TULSA, Okla. (AP) — They threw around ideas people dream about — a 64-team football playoff — and others that might be more realistic: finding a way to let players receive a small stipend in addition to their scholarships.
A group of reform-minded professors who represent their faculties on the Coalition On Intercollegiate Athletics met this weekend to talk about the many changes they’d like to see in college sports and the precious few they might help push through.
Over the past year, the NCAA has endured scandals at Miami, North Carolina, Ohio State and, of course, Penn State, where the news of Joe Paterno’s death hit hard Sunday.
One COIA representative, Nathan Tublitz, says it’s time to reinforce the idea that sports are an auxiliary enterprise at colleges, not the other way around.
