Our corporate sponsors a handshake but no embrace Whle commercalsm s becomng more prevalent n all types of sportng events, the NCAA s attemptng to prove, wth some apparent success, that successful corporate sponsorshp programs can be benefcal to all partes wthout dlutng the ntegrty of Natonal Collegate Champonshps competton. In the begnnng, I beleve there was a percepton on the part of some companes that there eventually would be corporate-name assocaton wth some NCAA champonshps, sad W. -James Host, head of Host Communcatons, whch handles the day-today admnstraton of the Assocaton s corporate sponsorshp program. Now, hc added, those companes arc convnced that s never gong to happen. Instead, companes lke Greyhound Lnes, Natonal Car Rental and Gllette provde funds to support many NCAA programs, ncludng for the frst tme ths year-the Fnal Four Foundaton. In return, they receve advertsng tme on rado and TV broadcasts of champonshps events, prnt adver- tsng n game programs and The NCAA News, and an opportunty to work wth each other to everyone s beneft -ncludng the Assocaton s. Other NCAA corporate sponsors nclude Amercan Arlnes, Coca- Cola, Fugazy Internatonal Travel, Mtsubsh lectrc and Pzza Hut. A corporate YS The NCAA YS (Youth ducaton through Sports) clncs were born bccausc of the corporate spansors, Host noted. The story of how (the clncs) came about really says a lot about what has made the program work from day one. Walter Byers (NCAA executve drector emertus), Dave Cawood (assstant cxccutve drector for communcatons) and now Dck Shultr want the sponsors to nteract wth each other. For that reason, meetngs are held at least twce a year that nvolve the marketng staffs of corm poratc sponsors and representatves of Host Communcatons and the Assocaton. It was durng one of those meetngs that YS came about. Host sad the concept has been to promote sponsors goods and serv- ces n a frst-class way. Ths year, that wll nclude l Taped publc servce announcements featurng corporate offcers. aprmary fundng of the Fnal Four Foundaton. asponsorshp of banquets and hosptalty actvtes held at each NCAA champonshps ste. l Support of a new promotonal campagn for NCAA champonshps. l Contnued support of NCAA youth programs. *The advertsng tme and space See Our corporate, page 2 N ews Offcal Publcaton of the Natonal Collegate Athletc Assocaton September 26,1988, Volume 25 Number 33 The champonshp A new begnnng season NCAA member nsttutons wll be vyng for natonal champonshps n 21 sports durng the 1988-89 academc year; begnnng wth cross country, feld hockey and soccer champonshps competton n early November Above, members of the Concorda College (Mnnesota) team (from left, Mary Lee Legt&, Jessca Beachy and Chet Beyer) celebrate the 1988 Dvson Ill Women s Basketball Champonshp ttle. A lstng of 1988-89 champonshps dates and stes appears on page 12. Changes suggested n offcers dutes Concerned regardng the tme commtment nvolved n servng as an elected NCAA offcer, the NCAA Commttee on Revew and Plannng wll recommend some controls n that area when t reports to the NCAA Councl at the latter s October meetng. Specfcally, the plannng cornmttce-whch conssts ot sx former NCAA offcers and one former student-athlete--wll propose the followng l That a secretary-treasurer be prohbted from beng elected presdent of the Assocaton untl at least one year has clapscd snce the end of the term as secretary-treasurcr. athat n the future the NCAA presdent not serve on any NCAA commttees, standng or spectal, and that the secretary-treasurer not serve on any standng commttees and only n an ex oflco capacty on specal commttees or subcommttees. al-hat a system be developed that would share the dutes of presdng at Councl and xecutve Commttee meetngs and Conventon busness sessons, all currently handled by the presdent. The commttee, meetng September IO-20 at Hlton Head Island, South Carolna, chose those approaches rather than recommendng establshment of a presdent-elect poston. Legslatve ssues The commttee voted to support Nomnatons open for Today s Top Sx awards Nomnatons arc open for NCAA Today s Top Sx awards for outstandng student-athletes competng durng the 198X fall sports season and for the Assocaton s Award of Valor. Nomnaton forms wll be maled to member nsttutons ths week and must be returned by November I. The Today s Top Sx awards are prcscnted as part of the College Athletcs Top XII program, whch provdes the Assocaton the opportunty to honor the top sx outstandng senor student-athletes of - the precedng calendar year and to rccognzc sx dstngushed former student-athletes on the slver annversary of ther graduaton from college. Nomnatons are open to men and women. Wnter/sprng Today s Top Sx and Slver Annversary awards nomnatons already have been receved. Nomnees for Today s Top Sx must be senors who have earned a varsty letter. Insttutons may nomnate more than one ndvdual n a sport or sports. There s no lmt on the number of wnners from an nsttuton, but not more than three wnners may come from the same sport. Sclccton of wnners wll be based SO percent on athletcs ablty and achcvcmcnt; 25 percent on academc achevement, and 25 percent on character, leadershp and actvtes. The Award of Valor s presented on an rregular bass. Selecton s based on the calendar year endng just pror to the NCAA Conventon. J hc award may be presented lo a coach or admnstrator currently assocated wth ntercollegate athletcs or a current or former varsty letter wnner at an NCAA nsttuton who, when confronted wth a stuaton nvolvng personal danger, averted or mnmzed potental dsaster by courageous acton or notcwart hy bravery. The Collcgc Athletcs Top XII, the Award of Valor and the Throdorc Roosevelt Award arc part of the honors luncheon program, whch s held annually at the NCAA Conventon. Completed nomnaton forms should be returned to Davd. Cawood, assstant rxrculve drector for communcatons, at the NCAA natonal offce. changes n the Assocaton s Icgslatve calendar to permt more tme for consultaton on and rcfncment of proposed amendments to NCAA legslaton. 11 dd not support the concept of havng a votng Conventon only every other year, however. Instead, t wll suggest to the Councl that annual Conventons be contnued untl the effects of an extended legslatve calendar are known. In a related dscusson, we also agreed to complment the Councl on ts decson lo sponsor less legslaton at NCAA Conventons, John R. Davs of Oregon State Unversty, commttee char, reported. And WC want to complment the Councl, See Changes, page 2 Amendment deadlne s November I Amendments to be consdered at the NCAA s 83rd annual Conventon next January n San Francsco must be submtted by November I. l hc procedures for proposng changes n NCAA legslaton are set forth n NCAA Consttuton 7-l and Bylaw 13-1, pages 53 and 185 I86 of the 1988-89 NCAA Manual. Any sx actve member nsttutons may submt proposed legslaton, and the NCAA Councl, any dvson steerng commttee and the Presdents Commsson also have that prvlcgc. Legslaton to be sponsored by a member nsttuton must be submtted by the nsttuton s chef executve offcer or the CFO s prevously desgnated rcprcscntatvc. A confcrcncc s permtted to submt proposed legslaton on behalf of Its rncnbcr nsttutons wthout the sgnatures of the nsttutons (??Os, per CSK No. 176, p gk 363 of the NCAA Manual. lo comply wth the November 1 deadlne, any proposed amendment must be receved n wrtten form n the NCAA natonal offce by 5 p.m. on that date. If a submsson arrves See Ammdrncnt. page 3
