COIA (2002) is an organization of FBS Faculty Senates to support NCAA reform. (http://blogs.comm.psu.edu/thecoia/)

– 63 of 125 FBS programs are COIA members, 8 Pac 12 schools (USC, UCLA,

ASU, and Utah)

– Produced a series of policy papers outlining best practices for faculty engagement and over sight of intercollegiate athletics (http://blogs.comm.psu.edu/thecoia/?page_id=182)

–I am OSU rep to COIA, in 4th year of 5 year term

–Today’s objective - provide you with an over view of this year’s COIA activities.

2014 Annual Meeting

This year’s meeting included talks or discussions on:1. UNC scandal2. NCAA reorganization3. Concussions4. Athletics finances5. NCAA antitrust exemption

1. UNC Academic Integrity scandal

Presentation from Dr. Bob Malekoff, co-author of the Rawlings Report •College sports programs have no clear “ownership group”

• University Presidents, ADs and others may all express commitment to academic values, they are subject to many external forces, some of whom have greater power.

•High number of special admits challenges the system

• Lack of public concern in many places about academic issues in sports

•Lack of fiscal transparency in athletic departments

2a. NCAA decentralized governance NCAA asked COIA to engage in discussions about decentralization.

i. NCAA asked COIA to propose a model to increase faculty involvement in NCAA governance

ii. COIA created a framework that increased faculty senate engagement in athletics oversight.

The proposal met with mixed response:- NCAA and D1A FARs did not like an approach requiring

campuses to support faculty senate engagement.

- Reactions of individual senates and campuses varied, but the general goals of the proposal had broad support.

- COIA’s effort moving forward will be to assist senates interested in using the plan as a model.

2b. NCAA Reorganization

This year COIA has been involved in discussions about reorganization of D1.

1. Emphasis on giving Big – 5 conferences more autonomy to deal with student athlete concerns

2. D-V doesn’t sound likely.

3. Seemed clear that COIA and Faculty Senates more generally will not be given a place at the decision making table at the national level.

4. FARs will, along with the ADs.

5. Suggestion that COIA, D1-FARs and FARA need to collaborate.

3. Concussions

Heard from Dr. Brian Hainline, NCAA Chief Medical Officer

• COIA created a survey with NCAA about concussion management practices

• Medical knowledge about concussions is very poor.

• Current return-to-play criteria may be sufficient, but they are not linked to any biological data about physiological recovery following a concussion.

• Creation of Dr. Hainline’s position seems a very good idea;

4. Athletic spending

Heard from Amy Perko, Executive Director of the Knight Commission

- Spending on student-athletes continues to outpace spending on regular students and gap is

widening

- New web site containing a searchable database for Athletic and Academic Spending in D1 (

http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/ ).

- Projections indicate that media revenue will increase from $390 million in 2004 to around 2.2 billion on 2020.

5. Legislation concerning NCAA

We heard from Allen Sack and Gerald Gurney of the Drake Group

- they outlined a draft piece of legislation called the College Athlete Protection Act.

- the act would provide the NCAA with a limited antitrust exemption if the NCAA operated under a set of guidelines that prioritized academics over athletics.

- discussions centered around the practicality of the act – most comments were critical