NCAA intensifies data collection in studv of academic performance

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1 Offcal Publcaton of the Natonal Collegate Athletc Assocaton October 23,1989, Volume 26 Number 37 Councl favors tougher drug-testng legslaton The NCAA Councl supports In takng that poston m ts Ocyear-round random drug rebtmg of tober 16-1X meetng n Indanapols. student-athletes and stffer penaltcs the < ouncl agreed to jon the for those who test postve for per- NCAA xecutve Commttee n f~~rmance~enhanclng drugs. sponsorng a stqucnce of proposal5 Teddy award wll go to former presdent Former Presdent Ronald W. Reagan wll rcccve the Assocaton s Theodore Roosevelt Award at the 1990 NCAA Conventon n Dallas. The Teddy award s the hghest honor the NCAA can confer on an ndvdual. Tradtonally, the award has been presented at the honors luncheon durng the Conventon, but the 1990 program has been scheduled as a dnner that ~111 begn at 730 p.m. Monday, January 8. Reagan, a 1932 graduate of ureka College, worked brefly as a sports broadcaster and edtor hefore pursung a career n moton pctures. Hs flm career, nterrupted by three years of servce n the Army Ar Corps durng World War II, ncluded 53 feurc-length moton pttures. He served sx tcrrns as presdent of the Screen Actors Guld and two terms as presdent of the Moton Pcture lndustry Councl. Hr wol~ked n televson n the as producton supervisor and host of Ceneral lectrc Theatre. From 1964 to 1965, he was host of the televson seres Death Valley Days. Reagan began hs publc-servce career n 1966, as governor of Calforna. He chared the Re- publcan Governors Assocaton n After completng hs second term as governor, he began a natonally syndcated rado cornmentary program and a newspaper column and undertook an extensve speakng schedule. From 1974 to 1975, he served as a member of a presdental com- msson nvestgatng Intellgence Agency. the Central rronwa n---rq Reagan He was a canddate for the Repubhcan presdental nomnaton n Keagan jomed the board of drectors of the Commttee on the Present Danger and founded Ctrens for the Republc. Reagan won the GOP presdental nomnaton n July 1980 and was elected to offce the followng November. He was sworn n as the 40th Presdent January 20, 1981, and served two terms. He has receved numerous awards, Includng the Freedoms Foundaton Award, the Natonal Humantaran Award from the Natonal Conference of Chrstans and Jews, the Dstngulshed Amercan Award from the Natonal Football Foundaton Hall of Fame and the Medal of Valor of the state of Israel. He currently resdes n I,os Angeles, where he mantans an offce. dealng wth drug testng for cons& cratmn at rhe IYYO N( AA Convcnton. The ntenton of the lcecutvc Commttee. supported by the Councl, s to offer the mcmbcrshp alternatves n regard to year-t~ound testng, MOJe strngent conscquenccs 1 01~ postve tests by ndvdual student-athletes and the ssue of team sanctons for postve tests. Whle the membershp wll be offered alternatves, the Councl wll nform the Conventon that t unanmously endorsed legslaton that would establsh year-round random testng m place of the CUent NCAA testng n relaton to champonshp events and football bowl games. The Councl also wll announce trsupport for tougher sanctons for student-athletes testng postve for performance-enhancng drugs and ts belef that there should be no change n the current legslaton regardng team sanctons. The proposed legslaton wll deal dfferently wth those testng postve for street drugs than t does for those usng performance-enhancng drugs. The feelng s to shosw more concern and compasson tar those who use street drugs, NCAA Prcsdent Albert M. Wtte told a press conference after the meetng. Jhc emphass there would be less for punshment than for curng cur helplng the athlete. The heat,th and safety and welfare of those athletes are gven much greater weght than for those who test postve for per- forrn;lncc~cnhancng substancch such as sterods. kxccutlvr Drector Rchard D. Schultz acknowlcdgcd that a move to year-round te\tng may rc!,ult n ;t new SerlKs of IcgaI ChdIKngCS, hut WC do feel that WC arc on sold legal ground, he sad. 1 he Councl asked that a detallcd prcscntaton of the drug-testng alternatves be prcscnted m an up- The Councl supports the Presdents Commsson?3 ntatves n prncple comng ssue of The NCAA News. Commsson legslaton A major porton of