2 TH NCAA NWS/September 26,1988 Our corporate Contnued from page 1 mentoned earler. It wll not nclude on-ste banners or ttle sponsorshp. We are up front wth potental sponsors, Host sad. They know gong n that there s a lack of ttle sponsorshp, and they know that the NCAA wll have the rght of refusal concernng any knd of product-related te-n they mght want to set up for certan champonshps. We attempt to show them that the Assocaton can provde so many other avenues for them. Credblty a factor These companes got nvolved n the program because of the NCAA s credblty, Host added. And I beleve t s mportant to note that, n solctng sponsors, we have only gone to names n corpo- Changes Contnued from page 1 the Legslaton and Interpretatons Commttee, and the natonal offce staff on ther success n reducng the number of nterpretatons of NCAA legslaton beng ssued n recent months. In a legslaton-related referral from the Councl, the commttee consdered several questons regardng nsttutonal payment of expenses for medcal servces unrelated to athletcs partcpaton. ssentally, t concluded that NCAA legslaton should not be lberalzed n that regard except that t should be permssble to pay doctor blls and the cost of dagnostc examnatons and hosptal care f there s doubt as to whether the condton s related to athletcs partcpaton. The commttee dd not favor permttng nsttutonal payment of dental servces when the condton s not athletcally related. Other actons In other actons at the September meetng, the commttee l Agreed to develop a statement regardng the need to strengthen the roles of the chef executve offcer and the athletcs drector and to enhance the development of nsttutonal postons on athletcs matters. That statement wll be submtted to the Councl and the Presdents Commsson and wll be reported n The NCAA News when t s completed. l Favored nvestgaton of means by whch moneys from professonal sports organzatons could be used to beneft ntercollegate athletcs. asupported the concept of establshng a standng advsory commttee of student-athletes n the NCAA structure, suggestng that the commttee nclude both current and recent student-athletes and have approprate nvolvement by representatves of member nsttutons. ORevewed the Natonal Forum dscussons, the revson of the NCAA Manual, conference algnments for men s and women s athletcs, NCAA publc relatons actvtes, and ts twce-a-year complaton of trends and emergng ssues that may affect ntercollegate athletcs. Jonng Davs, a former NCAA presdent, on the commttee arc Alan J. Chapman, Rce Unversty; Wllam J. Flynn, Boston College, and James Frank, Southwestern Athletc Conference, all former NCAA presdents; Asa N. Green, Lvngston Unversty, former Dv son II vce-presdent; Kenneth J. Weller, Central College (Iowa), former Dvson III vce-presdent, and former student-athlete Tracy Caulkns. rate Amerca that mmedately elct 1 other teams. You need to undergood feelngs anyway. stand that our off-peak perod Host sad that n most cases, concdes, for the most part, wth NCAA corporate sponsorshp was the school year he explaned. not an easy sell. Once people had an opportunty to revew our presentaton n detal, however, they began to understand Our (general passenger) busness starts to slow down n September and October, and t doesn t pck up agan untl Aprl and May. The only the concept of our program and excepton s durng the holdays, have been very receptve he sad. but most teams are not gong to be And that has been good for cor- travelng then. We saw (corporate porate sponsors and NCAA sponsorshp) as an opportunty to member nsttutons alke. get some dle equpment n servce. Many of our corporate sponsors Plus, he added, we re really are n a poston to offer member very proud to be assocated wth the nsttutons substantal savngs on a NCAA and the programs that are day-today bass noted Cawood. supported by the corporate spon- If Greyhound s experence s any sors. ndcaton, athletcs admnstrators have taken advantage of those savngs n a bg way. Our busness n provdng ground transportaton to colleges and unverstes has grown about 83 percent through last year sad J.W. Haugsland, presdent of Greyhound Travel Servces, Inc., the charter/ tour dvson of the well-known transportaton gant. We wanted to be known as the offcal groundtransportaton provder of the NCAA, and I don t beleve we ve even begun to tap the market the way we can. Haugsland sad NCAA corporate sponsorshp was a natural for Greyhound, whose executves saw dle equpment that could be flled wth football, basketball and Legslatve 1988 Column No. 33 Bob Vecchone. drector of natonal contracts for Natonal Car, sad the company s feld staff uses NCAA corporate sponsorshp as a sales tool. We are very pleased about the fact that money we contrbute as a corporate sponsor goes to a fantastc cause ~~ the YS cln- cs-and we encourage our sales staff to note that fact when t vsts college campuses and admnstrators, he explaned. The program has been very good for Natonal Car. We were one of the very frst corporate sponsors on board three years ago, and we recently renewed our agreement for another three years. Host added that the meetngs among sponsors, the NCAA and hs company have fostered new Assstance NCAA Bylaw l-g-offcal vsts Member nsttutons are remnded of the followng offcal nterpretatons regardng offcal vsts per Bylaw 1-9. Duraton of vst The 4X-hour perod of the offcal campus vst as set forth n Bylaw l-9- (a) begns at the tme the prospect arrves on the nsttuton s campus rather than wth the ntaton of the prospect s transportaton by a coach or the tme of the prospect s arrval at the arport or elsewhere n the communty, thus enablng the prospect to receve a full 48-hour vst to the nsttuton s campus regardless of the transportaton arrangements nvolved. The prospect s transportaton to and from the campus under such crcumstances must be by drect route, wthout delay for personal reasons or entertanment purposes; further, the nsttuton may not pay any expenses for entertanment (other than the actual cost, provded t s reasonable, of meals) n conjuncton wth the prospect s transportaton to or from ts campus. Fnally, the provsons of Case No. 225 (page 379, 1988-89 NCAA Manual) stpulate that at the completon of the 48-hour vst, the prospect must depart the nsttuton s campus n order to receve the cost of return transportaton to the prospect s home; otherwse, f the prospect remans for personal reasons after the permssble 48-hour perod n the locale n whch the nsttuton s located, the nsttuton may not pay any expenses ncurred by the prospect upon departure from the nsttuton s campus, ncludng the cost of the ndvdual s transportaton home. Transportaton The provson of transportaton for prospects by helcopter or lmousne would be contrary to the requrements of Bylaw l-9-($0), nasmuch as these modes of transportaton would exceed the normal standard of automoble and commercal-ar transportaton and would represent excessve entertanment of a prospectve student-athlete. Accordng to Bylaw l-94g), an athletcs department staff member may provde transportaton to a prospectve studenttathlcte from the bus or tran staton or major arport nearest the campus on the occason of the prospectve student-athlete s expense-pad vst. An athletcs department staff member also may provde transportaton for a prospectve studentathlete to return to the bus or tran staton upon completon of the prospectve student-athlete