ZI am answering your good letter of April 22nd regard- ing the M.C.A.A.'s operation. Yes, the organization does have and has had for years sufficient income to keep it fumetioning without any financial difficulties. .The organization charges every college in the United States that is a member of the N.C.A.A. outfit $25.00 per yoer. CL & sizeable sum in the treasury. dics acl aa balealae Wika Ge en ck therefore pie you cen see that there is no great need for a large income. You state — f they did not have « source of income “it seems the setup is ef £ " a3 oo! 5 t® keep it alive as e governing body." Don't t would be better to take it from #hl sports produces the greatest revenue, would be better even if they did not have the ie tf 88 e ; ! with you thet any parent body has the right its subsidiaries. I believe the parallel that likely one because the athletic association at a Se ee ee athletic association has the right to spend this money for the up- $ A gg hf I would not be selfish enough to want to feel that basketball shouldn't pay its way. But when the N.C.A.A. sold basket~ ball dom the river to the A.A.U. for the purpose of nominating the coaches in the Olympics in track, crew, wrestling and swimming, and then when they levied on all the income from these tournaments in the N.C.AA. national, it would be just as logical to levy on a certain _ amount of income from the Rose Bowl and other bowl cames. Our committee of Bum, Olsen and I settled on 20% of the ineome from the N.C.A.A. tournament going to the organization and 80% to the competing teams. I am sure that you have enough confidence in us that we would not be foolish enough to want the N.C.A.A. to get nothing. However, in track and all other tournaments conducted by the N.C.A.A. it was never more than 10% taken from these meets or tourna- ments for the governing body. Why would they now take 55% of one sport and only 10% of all other sports? If they legislate but 10% of the other sports, wouldn't you think that would be a fair endowment? . I have been in this game a long time, Hal, and certainly would not leave ourselves wide open by being utterly selfish, but at the same time I for ome do not propose to let a lot of money~grabbers take all of the income and say nothing. These sane administrators in the N.C.AA. Scie cheeses and gold-diggers when they speak of athletes who want individual SS » yet this bunch of moguls want all the cash. Yould they A not be hyper~pot-hunters? 7 | A Is asia len. wlcth aichiettinailh- ona