NCAA Proposition 16

Since the 1960s, the NCAA has attempted to control academic standards for the awarding of athletically related financial aid (Covell and Bar 414). In 1965, the NCAA adopted the 1.6 rule, which required that student athletes who did not have a 1.6 GPA in their last three high school semesters could not receive athletically related financial aid (Covell and Bar 414). The 1.6 rule also used minimum scores on standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT to determine college freshman eligibility for financial aid.

Sanctions for non-compliance with Rule 1.6 were weak enough that some schools could choose not to comply with the rule. But who opposed the rule and why illustrates the evolution of college athletic eligibility ru

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career goal. For example, then president of Southern University Jesse Stone, Jr. argued that "a youngster knows that one way to move from the ghetto, if he's good enough, is to participate in college athletics and hopefully go on to the pros . . .. Without hopes and dreams, many of us would not have anything" (Covell and Barr 414). Also, Joseph Johnson, president of Grambling State University, argued that historically black schools would be also disproportionately harmed in recruiting qualified student-athletes (Covell and Barr 414). The arguments against Proposition 16 and the constituencies who made them were no different than they had been for Proposition 48. Thus, when the NCAA convention was held in 1995 to vote on the Proposition, the lines were already drawn between the college presidents and black coaches over the new eligibility standards advocated in Proposition 16 (Fakehany). Proposition 16 measures a student-athletes' GPA in 13 specific areas of course-work. A sliding scale then combines SAT/ACT scores with students' GPA to determine eligibility. For example, a student-athlete with a SAT score of 700 (ACT, 17) must have a minimum GPA of 2.5, or a student-athlete with an SAT score of 900 (ACT, 21) must have a mi
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