s expense-pad vst. Publcty The provsons of Bylaw l+a)-(3) prohbt a member nsttuton from publczng or arrangng publcty of the vst of a prospectve studentathlete to the nsttuton s campus. As set forth n Case No. 200 (page 371, 1988-89 NCAA Manual), t s not permssble for a member nsttuton to make a general ntroducton of a vstng prospect at any functon or gatherng (e.g., the nsttuton s sports awards banquet or an ntercollegate athletcs contest) that s attended by representatves of the news meda or s open to the general publc. In addton, t would not be permssble for a vstng prospect s name or pcture to appear on an nsttuton s scoreboard or electronc screen that s vewed by those n attendance at an ntercollegate contest. ntertanment Under the provsons of Bylaw l-s-(j) and Case No. 235 (page 382,1988-89 NCAA Manual), a prospectve student-athlete s entertanment shall take place only n the area wthn a 30-mle radus of the nsttuton s man deas for te-ns between companes. other sponsors through the faclty. All of these sponsors are nterested I m sure that somebody wll n movng product... that s why come away from that meetng wth they re n busness. a new dea, Host contnued. It Our meetngs gve them an opmay help the NCAA, one of the portunty to get together and come other sponsors or everyone nvolved. up wth deas to promote ther bus- That s the real postve aspect of ths nesses; he added. Later ths month, orogram. tor example, our next mcetmg ~111 1 - be held n Mnneapols at the head- From the start, the NCAA has quarters of Natonal Car. Vnce nssted that corporate sponsors Waslk, who, by the way, lettered n work together on every aspect of the baseball at Mchgan State, s gong program. In my opnon, that s why to show the representatves from the the program has been so successful. Corporatons lst benefts of supportng NCAA events As part of ts presentaton to potental NCAA corporate sponsors, Host Communcatons asked representatves of companes already nvolved n the sponsorshp program what they beleved ther company was gettng n return for ts fnancal support. Among the lst of perceved benefts were l xposure through drug-educaton programs and YS clncs. l Broadcastng of publc-servce announcements featurng sponsors corporate offcers. l Use of the NCAA logo (subject to approval) and assocaton wth the NCAA n other markets. l xclusve access to natonal rado networks (through advertsng on game broadcasts). l Communcatons n NCAA game programs and other publcatons. l Fnal Four and other NCAA champonshps te-n promotonal opportuntes. l Cross-promoton opportuntes, especally wth other NCAA corporate sponsors. l Access to unversty athletcs departments and admnstrators. l A forum for the dscusson of sports-marketng ssues among corporate leaders of a noncompettve group. campus, and such entertanment must be at a scale comparable to that 01 normal student lfe and not excessve n nature. Addtonally, accordng to the provsons of Case No. 236 (page 382, 1988-89 NCAA Manual), t s permssble to provde entertanment for a prospectve student-athlete (as well as hs or her brother or sster and parents or legal guardans) on an expense-pad vst n the form of a luncheon, dnner or brunch at the home of an nsttutonal staff member (e.g., the drector of athletcs, a coach, a faculty member or the nsttuton s presdent) or at another ste on the nsttuton s campus or wthn a 30-mle radus of the nsttuton s man campus, t beng understood that the entertanment s at a scale comparable to that of normal student lfe and not excessve. Fnally, the provsons of Bylaw 1-9-(j) would preclude a member nsttuton from provdng addtonal housng and meals for the brother or sster of a prospectve student-athlete on an offcal vst; however, Bylaw l- 9-Q) would not preclude the brother or sster of a prospectve studentathlete from stayng n the room or from recevng transportaton to vew off-campus practce and competton stes wthn a 30-mle radus of the nsttuton s campus wth the prospectve student-athlete or the prospect s parents (or legal guardans), provded the arrangement does not result n the member nsttuton utlzng any addtonal funds. Complmentary admlsslons For purposes of Bylaw I-9, complmentary admssons provded to prospectve student-athletes by Dvson I member nsttutons must be ssued only through a pass lst, thus precludng hard tckets from beng ssued to prospectve student-athletes or the student host durng the prospect s offcal vst to a Dvson I member nsttuton. Student hosts Under the provsons of Bylaw I-9-@-(2)-(), an nsttuton may provde a student host wth a maxmum of $20 (Dvson I) or $10 (Dvsons II and III) for each day of a prospectve student-athlete s offcal campus vst for the purpose of coverng the actual and necessary costs to entertan the prospect. The money provded to a student host s for entertanment purposes only and may not be used for the purchase of souvenrs such as T-shrts or other nsttutonal mementos. Also, each day of the vst s defned as a 24-hour perod. Therefore, the maxmum entertanment amount for the 48-hour vst would be $40 n Dvson I and $20 n Dvsons II and III. A nonqualfer [per Bylaw S-l-(j)] or a partal qualfer [per Bylaw 5-l- (j)-(2)] would not be permtted to serve as a student host under the provsons of Bylaw I-9-($0). An nsttuton s permtted to dentfy more than one student-athlete as a student host for a prospect per Bylaw 1-94)-(2)-() and () but no more than $20 per day may be allocated among all of the student hosts for one prospect, and only one student host may receve the complmentary admsson to accompany the prospect to a campus athletcs event. s materal was provded by the NCAA legslatve servces depurtmem CIs un ud to member nsttutons. If an nsttuton has a queston t would lke to have answered n thr column, the queston should be drected to Wllam B. Hunt, arsttant executve drectorfor leg&trve servces, at the NC4A natanal o/ce.
Staff changes announced l wo staff changes have been announced at the Assocaton s natonal offce. Alfred B. Whte has been named drector of promotons, a chef-ade poston n the NCAA communcatons department. Whte has been on the natonal offce staff snce September 1983. James A. Marchony, drector of meda servces snce November 1984, has been named drector of communcatons. A 1979 graduate of Texas Tech Unversty, Whte earned hs undergraduate degree n broadcast meda operatons. Before jonng the na- tonal offce staff, he served three years as assstant sports nformaton drector at hs alma mater and handled publcty for the school s football, basketball and baseball programs. Whte joned the NCAA as assstant drector of communcatons. He was named assocate drector of communcatons n October 1987. He s responsble for admnstraton of the promoton and merchandsng of NCAA champonshps, televson research, and assstng wth the Assocaton s corporate sponsor program. He also s a staff lason to the Specal NCAA Councl Subcommttee to Revew Mnorty Opportuntes n Intercollegate Athletcs. Marchony s a 1976 graduate of St. Bonaventure Unversty. He joned the NCAA from Georgetown Unversty, where he had been regonal drector of development and also served as the Hoyas sports nformaton drector. Amendment Alfred 8. Whte James A. Marchonv He s a former presdent of the astern College Athletc Conference Sports Informaton Drectors Assocaton and chared the College Sports Informaton Drectors of Amerca (CoSIDA) postgraduate scholarshp commttee. Marchony wll contnue to be responsble for meda relatons and NCAA Productons. He also wll contnue as staff lason to the NCAA Communcatons Commttee. Contnued from page I amendments or the legslatve procafter that tme, t wll be rejected ess n general should be drected to unless t was sent by certfed or Wllam B. Hunt, assstant executve regstered mal postmarked no later drector for legslatve servces, or than October 25. Danel T. Dutcher, legslatve assst- All properly submtted proposals ant, at the natonal offce. wll be ncluded n the Offcal NO- The NCAA News 1988 Legslatce of the Conventon, whch must tve Assstance Column No. 32 (Sepbe maled from the NCAA offce no tember 19 ssue, page 2) covers later than November 29. procedures for amendng NCAA Questons regardng specfc legslaton. STATMNT OF OWNRSHIP MANAGMNT AND CIRCULATION TH NCAA NWS/Setmnber 26,13138 3 Johns Hopkns to renew rvalry wth a baseball team from Moscow Although the teams frst played only a few months ago, Johns Hopkns Unversty and the Sovet LJnon s D. I. Mendeleyev Insttute of Chemcal Technology are set to renew what can be blled as the oldest U.S.