The CFA agreed to appoint a committee...

The CFA agreed to appoint a committee to study the possibility of a national monitoring system to prevent rule violations.

“Although we are in the entertainment business, our fundamental purpose is to be on the side of integrity,” Dr. Thomas Hearn, president of Wake Forest, told a record gathering of 215 CFA delegates.

Dr. Martin Massengale, chancellor of Nebraska and the CFA’s board chairman, said a study committee will be appointed in the next few weeks.

The monitoring system was proposed by the Rev. Edmund Joyce, executive vice president at Notre Dame.

Joyce said such a system would be preventive rather than punitive. He said a monitor could be appointed for each of the CFA’s 66 campuses--63 active and 3 associate members--or perhaps one agent for four or five schools. They would have total access to every aspect of a school’s football program and would make written reports to the president.

The CFA also voted to appoint a committee to further evaluate a football playoff. But CFA members said a playoff will not occur in the foreseeable future.