Talk:National Collegiate Athletic Association

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This article lacks any info on the various controversial aspects of the NCAA, especially with regard to rules applied to college athletes. As it stands it mentions they are controversial with little details as to why. --Cab88 11:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Championship Trophies 2 Money and NCAA 3 Division I Conference 4 School name changes 5 College team name changes 6 Probation 7 BCS 8 N-C-two-A? 9 Font 10 Founded? 11 Reverts

[edit] Championship Trophies

Hi, I'm the one who added the info regarding the NCAA's championship trophies. I noticed in this year's NCAA tournament the teams that won trips to the Final Four received bronze plated "Regional Championship" trophies. Is this (2007) the first year they started doing that or did they start that earlier?76.177.174.82 19:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Money and NCAA

Where does the money from advertisements go? It can't be all salary and overhead.

The Student-Athlete Opportunity Fund was created in 2003-04 from the CBS contract with the NCAA. This fund was created strictly for student athlete benefit. The money allocated to each school depended on size and the amount of scholarships created. Each conference was in charge of decided how the money was spent. For more information go to: http://www.ncaa.org/releases/divi/2003042401d1.htm

[edit] Division I Conference

The problem with the conferences on this page is that those conferences shown are in Division I, or Division 1. There are totally different conferences in Division II and III.

The conferences are listed as Division I conferences. I don't see where the problem is. Masonpatriot 03:37, 4

[edit] School name changes

A couple of the conference pages have experienced difficulty lately dealing with school name changes. For instance, edit skirmishes have happened on the Horizon League page about University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which is rebranding its athletic program as "Milwaukee", and on the Mid-Continent Conference page about Missouri State University, which used to be Southwest Missouri State. Now once a school changes its name, it should be referred to by the new name of course. But what about historically? The entire time Missouri State was in the Mid-Con, it was SW Missouri State, should it be noted as such in the champions table, or should its name be changed to the new name retroactively in all instances? I can live with either, I just want the back-and-forth to end. Craig R. Nielsen 08:52, 30 May

[edit] College team name changes

Opinions have been expressed recently that the NCAA is being somewhat vexatious in its apparent crusade to eliminate any reference to any of the Politically Correct Mob's poster causes (Native Americans, to name one example) in college mascots or sporting names, no matter how trivial or obviously inoffensive. Example: the College of William and Mary has been forced to remove feathers from its sporting logo, and just barely got to keep the nickname "Tribe" (they were "The Indians" in the 1980s, but this was changed for PC reasons). Does anyone have up to date info on this ridiculous trend, and does it warrant mention on their page?--EDH 13:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Probation

We should include information on exactly which sport/s is/are under probation for each Univ. listed. It's not terribly helpful to just know some team that the university sponsors in some sport is under probation.--Velvet elvis81 21:13, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BCS

The paragraph on the I-A football championship is pretty heavily slanted to an anti-BCS standpoint, in everything from "scare quotes" to (inaccurate) adjectives like "self-proclaimed" to declaring that because it's not an NCAA championship it's therefore unofficial. I'm going to rewrite it for a more even POV. If anyone feels like finding them, some citations for both viewpoints would be a good thing. Binabik80 02:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] N-C-two-A?

I've never heard it called this before. Where is this done? Just curious. Zchris87v 04:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I heard "N-C-2-A" like a month ago. It's used rarely though. --Howard the Duck 12:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Font

Does anyone notice a similarity between the font in the current NCAA logo and the font for the longtime CBS Sports logo? WAVY 10 21:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Founded?

Does anyone know when the NCAA came into existance or have a timeline for how it came to be? The earliest date I see is for the 1st Pres. Jrssr5 16:57, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

There's no mention of when the NCAA was founded, or how it's grown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dancon7 (talk • contribs) 13:01, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts

I removed a link to a "self-serving" website. This person may have legitimate grievances with the NCAA, but this is not the place for non-NPOV. Specific criticism with the NCAA could be added if supported by sources, not original work, and are widely held. --AlanK 21:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC)