I. President Rod Commons (Washington State) said
that Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter (Ithaca, N.Y.) was
getting with Past Presidents Alan Cannon (Texas A&M)
and Tammy Boclair (Vanderbilt) next week to discuss
options on a possible Academic All-America Hall of
Fame dinner at the 2005 CoSIDA Workshop. Commons
said a decision needed to also be made regarding
what Dick Enberg's role would be with the program.
II. Commons asked for reactions to a schedule for
voting on the Academic All-America Hall of Fame that
the board had received from Dick Lipe. He said it
was a tight schedule but would allow for the voting
to conclude in time for a 2005 induction. After
discussion, the board agreed to tell Lipe to proceed
full speed, but that the number of inductees may be
limited to four, since there is no current sponsor
or budget for the program. Two inductees will be
carry-overs from 2004 and two more will be selected,
as well as an Honorary inductee. Wohlhueter said
that the dinner needs to be held in conjunction with
the Philadelphia Workshop and the board agreed.
Commons said he would call Lipe on behalf of the
board and work out the final selection committee.
III. Commons asked for board reaction to a proposal
from Katie Hyde to administer the Academic
All-America program. The total cost of awards,
expenses and compensation was $121,000. There was a
lengthy discussion about the duties Hyde listed in
the proposal. It was determined that some of the
duties listed were currently being done by the
program coordinators. Commons said he would work on
a job description to continue discussions with Hyde.
IV. Director of On-Line Services Maxey Parrish
(Waco, Texas) said ICS had determined why some
members had not been receiving the blast emails and
had made an adjustment. A new email had been sent
and the board members said they had received it.
V. First Vice President Joe Hernandez (Ball State)
said a conference call was set for 11 a.m. on
Tuesday with Jeff Rubin of ICS to do another test of
the Academic All-America nominating and voting process.
VI. Hernandez said he had also sent an updated
outline of the Workshop program to the board for
review.
VII. Second Vice President Doug Dull (Maryland) gave
an update on the workshop social schedule. Director
of Marketing Ed Carpenter (Boston Univ. ) said he
had still not heard back from the NBA. There was
also discussion of the golf outing in Philadelphia
and Dull said the local committee was working on
getting transportation.
The golf outing, which began as a function of the
Charity Committee to raise money, no longer raises
money for the charity committee and will be a
function put together by the participants at their
own expense.
VIII. Third Vice President Charles Bloom
(Southeastern Conference) said the Special Awards
Committee had a conference call. He said there had
been numerous nominations but that the committee was
expecting many more. He said there had been
discussion on the call about the 25-Year Award and
that CoSIDA membership would be taken into account
but not required for the award. There was
disagreement from several board members. It was
pointed out that the CoSIDA Constitution states that
the 25-Year Award be presented to "active members
who have served 25 years as a full-time employee in
the profession." Commons said a constitutional
amendment would have to be proposed to change the
criteria. Bloom was also asked to submit a final
list of nominees to the board (for review and
comment) before voting.
IX. Bloom gave an update on the proposed NCAA
legislation limiting the number of pages in media
guides to 200. He said the SEC's proposed amendment
for 248 pages was in the final stages but didn't
know when it would go before the Management Council.
X. Commons said he had talked to a member of the
Management Council who said they would like input
from the news media about the proposals. Commons
said he would send Parrish a brief story asking for
input and listing contact information for the
members of the council.
XI. Wohlhueter said he had paid Millsport some of
the money owed but said he was waiting for the
breakdown from Boclair on Katie Hyde's miscellaneous
expenses before paying anything else.
XII. Secretary Jeff Hodges said the February Digests
were in the mail and he was collecting information
for the March issue. He said he had also sent labels
for the Winter Academic All-America programs to the
District Coordinators.
The call was adjourned.