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Power 5 Vote Gives Medical Professionals Final Say On Student-Athletes Returning To Field

The NCAA’s Power 5 conferences "approved a rule Friday requiring that school medical professionals have autonomous and final authority in deciding when an athlete may return to play after a concussion or other injury, a move lauded as a significant health and safety protection," according to Jim Vertuno of the AP. Officials said that the move "defines who are the primary medical providers in key decision-making roles and sets a strong wall between medical professionals and coaches." In other votes Friday, the Power 5 "delayed action on several proposals limiting time demands on athletes, including mandated time off after a season and weekly off days." The group "voted to bring those issues back" at the '17 NCAA convention. The group also "adopted a resolution pledging to come back next year with a proposal that will consider a two-week postseason break, weekly time off and a mandatory eight-hour overnight break from sports requirements." The delay "upset a few student-athlete members of the autonomy group who lobbied for immediate action." Additionally, the group "passed a rule allowing high school baseball players to hire agents when negotiating with professional teams before they enroll in college" (AP, 1/15).

STAYING RELATIVELY QUIET: USA TODAY's Dan Wolken notes the D-1 BOD "easily passed a series of milquetoast proposals that were part of the second autonomy agenda." While the group last year "enacted some landmark legislation," the package adopted by the Power 5 conferences this year "was thoroughly non-controversial and rooted largely in NCAA minutia." Oklahoma football player Ty Darlington, one of the Big 12's student reps, said, "Last year I walked out of here feeling like we did something significant. This year I felt like we sort of relaxed.” Wolken reports one Pac-12 proposal that "could have represented a significant change in NCAA policy allowed athletes to use their names, images and likenesses to promote non-athletically related personal businesses." However, the conference "withdrew the proposal this week before it came to the floor for a vote." Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said that it “'wasn’t a big deal' to table the proposal because there’s already an NCAA waiver process in place for athletes to address the issue if they wish." Scott: "Other conferences that wanted more time; they were afraid there were loopholes, concerned about implementation. We got feedback from conferences that were nervous and just wanted more time to digest it. As a general rule if something is routinely being approved by waivers we want it in the rule” (USA TODAY, 1/18).

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