The Division I Management Council and Board of Directors approved a measure that extends the terms for those members scheduled to rotate off both groups in January until the end of the April 2004 meeting to allow for better coordination between the terms of service and the new legislative cycle. Further, future terms of service on the Council and Board will conclude after the April meeting rather than in January, in part because the new one-year legislative cycle concludes in April.

The Council and Board also approved a recommendation from the NCAA Honors Committee to change the criteria for the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award to allow the committee to select up to six honorees instead of six honorees annually based on the quality of the application pool. Honors Committee members made the recommendation in light of the varied number of applications it may receive in a given year for the award.

The Management Council received a follow-up report to the October 15 summit conducted by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the NCAA regarding ethical behavior in basketball. Key areas being explored include development of a "lack of coaches' control program" penalty, changes to NCAA bylaws to alleviate "ethical dilemmas" created by current regulations, and examination of current secondary violations to determine "meaningful" violations that may warrant stiffer penalties.

Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee members provided the Division I Management Council with a visual aid to illustrate their belief that more education is needed about the 20-hour rule. As a way of introducing the topic at the SAAC's lunch meeting with Council members January 10, the student-athletes were asked to stand, then remain standing if they had never submitted an inaccurate practice log or 20-hour-rule compliance form. At that point, more than half the student-athletes sat down because they either had no knowledge of such forms or else their coach filled it out for them. Kenan Smith, a football and track student-athlete from California State University, Sacramento, said, "If SAAC members, who are at the forefront of Division I issues, are not completely educated about the 20-hour rule, it stands to reason that the majority of other student-athletes aren't, either."

The following new members were selected to begin four-year terms on the Management Council beginning in July: Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, senior associate athletics director for the Council of Ivy Group Presidents; Rick Greenspan, athletics director at the U.S. Military Academy; Richard "Pete" Moore, assistant commissioner of the Southern Conference; Betty Wiseman, senior woman administrator at Belmont University; Peg Bradley-Doppes, athletics director at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington; and Lee Reed, athletics director at Cleveland State University.

-- Gary T. Brown