Fwd: [Husker] NCAA ties scholarships to graduation rates

[Russ Volberding]

>
>The NCAA has enacted a new rule that affects schools
>with graduation rates under 50% in their football,
>basketball, and baseball programs.  Once a program has
>a graduation rate below 50%, when a student becomes
>academically ineligible, the school loses that
>scholarship for a year.  Up to 10% of the scholarships
>could be lost.
>
>Here's more about the details:
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>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/collegesports/2002147443_ncaa11.html
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>Local reaction from Nebraska and Creighton:
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>http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38&u_sid=1306687
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>
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>Mike Jaixen
It will be interesting to see how this new rules will be enforced.  I 
wonder what kind of exceptions there will be.  And of course I suppose 
there will be the inevitable lawsuits.
The rule seems to give college football a dual personality.  Striving for 
the old student athlete yet at the same time growing as a big business to 
pay for small sports.