MAAC Enacts NCAA COA Bylaw
MAAC Sports
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Council of Presidents has passed unanimously a bylaw revision that allows the recently passed NCAA reform legislation on scholarship grants that allow an additional "Cost of Attendance" (COA) amount up to $2,000 or the school's limit, whichever is lower. The bylaw, which was recommended earlier this week by the MAAC Committee on Athletic Administrators mandates the COA funding for men's and women's basketball scholarships and leaves it each school option whether to apply it to other sports that award full athletic grants.
MAAC Commissioner Rich Ensor notes that the MAAC's action on NCAA President Mark Emmert's Student-Athlete Reform agenda "is consistent with the MAAC's current bylaw which requires the sport of basketball to have mandatory grant requirements. For all other sports it's an institutional decision if they wish to award COA aid to any full scholarship student-athletes. This is also consistent with how the MAAC handles scholarships in most league sports. The MAAC has for the last 23 years fully funded basketball grants based on its core sports philosophy, while leaving most other sports scholarship mandates limited to those required by the NCAA for Division I membership or to what the member school wishes to emphasize."
The bylaw change is immediate and will be noted in National Letters of Intent that are scheduled to be distributed on November 8 for the early signing period.