APRIL 26 - Officer's Call
I. President Doug Dull did a roll call.
II. Director of Marketing Ed Carpenter said no emcee had been finalized for the Academic All-America
induction ceremony. There was discussion about possibilities. Carpenter said he had also emailed
the board a release on the Academic All-America Hall of Fame induction being held in conjunction with the ESPN reception.
III. Carpenter said the NCAA/NIT Breakfast was set for 60 spots. He said he was also looking for the
PMS colors for the 50th Anniversary logo. He said he was still looking to set up a meeting with the
Alumni Athlete group about potential sponsorship.
IV. There was discussion of CoSIDA's past involvement with Total Sports.
V. There was discussion of nominees for open board positions. One previous college division
representative has been nominated for an at-large position. The board said it would be up to the
nominating committee to decide if that person were eligible for that position. Dull also asked the
board to contact Past President Pete Moore with any additional nominations for board positions.
VI. Dull said the pre-convention meeting would be held on Friday at noon, prior to the workshop beginning on Saturday. He asked board members to provide any agenda items for San Diego. He also
asked that anyone who holds contracts for hotels, sponsorships or other items to please send them to
treasurer Dave Wohlheuter.
VII. First Vice President Charles Bloom said he had updated room assignments for the San Diego Workshop meetings and panels. He said the program was near completion and committee assignments were done. He said the Table Topics were near completion. Dull complimented Bloom and the Workshop Program Committee on putting together an "Awesome Program," in San Diego.
VIII. Second Vice President Nick Joos said over $12,000 had come in for breakfast sponsorships and
200 door prizes had been received. He said those items were being shipped to Dave Wahlstrom in San Diego, who will serve as the shipping contact in San Diego. He said free newspapers would be provided in San Diego and he said the paper asked, in exchange, to be allowed to cover the Myles Brand speech.
IX. There was discussion of how much was being spent from the $25,000 50th Anniversary budget. Secretary Jeff Hodges said he would contact 50th committee chair Fred Nuesch to get an update.
X. Joos asked about a possible spouses event in San Diego. After discussion, he said he would see what he could work out for Sunday.
XI. Third Vice President Justin Doherty said the Executive Director work was progressing. He said the
proposed constitutional amendment needed to be finalized. He said the financing committee needed to begin its work.
XII. He said bios and photos were being collected on the CoSIDA award winners and he would forward those to the CoSIDA website and Digest. He said the Esposito Award could be switched for the Keith
Jackson Eternal Flame Award on the schedule since it was not being presented.
XIII. Wohlhueter said that pre-registrations were coming in for the workshop. He also asked about the
Academic All-America Hall of Fame process. He said that Dull needed to write each of the inductees and help begin the process of getting rooms and flights booked.
XIV. Hodges said the 50th Anniversary book was completed except for a few edits and would be going
to the printer. He said the total cost would be around $3,300 and would come from CoSIDA's printing
credit with Multi-Ad.
XV. Director of On-line Services Jamie Joss said he was going to begin a feature spot on the website
called "Meet CoSIDA" featuring different SIDs. He said he had talked to Mark Beckenbach about the
Academic All-America on-line data base on the site that would searchable by sport, year, school, etc.
He also asked if there had been any recent salary surveys among SIDs. He said he had received several emails looking for that type of data. He said the NABC was wanting help updating coaches mug shots and asked if that something he could post. The board said yes.
The call was adjourned.