-Sovet rvalry n collegate baseball. The Moscow-based Mendcleyev team wll become the frst Sovet baseballsquadevertoplayntheunted States when t faces Johns Hopkns October 12 n Baltmore. The game wll be a rematch of a three-game seres played by the teams last sprng n Moscow, when Johns Hopkns became the frst Amercan baseball team to play n the Sovet Unon. The Blue Jays easly won that game, but Johns Hopkns coach Robert Babb expects that the Men deleyev team wll be mproved consderably after practcng all summer. However, when asked by a Johns Hopkns publcst whether he s worred about the rematch, Babb repled dplomatcally Well, I d hate to be the frst Amercan coach ever to lose to the Sovet Unon. The Mendeleyev team wll be n the Unted States for two weeks, begnnng October 6. Baseball wll be the man focus of the vst, whch s bult around a schedule of clncs, practces and games. The trp s part of Sovet efforts to feld a team for the Olympc Games n 1992, when baseball offcally becomes a medal sport. But the Sovets (guded by undergraduates from nearby Coucher College) also wll tour hstorc stes n Washngton, D.C.; New York Cty, and Baltmore, as well as Maryland s eastern shore. Along the way, they wll he ntroduced to such features of Amercan culture as fast food, dscotheques, shoppng malls Ths home-andaway seres to top them all grew out of a frendshp between Rck Spooner, Mendeleyev Insttute s Amercanborn coach, and Max Flaxman, a Johns Hopkns alumnus who s a fur trader n Moscow? and barbeques, just as Johns Hopkns players encountered Russan culture durng ther vst to MOSCOW. In Moscow, the Blue Jays defeated a Mendeleyev team that featured some of the naton s best athletes. Many members of the team were recruted through advertse- Departments consoldated George Washngton UJnversty, one of the small number oft unverstes n the naton wth separate athletcs departments for men and women, has consoldated t!s athletcs operatons. Steve Blsky, former drector of men s athletcs, has been named executve drector of athlletcs and Subscrpton rates for News rased Subscrpton prces for The NCAA News have been ncreased for the frst tme n four years. The new rates, whch went nto effect September 1, represent a 20 percent ncrease. Member nsttutons, conferences, and afflated and correspondng members wll contnue to receve the same number of subscrptons as before as part of ther dues. The value of those subscrptons has been ncreased from $10 per subscrpton to $12. Accordngly, the prce for a fullpad subscrpton has been ncreased to $24 and the frst-class malng charge has ncreased from $23 to $26. For the frst tme, a specal subscrpton rate has been added for students, faculty and staff at member nsttutons. In dvduals assocated wth a member nsttuton can purchase a subscrpton for $12, half the full-pad subscrpton. Students majorng n programs assocated wth ntercollegate athletcs soon wll receve nformaton about the new subscrpton rate. Also, a $15 rate has been establshed for subscrptons from ndvduals assocated wth hgh schools and junor colleges. Subscrptons may be ordered by sendng remttance to NCAA Publshng, P.O. Box 1906, Msson, Kansas 6620 1. recreaton. Hs responsbltes also wll nclude overseeng recreaton and management of the Charles. Smth Center, the 5,000-seat on campus arena and recreaton faclty. Former drector of women s athletcs Mary Jo Warner has become senor assocate drector of athletcs and recreaton, and three assstant athletcs drector have been named. Tom Korpel s now assstant drector for fnancal affars, Suse Jones s assstant drector for athletcs and Mchael Gargano recently was named assstant drector for athletcs advancement. George Washngton had operated separate athletcs departments snce 1973, and new unversty Presdent Stephen Joel Trachtenberg sad he felt a need to examne the system. What we concluded after lookng at t was that t made more sense to have a tradtonal stuaton. I thnk t s gong to be a terrfc step forward for the equalzaton of women s sports on the unversty campus, sad Trachtenberg. We feel consoldaton wll rnprove our department s effcency and reduce duplcaton n personnel and operatons, sad Blsky, addng there would be no mmedate nfuson of extra cash nto the athletcs operaton but that savngs from the departmental consoldaton would be used n new areas. Questons/Answers ments n the natonal press. However, whle the Sovets are good athletes and enthusastc about the sport, they are plagued by a lack of facltes and equpment, Babb sad. They bascally have nothng, he sad. No felds (makeshft damonds were created on soccer felds), catcher s mtts or battng helmets, only a few tattered gloves, and they play wth feld hockey balls, except for a couple of baseballs that are black from use. The Mendeleyev team s consdered the Sovet Unon s strongest, but t recently was upset n the fnal game of a Moscow tournament by a Ukranan squad. The tournament was suspended at one pont because a player ht the last of three avalable balls nto a nearby pond. An an nounccr urged spectators to wade nto the pond and retreve the balls, so play could contnue. Stll, Mcndeleyev should be better prepared for ts rematch wth the Blue Jays. They ve been practcng and playng all summer n preparaton for ths trp, and I m expectng the games to be compettve ths tme around, Babb sad. Ths home-and-away seres to top them all grew out of a frendshp between Rck Spooner, Mendeleyev s Amercan-born coach, and Max Flaxman, a Johns Hopkns alumnus who s a fur trader n Moscow. When Spooner sad he d lke hs team to sharpen ts sklls aganst an Amercan squad, Flaxman sug- gested the Blue Jays, who were comng off a 26-12 record and a dvsonal champonshp n the Mddle Atlantc States Collegate Athletc Conference. Sports facltes opened to publc Florda Internatonal Unversty wll open Sunblazer Arena and ts athletcs facltes to the publc. Athletcs drector Rchard A. Young announced that the unversty has opened ts athletcs facltes for publc use n an attempt to play a larger role n the communty and to become more cvc-mnded. The second purpose s to ncrease the attendance at the athletcs events at the unversty. The feelng s that once you get the publc nto the arena and usng the facltes, they wll begn to dentfy wth the unversty s athletcs teams, sad John Pedersen, drector of campus recreaton. The facltes at the Unversty Park campus and the North Mam campus wll be open. Both facltes offer access to ten ns and basketball courts, aerobc classes and locker rooms. IJnversty Park also offers access to ndoor racquetball courts. Readers are nvted to submt questons to ths column. Please drect un~y nqures to T?w NCAA NCWY ut the NCAA natonal offce. Q A Is t possble for an ndvdual or nsttuton to order addtonal partcpant awards for NCAA champonshps? An nsttuton whose athletes rcccve ndvdual awards as a result of ts team s performance n an NCAA champonshp may purchase any number of commemoratve awards, hut addtonal partcpant awards may not be purchased. All commemoratve awards shall be ordered through the NCAA natonal offce.
