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NCAA to Consider Controversial Cuts in Scholarships and Athletic-Staff Sizes

Chronicle of Higher Education

December 9, 2011

Major-college football and women's basketball programs would see a reduction of scholarships, and athletic departments would face controversial staff-size limitations, under a set of cost-cutting proposals to be considered by the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors, according to an NCAA document obtained by The Chronicle. The ideas, which also include cuts to foreign travel and a cap on the number of contests and dates of competition at the current level across Division I sports, were approved this week by a working group aimed at reining in spending on elite sports.

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