Dive Brief:

• The University of California system has tabled a proposal to tie the pay of coaches and athletic directors to the academic performance of student-athletes.
• Some board members of the university system believed the proposed standards were too high, while others thought they didn’t go far enough.
• The proposal could be revived next month, Inside Higher Ed reported.

Dive Insight:

The proposal’s standards were set at the NCAA minimum academic requirements, and would have allowed the schools in the system to withhold incentive bonuses if the minimums weren’t met. The University of California at Berkeley’s football coach already has bonuses tied to minimum academic standards, following the embarrassing revelation that only 44% of the team's players enrolled between 2003 and 2007 graduated. The UC system would be the second university system to adopt such a policy — the first was the University System of Maryland, which did so in October.