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Knight panel considers plan to ban frosh athletes from NCAA competitions.(Knight Commission)(Brief Article)
Searching for ways to reform college sports, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics is considering recommending excluding freshmen from NCAA contests.
The plan would give first-year students and community college transfers a year to mature and get comfortable with their school's academic requirements, perhaps leading to better grades and graduation rates.
Predictably, some coaches of male teams thought the plan would be unfair to good students, although the overall graduation rate for male basketball players is just 44%.
Coaches of women's basketball teams thought it was a good idea. Wendy Larry, who is the head coach of women's basketball at Old Dominion University and heads the Women's Basketball Coaches ...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) October 27, 2009 700+ words
...released Monday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. "We've reached...and co-chair of the Knight Commission. "We are in an environment...in the future. The Knight Commission also released a report...
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- Magazine article from: College Student Journal KNAPP, TERRY J. RASMUSSEN, CHARLES BARNHART, ROGER K. March 1, 2001 700+ words
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- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service September 7, 2004 700+ words
...study commissioned by the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Robert H. Frank, H. J. Louis Professor of Management...small. According to William Friday, chairman of the Knight Commission and president emeritus of the University of North Carolina...
- Attitudes of College Presidents Toward Intercollegiate Athletics.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport March 1, 2000 700+ words
...presidents are ultimately responsible for their institution's athletics program. Many influential groups including the Knight Commission and the NCAA President's Commission have urged greater involvement by presidents in the operation of athletics programs...