4 TH NCAA NWS/September 26.1968 C ofnfnent NBA sends a message about drugs to college players The Natonal Basketball Assoc- approprate message to college playaton, ctng a problem of drug ers that drug use may cost you your abuse among college basketball players, has announced a new drugtestng polcy for rookes that wll Wetre tryng to /et suspend wthout pay for one year them (college any frst-year player who tests pos- tve for heron or cocane. n recent years, sad Davd Stern, NBA commssoner, t has become clear that players enterng the NBA from college present a partcular problem that should be specfcally addressed. Rather than brng people nto the league wth exstng drug problems, we thnk that the concept of preemployment testng wll enable us to dentfy and treat players wth drug problems before ther NRA careers begn. - players) know ahead of tme that they had better get ther act together? NBA Larry Flesher, general counsel Player Assocaton NBA career, Stern sad. Urnalyss tests wll be gven on a random bass to all frst-year nlavers We also thnk ths sends the n NRA tranng camps; Stern old Tenure seen as beneft by most coaches n poll Well over half of Dvson I-A mentally or physcally prepared head football coaches respondng for professonal football. to a poll by The Dallas Mornng That sentment was shared by News say they favor grantng Tom Osborne of the Unversty head coaches tenure such as that of Nebraska, Lncoln. He sad, awarded to professors. Most players are not ready for When asked, Should coaches pro ball untl after four years of be gven tenure! 61 percent college. College degrees are more voted yes, 27 percent voted no mportant than pro football. and I2 percent were undecded. However, Joseph V. Paterno, The coaches wth at least 20 head coach at Pennsylvana State years of experence favored ten IJnversty, dsagreed. I beleve ure 70 to 26 percent. The vote that at tmes, t s n the best among coaches wth less exper- nterest of an athlete to go nto ence was 52 to 28 percent. the NFL before he fnshes hs Only half of the coaches fa- educaton. vored tenure for assstant No to a play-off coaches, 50 to 34 percent. Those A sold majorty-57 per- wth 20 years experence voted cent ~~ sad they would not favor 56 to 37 percent n favor, whle a natonalchamponshp playcoaches under 20 years exper- off for Dvson I-A. Forty-one ence voted yes 45 to 31 percent, percent voted yes, and one coach wth 24 percent undecded. was undecded. Some coaches sad they fa- Syracuse Unversty coach vored better retrement over Dck MacPherson suggested that tenure or long-term contracts the NCAA poll players about a nstead of tenure. play-off n Dvson I-A. Draftng players I wll be n favor of t as soon Three of four coaches say that as I see the kds want t, Macany polcy to draft undergradu- Pherson sad. A natonal survey ates for professonal football should be undertaken of all senwould be unfar to the athletes. or and junor starters n Dvson Currently, the Natonal Football I-A football. League does not draft college Among those coaches who players untl ther elgblty ex- favor a play-off, the two-team, pres. sngle-game format s popular Of the 57 head coaches re- because t would mantan the spondng to the poll, 42 (73.7 attracton of postseason bowl percent) sad an undergraduate games whle satsfyng those who draft would be unfar to the want the champonshp decded student-athlete. on the feld. Unversty of Wyomng coach Duke Unversty coach Steve Paul Roach sad such a polcy Spurrer sad, It s a downrght would be educatonally dsrup- shame that Dvson 1 college tve, and he also sad that, n football s the only league n all some cases, the athletes are not See Tenure, page 5 [ISSNOO274170] Pubkshed weekly, except bweekly tn the summer. by the Natonal Collegate Athletc Assocaton, Nal Avenue at 63rd Street. PO Box 1996. Msson, Kansas 66201. Phone 913/3843220. Subscnptton rate $24 annually prepad. Secondclass postage patd at Shawnee Mtssron. Kansas. Address correcttons requested Postmaster send address changes to NCAA Publrshtng. PO Box 1906, Msson, Kansas 66201. Dtsplay advertsmg representatw Host Communcatons, Inc.. P.0 Box 3071. Lexngton, Kentucky 405993971. Pubksher Ted C. Tow dttor-n-chef Thomas A. Wlson Managng dtor Trmothy J. Llley Assstant dtor.jack L. Copeland Advertrsmg Manager. Marlynn R Jonas The Comment sectron of The NCAA News s offered as opnon. The vews expressed do not necessarly represent a consensus of the NCAA membershp. An qual Opportunty mployer. Bob Kem of Unted Press Internatonal. Any player who tests postve and s suspended wll have hs treatment and rehabltaton costs pad by the league. The polcy becomes part of the league s antdrug program enacted n 1983. The new polcy, whch apples to any player wthout pror NRA experence, was worked out n conjuncton wth the NBA Players Assocaton. Tranng camps open October 7. We re tryng n effect to let them (college players) know ahead of tme that they had better get ther act together, sad Larry Flesher, general counsel to the NBA Players Assocaton. I thnk what the players decded was based upon the problems that occurred two years ago, where four or fve of the frst IO players drafted ran nto drug trouble ~~ (that) a preemployment testng program would help them. The league and the players assocaton have agreed on the concept of rooke drug testng for about sx weeks, Stern sad. Once a rooke passes the test, he then becomes subject to the exstng NBA drug polcy. That allows a player wth chemcal-dependency problems to come forward and receve help from the league. The frst tme, the player receves hs salary and has hs treatment pad for. The second tme, the player s not pad but hs treatment s pad for. The thrd tme, the player s suspended for lfe but can petton for readmsson to the league after two years. If a player does not ask for help and s found to be usng drugs, he s suspended for lfe. In addton, the NBA operates a rooke orentaton program pror to the openng of tranng camp and has a semnar wth the top 15 collegate players pror to the college draft each sprng. Stern emphaszed that he beleves the league s drug program has been a success and that the ncdence of drug use n the NBA s less n terms of percentage than n socety as a whole. Our vew s that people should be able to report to NBA tranng camps free of traces of these drugs, Stern sad. If not, they don t belong n the NBA. Rhetorc asde, football s a game Jon Gale, varsty football player Colby College NCAA College Football Meda Kt I ve heard many people try to justfy takng football so serously, as they do by statng that the game s a metaphor for lfe tself. They mss the pont. On the feld, there are no guns, no starvng people. We play because we love t; but t s a game, and that should never be forgotten. Lou Pavovch., managng edtor Collegate Baseball The NCAA can use the I.5 n&on or so earmarked for drug