GRAPEVINE, Texas—NCAA President Mark Emmert knows some of the
organization's rules are "simply far too complex" and that
others are laughed at more than they are followed.  While Emmert
supports a package of sweeping rule changes that could start to
address some of those issues, he also said Thursday that the
NCAA has to keep pushing to find the balance between the games
and competition that everyone loves and the rules that regulate
them.  "It turns out we know how to write rules. One of the
problems is sometimes we write lots and lots and lots of rules,"
he said before using the analogy of two sides of a coin.  "Just
as the shiny side of the competition has the side that can also
bring dysfunction to it, so too can the regulatory side. And we
have to recognize that as we try to balance that coin on its
edge."  In his third state of the NCAA address, Emmert clearly
is working toward the same things he talked about a year earlier
when he talked about restoring some core principles, such as
amateurism over pro