NCAA to Back Off Schools
By Emily Badger, Orlando Sentinel

As the NCAA celebrates 100 years of college athletics, President Myles Brand and a task force of 50 university presidents and chancellors have been preparing for the problems of the next century�\many of which stem from the financial instability of a college game in an arms race with itself.

Brand unveiled Monday a 61-page report, "The Second-Century Imperatives," that was produced after 18 months of work by the group, which includes University of South Florida president Judy Genshaft. While college athletics have become synonymous with professional stadiums, shoe contracts and million-dollar coaching salaries, Brand noted that fewer than two-dozen athletic departments in the country are actually "operating in the black."

"For the vast majority, the current financial model for much of intercollegiate athletics�\spending at a rate that strains the ability of higher education to provide support�\simply cannot be sustained," he said in Washington at the National Press Club.

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