The NCAA is considering taking steps that...

The NCAA is considering taking steps that could lead to a reduction in coaches’ income and greater benefits for athletes while overhauling the entire recruiting process, Jack Davis of Oregon State, the NCAA president, said at a council meeting in Kansas City, Mo.

Davis said that the policy-making council had pinpointed four areas for possible action at the next NCAA convention:

--Financial aid and amateurism, possibly dropping the prohibition against student-athletes receiving such things as laundry money and expense-paid visits home.

--The recruiting process, including restrictions on coaches and boosters.

--The total income of coaches, specifically such things as summer camps and shoe contracts that allow some top coaches to increase their university salary 10-fold.

--Length of playing seasons.

Top basketball coaches are paid as much as $100,000 by shoe companies to outfit their players in brand-name footwear, and often double that figure with summer camps and clinics, Davis said.

“The concern is that if a coach is making $500,000 to $1 million from these other things, and his salary from the school is $50,000, who the hell is controlling the activities of this person?”