the Presidents Council adopt the following administrative regulations:
(a) Bylaw
32.2.1.1 (Staff Initiation of Investigation). To modify Bylaw 32.2.1.1 to clarify when the enforcement
staff may initiate an investigation.
(b) Bylaw
32.2.2.1.2 (Identification of Major/Secondary Violation). To amend Bylaw 32.2.2.1.2 to clarify
that the enforcement staff may submit information to the Committee on
Infractions for an initial determination of whether the case should be
processed as a major or secondary case.
This amendment would give the enforcement staff the option to consult
with the Committee on Infractions for guidance and memorializes that option.
(c) Bylaw
32.3.7 (Disclosure of Purpose of Interview). To modify Bylaw 32.3.7 to specify that
the enforcement staff must provide notice to certain individuals at the
beginning of an interview to the effect that refusing to furnish information or
providing false or misleading information may result in an unethical conduct
charge.
(d) Bylaw
32.6.2 (Notification to Enforcement Staff). To modify Bylaw 32.6.2 to require
individuals charged with a major violation to submit a response to the
Committee on Infractions and to specify that failure to submit a response may
be viewed by the committee as an admission that the alleged violations
occurred.
(e) Bylaw
32.6.5 (Deadline for Institutional Response). To modify Bylaw 32.6.5 to specify that
all parties in an infractions case must share their responses with each other.
(f) Bylaws
32.3.9.1 (Tape Recording(s)), 32.3.9.1.1 (Access to Tape Recording(s)),
32.3.9.1.4 (Statement of Confidentiality), 32.3.9.2 (Non-Recorded Interviews),
32.3.10 (Enforcement Staff’s Responsibility to Maintain a Case File and
Access to Information to be Used in Presentation of Case). To editorially revise various bylaws
(32.3.9.1; 32.3.9.1.1; 32.3.9.1.4; 32.3.9.2; and 32.3.10) to change the wording
from “tape recordings” to “recordings” because the
enforcement staff now uses digital recording devices rather than tape-based
recorders.”
(5) Legislation
Committee.
(a) Report.
(i) Interpretations.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council approve
the following interpretations:
·
Increase of Institutional Aid - Equivalency Computations. (II) A student-athlete who is receiving only
nonathletically related institutional financial aid may receive an initial
award of athletically related institutional financial aid at any point during
the period of the nonathletically related award. The committee also determined that if a
student-athlete becomes a counter at any point during the academic year, all
countable institutional aid received during that academic year is countable
toward the student-athlete’s equivalency. [References: Division II Bylaws 15.3.4.2 (increase
permitted), 15.5.1 (counters) and 15.5.2.2 (equivalency computations); and a
·
Eligibility of Transfer Student-Athlete for Competition in
Year of Transfer. (II) If the
institution from which a student-athlete transfers at midyear declares separate
nonchampionship and championship segments of its playing and practice season, a
student-athlete may compete during the nonchampionship segment for such an institution
and during the championship segment for the certifying institution during the
same academic year in the same sport, provided the applicable transfer and progress-toward-degree
eligibility requirements are satisfied. [References: Division II Bylaw 14.5.5.4 (competition
in year of transfer); a
·
Telephone
Calls to Prospects After the Limit on Calls during a Particular Time Period is
Reached.(II) Once an institution has made a countable
telephone call to a prospect or a prospect's relatives or legal guardian(s)
that results in the limit on calls for the particular time period being reached
(e.g., one per month, one per week, two per week), the institution may not
initiate an additional telephone call during the same time period, even if no direct
conversation occurs during the second call (e.g., voicemail message). [References: Division II Bylaws 13.1.3.1 (time period
for telephone calls – general rule), 13.1.3.1.1 (exception – football),
a
·
Participation
in Junior Levels of Pan American, World Championship and World Cup Tryouts and
Competition as an Exception to Outside Competition. (II) A
student-athlete's participation in junior levels of Pan American, World
Championship and World Cup tryouts and competition qualifies as an exception to
the outside competition rule in all sports. [References: Division II Bylaws 14.7 (outside competition,
effects on eligibility), 14.7.1 (outside competition – sports other than
basketball), 14.7.2 (outside competition – basketball) and 14.7.5
(exceptions to outside-competition regulations); and an
·
Eligibility
for a Waiver of the Full-Time Enrollment Requirement for Participants in Junior
Levels of the Pan American Games, World Championships and World Cup Competition. (II) A
student-athlete's participation in junior levels of the Pan American Games,
World Championships and World Cup competition would permit an institution to
seek a waiver of the minimum full-time enrollment requirement for practice and
competition. [References: Division
II Bylaws 14.1.8.1.8 (waivers) and 14.1.8.1.8.3 (Olympic, Pan American, world
championships, world cup, world university games or world youth championships);
and an
·
2006 NCAA
Convention Proposal No. 22 (Eligibility -
For
example, a student-athlete has two full-time semesters remaining in which to
complete his or her eligibility and has not earned a baccalaureate degree.
