CoSIDA Board Conference Call - Nov 2005
College Sports Information Directors of America
I. President Joe Hernandez (Ball State) did a roll
II. Hernandez said the Academic All-America on-line process was working and said it appeared that CoSIDA had gotten through the initial stages very well. He said he had received a lot of positive feedback and very few complaints or problems. Past President Pete Moore (Syracuse) said he had talked to Jeff Rubin of ICS and said that he and his staff had been able to handle problems and accommodate members as problems popped up with passwords, etc.
III. Hernandez said he has requested a report from Academic All-America Chairman Dick Lipe and Co-chair Mark Beckenbach on numbers of nominations and voting and how that compared to past ballots.
IV. Hernandez said he had talked to representatives of a national organization that wants to pitch the Academic All-America Hall of Fame program to some of its corporate sponsors. There was discussion of a rights fee. It was agreed that CoSIDA would ask for a $50,000 rights fee, plus expenses to run the program.
V. Second Vice President Charles Bloom (Southeastern Conference) discussed CoSIDA's policy of only allowing members of the organization to nominate and vote on the Academic All-America program and if that should be revisited. He felt the policy was penalizing student-athletes at school's whose SIDs are not CoSIDA members. The board felt that the policy was a good one, that involvement in the Academic All-America program was a benefit of CoSIDA membership and that the nominal membership fee was a small price for any institution.
VI. First Vice President Doug Dull (Maryland) said he was trying to pull a call together with the workshop committee but had not been able to yet. He said he has a call scheduled with Dennis O'Donnell and the Workshop Program Committee on December 1 and that he would visit Nashville on December 12.
VII. Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter (Ithaca, N.Y.) asked Doug to check on the Big East Conference outstanding bill from the 2005 CoSIDA Workshop.
VIII. Wohlhueter said CoSIDA's current membership is 2,073, which sets an all-time record. Of those 1,846 are active members, 61 associate members, 109 student members and 57 lifetime members.
IX. Secretary Jeff Hodges (North Alabama) was asked if he could look at the membership roll and determine how many institutions are part of CoSIDA with at least one member. He said he would work on it.
X. At Large Representative Judy Willson (Louisiana-Monroe) said she was preparing a list of CoSIDA members affected by the hurricanes and how much money CoSIDA will provide them.
XI. At Large representative Justin Doherty (Wisconsin) said his committee was working on the board goals for CoSIDA and was looking at other organizations and their goals.
XII. College Division Representative Blake Timm (Pacific) said he was doing a story for the NCAA News on CoSIDA's response to help its members in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He said he was still looking for some ideas and would contact Willson to get contact information on some of the people affected. There was old or new business and the call was adjourned.