CoSIDA Officer's Board Call - November 9, 2006
I. President Doug Dull said he had received 25
applications for the Director of Internet Services
position and was forwarding those to the search
committee. He said the committee would then narrow
it down to three or four to conduct phone interviews
with. There was discussion about what to do with any
candidates that have shown interest after the
deadline and the board said no late entries would be
added. Dull asked that any board members who have
strong feelings about any of the candidates to email
their thoughts to him by November 20.
II. Dull asked the committee liaisons to contact their
committee chairs to check in. New board member Will
Roleson was asked to be the liaison for the Writing
Contest.
III. First Vice President Charles Bloom said a
kickoff speaker for the San Diego Workshop had been
extended an invitation and he is waiting to get a
confirmation.
IV. Bloom also asked if a blast email from the NCAA
in advance of the graduate rates release was
helpful. Many of the board members did not receive
it but many did and said it helped be prepared.
V. Second Vice President Nick Joos said that the San
Diego Padres would be at home from Monday-Thursday
during the CoSIDA Workshop in San Diego.
VI. Third Vice President Justin Doherty said the
executive director process was moving forward. He
said the committee had reached a point where it
needed to involve more people in the process.
VII. Doherty said on-line nominating and voting for
the CoSIDA awards was in place and he thanked ICS
for its assistance. He asked for board volunteers to
send in sample nominations to test the system and
got five volunteers. Doherty also forwarded the link
to all board members to look at. The nomination link
will be password protected and nominators must be
CoSIDA members to access the system and nominate a
candidate.
VIII. Director of Marketing Ed Carpenter said he had
talked to the Athlete Alumni Network about the
possibility of sending an email to all 11,000
Academic All-America nominees, congratulating them
and making them aware of their services. There were
questions about privacy issues in giving out
student-athletes email addresses. There was further
discussion that the SIDs at each school could
forward the information to their nominees.
IX. Carpenter said he had begun contacting people
interested in the Marketing Committee and said he
would like to have a conference call in the coming
weeks. Dull said he would like to have something to
look at and talk about from the Marketing Committee
about the marketability of CoSIDA. Dull said he
would like to have something by February 1.
Carpenter said he would notify Dull of the date and
time of the conference call and would include him on
the call.
X. Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter said memberships for
2006-07 were are 2,095, with 2,034 active, associate
or student members and 61 lifetime members.
XI. There was discussion about the fall nomination
process for the Academic All-America program. Past
President Pete Moore said it was much smoother than
the first year and he said that everyone who
contacted him in the final days was accomodated.
XII. Secretary Jeff Hodges said letterhead had been
mailed to all board members, directories had been
mailed to all distributors and members and December
Digests were expected back from the printer. He said
there had been hardly any corrections sent to him
for the directory, indicating that the on-line
directory is as current and accurate as it has been.
There was discussion of the timeline for the
Directory and Hodges explained that the information
is not extracted from the system until August 1
because of all the job changes over the summer and
updates at the Workshop. He said the editing and
printing process annually had the book in the mail
by mid to late September.
XIII. College Division Representative Blake Timm
said he wanted inform the board that the NAIA
National Office had significantly cut its sports
information department and was restructuring.
XIV. Wohlhueter asked if the officers needed to have
another call before their site visit to San Diego. A
call was set for 3:30 p.m. Central on November 28.
The call was adjourned.