BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr and ex-Georgia Tech basketball coach Bobby Cremins are among eight new members of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions, which is expanding in order to handle more cases.

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors approved the new committee members over the weekend, according to a summary report of the meeting. In addition to Carr and Cremins, others added to the committee are:

* Michael Adams, Georgia president

* Norman Bay, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission director of enforcement and a former U.S. attorney and law professor at New Mexico

* Carol Cartwright, former Bowling Green and Kent State president

* Thomas Hill, Iowa State senior vice president of student affairs

* Joel Maturi, former Minnesota athletics director

* Sankar Suryanarayan, university counsel at Princeton

The additions come as the infractions committee tries to review cases more quickly and efficiently. Last October, the Division I board approved the expansion of the infractions committee from 10 voting members to as many as 24, with smaller panels being assembled to handle cases.

By adding eight more members, the infractions committee now stands at 18. The term for one member -- SEC Executive Associate Commissioner Greg Sankey -- expires this September.

The NCAA has said hearings for Level I cases (the most severe) will be scheduled about 10 times a year, compared with five on the current committee's schedule. Level II cases could be scheduled monthly if necessary. Oregon State President Ed Ray, former chair of the NCAA Executive Committee, said last October that the time to process less-complicated cases could be cut in half.

Carr bluntly criticized the NCAA's enforcement process in May 2011 at a College Football Hall of Fame news conference, saying the integrity of college sports isn't where it should be. Carr told The Associated Press that relying on schools to report violations hurts the NCAA because there's "ample evidence" that some people do not self-report.

"If you're going to have a system, that the public, the fans, respect and buy into, than you better have a way of making sure that those people who are violating the rules don't prosper," Carr said. "You got to invest the money to have investigators and whatever else you need to do -- or they need to deregulate."

The NCAA is in the process of eliminating some of its rules, which the organization says are unenforceable and loses sight of more important issues. The NCAA says new penalties that go into effect Aug. 1 offer harsh consequences (postseason bans, scholarship cuts, head-coach suspensions, show-cause orders and financial penalties) that more predictably meet the severity of the violation.

"I think the clear message is there are more aggressive penalties that will be associated with both what has traditionally been known as secondary violations and those that are identified as major," Sankey said. He declined to discuss how panels may or may not help facilitate the process, citing his presence on the committee.

In an interview with AL.com last October, former infractions committee chair Jo Potuto expressed concern with panels and worried there would be less discussion at hearings.

"I think meeting in panels runs a real risk of enhancing inconsistencies," said Pototu, Nebraska's faculty athletics representative. "I think meeting in panels drives more policy-making back to the national office staff and away from the members, which isn't a criticism against the staff. But I think in a member-driven association the policy needs to come from the members."

Another former infractions committee chair, Gene Marsh, supported the panels in October. Marsh said the members will be more diverse and not all pulled into every case.

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Corrected on Jan. 23 for the proper spelling of Sankar Suryanarayan.