College Sports Information Directors of America

MINUTES OF COSIDA BOARD CALL - April 1, 2010

President Justin Doherty did a roll call.

I. There was discussion of possibly naming the CoSIDA Post-Graduate Scholarship. It is the only remaining CoSIDA scholarship that is not named. Doherty said he would contact the chair of the Scholarship Committee to get input.

II. There was discussion of the trip of CoSIDA's leadership group to the NCAA. Doherty said Erik Christianson was working on an agenda.

III. Doherty asked that any board members who had contacts in fundraising to get it finalized and get any pledges to John Humenik.

IV. There was discussion of the Oakland A's game during the CoSIDA Convention. Rob Knox had talked with A's officials and said CoSIDA could purchase a block of field level tickets for $26 each. Rob would then advertise the tickets and make them available for purchase to convention attendees. Knox said he would forward an invoice for 100 tickets to Wohlhueter.

V. Doherty said the first board meeting in San Francisco would be on Friday night, July 2 as a working dinner. He said all board members would need to arrive in San Francisco by mid-afternoon on the 2nd. The Past Officer's Dinner will be on Saturday night, July 3. Director of External Affaiars Barb Kowal said the hotel wanted to have a pre-connvention meeting on the 2nd. Wohlhueter asked that she set the meeting for 4 p.m. to allow for extra travel time for folks from the East coast.

VI. College Division Representative Dave Reed said the CoSIDA Ethics Committee had sent him the latest version of the Code of Ethics that included the updates that the Board of Directors had suggested. Reed circulated the document to the board. Reed made a motion to accept the new version and Doherty seconded. The board approved unanimously.

VII. Reed also discussed the Bud Nangle Award to honor someone in college athletics outside CoSIDA. He said Bob Noss and the Ethics Committee would like to begin accepting nominations. Secretary Jeff Hodges said language for the creation of the award needed to be forwarded to him to include in the revisions being proposed for the CoSIDA Constitution.

VIII. Doherty read from an email from Humenik covering several items. He said that all of the board members and sponsors are invited to the Past Officer's Dinner on July 3. He asked board members to let Wohlhueter know if they would be bringing a spouse.

IX. Doherty said that Second Vice President Doug Walker was resigning from the board at the conclusion of the year (June). He said the nominating committee will have to fill two spots in the officer's rotation.

X. Humenik reported that he was on a conference call with the NCAA's Mike Racy and the DII-SIDA leadership and said there was good progress.

XI. Humenik reported that Erik Christianson of the NCAA would be doing a presentation at the San Francisco Convention on July 6 on a strategic communications models for campuses and conferences.

XII. Humenik reported that Lowe's was dropping down to a $5,000 sponsorship from $12,500 due to low Division I attendance in San Antonio.

XIII. Humenik reported that ASAP and Fox Sports Interactive were still in the evaluation process on their sponsorships.

XIV. Humenik reported that the Heisman Trophy, the Fiesta Bowl and the NFL all increased their sponsorships by $2,500 each.

XVI. Humenik reported that the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was close to being finalized.

XVII. Humenik reported that letters have been sent to all sponsors with convention details.

XVIII. Third Vice President Tom DiCamillo said he was finalizing the special awards ballots and hoped to have them posted the next day. He also made a suggestion that the divisional email lists that he and others have maintained for years be merged into the CoSIDA data base. He said he also was setting up a call with the community college SIDs in California and was trying to get them involved in the CoSIDA Convention.

XIX. Kowal said she would be at the NCAA Women's Basketball Final Four and planned to attend a USBWA panel on the state of sports journalism today, coverage and rise of social media.

XX. Kowal said she was circulating samples of the website redesign to the branding committee and wanted to get final approval soon. Kowal said ICS said there would be about an eight-week turnaround once final approval was given. She said a launch date near the end of May would be possible. Doherty asked that she also distribute to the board once she got final approval from the branding committee

XXI. Kowal said the March newsletter of board initiatives would be going out that day. She said she was also sending out the latest CoSIDA Corner column writtern by Doherty.

XXII. Kowal said the next call of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame Gala Committee would be on April 7.

XXIII. Kowal said that she was notified that CoSIDA could not hang any banners at the Marriott Marquis and would have to come up with alternate ways to display sponsor logos.

XXIV. Kowal said she would be willing to represent CoSIDA at the ECAC-SIDA Convention June 8-11. Doherty said she should run it by Humenik to see what his plans are.

XXV. Hodges asked for any final updates to the proposed re-writing of the Constitution. He asked for them ASAP so that the proposal could perhaps be finalized on the next board call. He said he had the April E-Digest ready to post and was waiting for a few additions from Kowal.

XXVI. Past President Charles Bloom said he was attending the Final Four in Indianapolis and would attend the CON-SIDA Meeting. He said he also been informed that there would be a CON-SIDA meeting at the Women's Final Four.

The call was adjourned.