Ncaa Proposes Rules

Two-year transfer students in football and men’s basketball who were not academic qualifiers leaving high school would have to sit out a year after enrolling in NCAA Division I schools under legislation proposed by the NCAA Council.

The Council, meeting this week in California, also voted to sponsor legislation to prohibit the use of correspondence courses to meet the transfer requirements for two-year students.

The new rules would have to be approved by a majority of the nearly 300 Division I schools at their meeting next January.

NCAA offices closed for the weekend shortly after the release was faxed to news outlets and the listed contact, Nancy L. Mitchell, was unavailable for clarification. It was not clear whether the ban on correspondence work for two-year college transfers also would apply only to football and men’s basketball players.

Baylor University and former women’s basketball coach Pam Bowers have settled her $4 million sexual discrimination lawsuit against the school, both sides announced. Baylor’s attorneys said in the release that they had resolved the lawsuit, but refused comment on the specifics of the settlement.

Sophomore quarterback Lloyd Abramson and center Adam Reed have quit Northwestern’s football team and plan to transfer, coach Gary Barnett said. Abramson was “burned out,” and Reed wants to transfer to Colorado.

Nebraska completed its internal investigation on leading rusher Lawrence Phillips’ relationship with a sports agent, sending its report to NCAA and Big Eight officials. Since June, Nebraska has been looking into Phillips’ association with agent Steve Feldman of Newport Beach, Calif., and Feldman’s recruiter, Jack Verner.