CoSIDA Division III SID’s Meeting
Saturday, June 30, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Marriott Room
San Diego Marriott Harbor & Marina, San Diego, Calif.
Moderators: Blake Timm (Pacific), Bill Wagner (DePauw), Eric McDowell (Union) and Kent Cherrington (Plymouth State)
1. Doug Dull (CoSIDA President, Maryland) addressed a number of issues that the CoSIDA Board has dealt with over the last year.
a. The organization will soon sign another contract with ESPN The Magazine for sponsorship of the Academic All-American program. The contract will be $500,000 over the next three years.
b. The membership will vote on Tuesday (motion passed as business meeting) on hiring a full-time executive director for CoSIDA. A sub-committee of the board has developed a job description and a search committee is in place. The Executive Director’s duties will include association management functions, corporate sponsorships and fundraising. The board is budgeting $125,00 for position, which includes a salary of approximately $75,000, benefits around $25,000 and $30,000 for expenses. The timeline is to have the person in position by March 1.
c. Addressed legal issues with the College Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) over their use of the term Academic All-American, which is a trademark of CoSIDA. The board is weighing options on how to proceed, including negotiations and potential litigation. Doug stressed the importance of protecting the name Academic All-American, especially considering our sponsorship with ESPN.
i. Gregg Petcoff (St. Scholastica), who is a former swim coach, commented that the CoSIDA AAA program does not have a separate swim team, which may be why the CSCAA continues to use the name. Doug clarified that that the reason for no swim team his historical and that the board is brainstorming potential solutions.
ii. Blake Timm (Pacific) clarified that the board does not have a problem with coaches’ organizations naming their own academic all-star teams. The problem is with the use of the Academic All-American name and protecting the trademark and brand.
2. Eric McDowell (Union) distributed a handout from Pat Coleman of D3Sports.com (D3Football, D3Hoops and D3Baseball) with facts and contact information. Eric also presented a new broadcasting service that TRZ (Teamline) is offering. For more information, contact Eric.
3. Chip Rogers (Virginia) thanked everyone for their assistance in terms of lacrosse and field hockey statistics. He said he would be around at the CoSIDA Workshop to answer any questions.
4. Jenn Blomenberg of NCAA Statistics addressed issues and answered questions around statistical and championships issues.
a. The NCAA will put together lacrosse statistics manuals beginning for the 2008
seasons. While it will be one book, it will be in two sections for the men’s and
women’s games.
b. NCAA Statistics will have a table topic at the Workshop that includes what will
be coming up this year, along with contact information (contacts follow these
meeting minutes).
c. Jenn addressed question of syncing the databases for championships and
statistics, much like is already done with basketball. Jenn said that this is up to
the individual championship committees and that additional sports moving to
the system is not likely in the near future.
d. Bob Lowe (Greensboro) asked about being able to use StatCrew XML files for
tennis statistical reporting to the ITA. Jenn remarked that everyone from
Championships must be on the same page for this to be possible.
e. Question was raised from the floor in regards to teams not keeping stats for
both teams at volleyball matches. Jenn said that NCAA Statistics cannot force
teams to keep both team’s statistics on site.
i. She suggested that both teams exchange statistics immediately after the
conclusion of the match.
ii. She further added that the NCAA now has a volleyball statkeeping
video available on the NCAA Web site
(http://www.ncaa.org/stats/volleyball/video/index.html) to assist in
learning the nuances of volleyball stats. It is about 15 minutes long.
f. Question was asked on if a communication could go out to Sports Information
Directors on rule changes involving different sports. Jenn said she would look
into that.
g. Question was asked about how Sports Information Directors can have a voice
within championships. Jenn suggested contacting the various liaisons for those
sports.
h. A concern was brought up about the timeliness of posting selections for
championships to the NCAASports.com site. Jenn said she would pass the
concern on.
5. Brad Johnson (HOST Communications) was present to answer any questions regarding championships issues. Dennis O’Donnell (Rochester) asked about a Web site that was talked about to allow schools to submit their rosters for championship programs. Brad responded that a site was produced at a cost of $27,000, but the response from Sports Information Directors was that it was just another thing that they had to do. Until the sentiment changes, the site will be dormant.
6. Dennis O’Donnell (Rochester) spoke on behalf of the Workshop Program Committee, asking those present to please fill out their workshop evaluation form and forward and ideas, concerns, comments, etc., that they might have.
a. More split programming (University Division/College Division) was suggested.
b. There was concern that this year’s Workshop did not many nuts and bolts
sessions, such as InDesign and Photoshop panels.
c. The workshop evaluation will be online this year at CoSIDA.com.
7. Announcements and Kudos
a. Don Stoner (Wartburg) announced that a D3Wrestling.com Web site had been
created.
b. Blake congratulated Dennis O’Donnell (Rochester) for his selection to the
CoSIDA Hall of Fame and Jim Strick (Wisconsin-Steven’s Point) for receiving
the College Division Rising Star Award.
c. Blake recognized and thanked Phil Ticknor (Washington, Md.) for creation of
his SID Board (http://www.sidboard.com) and encouraged all to use the site as
a valuable resource.
d. Blake recognized and thanked Mark Fleming (Moravian) for his continued
maintenance of the Division III e-mail list-serv.
e. Bill Wagner (DePauw) recognized Blake Timm (Pacific) for his work on the
board and for his election for another three years as an at-large representative.
CoSIDA DIVISION III BOARD CONTACTS
At Large Representative: Blake Timm (Pacific), 503-352-2161, timmbr@pacificu.edu
College Division Representative: Eric McDowell (Union), 518-388-6170, mcdowele@union.edu
College Division Representative: Kent Cherrington (Plymouth State), 603-535-2477,
kcherrington@plymouth.edu
College Division Representative: Bill Wagner (DePauw), 765-658-4630, bwagner@depauw.edu
College Division Representative: Dave Reed (Colorado College), 719-389-6105, dreed@coloradocollege.edu
NCAA STATISTICS CONTACTS
Jim Wright, Director, 317-917-6137, jwright@ncaa.org
Jenn Blomenberg, 317-917-6109, jblomenberg@ncaa.org
Kevin Buerge, 317-917-6108, kbuerge@ncaa.org
J.D. Hamilton, 317-917-6124, jhamilton@ncaa.org
Gary Johnson, 317-917-6139, gjohnson@ncaa.org
Bonnie Senappe, 317-917-6142, bsenappe@ncaa.org
Sean Straziscar, 317-917-6122, sstraziscar@ncaa.org
Jeff Williams, 317-917-6138, jswilliams@ncaa.org
HOST COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE DIII LIAISON
Larry Happel (Central), 641-628-5278, sportsinfo@central.edu
CoSIDA WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dennis O’Donnell (Rochester), 585-275-5955, dennis.odonnell@rochester.edu