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The NCAA national office has received the 30 necessary override requests to require the Division I Board of Directors to review its August action to amend legislation regarding financial aid packages for baseball student-athletes. The Board next meets November 1 in Indianapolis.
It is the first time since the federated governance structure in 1997 that a legislative concept has been overridden twice. The original proposal, which was among four adopted from the Baseball Academic Enhancement Working Group in April, required individual financial aid packages for baseball student-athletes to include at least 33 percent athletics aid. After the first membership override, the Board decided to lower the percentage of required aid to individual players to 25 percent and to allow all countable aid – not just athletics aid – to be included in the calculation toward the minimum.
The Board kept some provisions in the original proposal, including the retention of the financial aid model of 11.7 equivalencies and the limiting of counters to 30 in 2008-09 and 27 in 2009-10 and thereafter and caps the regular-season squad-size limit at 35.
In requesting an override of the legislation, some member institutions said they believed the legislation encroached on institutional autonomy. Other institutions said the minimum aid requirement would be a disadvantage for both private institutions and institutions without the funds to offer aid to many recruits at that level. Additionally, some institutions believe that more time should pass to see if academic reform efforts are successful in baseball before additional changes are made.
However, the proposal is considered by many to be an important part of the larger baseball package approved by the Board in April, including a provision eliminating the one-time transfer rule for baseball student-athletes. That proposal required a commitment by the student-athlete to an institution, and the financial aid proposal would demonstrate a commitment by the institution to a student-athlete.
The Board has the following options at its November 1 meeting: (1) Accept the override, in which case the legislation would be rescinded; or (2) Take no additional action and permit the Division I delegates present and voting at the 2008 NCAA Convention in Nashville; or (3) Revise the proposal again, which would subject the legislation to a third override by at least 30 institutions that would delay final resolution of the issue until the 2009 Convention.
The legislation has an effective date of August 1, 2008.
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