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INDIANAPOLIS -- As part of sweeping changes stemming from a Presidential retreat in August, an NCAA working group will
recommend to the organization's Board of Directors that FBS-level football scholarships be cut from 85 to 80 starting in 2014.
The proposal was among the most controversial to be discussed at a Division I session Friday morning at the annual NCAA convention,
with several school leaders quite outspoken about the issue.
"What you see with these proposals is an effort to restrain spending at the expense of student-athletes," Harvey Perlman,
chancellor of Nebraska, said. "The working group says if you reduce scholarships and other expenses you can reallocate it to other
things for student-athletes. But the problem is, I don't know of an athletic department that won't spend every penny it has.
"I just think this is bad publicity and I think it's bad policy."
Georgia president Dr. Michael Adams chaired the group responsible and was put in the precarious position of leading the
charge of several unpopular measures."Of all the things I've done the last 30 years at the NCAA, this is the most unpopular.
I have the scars to show for it," Adams said. "There's a notion that we are a runaway train in Division I with less regard for
student-athletes than the people who are making the exorbitant salaries. We need to put a stake down somewhere."
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recommend to the organization's Board of Directors that FBS-level football scholarships be cut from 85 to 80 starting in 2014.
The proposal was among the most controversial to be discussed at a Division I session Friday morning at the annual NCAA convention,
with several school leaders quite outspoken about the issue.
"What you see with these proposals is an effort to restrain spending at the expense of student-athletes," Harvey Perlman,
chancellor of Nebraska, said. "The working group says if you reduce scholarships and other expenses you can reallocate it to other
things for student-athletes. But the problem is, I don't know of an athletic department that won't spend every penny it has.
"I just think this is bad publicity and I think it's bad policy."
Georgia president Dr. Michael Adams chaired the group responsible and was put in the precarious position of leading the
charge of several unpopular measures."Of all the things I've done the last 30 years at the NCAA, this is the most unpopular.
I have the scars to show for it," Adams said. "There's a notion that we are a runaway train in Division I with less regard for
student-athletes than the people who are making the exorbitant salaries. We need to put a stake down somewhere."
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