CoSIDA Board Minutes - February 9, 2006
I. President Joe Hernandez said that Katie Hyde, who
has been handling the awards part of the Academic
All-America program for 2005-06, has taken a new
job. She recommended that CoSIDA hire Megan Gardner
to finish the remainder of the contract. Katie
submitted Megan's resume to the board and said she
had been getting her up to speed on the program and
process. The move would not cost CoSIDA any
additional money. Gardner would receive the
remainder of Hyde's contract for the year. It was
decided that the board would begin looking at what
to do for 2005-06 in April or May. Past President
Rod Commons said he had the original letter of
agreement with Hyde and that she was to be paid in
three payments. He said he would send the letter to
Hernandez who will draft a new letter to Megan to
move forward with her hiring.
II. There was discussion of an emcee for the
Academic All-America Hall of Fame. Dick Enberg and
Bill Walton are both unavailable. There was
discussion of other alternatives including ESPN
personalities or former Hall of Fame inductees who
may be in attendance. No decision was reached. It
was decided that the Hall of Fame induction would be
held on Wednesday evening.
III. Director of On-Line Services Maxey Parrish said
that resumes and job postings were picking up on the
website. He said he had also started receiving
academic all-district teams to post.
IV. First Vice President Doug Dull said the Workshop
Program was coming together. He said another
conference call with the committee was scheduled in
two weeks. He said the committee was looking for a
good public relations person that would draw
attention. He said he would have a skeleton schedule
by the next Digest.
V. Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter said the registration
information would be ready to run in the April Digest.
VI. Dull gave an update on the proposed NCAA photo
legislation. He said he had received a variety of
opinions from different schools. There was consensus
that CoSIDA couldn't take an overall position on the
issue since schools had such wide ranging views on
the issue.
VII. Rick Nixon with the NCAA will be taking over as
the NCAA liaison with CoSIDA, replacing Scottie
Rodgers.
VIII. Second Vice President Charles Bloom was not on
the call but provided a written report, updating the
board on the Workshop Social calendar.
IX. Third Vice President John Bianco said the
nomination forms for CoSIDA awards were on the
website and had been sent to Secretary Jeff Hodges
for the Digest.
X. There was a question on where the restructuring
of the CoSIDA committees stood. At-Large
Representative Carol Hudson said he and Past
President Tammy Boclair had finished the information
and forwarded it to Committee on Committees Chair
Wayne Block. He said Block was then going to get
with the committee chairs. Hudson said he would
follow up with Block to see where it stood.
XI. Wohlhueter asked if the Social Committee or
Charity Committee was in charge of the golf outing
at the workshop. Dull said it had traditionally
been handled by the Charity Committee.
XII. Director of Marketing Ed Carpenter said that
the Orange Bowl had come on as a sponsor at the
$5,000 level.
XIII. There was discussion of whether to have a
lunch or brunch on the Tuesday schedule at the
Nashville Workshop, since it will be the Fourth of
July. A brunch would open up time in the afternoon.
Dull said they would discuss it with the program and
social committees.
XIV. Hodges asked for any submissions for the April
Digest to be to him by March 1. He said the CoSIDA
award forms were printed in the outgoing March Digest.
XV. Past President Alan Cannon said that he would
get information on the board openings for the
website and Digest by the March 1 deadline.
XVI. Past President Rod Commons said all the
information on past year's Academic All-America
teams had been entered in the data base and they
were now entering the information from the recently
completed selections.
XVIII. College Division Representative Blake Timm
said he had received Academic All-America plaques in
error and asked who to send those back to. He was
told to contact AAA Chairman Dick Lipe. Commons said
he would also like a copy of the note on the mistake
so he could check the information in the data base.
XIX. At Large Representative Justin Doherty said
work was progressing on board goals. He said the
process began as a random list of goals and thoughts
from previous workshops that were organized and
prioritized. Information from other organizations,
such as goals and mission statements, were also
collected. The board complemented the work and
Carpenter said the goals could become a thread to
tie together future workshop panels. Doherty said
Charles Bloom, Nick Joos, Carol Hudson and Eric
McDowell were working with him on the effort.
XX. Timm discussed the Rising Star Award. He said he
would develop a nomination form and distribute it to
the web and Digest, seeking nominations for the
award for 2006 - since the award will come from the
board and not through the Special Awards Committee.
XXI. Timm mentioned some SID posting on a blog
called disgruntled sids. Board members went to the
site and read some entries. Past President Pete
Moore suggested that Board members respond to the
postings, since many of them contained inaccurate
information about CoSIDA.
XXII. McDowell said that the NCAA had a site
selected for the CoSIDA Hall of Fame plaque and had
a plaque design for the display that will be in the
Hall of Champions. He said the NCAA also wanted a
brief description of how the SID fits into the
collegiate athletics picture and the role of SIDs.
He said the plan was to have the finished plaque
ready to unveil at the CoSIDA Workshop in Nashville.
The NCAA will then schedule an unveiling in
Indianapolis when the plaque arrives there.
XXIII. Hernandez said the next Board call would be
March 2 instead of March 9, due to the start of
basketball tournaments.
The call was adjourned.