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INDIANAPOLIS (AP
2002) -- The NCAA Board of Directors met
in Indianapolis and took these actions on a set of
proposals:
APPROVED
1. High school students can enter the NBA draft and be
drafted without forfeiting college eligibility as long as
they do not sign with an agent. The measure takes effect
for this year's draft.
2. Student-athletes may accept prize money based on
performance if the money does not exceed the athlete's
travel expenses.
3. High school or prep school students can have their
educational expenses paid for if the money does not come
from an agent, athletic representative or professional
team.
4. A "professional" team will now be considered any team
that provides any player with money above actual expenses.
5. Revised the definition to be eligible in Division I-A
football requiring schools to: A) Use at least 90 percent
(76.5) of all football scholarships during a two-year
period; B) play at least five home games; C) offer at least
16 sports with a minimum of six men's and eight women's; D)
offer at least 200 scholarships or $4 million in total aid
for all sports; E) demonstrate an actual average attendance
of 15,000 for home games.
6. Lifted the moratorium on bowl certification.
7.
Football teams with 6-6 records are eligible for postseason
bowl games. Previously teams had to be better than .500 to
be eligible.
8. Introduced a four-item academic reform agenda, which
includes: A) Studying whether the amount of core courses
for freshman eligibility should be increased from 14; B)
reviewing an expansion of the sliding scale used for GPAs
and standardized test scores; C) developing a method to
measure academic progress of student-athletes and
individual teams; D) asking the Management Council to
propose incentives and penalties for teams who exceed or
fail to meet certain standards.
TABLED
1. Organized
competition rule which would have allowed high school
students to compete for one year in the pros, then return
to college with three years of eligibility. The
student-athlete would also have to sit out one year, just
like a transfer.
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