testng ths academc year n a much better way. Let each nsttuton across Amerca handle the problem tself. If drugs are proven to be a serous problem, a samplng of the entre student body should be gven drug tests. My guess s that alcohol s much more of a problem on college campuses today. Drugs are only a small pmple on the buttocks of lfe. Don Person, columnst Chcago Trbune Natonal Football League kckoffs stll wll be brought to you by your favorte beer ths Sunday. But not the kckers and kck returners. Alcohol s wthout queston the most abused drug n our sport, accordng to the (NFL s) drug polcy. But that knowledge and admsson doesn t prevent the league from happly acceptng advertsng dough Letter to the lmtor To the dtor 1 strenuously take excepton to Mr. John H. Harvey s comments n the August 31 ssue of The NCAA News that champonshps n Dvson 111 ether be elmnated or replaced wth regonal competton. I state my case as follows Frst, and most mportant, each nsttuton wthn Dvson III has the opton of decdng for tself whether to partcpate n postseason competton leadng to the natonal champonshps provded by the NCAA. Mr. Harvey and hs nsttuton can solve ther apparent problem by smply notfyng the NCAA of ther ntenton not to compete n postseason competton. I would argue that my nsttuton, as well as all others, has the rght to determne whether we shall take advantage of the prvlege of partcpatng n natonalchamponshp competton. Second, t s my belef that student-athletes deserve the rght to demonstrate ther competences at the natonal-champonshp level. Part of the educatonal process and the opportuntes facng student-athletes rest n the fact that they are faced wth the challenge of successfully jugglng the academc, athletcs and socal demands and commtments of college and unversty lfe. Thus, t s not unreasonable to allow studentathletes to take advantage of natonalchamponshp competton; n fact, t s an educatonal experence n tself and has great value to the ndvdual partcpant. Thrd, academc excellence and postseason competton are not mutually exclusve. Just examne the hstory of any number of nsttutons, such as Notre Dame, Duke, SUNY Brockport, Augustana (Illnos), generated by breweres. NFL players, coaches and other employees should not endorse or appear n advertsements for alcoholc beverages or tobacco products, the drug polcy states. Whle fully recognzng that the use of alcohol and tobacco s legal, the NFL nevertheless has long been of the vew that partcpaton n ads for such substances by ts employees ~~ partcularly players, who are prohbted by Federal law from annearng n such ads- may have a detrmental effect on the great number of young fans who hollow our game. Yet, the ads themselves are all rght. Bob Frederck, athletcs drector Unversty of Kansas The Kansas Cty Tmes The (graduaton rate for student-athletes) data we send to the NCAA, you can look at t and not make much sense of t at all. I know the legslators (seekng to requre schools to publsh graduaton rates of student-athletes) are after a partcular pece of nformaton. I thnk t would be hard to pck out an ndvdual school and show graduaton rates. The bggest problem wth all these graduaton rates s, how do you defne graduaton? Oho State and others, that have been able to successfully combne academc respectablty wth athletcs excellence n postseason competton. Addtonally, Dvson 111 nsttutons are not alone n ther belef that the academc responsbltes are of paramount value to the student-athletes. Mr. Harvey s statements tend to nfer that only Dvson III nsttutons desre to allow sports to nterface wth the prmary academc responsbltes of ts students. Fourth, not all nsttutons or athletes are nvolved n natonalchamponshp competton -wthn any of the dvsons. The number of actual colleges and student-athletes nvolved n natonalchamponshp competton (postregonal) s only a small percentage of the total number of nsttutons that belong to the NCAA. In summary, to make a decson restrctng postseason competton to regonal play s smlar to throwng out the baby wth the bath water. Rather, I propose that those nsttutons that wsh to lmt ther competton to regular-season play do just that. However, for those nsttutons, lke my own, that vew natonalchamponshp competton as a vtal part of the total learnng process, the natonal champonshps should reman as a vable opton. I am confdent that the vast majorty of nsttutons (n all of the dvsons) prefer to retan the natonalchamponshp format, n all dvsons. Wllam F. Ster. Drector of Intercollegate Athletcs Professor of Physcal ducaton and Sport Brockpot-t State Unversty College
Researcher Ralph Barclay xercse Physologst and Coach Wayne State College (Nebraska) For years, cgarette smokng was the prmary form of tobacco use seen n athletcs. Recently, however, the n thng has become the oral use of snuff, a preparaton of fnely ground tobacco that s chewed or placed next to the gum. Young athletes consder ths the only safe form of tobacco (or ncotne) abuse snce there s no damage to the lungs from smoke. But there are other problems resultng from snuff use that should be of great concern to coaches, parents and athletes. Frst, there s potental damage to the mouth, whch can nclude dental problems and oral cancer. Ncotne n any form wll ncrease heart rate. Also, recent studes (n eludng one done on ths campus) show an apparent ncrease n blood pressure due to snuff use. As many athletes are aware, decreased blood pressure and heart rate (wthn reason) are ndcators of better physcal ftness and are what the athlete strves for. The relatonshp between snuff use and blood pressure has only recently been explored. Blood pressure s an ndcator of the overall health of the cardovascular system. A blood-pressure readng conssts of two numbers (such as 120/ 80). The frst, or top, number s the systolc pressure. Ths number tells the pressure of the blood aganst the arteral walls durng the heart s contracton. The second number ndcates the pressure durng the heart s perod of relaxaton (dastolc pressure). A readng that s hgher than normal ndcates excess pressure on the arteral walls and may sgnal hypertenson. It s a well-known fact that cgarette smokng ncreases blood pressure, but lttle research has been done to dentfy the effects that chewng tobacco or snuff mght have. I studed a sample of Wayne State students n an attempt to determne these effects. The sample conssted of 448 students, male and female, who frst completed a questonnare concernng ncotne habts. Then, the blood pressures of the subjects were montored. Because snuff use was the man concern of the study, more males than females were surveyed. Of the 448 students, 350 were male and 98 were female. Students n the survey have an average systolc pressure relatvely hgher than the natonal average (130 compared to 120) yet the dastolc pressure was extremely close to the natonal average (81 - lenure Contnued from page 4 of sports, that 1 know of, that doesn t have a play-off system to determne ts champon. New rule rejected The coaches were soldly aganst the new pont-after-touchdown rule, 65 to 32 percent. The rule awards a defensve team two ponts f t returns a blocked kck or an ntercepted pass on a pont-after-touchdown attempt to the offensve team s end zone. Baylor Unversty coach Grant Teaff sad, Lke most rule changes, a la the pass-nterference rule, blockng wth the hands and the kckoff return, there was much negatve talk, and all three rules have been very postve. TH NCAA NWS/September 26,1!4B 5 ctes dangers of snuff use bv student-athletes snuff use, the male populaton was of the athletes (all males) used snuff. sngled out. Of the 350 males, 33 Blood pressure Ther average blood pressure (135/ percent used snuff, 12 percent 84) was hgher than the average for readngs smoked and the remanng 55 per- male snuff users as a whole and cent used no form of ncotne. The Natonal avg. for age group 120/ 80 nearly as hgh as the average for average systolc pressure of the snuff WSC student average.130/ 8 I male smokers (138/ 86). A few athusers (130) was eght ponts hgher letes were consdered heavy snuff WSC ncotne users average than that of the nonusers. Snuff users. (smokers and snuff users). 