With the higher visibility will also come a greater responsibility on you to ensure that both your program and your team represent the school and the sport well. We will be inviting significantly more press coverage. Whether that coverage will reflect well on you or not will be determined by how well you have fulfilled all of your responsibilities under the rules and as a leader. We look forward to working with you as we roll out this ambitious initiative. We are targeting varsity basketball as our test platform.
Basketball touches a large number of schools and has the advantage of very high visibility.
We have asked your commissioners, Mel Goldstein and Shelley Lander, to take an active role in establishing this new system. Your full participation is important because as we develop the programs and web pages for basketball we will also be developing the model for the other sports. By spring we expect to have a fully functioning website in place that will begin to provide the support we need to accomplish our goals.