Denver Native (Carol)
08-10-2011, 04:24 PM
INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA presidents want to take a leaner, meaner approach to rule breakers.
On the second and final day of the governing body's presidential retreat, 56 presidents and a handful of other university leaders spent nearly four hours discussing ways to simplify the massive 439-page Division I rulebook and punish those schools with the most serious violations.
"I think there is a very strong sense among presidents and chancellors that we need to be very clear and very severe where infractions do exist and that we want to send a message about certain behaviors," said Oregon State president Ed Ray, chairman of the NCAA's executive committee. "There needs to be very serious penalties for very serious violations."
rest of article - http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6850179/ncaa-member-presidents-discuss-simplifying-rulebook-tougher-penalties
On the second and final day of the governing body's presidential retreat, 56 presidents and a handful of other university leaders spent nearly four hours discussing ways to simplify the massive 439-page Division I rulebook and punish those schools with the most serious violations.
"I think there is a very strong sense among presidents and chancellors that we need to be very clear and very severe where infractions do exist and that we want to send a message about certain behaviors," said Oregon State president Ed Ray, chairman of the NCAA's executive committee. "There needs to be very serious penalties for very serious violations."
rest of article - http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6850179/ncaa-member-presidents-discuss-simplifying-rulebook-tougher-penalties