NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE
AUGUST DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2010
BECKER COLLEGE (Leister Campus)
11:30AM-4:30PM
In attendance: Steve Smith (Bay Path College); Frank Millerick (Becker College); John Griffith (Daniel Webster College); Louise McCleary, Laura Habacker (Elms College); Stanley Vieira (Lesley University); Mo White, Aimee Fador (Mitchell College); Jessica Gould (Newbury College); Jim Beckwith (Southern Vermont College); Diana Cutaia, Stephanie Smyrl (Wheelock College); Del Malloy (NECC Commissioner), Christa Parulis-Kaye (NECC Assistant Commissioner)
I. Welcome – Griffith welcomed everyone to Becker College.
II. Secretary’s Report-Millerick
A. May/June Minutes McCleary motions to accept May and June minutes. Smith seconded. Approved 9-0
III. Treasurer’s Report-White discussed 2009-10. White anticipates a $12,000.00 carry over – will be in better place to close out the year in two weeks. Malloy said that we carried over $8,300.00 from a year ago. Outstanding cost are AD/Coaches August Meeting, and conference had to return some unused money from NCAA initiatives. Viera motions to accept Treasurer’s report. Smith seconds; Passes 9-0
IV. Commissioner’s Report-Malloy
A. Spring Sports Guidelines were sent out to membership. Malloy opened it up for discussion. McCleary wants to discuss softball, presently the language only reflects what to do if the first game of the championship is postponed. McCleary makes a motion “If semifinals are not rescheduled by the championship game the highest remaining seeds advance to the championship game. If the championship game is not played by NCAA selection call, the highest remaining seed will receive the automatic qualifier.” Smith seconds. Passes 9-0.
Smith made a motion to accept updated Spring Sports Guides. Viera seconds.
Passes 9-0.
B. Motion made by Beckwith to adopt corrected By-Laws typos associate dues section – should read “$750.00”. The academic all conference should read “sophomore standing”. Vieira seconds. Passes 9-0
C. Presidents Teleconference- A conference call is scheduled for August 27. At the in person meeting the President’s were surprised that they did not approve the budget or raises. Three things that concern them is quorum, only once have they had a quorum; they want final approval of the budget; they felt that Commissioner should report to the President’s.
D. Conference SAAC – A conference call has been set up for September 26 at 8:00pm. Commissioner will be notifying SAAC liaisons in the coming week. Please notify Malloy is liaison at your school has changed. The in person meeting will be held on Saturday, November 13. Malloy exploring hosting the November meeting at the Center for Sports and Society at Northeastern University. More info to come on spring project.
E. Basketball Contact Foul Report-Malloy handed out NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Conduct Foul Report. Malloy reviewed report.
F. Division III Identity- Malloy reported that each campus/conference will receive $1,000.00 from NCAA to promote Division III identity. It is still in flux with the NCAA – hopefully more information will be forthcoming from the NCAA. This should be a campus wide initiative.
G. New England Commissioners Sportsmanship Initiative-Malloy passed out literature from the New England DIII Commissioners. Sportsmanship is to be addressed by all DIII conferences in New England. The letter will be sent to Rudy Keeling at ECAC, and other Officiating Assignors. Please review the letter and submit any recommendations to Malloy. Minnesota Athletics Conference has already done this --- Wisconsin Athletics Conference will be doing it this year as well.
H. Associate Membership
1. Malloy updated membership in Men’s Lacrosse and Men’s Tennis. NECC is still short members to meet the minimum number of school’s for automatic qualifier. Elms and Southern Vermont will have an answer in January concerning men’s tennis.
V. Assistant Commissioner’s Report-Parulis-Kaye
A. SID Workshop- will be held at Becker College on Thursday, August 19, 2010. All school’s expected to be in attendance except Lesley University – Lesley is searching for an SID. In the future the NECC should schedule SID’s meeting on the same day as the Coaches/AD Workshop. Also look at hosting Athletics Trainer’s at the meeting.
B. SID Duties-plan to clarify what each SID’s other duties are on their respective campus.
C. Summertime Status-Parulis-Kaye tried to clarify that she is a 10 month employee. McCleary would like to see the web site updated over the summer – Malloy suggests that schedules go up prior to June 1 while Assistant Commissioner is still under contract. Griffith suggests we consider moving the contract from 10 month to 12 month.
D. Website-Parulis-Kaye reviewed reviewed all conference websites, appear to be up to date. She reported that all conference members are working with Presto everyone is. A discussion on social websites ensued. Facebook, Twitter --- Parulis-Kaye will discuss this SID’s at meeting.
