Athletic Board

The Athletic Board met on January 25th. We had a good meeting and the Chancellor was in attendance. Business we took care of included approving exceptional achievement awards for coaches whom qualified, receiving an update from our faculty representative to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, receiving an update from the NCAA convention, reviewing athletics fall gpa summary, evaluating Director of Athletics Barry Alavarez, and taking action on coaches whose contracts required action.

I will bring copies of all of the documents I can to our next meeting for those of you who are interested to review. Some items to note include: at the NCAA convention some representatives attempted to override the ban on text messaging recruits. The override vote was strongly defeated. Alvarez's evaluation spoke very highly of the job he is doing. The chancellor thought it was especially appropriate to comment on the strong academic performance of student-athletes, something he believes is very important. We approved all contract extensions that came before the board for current coaches. Anyways, if anyone is interested in more material or information please feel free to contact me or approach me at the next meeting.

For those of you who do not already know, me and Logan are attempting to implement some type of sports-oriented undergraduate program. We have already begun working very hard on this effort. If anyone is interested in helping or has any advice please feel free to contact us.

I am looking forward to attending our next meeting. It has been a while for me, but I can tell Shared Governance is doing very well.