TO THE EDITOR:
I am writing this to suggest something that you may already be working on: that is, adding JV football programs to all the member institutions in the ACC. North Carolina has had a JV basketball program for many decades. The cost of replicating this with football or any other sports programs would be pretty easy since we already have NCAA guidelines in place for how to do it. We would just have to replace the word basketball with “football” or “baseball” in the NCAA guidelines.
It would allow all our sports programs to build depth and enhance our sports programs around the league. The varsity coaches could recruit non-scholarship walk-ons for the junior varsity team; some of these players might develop into skilled varsity stars. The cost would be low. It would be a good way to help all the programs at the University.
Patrick Kenan-Bruce
Bolivia