137/84 users also had a hgher dastolc WSC nonusers average.122/ 80 Our survey appears to ndcate pressure (84), an average of four that ncotne n all forms does ndeed ponts hgher. Male smokers average...138/86 rase blood pressure and that the Upon separatng out the heavy Male snuff users average 130/ 84 greater the quantty of ncotne, the Heavy snuff users average.i42186 snuff users (a can or more per day), hgher the pressure. The tell-tale Male nonusers average 122/80 we noted a drastc dfference. snuff rng seen on the jeans pockets Among the heavy-user group, we Female smokers average 130/ 82 of students from eghth grade compared to 80). found some blood nressures as hgh Female nonusers avg 122174 through college takes on a new Forty-one percent of the popula;.....- as l&)/85; the mean was 142/l. meanng. Ths prevalent habt s tton studted used some torm ot Ths average pressure was the hgh- ths fndng. The average blood taxng the cardovascular system of ncotne. As we expected, students est group average of all categores, pressure among female smokers ts users. n ths group (both snuff users and ncludng smokers. In contrast, the was 130/82, whle nonusers of to- Because ncotne s an addctve cgarette smokers) had an average smokers average blood pressure of bacco averaged 122/ 74. (There were drug, tobacco use begun early n lfe blood pressure hgher than the non- 138/86 compared to snuff users no female snuff users.) can develop nto a habt that s hard user ( 137/ 84 compared to 122/ 80). I 30/ 84 and nonusers 122/ 80. Of the 448 students surveyed, 166 to break. Athletes must learn t s a To vew the focus of the study, The female populaton renforced were athletes. Thrty-three percent habt that s best not to start. TH ATHLTICS SYSTM If you are lookng for software specfcally desgned for sports admnstraton, Pacolan Systems s just your style. You wll be comfortable knowng that you are buyng from the ndustry leader; we have eght years of experence and 78 clents n 33 states and Canada. Our qualty tranng program and extensve customer support wll ft you and your staff perfectly. 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6 TH NCAA NWS/September 26,1986 Fortune smles on majorty of new I-A coaches By James M. Van Valkenhurg NCAA Drector of Statstcs Three of the four frst-year head coaches n Dvson 1-A football are off to wnnng starts, thanks to the good fortune of wnnng close games. On September 24, for n stance, Curley Hallman s Southern Msssspp team won over ast Carolna, 45-42, n the last I2 seconds. whle Tulane under Greg Davs won a second straght clffhanger. By frst-year, we mean no prevous head-coachng experence at a four-year college. All have plenty of coachng experence. The frstyear coaches n Dvson I-AA have not been so fortunate, nor have the new-job coaches n both dvsons (by new job, we mean prevous head-coachng experence at the four-year level but new n ther current jobs). Both Hallman and Davs are 3-I, Halman losng only to Florda State and Davs to Iowa State. Davs team ralled n the last quarter to edge Memphs State, 20-19, September 24, after a last-mnute touchdown heat Kansas State, 20-16, a week earler. Arzona State s Larry Marme took hs frst loss at Nc hraska September 24. Tulsa s Dave Radcr has dropped two straght close ones. 27-24 to UTP and 30-26 to Arkansas. Here are the records of the frst-year coaches n both dvsons through September 24, lsted alphabetcally by college DrGun I-A (4) w L I Larry Marm~c. Anrow 9. 2 I 0 C urley Hallman, S MISS 3 I 0 Greg Ikwn. lulanc 3 I 0 Ihvc Radcr. luh. I 2 0 Drxun I-AA (6) Paul Brewer, Aust. Pcay I 2 a Mlkc Foley. Colyate I 2 0 Ihn R,ley~ F.ast lenn St 2 I I Garth Hall. Idaho.$I 0 3 0 Jm Heacock. tllnob St 0 4 0 Jot Pcacc. 1.a Tech t 3 0 Preseason prospects were only so-so at Arzona State after I I players moved on to pro football. Then, the frst two tght ends were lost for the season wth njures n the frst two games. But Marme s team won both, then ralled from a 9-t) defct to lead Nebraska, 13-9, before the Huskers took over. He was defensve coordnator under John Cooper, who left for Oho State. Marme s a quet man, n contrast to the charsmatc Cooper. He plays to the players, not alumn and press. He motvates one-on-one. f a player msses a study hal, he s on the carpet the next mornng. Bob Hurt of the Arzona Republc n Phoenx compares hm to the studous Washngton coach, Don James Both were quarterbacks from that great football state of Oho, both turned to defense and worked ther way up the ladder at a varety of schools, and both arc so well-organzed and detalconscous that they drve ther wves nuts. Hallman adopted a 12th man kckoff coverage team at Southern Msssspp, llustratng hs team s lack of depth. As a Texas A&M assstant, he helped organze and coordnate the l2th-man unt of walk-ons from the student body. It helps nterest; plus, we need numbers, he sad. But he noted that Texas A&M has about three tmes as many students. Southern does not have to take a hack seat n tradton, though, wth just four losng years n the past 47. Davs was assstant head coach at Tulane under Mack Brown, who moved to North Carolna. 1 thnk, realstcally, well be a bowl team agan, he sad before the season. Quarterback Terrence Jones leads the way. Rader, a 1979 Tulsa graduate, was assstant head coach at hs alma mater last season. Houston s Jason Phllps leads Dvson I-A recevem wth 13 catches per game n Dvson I-AA, ast Tennessee State s Rley, returnng to hs alma mater after I2 seasons as an assstant at UCLA, s 2-I-1, the only frstyear coach wth a wnnng record so far n I-AA. Austn Peay State s Brewster, an ast Tennessee gradu ate, moves up from seven years as a defensve lne coach at Austn Peay, whle Colgate s Foley was offensve coordnator there the past seven years. Both started 1-2. Lousana Tech s Peace got hs frst vctory September 24, beatng Ncholls State. Idaho State s Hall and Illnos State s Hcacock are wnless. Heacock came from James Washngton staff, Hal was offensve coordnator at Oregon State and Peace was Tech s runnng backs coach. n preseason polls, Idaho State was voted fourth n the Bg Sky Conference and ast Tennessee sev enth n the Southern Confcrcncc. Brewster lost hs startng quarterback to njury at the outset of the season. New-job coaches The new-job coaches are havng a tough tme so far. Only Oho State s Cooper n 1-A has a wnnng record at 2-1, after a lasttmnute, 36-33 upset over prevously un beaten Lousana State September 24. Kent State s Dck Crum s at the break-even, 2-2 level and Illnos John Mackovc s -2, hut Kansas Glen Mason and North Carolna s Brown are wnless. Alphabetcally by colleges, through September 24 Dvson I-A (5) w L T John Mackowc. Illnos.. I 2 0 Glen Mason, Kanbas 0 3 0 Dck Crum, Kent SI. 2 