The President of the NCAA is promising to hold major college sports teams accountable for their performance…in the classroom. Myles Brand is threatening underachievers with the NCAA’s harshest sanctions: fewer scholarships, reductions in practice and even a postseason ban. USA Today reports the NCAA on Tuesday hit more than 200 college sports teams with scholarship reductions and other sanctions because of academic shortcomings.
“Academic reform is here to stay, and those penalties resemble what we give for major infractions. So these are serious penalties and there are a number of teams that received those,” Brand said after releasing this year’s Academic Progress Report Tuesday. “Yes, there are individual institutions who have seen a steady decline (academically) over the last four years, and for them, the situation is dire.”
Next time its multi-billion dollar football and basketball TV contracts are up for renewal, perhaps the NCAA might require the networks to post players GPAs onscreen along with their sports statistics.
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