Letters to the Editor - NYTimes.com Re "A Death in the Woods," June 9: While speculating on the role traumatic brain injury might have had in changes in the former quarterback Cullen Finnerty's behavior and death, this article should have noted that his use of oxycodone could have played an equal if not more important role. According to the Centers for Disease Control, death from overdoses of opioid analgesics in the United States more than quadrupled from 1999 to 2010. The use of these drugs can also cause paranoid thoughts similar to those experienced by Finnerty. Finally, chronic pain, as Finnerty suffered, is also associated with increased risk for suicide. The writer is a physician who specializes in pain management. Colleges Unsportsmanlike Re "Want to Play at a Different College? O.K., but Not There or There," June 8: Shame on Mike Gundy, the Oklahoma State football coach, and on the N.C.A.A. Noncompete contracts for university athletes: just more evidence that college sports programs are big business. Whatever happened to sportsmanship? Houston Tebow and Belichick vs. Jets Good for Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots to pick up Tim Tebow. Now we will see a creative coach use Tebow as the Jets never tried to use him. I have no doubt that Belichick will let Tebow embarrass Rex Ryan and the Jets on specially designed plays in the two games the Jets will play against New England. Queens Rutgers's Botched Search Re "Rutgers Goes From Scandal to New Crisis," May 31: The bloated 28-person committee that flubbed the Rutgers search for an athletic director grows out of a higher education practice that all constituencies should have a voice in administrative searches, whether they be for campus deans, vice presidents or, especially, chancellors and presidents. Unfortunately in academia, the desire to send a reassuring message about participatory democracy often trumps the desire to find the most competent candidate. Members of constituency-based search committees, parsed according to criteria that may bear little on evaluating candidates, often have little insight into the position they seek to fill. Accordingly, candidates are inadequately vetted and judged on lowest-common-denominator traits (a firm handshake, ability to remember committee members" names, a distinguished appearance) that are largely irrelevant to doing to the job. The creation of such committees is a sure sign of weak institutional leadership. Santa Fe, N.M. The writer was president of Miami University in Ohio from 1996 to 2006. May I call the attention of the Rutgers trustees and administrators to Robert Maynard Hutchins, who was president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1945, then its chancellor until 1951? Hutchins overcame a certain amount of opposition and withdrew the university from membership in the Big Ten and from big-time intercollegiate athletics. It cannot be said that Chicago suffered much thereafter. It was a world-class center of learning and remains so to this day - even if alumni are, regrettably, unprepared for either the N.B.A. or the N.F.L. Washington