College governing boards need more information to monitor athletics, report says

*41 percent of 1,005 head coaches of Division I sports said there were contradictions between the values espoused by their athletics department and their entrenched practices. Of those, 29 percent of cited “considerable administrator hypocrisy” and 22 percent said standards varied among sports.

*Since the Bowl Championship Series for college football began in 2006, the annual turnover rate for head coaches has increased from 16 percent to 19 percent.

Connie Dillon, professor emerita of adult and higher education at OU, was one of three researchers who examined the factors that influenced how colleges and universities voted on NCAA proposals. Among the findings of an analysis of 345 proposals was that values such as academic standards and student-athlete well-being had no measurable impact on the votes.

Adrien Bouchet, a sports administration professor at the University of Tulsa, participated in a study about schools that sought to reduce their commitment to athletics or, at least, stop escalating that commitment.