The student-athlete wants to transfer from Institution A to Institution
B. While at Institution A, the student-athlete satisfactorily completed
104 credits. Under Institution B's policy, the institution is limited in
accepting a maximum of 90 transferable credits, even if a transfer student has
earned more, normally transferable, degree credit hours. Institution B
requires the remainder of the credits required for graduation must be completed
at its institution. Since the student-athlete has been enrolled in eight
full-time semesters, he or she would be required to have satisfactorily
completed a total of 96 semester hours of transferable degree credit toward any
of the institution's baccalaureate degree programs (i.e., eight full-time
semesters x 12 credits = 96 credits) to satisfy the credit-hour condition of subsection
(e) in Proposal No. 22. However, because of Institution B's policy, the
institution will only accept 90 transferable credits. Under this proposal,
the student-athlete will be immediately eligible to compete at Institution B if
the institution verifies that six other credit hours would have transferred to
any of its baccalaureate degree programs, but for the policy, and if the
student-athlete fulfills the other requirements of the one-time transfer rule.
[References: Division II Bylaws 14.5.5.3.10 (one-time transfer exception),
14.5.5 (four-year college transfers) and Proposal No. 22.]
·
Transportation
to Enroll. (II) An institution may provide
transportation from the nearest bus or train station or major airport to the
campus on the occasion of a prospective student-athlete's initial arrival at
the institution to attend classes, including the prospective student-athlete's
initial arrival to attend classes in a summer term, or the prospective
student-athlete's initial arrival at the institution to participate in preseason
practice activities when the prospective student-athlete will be remaining in
the locale of the institution to begin classes. [Reference: Division II
Bylaw 13.5.4 (transportation to enroll), and an official interpretation (reference:
(ii) Incorporation
of Interpretations into the Manual.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council approve
the following incorporation of interpretations into the Division II Manual:
·
Increase of
Institutional Aid - Equivalency Computations. (II) A student-athlete who is receiving only nonathletically related
institutional financial aid may receive an initial award of athletically
related institutional financial aid at any point during the period of the
nonathletically related award. The committee also determined that if a
student-athlete becomes a counter at any point during the academic year, all
countable institutional aid received during that academic year is countable
toward the student-athlete’s equivalency. [References: NCAA
Division II Bylaws 15.3.4.2 (increase permitted), 15.5.1 (counters) and
15.5.2.2 (equivalency computations); and a
·
Eligibility of
Transfer Student-Athlete for Competition in Year of Transfer. (II) If
the institution from which a student-athlete transfers at midyear declares
separate nonchampionship and championship segments of its playing and practice
season, a student-athlete may compete during the nonchampionship segment for
such an institution and during the championship segment for the certifying
institution during the same academic year in the same sport, provided the applicable
transfer and progress-toward-degree eligibility requirements are satisfied.
[References: Division II Bylaw 14.5.5.4 (competition in year of
transfer); a
·
Participation
in Junior Levels of Pan American, World Championship and World Cup Tryouts and
Competition as an Exception to Outside Competition. (II) A student-athlete's participation in junior
levels of Pan American, World Championship and World Cup tryouts and
competition qualifies as an exception to the outside competition rule in all
sports. [References: Division II Bylaws 14.7 (outside competition,
effects on eligibility), 14.7.1 (outside competition – sports other than
basketball), 14.7.2 (outside competition – basketball) and 14.7.5 (exceptions
to outside-competition regulations); and an
(iii) 2007
NCAA Convention Legislation.
·
Bylaw 12.5.1.6 (Amateurism––Promotional
Activities––Permissible––Educational Products Related
To Sport-Skill Instruction).
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend that the
Presidents Council sponsor legislation for the 2007 NCAA Convention to amend
Bylaw 12.5.1.6 (educational products related to sport-skill instruction) to
permit a student-athlete to receive actual and necessary expenses for
participation in activities involving educational products related to
sports-skill instruction, effective immediately. Further, to specify that a student-athlete
shall not miss class to participate in the activity.”
·
Bylaw 14.5.5.3.9 (Eligibility––Transfers-–Nonrecruited
Student Exception).
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend that the
Presidents Council sponsor legislation for the 2007 NCAA Convention to amend
Bylaw 14.5.5.3.9 (nonrecruited student exception) to permit a student-athlete
to use the nonrecruited student exception to the transfer residency requirement,
provided he or she has not competed for any previous institution and has not engaged
in countable athletically related activities in intercollegiate athletics at
any previous institution beyond a 14 consecutive-day period, which begins with
the date on which the student-athlete first engages in countable activities.”
·
Bylaws
14.4.3.4-(3), 14.5.4.4.3 and 14.5.5.3.7 (Eligibility––Transfers––Two-Year
Nonparticipation Exception).
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend that the
Presidents Council sponsor legislation for the 2007 NCAA Convention to amend
Bylaws 14.4.3.4-(e), 14.5.4.4.3 and 14.5.5.3.7 (two-year nonparticipation exception)
to permit a student-athlete to use the two-year nonparticipation exception to
the transfer residency requirement or the progress-toward-degree requirements,
provided he or she has not competed in intercollegiate competition and has not
engaged in other countable athletically related activities in intercollegiate
athletics beyond a 14 consecutive-day period, which begins with the date on
which the student-athlete first engages in countable activities. “
·
Bylaw
13.11.1.4 (Recruiting––Tryouts––Non scholastic-Based
Basketball.
It was VOTED
“That the Management Council recommend that the
Presidents Council sponsor legislation for the 2007 NCAA Convention to amend
Bylaw 13.11.1.4 (nonscholastic-based basketball) to permit a member of an
institution’s coaching staff or an institutional staff member with
basketball special duties to participate in coaching activities with
nonscholastic-based basketball teams that include the staff member’s
child or children, effective immediately.” [Defeated––8 for; 14
against]
· Bylaw 14.5.1.4 (El