The NCAA will re-examine its role in licensing bowls and has put a three-year hold on any new games in the wake of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl's problems. The NCAA's Division I Board of Directors on Thursday approved a new task force to look at the criteria and process for licensing bowls and will not approve any new bowls until updated standards are put into place. Spawned by financial improprieties and apparent political improprieties by the Fiesta Bowl uncovered in March, the task force will look at the oversight of bowl sponsoring agencies, conflict-of-interest rules and policies, advertising and title-sponsorship standards, along with oversight and reporting of financial management of bowl games. "We've actually been talking about it for a number of months," NCAA president Mark Emmert said. "It's an issue that I brought up to the board back in January as we were looking at all of the potential roles of the NCAA in what used be called certification and is now called the licensing process. It became clear to me that a review of those criteria of those processes was overdue." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6442526
