I. President Joe Hernandez (Ball State) did a roll
call.
II. Hernandez said the Academic All-America on-line
process was working and said it appeared that CoSIDA
had gotten through the initial stages very well. He
said he had received a lot of positive feedback and
very few complaints or problems. Past President Pete
Moore (Syracuse) said he had talked to Jeff Rubin of
ICS and said that he and his staff had been able to
handle problems and accommodate members as problems
popped up with passwords, etc.
III. Hernandez said he has requested a report from
Academic All-America Chairman Dick Lipe and Co-chair
Mark Beckenbach on numbers of nominations and voting
and how that compared to past ballots.
IV. Hernandez said he had talked to representatives
of a national organization that wants to pitch the
Academic All-America Hall of Fame program to some of its
corporate sponsors. There was discussion of a rights
fee. It was agreed that CoSIDA would ask for a
$50,000 rights fee, plus expenses to run the program.
V. Second Vice President Charles Bloom (Southeastern
Conference) discussed CoSIDA's policy of only
allowing members of the organization to nominate and
vote on the Academic All-America program and if that
should be revisited. He felt the policy was
penalizing student-athletes at school's whose SIDs
are not CoSIDA members. The board felt that the
policy was a good one, that involvement in the
Academic All-America program was a benefit of CoSIDA
membership and that the nominal membership fee was a
small price for any institution.
VI. First Vice President Doug Dull (Maryland) said
he was trying to pull a call together with the
workshop committee but had not been able to yet. He
said he has a call scheduled with Dennis O'Donnell
and the Workshop Program Committee on December 1 and
that he would visit Nashville on December 12.
VII. Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter (Ithaca, N.Y.) asked
Doug to check on the Big East Conference outstanding
bill from the 2005 CoSIDA Workshop.
VIII. Wohlhueter said CoSIDA's current membership is
2,073, which sets an all-time record. Of those 1,846
are active members, 61 associate members, 109
student members and 57 lifetime members.
IX. Secretary Jeff Hodges (North Alabama) was asked
if he could look at the membership roll and
determine how many institutions are part of CoSIDA
with at least one member. He said he would work on it.
X. At Large Representative Judy Willson
(Louisiana-Monroe) said she was preparing a list of
CoSIDA members affected by the hurricanes and how
much money CoSIDA will provide them.
XI. At Large representative Justin Doherty
(Wisconsin) said his committee was working on the
board goals for CoSIDA and was looking at other
organizations and their goals.
XII. College Division Representative Blake Timm
(Pacific) said he was doing a story for the NCAA
News on CoSIDA's response to help its members in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He said he was still
looking for some ideas and would contact Willson to
get contact information on some of the people affected.
There was old or new business and the call was
adjourned.