2 0 Mack Brown. North Care 0 3 0 John Cooper, Ohm St 2 I 0 Dvson I-AA (6) Chrs Palmer, Boston U.. I 2 0 d Wyche. Morgan St 0 4 0 Bll Hayes, N.C. A&T 2 2 0 arle Bruce, N. Iowa I 2 0 Haney Catchng,. Pt. Vew 2 2 0 R,ck Rhoades. So III 2 I 0 Cooper waved a towel over hs head at Arzona State to get the crowd aroused. He s dong the same thng at Oho State, ths tme wth a red towel. You don t need (crowd) support when you make great plays, he explaned. The crowd needs to learn that when thngs aren t gong well s when you need help. t has been a roller-coaster rde so far, as Oho State opened wth a vctory over Syracuse, unbeaten last year. But after a 42-10 whppng at Pttsburgh, Buckeye talback Vnce Workman, the team s leadng rusher for two seasons, was declared n- Scott Davs of North Texas tops Dvson I-AA n total offense wth 338.33 yards Per game elgble for the season because he sgned wth an agent. Down 33-20 wth 429 left after LSU scored a fluke touchdown on a tpped pass, Oho State stormed back. Cooper s team was pcked n the mddle of the Bg Ten Conference n the preseason, but expecta tons wll be hgher now, wth other conference teams havng hard luck n nonconference play. People ask me f there s pressure beng the head coach here, Cooper says. My answer s, Only 24 hours a day. But the Iowa State graduate thrved on ths at Arzona State, and he produced ts frst Rose Bowl team. Hs career record s 8-41-2 over 1 I seasons. Mackovc, a former pro head coach n Kansas Cty, has some healng to do at Illnos after the turmol over the departure of the athletcs drector Neale Stoner and the frng of Mke Whte. I never take a job thnkng about the bad thngs, he says. Do you say the glass s half empty or half full! He led Wake Forest (hs alma mater) to ts frst bowl n 31 years n 1979 and led Kansas Cty to ts best season n I5 years. We ve got to earn respect, he says. Brown and North Carolna were turned hack by Lousvlle, 38-34, September 24 n a bd for ther lrst vctory of the season. Hs bggest problem? are a green defense and a tough schedule. We can t do anythng about the schedule, he says. Crum went to Kent wth a 14- year career record of 106-514. most of t at North Carolna. He nherted a team from Mason that was rated No. 1 just ahead of defendng Md- Amercan Athletc Conference cham- pon astern Mchgan n the preseason polls. After two vctores, Kent lost a 21-14 battle at astern September 17, then lost at Kentucky. Mason helped brng Kent up from the depths, but hs task at Kansas probably s the toughest facng any new-job coach. The Jay- hawks have not beaten a I-A foe snce early n the 1986 season; freshmen make up half the squad, and he has only about 55 scholarshp players, just I8 of them junors and senors. Thrteen players have qut n the aftermath of hs super-tough condtonng, three after the second game. Yet, after a week of contraversy over hs methods, Mason s team surprsngly led Calforna n the thrd quarter September 24 before a seres of turnovers. arler n the season, Baylor dd not get the Joel Nelson, Augustana (South Dakota), heads the Dvson II passng-effcency lst go-ahead touchdown aganst the.jayhawks untl I36 remaned. He made the pont that t was gong to he tough, and f we wanted to play football, we were gong to go through the worst, quarterhack Kelly Donohoe sad. He s tough, he s strct and that s what we need. He came n and sad there ll he no toursts, and he got rd of all of them. Mason played at Oho State under the legendary Woody Hayes and was offensve coordnator there under are Bruce before takng over at Kent. I love to coach n Dvson I-AA, the new-job coaches nclude are Bruce at Northern Iowa and Rck Rhvades at Southern Illnos. Rhoades, who Icd Troy State to the Drvrsron natonal champonshp last year, s the only I-AA new-job coach wth a wnnng record so far. He s 2-l after a 24-23 vctory over Heacock s Illnos State team September 24. Two have started 2-2--Bll Hayes at North Carolna A&T and Haney Catchngs at Prare Vew. Bruce has a 127-60-l career record enterng ths season. He never won fewer than nne games at Oho State untl a 64-J fnsh last year. f I d stayed n Columbus, I mght have gone nto nsurance or become a salesman or a securtes guy, but I m a coach, he says. I love coachng; 1 lke to teach. Rhoades was 28-7- at Troy State. Hayes came from Wnston-Salem State and boasts a career mark of 8940-2. Morgan State s d Wyche s 5545-3 and came from Alabama A&M. Before that, he turned Hampton around. Boston s Chrs Palmer came from New Haven, where he was 164 for two seasons. Catchngs took over before mdseason and fnshed 34. Hs team upset Southern-Baton Rouge September 24. A record low The nne coachng changes n I-A (four frst-year, fve new-job) for 1988 are the fewest snce ths cornpaton was started back n 1947. That s just 8.65 percent (there are JO4 I-A teams), lower than the 9.82 percent ( I I for I I2 teams) n 196 I. Of course, t runs n cycles. Just a year ago, the turnover rate was 23.1 percent, second hghest n hstory to the 28.6 percent n 1973. The average annual rate snce 1947 s 17. I percent. n I-AA, the rate s 13.8 percent compared to 15. I for the past seven years. Quotes of the week Former Texas coach Darrell Royal, who had I6 bowl teams and three natonal champonshps I see only one bg dfference n players tod$y. They wrte more books. _, Hofstra s Tom Salamone leads Dvson Ill punters wth a 44.6 yard average Dubuque coach Don Turner after hs team lost at WsconsnPlattevle (49-7) Our best drve of the evenng was the 25-mle trp to Platteve. As Mrs. Lncoln sad, It wasn t a pleasant evenng. (Rck Hecker, Dubuque SID) John Buntng, former Phladepha agles player, after hs Glassboro State coachng debut, a 37-13 loss to Newport News Apprentce School s ths how Knute Rockne started? We had nce new unforms, brand new (helmet) decals and new phones, but that was about t. The new phones on the sdelnes were about the only thngs that worked. (She& Stevenson, Glassboro State SlD) Frst n I-AA l hc frst defensve two-ponter under the new rule n Dvson I-AA was scored September 24 when Claude Pettaway, a sophomore strong safety at Mane, ran 90 yards wth a blocked converson kck. Cornerback Steve Luke blocked the kck. New Hampshre won the game, 44-23. No defensve two-ponters have been scored n 1-A. There have been only a handful of attempts n both dvsons. Great starts Duke s Steve Spurrer s second season s 4-O-O for the frst tme n 17 years. Mke McGee s team opened that fall by beatng Florda, South Carolna, Vrgna and Stanford, then fnshed 6-5-O. Fordham opened wth back-toback shutout vctores, the Irst tme that has happened n varsty play snce 1939, when the Rams dd t to Indana and St. Mary s (Calforna). The Rams beat Dvson I-AA Davdson, 9-3, September 24, to make ther record 3-O-O. (Joe Pagnotta, Fordham SID) Massachusetts Insttute of Technology, playng ts frst varsty football game snce students voted n 1901 to abolsh the sport, beat Stonehll, 29-7, September 24 wth Shane LaHousse ganng 260 yards rushng. Northern Illnos got ts frst vctory over a Bg Ten opponent n 14 years by defeatng Wsconsn, J9-7, September 17 for a 3-O-O record, ts best n 23 years (before Mnnesota ended the streak September 24, 31-20). Sad coach Jerry Pettbone We got out of the Md-Amercan Conference to play n ths knd of arena. Ths s a bg step n arrvng. Western nos s 44-O for the frst tme snce 1976, when Bll Shanahan s team beat South Dakota State, Weber State, Central State (Oho) and Youngstown State en route to a 7-3 season.