OSU coach Jerry Walsh, on limiting NCAA hockey teams to one full-time assistant coach: "But on the other side, that's what I've been dealing with for years. I've only had one full-time assistant and half of another assistant here for years." A response, posted on this list: "If for some reason OSU should decide it is not prepared to work as hard to field a DivI hockey team as many other schools, then so be it, but don't try to field such a team by bringing everyone else down." The respondant's attitude wouldn't surprise me if it were a minority opinion, but nobody on the list has come forward to challenge it, and that is disturbing. Does *everybody* out there equate de-emphasizing athletics with respect to academics with "not working hard"? Another example of this sort of reaction came from Jack Parker last year, when the number of hockey scholarships was cut back. Parker said (this is a paraphrase, but one which I think is accurate) "the NCAA is forcing us to compete with not enough players". I guess by Parker's definition that means the non-scholarship schools have for years fielded teams and won championships with NO players! Everybody knows that the NCAA is starkly hypocritical in cutting back the resources of other sports while allowing the big-time basketball and football programs, whose infractions and excesses provided the public impetus for the "academics first" movement in the first place, to do whatever they want. But just because the NCAA can't keep its hands out the till long enough to do the right thing with those sports is no reason to dismiss the general attempt to reassert academic integrity in college athletics. Greg