CSTV Exclusive: NCAA President Myles Brand Sits Down With CSTV's Brian Curtis for State of the Issues in College Sports This Sunday, January 9, Exclusively On CSTV's One2One.

NEW YORK -- CSTV:

--The Hiring of Minority Coaches, the Influx of Pro Coaches into the College Game, Student-Athlete Eligibility and Other Issues Topline the Half-Hour Discussion as Brand Marks His Second Anniversary As NCAA President

NCAA President Myles Brand will offer his unique perspective on a variety of issues facing intercollegiate athletics this Sunday, January 9, during an exclusive One2One interview on CSTV: College Sports Television (9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT). Brand will tackle subjects at the forefront of college sports including the hiring of minority coaches, pro coaches entering the college ranks, and student-athlete eligibility. Brian Curtis, senior editor of CSTV's CollegeSports.com, spoke with Brand on the eve of his second anniversary as president of the NCAA.

College Sports TV's groundbreaking One2One original series continues to attract the most compelling and influential names in college sports, in a revealing one-on-one sit-down format. One2One debuted with Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, followed with Penn State coach Joe Paterno, and will feature candid conversations with Jim Calhoun (head coach of defending NCAA men's basketball coach Connecticut), Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summit (winner of six NCAA national championships) and former women's basketball National Player of the Year Diana Taurasi, who led Connecticut to three straight national titles as the 2005 season unfolds.

ONE2ONE MYLES BRAND SOUNDBITES

The state of minority coach hiring

"It is an unacceptable situation. It's the schools, the universities and colleges that hire and fire coaches, athletic directors. The NCAA home office has nothing to do with that, nor should they. But (the NCAA can get involved by) making the situation public, by speaking out, and working particularly with the Black Coaches Association...to help shape what the search process is. 'What's the best practice in terms of the search process? 'How can we make sure that all qualified individuals, of any color, can get a fair chance at being a head coach at one of these schools?' And the search process becomes the avenue by which we will, I think, create change. In the end, it's the schools that must make the decisions."

Mandatory interviews of minority coaches

"I don't think that's the right approach because, in some ways, I think it's hypocritical. If you know who you're going to hire, and you just waste the time of the minority candidate, I think that's unfair to that candidate."

The expansion of the coaching pool, and its side effects 

"I think we're in the middle of a very important shift. What's happened in football is that the agents and the coaches have expanded the market so that now we're not just looking at college coaches, but we're looking at coaches from the NFL. And that larger market brings a much greater compensation package...but that compensation package, and that larger market comes with additional risks. Mainly, 'you produce now, or you move on,' just like you see in the professional leagues. So, the market has changed, and I'm not surprised to see that the amount of time that it takes for a school to evaluate a coach is coming to resemble the NFL."

Matching athletic success with academic success

"I think the way to deal with the stability issue and graduation rates is to have long-term commitments from coaches, and make sure that they have a genuine opportunity to succeed. I'm not sure that this market, at least for some schools, is going to permit that in the future. I think what the NCAA has to do through its legislative process, working in collaboration with its members, is set up requirements for initial and continuing eligibility so that coaches, if they're going to be successful on the field, will have to have students who reach these academic standards, or they will lose their best players."

Encore Presentations of One2One With Myles Brand

-- Tuesday, January 11, 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. PT

-- Saturday, January 15, 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT

-- Sunday, January 16, 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT

-- Tuesday, January 18, 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT

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