With the lingering economic downturn, NCAA division I members are cutting athletic programs to keep their athletic programs afloat. This is happening in a time when the NCAA has imposed a moritorium on classification upgrades while they reviews their rules and criteria on the upgrade process. The NCAA, as the major governing body of university sports, could ease the financial burden on all schools by expanding their focus and re-writing those rules and others today. The NCAA is a bit of a bureaucracy --- the president of the NCAA, James Isch, cannot just impose rules --- rather there is an executive committee and a governence board that creates the rules and oversees each of the NCAA's three classifications. That said, saving mo...

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