>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!!!