“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884-1962 – Former First Lady of the United States

 

“Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.” – Aretha Franklin – 1942-2018 – Singer-Songwriter-Pianist

 

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.” – Audrey Hepburn – 1929-1993 – British Actress-Humanitarian

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Notes provided by  Lisa Crane)

Larry noted we are looking for people to fill in the remaining watering/weeding spots after mid-July for the Decker Garden. Please sign up online.

Starting July 11, CU Sunrise will meet each week at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Prospect Ave. 

Lisa will chair the hosting committee. Members will sign up for one month.  July will be Tod’s turn.  He has a list of possible food options and we will try to stay under $8 for the actual cost of meal.  Our weekly fee will now be $10 starting on July 11th.  Yes can pay ahead for meals for the year.

Bucket bucks in June will go to the Child Advocacy Center.  In July they will go to Dream.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS & SERVICE OPPORTUNITES

June 27 – Pass the Gavel

June 30 (4:30pm) – District Installation @ iHotel ($40)

July 4 – No meeting

July 11 – First meeting at new location

July 12 – Mahomet Rotary Golf Outing

July 13 – Rotary Day at the Ball park (Cubs vs Cards)

July 20 (9-4pm) – Zone Leadership Seminar in Springfield

October 24 – District 6490 Conference

 

SPEAKER

Our own Tom Ulen spoke on the topic of the recent NCAA Athletics settlement.  Tom discussed the recent state of College Athletics and the death of the NCAA. Money seems to be driving everything with the NCAA.

 

Tom noted the NCAA was created on March 31, 1906. The idea was to promote the safety of college athletes. They developed rules governing college sports. It has evolved since then to denote when how much athletes can practice  and when and how students need to be matriculates of the college they play for.  

Tom cited a few law cases which have led to athletes getting compensated for playing:

 

*Obannon UCLA vs NCAA 2014 – owning rights to your own likeness in a video game which became the NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness).

*Olsten vs NCAA which capped benefits of $6,000 per year reimbursed for tutoring.

Tom mentioned other athletes and how they were offered money to play. Which led to the recent NCAA settlement of $2.8 billion which allows schools to directly pay their athletes including any Division 1 graduate back to either 2018 or 2016.  The money pulled to pay for this will likely come from Division 2 &3 schools who may have to give up tv rights

Looking ahead, who will get a piece of the $20 million set aside to pay student athletes? Will lacrosse and cross country get money? Will men and women be paid equally?

The UIUC DIA advisory board discussed how they monitor coaches to win but also with students studying to be good students and humans.  They want to help train student athletes to be first class model citizens.  Tom called the recent developments with the NCAA a “raging dumpster fire.”

 

Other points discussed included the cost of tickets for games, the costs for different sports, the lost of sportsmanship, and NIL money up for grabs. 

 

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  June 27th July 4th July 11th July 18th
Introductions Michael Hogue No  Larry Johnson Scott Paceley
Reflection Garrett Colbert am Cary Woolard Eddie Bridges
Greeters Michael Hogue meeting. Larry Johnson Scott Paceley
Garrett Colbert Be safe Cary Woolard Eddie Bridges
Food n/a with Tod Satterthwaite Tod Satterthwaite
Notetaker Perry fireworks. Hodson Conforti

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee members listed in parentheses)

 

June 27th – Pass the Gavel

July 4th – No morning meeting

July 11th – Dr. Mark Wolters, Associate Teaching Professor of Business Administration

July 18th – TBD (Cary)

July 25th – TBD (Joe)

August 1st – TBD

August 8th – TBD (Lisa)

August 15th – TBD (Mary

August 22nd – TBD (Michael)

 

 

UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

 

July 6 – Paul Conforti