E. GolfStat-Parulis-Kaye reminded AD’s that we need to put our information through Golfstat. NECC has automatic bid in 2011 – the NCAA is using Golfstat.
F. Basketball XML Reporting-this will be new this year, NCAA is asking to do XML Reporting, i.e. each School will be responsible for putting this information up – this will benefit the NCAA Regional Committee’s they will have access to information quicker and easier.
G. StatCrew- upgrades should be here in time for the SID meeting
H. Associate Member StatCrew- what do we do with Anna Maria (field hockey) and Endicott (volleyball). Recommendation that they pay for the upgrades. This should be reflected in by-laws. Purchase upgrades for women’s lacrosse. Need to add it to the rotation.
I. Players of the Year – The Male and Female Player of the Year Award has not been established. Malloy will get together with McCleary and be ready to present at the November meeting.
J. SID Calendar-everything is ready to go – release dates are out, SID’s will be getting calendar at their meeting.
K. Pre-Season Polls-nominations will be online August 26, they are due back by September 2; polls should be released by September 3.
VI. Athletic Schedules
A. Revised 2011-2012 Schedules- all schedules are revised – reviewed all schedules. Malloy will re-submit revised schedules. Mitchell and Bay Path to discuss/update adding women’s lacrosse; Wheelock to discuss/update adding women’s tennis at January meeting – looking at scheduling it for fall 2013. McCleary makes a motion to approve schedules with the exception men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s volleyball. The women’s lacrosse schedule can’t be accepted because of Bay Path and Mitchell timeline. White seconds. passes 9-0
B. Honoring Conference Games-discussion ensued about completing all conference games. McCleary made a motion to addendum Section C, under postponement (page 18) the by-laws under postponement, section C, “..if a resolution can’t be reached for conference tournament seeding, both non-participating school’s will be given a loss.” Seconded by White. Passes 7-2.
C. Rotate Individual Sport Sites-Malloy said that it is becoming hard to host individual championships A few schools appear to be hosting most individual championships . McCleary makes a motion to adopt a rotating schedule for individual championships as proposed by Commissioner Malloy. White seconds. Passes 9-0
VII. Coaches Meeting- Dan Doyle presenting tonight.
VIII. Champions Cup-Smith hands out information and a new formula on Champions Cup calculation. Discussion ensued. Smith makes a motion to change current championship formula to the Bay Path model to be implemented in 2010-11 year. Passes 7-2
IX. Fall Sports Reports
A. Cross-Country Report- Cutaia/White report that the meet will be at Harkness State Park in Waterford, CT. 11:00am start for women; 12:00 start for men.
B. Field Hockey-McCleary - nothing to report
C. Golf-Millerick, Leicester Country Club; Saturday/Sunday October 9-10; 8:00am shotgun
D. Soccer-Vieira reports everything is all set.
E. Women’s Tennis-White/Smith reports that they have reserved the site – Enfield Tennis Club. 4:00pm start on October 17; October 18 will be a 10:00am start
F. Women’s Volleyball-Smith reports that we all set
X. NCAA Initiatives Grant-Malloy
A. Tier One– Malloy reviewed the NCAA initiative program --- Bay Path, Newbury and Wheelock will get the grant money for the Rules Seminar. SWA $1350.00 grant money. Direct Reports $1350.00 for NCAA Convention; FAR $1350.00 stipend for the NCAA Convention
Tier Two – each member has $1,882.00 for programming in Student-Athlete Well Being, Sportsmanship, Diversity and Gender Equity; Identity and Integration Symposiums
Tier Three – stat crew upgrades, Conference SAAC, Printer for Assistant Commissioner, Tier One Supplements; Athletics Trainers Professional Development, Upgrade conference Awards, Allocation for Concussion Software.
Tier Five -- $3488.00 for 2010 Officiating Improvement Reallocation. Would like to hold off and wait for Commissioner’s Conference call. One time only, money not available next year.
XI. Malloy handed out sheet with a list of all conference balls.
XII. Conference Awards-Malloy asked that the NECC consider switching from Dinn Brothers to Ken Nally. Nally has agreed to hold prices for three years. Vieira made a motion to move from Dinn Brothers to Nally Associates. White seconded. Passes 9-0
XIII. Regis College-Malloy
A. Malloy asked when we should begin to invite Regis to attend meeting. Agreed to invite them to the November meeting - the sooner the better.
B. Malloy will spend time at Regis with Mary Beth Lamb in the spring – May, when they are done competing.
C. Conference SAAC participation – bring them in fall 2011
XIV. Next Meeting, Tuesday November 16 at Becker College. Meeting adjourned.