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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Which NCAA rule would you change?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It seems that every time fans talk about the NCAA, they’re complaining about it. Maybe that’s because the NCAA is like a referee, never noticed until it makes a controversial call.
But you’d think an organization so many people gripe about would have a lot more lively discussions about a lot more hot-button topics than there were at last weekend’s NCAA Convention.
What would Georgia Tech fans like to see discussed? Which rule would you change?
Tech’s Dan Radakovich attended the convention. It’s probably wise for the athletics director of a school on probation to put in an appearance. But one of the notable thingswas how many Division I people weren’t there.
The NCAA, which used to be a pure democracy of its members, at least legislatively, now has representative government at the Division I and II levels. Things happen behind the scenes, in committees. Only one issue arose for a one-member, one-vote electronic roll call in Division I: The vote on whether to override a rule allowing players who graduate with eligibility remaining to transfer and play right away.
And even on that issue, 76 of 357 possible voters didn’t vote. (One of those members that didn’t vote, by the way, was Tech. Radakovich said, because of an administrative error, Tech never designated him as its voter.)
