NCAA recruiting reforms subject of Capitol Hill hearing
Submitted on May 18, 2004 - 12:00am.
Beverly T. Gooden - Hampton Short Course 2004
WASHINGTON - After years of scandals in intercollegiate athletic programs, a House committee heard more about the same old problems at a hearing Tuesday.
“It is kind of like the movie ‘Groundhog Day,'” said C. Thomas McMillen, a former House member and college and pro basketball player who is a member of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. “You keep getting up every day and the same thing happens. That is basically the plight of intercollegiate athletics.”
McMillen was one of three witnesses testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection's second hearing about college athletics.
“It is kind of like the movie ‘Groundhog Day,'” said C. Thomas McMillen, a former House member and college and pro basketball player who is a member of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. “You keep getting up every day and the same thing happens. That is basically the plight of intercollegiate athletics.”
McMillen was one of three witnesses testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection's second hearing about college athletics.
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