My story on the (bright) future of the KCAC hit your newsstands today.
The long and short of it is that the league’s officials decided they were sick of seeing their schools get stomped on pretty much anytime they had to play anybody outside of their conference. Feeling hamstrung by their own archaic rules, they decided to do something about it, pushing through the Sports Regulation Initiative last week, which puts all the KCAC sports at the NAIA maximum for amount of in-season competition (aka how many games they can play) that will go into effect for all sports except football in the upcoming school year and then in football in 2011. The details are numerous (see the article) but I think it’s great. I hope it works. I’ve always been very fond of this league and I’ve been as disappointed as anybody to see them fall short in the postseason time after time, especially when I don’t think it’s a matter of having better athletes. It’s a competitive edge the rest of the NAIA has had over the KCAC for some time that just got wiped out.
Now about those scholarship limitations…
TA.