The Title IX blog spots a nice piece of info: At this year's NCAA convention, Myles Brand's speech called attention to the lack of women and minorities in head coaching and athletic director positions.

There is work to be done to meet these challenges before we can claim that intercollegiate athletics genuinely demonstrates social justice. Among the challenges on which we must focus is the full implementation of Title IX. Women continue to be under-represented in terms of grants-in-aid for student-athletes, coaching opportunities for women’s sports, and leadership positions in terms of athletics director positions. Athletics scholarships, coaching positions and athletics directorships must, of course, be allocated on the bases of talent and hard work. But it is simply incredulous that the talent pool is so weighted toward men to produce this imbalance. The facts, as well as the history of past lack of female representation, point to a continuing problem of injustice.

As a historical reminder: Dr. Brand's outspoken support for Title IX is a marked departure from the NCAA's early reaction to the legislation. Back in the mid-seventies, they actively sought to block and undermine it.

Of course, there are other reasons Dr. Brand and the NCAA might want to support Title IX -- not the least of which is diversifying their revenue streams and keeping the US Congress off their backs about the business that is college football.

That being said, it's reassuring to know that the NCAA is trying to be proactive instead of throwing up road blocks.