NCAA News Archive - 2004

« back to 2004 | Back to NCAA News Archive Index

Callers get answers by 'asking Myles'


Jun 7, 2004 11:38:15 AM


The NCAA News

"Ask Myles" is one of the most popular regular segments on NCAA On Campus. Questions are received from student-athletes on college campuses across the country and answered by NCAA President Myles Brand as time permits.

Here's a sampling of questions from a 2003 show:

* "What can be done to increase the visibility of Division III athletics?"

Corrine Greenwood, College of Notre Dame (Maryland), field hockey and basketball

* "What do you see as the future of Division III athletics?"

Qiiana Smith, College of Notre Dame (Maryland), basketball

* "Why isn't the state ACT test accepted as opposed to the national ACT test when it comes to being cleared by the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse?"

John Haynes, Chicago State University, baseball

* "Why are there up to 85 scholarships for a football team, while there are only 11 for baseball teams?"

Gary Ward, Chicago State University, baseball

* "Why does the Division I baseball tournament have 64 teams while the Division III tournament has only 42 teams?"

J.P. Bauman, University of Chicago, baseball

* "What can the NCAA do to increase minority participation in Division III athletics?"

Emile Cambry, University of Chicago, baseball

* * *

Here's President Brand's answer to the question from Gary Ward:

* "Gary, scholarships are distributed in different ways in different sports. Baseball is an equivalency sport, so they are distributed in smaller chunks in order for each student-athlete to have an opportunity to receive a partial scholarship. In some sports, such as football, each student-athlete has to receive a whole scholarship or nothing of the kind. So it does vary among sports, and some sports have more scholarships than others, but we make up for that by having equivalency sports, such as baseball."


© 2010 The National Collegiate Athletic Association
Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy