...still has an interest in setting a finite limit on the number of contests for basketball," said Ohio State President Brit Kirwan, the board chair at the time of the decision. "But we also have concerns about the legislation as it came to us...

...facing the nation's most visible collegiate athletic programs. Serious, sensible fiscal reform will. William E. "Brit" Kirwan is chancellor of the University System of Maryland. R. Gerald Turner is president of Southern Methodist University...