Most of these guidelines are common-sense initiatives that many institutions already have implemented to increase awareness of sportsmanship and ethical conduct. And I believe they are working. There are many examples of good sportsmanship in college sports. It is our duty to keep up that good work. By instilling sportsmanship and ethical conduct as part of the certification process, we can not only ensure that institutions are putting their best sportsmanship foot forward, but we also can reward institutions for promoting the ideals that help separate intercollegiate sports from other endeavors.
Sportsmanship is a way of life.
The committee hopes these guidelines help institutions preserve and foster that way of life. Robert E. Frederick is the athletics director at the University of Kansas and chair of the NCAA Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct. This is the only conclusion that can be reached after years of the NCAA's refusal to discuss a serious collegiate problem, namely the erosion of nonrevenue and endangered Olympic sports. The NCAA has become so concerned with calculations of ratios, percentages and quotas between men's and women's programs, that regardless of NCAA figures showing growth in the overall number of men's programs, many nonrevenue sports continue to be terminated. It should be noted that NCAA participation rates may be skewed.