College Sports Information Directors of America

President Charles Bloom did a roll call.

I. Second Vice President Justin Doherty gave an update on the Executive Director’s search. He said Judy Willson had sent an email to members of the search committee with names of the 34 applicants and a timeline for the process. He said Judy was in the process of scheduling a conference call for October 16, if that date worked for most of the committee. President Charles Bloom said he did not want board members lobbying the committee or other board members for any candidates. Bloom said he would like to be on the search committee’s call on the 16th for a few opening remarks and then he would get off the call.

II. Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter said he had visited the Tampa Marriott Waterside, site of the 2008
Workshop, and said he was negotiating with the hotel to cut the number of sleeping rooms for the Workshop. He said he would report back to the board when something is finalized.

III. First Vice President Nick Joos said work was proceeding on the workshop program schedule.

IV. Doherty said he had had two productive calls regarding the social program for Tampa. He said both the Outback Bowl and Tampa Bay Buccaneers had given him ideas and possibilities for events and sites for the workshop.

V. Director of Marketing Ed Carpenter said representatives of the local organizing committee should be invited to meet with the site visit group in Tampa.

VI. There was discussion about possible on-line professional development opportunities on the cosida.com website.

VII. Carpenter said there had been a couple of minor changes made to the ESPN contract for the
Academic All-America program, regarding acceptable sponsors. He said he would send the updated contract back to ESPN to sign.

VIII. Carpenter said he wanted to set up a conference call with ESPN The Magazine and selected
members of the Academic All-America Committee to discuss plans to publicize the Academic All-America teams.

IX. Bloom asked the board about what role CoSIDA should play as an organization in national issues. There was discussion of a possible national summit with representatives from other organizations, media, etc. There was discussion that CoSIDA, as an organization, would not have the ability to enforce any actions, but could use the opportunity to admonish bad behavior or take positions in support of, or against certain actions affecting the profession. The consensus was that dialog should be the goal, and dialog in a productive way. CoSIDA should look at each issue on a case-by-case basis. It was felt that the ethics committee should be involved.

X. There was discussion of a proposed Constitutional Amendment presented by Jim Stephan of Troy. Article 6, Section 3 shall be amended to read:

A REPRESENTATIVE, EITHER COLLEGE DIVISION OR AT-LARGE who shall have served in that
capacity for A FULL THREE-YEAR TERM, shall not be eligible for re-election as a COLLEGE DIVISION OR AT-LARGE REPRESENTATIVE to the Board of Directors.

Rationale:
CoSIDA has too many good members to rely on the same board over and over again. While I am sure at one point college division representatives were hard to find, today’s organization features a talented pool of members willing to serve the Board. So long as at-large representatives may come from either the college or university division ranks, we must treat these positions equally. This amendment will extend the once-in-a lifetime restriction for at-large representatives to both positions.

The officers discussed that any proposed amendment must run in the CoSIDA Digest at least 45 days prior to the workshop.

XI. Wohlhueter said the current membership has exceeded 1,800 for 2007-08.

The call was adjourned