{"id":2628,"date":"2006-10-31T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2006-10-31T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:35:34","slug":"ncaa_rein_in_sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"NCAA: Rein in Sports Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/N\/NCAA_SPENDING?SITE=PAYOK&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Howard Fendrich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In a task-force report released Monday by NCAA president Myles Brand, Division I schools were encouraged to rein in spending on sports &#8211; but there aren&#8217;t any requirements everyone must adhere to or punishments if they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the case of academic reform, we had a hammer &#8211; namely, by teams not conforming, we could take away scholarships and, if that failed, we could keep them out of the Final Four and postseason. That&#8217;s heavy duty. That&#8217;s a sledgehammer,&#8221; Brand said after speaking at the National Press Club. &#8220;The fact is, we don&#8217;t have that for fiscal responsibility in intercollegiate athletics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The task force of about 50 school presidents and chancellors was formed in January 2005, and the report&#8217;s release comes as the NCAA is preparing its response to an Oct. 3 letter from Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. Thomas asked the NCAA to justify its tax-exempt status and sought a reply by the end of October; the NCAA received a two-week extension.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone to a variety of sporting events around the country over the past 25 years.  It is interesting to observe the explosion in sponsorships, luxury boxes and facilities around college athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Fendrich: In a task-force report released Monday by NCAA president Myles Brand, Division I schools were encouraged to rein in spending on sports &#8211; but there aren&#8217;t any requirements everyone must adhere to or punishments if they don&#8217;t. &#8220;In the case of academic reform, we had a hammer &#8211; namely, by teams not conforming, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}