REPORT OF THE COMMITTES TO STUDY RELATIONSHIPS
BETWEEN THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION AND
THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL COMMITTER

ft the request of President Norgren a special sub-committee of the Research Commit-

tee was appointed to study weys and means of improving relationships between tke
Notional Basketball Committee and the National Basketball Coaches Association, Ine»

cluded in this study was the consideration of better means of presenting the recom=

mendations of the National Basketball Coaches Association to the National Basketball
Committee,

Minny members of our association have felt that the National Basketball Committee has
acted arbitrarily in many rulings which definitely influenced the college game and
that they had not been considerate of the recommendations of our association.

A study of past relationships between the groups brought out a number of important
factors for formulating a plan of action. The National Basketball Coaches Associa-~
tion was conceived as 2 means of combating hasty action on the part of the National
Basketball Committee in adopting the ruling which limited the dribble to one bounce.
This brought about resentment which still seems to smoulder. The National Basketball
Committee in turn has felt that the efforts of the coaches association to obtain
direct representation on the national committee was not warranted.

The following quotations from correspondence with Mr. Floyd Rowe, chairman of the
National Basketball Committee, bring out the general trend of feeling between the
two groups as well as some of the problems which are in need of correction:

1 ae me -It became quite evident that the policies of your organization (National
Basketball Coaches Association) are Quite definitely fixed by a small group of
men.

Mm cone certainly no- two hundred coaches should expect to have the right to dic-
tate policies governing many thousands."

"There is no issue at all between the high schools and the colleges as to the
necessity of having both groups follow the same rules. Certainly no member of
the high school group has ever suggested to the college group tht certain
rules which were felt to be advantageous to the high schools should be adopted
anc put into force as far as the colleges were concerned,"

"It would scom then to me that if you are rexlly desirous of getting changes in
the rules going back to the old type of ball and back stop that the thing for
you to do is to work on the college members of the present rules committee.
-w-e-= I think this gives you a pretty good list of college men upon whom to
work. If you ein not sell them, then certainly you are not going to have any
luck with the high school group, but, at the same time, you will have no trovwblo
with the high school group if you sell them,"

"For the past four or five years the action of the Coaches Association has been
irritating to the committee. The coaches meet 2nd because of their largo met-
ing and because of the prominence of some of their mombers, their recommonda-
tions in regard to rules changes in theeyos of the press constitute rules
rather than recommendations to the National Basketball Committee,"

On the part of the National Basketbi1l Coaches Associntion the following factors
have influenced our feeling toward the Naticnal Basketball Committec: