>Carol writes:
>>The committee also voted 8-1 yesterday against a WCHA proposal to keep 20
>>varsity scholarships instead of cutting to 18 in 1993 as mandated by the NC$$.
>> It was rejected, apparently because it would work against cost-containment
>>and
>> gender-equity efforts. Any change would have to be made by the NC$$.
>
>Just out of curiosity, what was the idea behind the WCHA proposal?  Had it
>been approved, would the WCHA schools have gone ahead and stayed with 20
>scholarships in 1993, thus violating the new NCAA rule?  The NCAA has been
>known to come down pretty hard on schools which give out more scholarships
>than their rules allow, and although the vote to cut hockey scholarships
>from 20 to 18 may not have been a particularly fair one, the WCHA schools
>would presumably get into a heap of trouble if they ignored the new limit.
>Or was this just an attempt to get the NCAA to reconsider?
>--
>Bill Fenwick
>Cornell '86 and probably '94
 
I think the proposal was just to try and get the NCAA to restore the
scholarships, (I don't recall for sure, now.)
 
Pam Sweeney
Go Gophers!!!