the Councl s fall meetng was spent revewng the legslaton that wll be sponsored at the 1990 Conventon by the NCAA Presdents Commsson. l hosc proposals nvohk mandatory dsclosure of graduaton rates, the SSUKS surroundng Proposal No. 42 as adopted at the 1989 Conventon, tnrans of reducng tme demands on student-athletes and the provson of fnancal ad for ncomng freshmen to attend summer school or summer orentaton programs. Wtte reported that the Councl supported the Commsson s ntatves n prncple and would dscuss wth the Commsson offcers some conccrm regardng detals of the proposals. The Comnlsson ollccl~s and the NC AA Admn\tratvc Cornmttec ;11nz authorlzcd by the C ommlsson and the Councl, rcsprct~vcly, to make fnal decsons Ircgardng thy two groups lepslatvc proposals by the November I deadlne lor suhmlung legslaton. Roth groups are on the same page n terms of supportng the lull dsclo>urc of graduaton rates, Wtte sad. The Councl strongly supports that ntatve. I here are some rclatvcly mnor areas n whch WC thnk some ad.justments may need to be made. The Dvson lfl Steerng Commttee urged that ts dvson be ncluded n the proposed dsclosure requrement, whle the Commasson s Dvson 111 SUbCOmmlttKC has not fa\!ored such ncluson. The Dvson II Steerng Commttee asked for a perod of years to begn developng the necessary data nasmuch as that dvson has not been nvolved n such a requrement before. Proposal 42 One of the major SSUKS to be dscussed by the Commsson offccrs and the Admnstratve Cornmttce s what to do about Proposal 42. lft s not alter-cd n January, the partal qualfer under the provsons of Bylaw 14.3 wll hc elmnated effectve August I, Indvduals who formerly would have been partal qualfers thus would be treated NCAA ntensfes data collecton n studv of academc performance J As the NCAA Study of the Academc Performance of StudentmAthletes reaches the mdway pont ths fall, the Assocaton s research staff has ntensfed ts datagatherng efforts n hopes of pre- parng the frst of several prelmnary reports early n The Assocaton s researchers say the report may nclude an ntal analyss of the hgh school preparaton and freshman academc performance of all Dvson I student- athletes who are beng tracked the study. Honors program to be a dnner affar The NCAA Conventon honors program wlt be scheduled as a dnner event Monday, January 8, durng the 84th annual meetng n DallX. The program was changed to accommodate the schedule of former Presdent Ronald Reagan, who s ths year s Teddy award recpent. The honors dnner wll be held from 730 p.m. to Y30 p.m. The change n the program also wll result n other schedulng changes n meetmgs and the addton of two delegate luncheons at the Conventon. Detegatc luncheons wlt be offered Monday (January 8) and Tuesday (January 9) from noon to I I5 p.m. for the convenence of delegates. The Admnstratve Commttee, takng note of the locaton of the Loews Anatole and the dffculty n fndng a range of luncheon alternatves, decded to provde two luncheons for delegates. As a result of the change n the honors program to a dnner and the addtonal two luncheons, the regs- traton fee has been ncreased from $50 to $70 because of the greater costs to the Assocaton. There also wll be some mnor adjustments n the tme allotted for the dvson busness sessons January 8, as well as schedulng of the Men s and Women s Commttees on Commttees meetngs that day. The general busness sesson s scheduled Tuesday,.January 9, and Wednesday, January 10, wth adjournment planned for I p.m. Wednesday. Hotel reservaton forms and a composte meetng schedule wll be maled to member nsttutons at the end of October. A full Convcnton meetng schedule wlt appear n the October 30 ssue of the News. The Assocaton wll conduct a survey of the delegates at the Conventon regardng varous Conventon ssues. One tem wll solct vews regardng the Assocaton s contnung to provde delegate lunchcons as part of the regstraton fkk or whether the fee should be lowered by not provdng luncheons. n A smlar study s under way for Dvson II; however, data collecton wlt lag approxmately two years behnd that n Dvson I. The fnal data for the Dvson I study wll not be collected untl late n 1993, hut there are several partlat analyses that can be made as the data become avalable, sad Todd A. Petr, NCAA assstant drector of research. We arc n the process of collectng nformaton on the study s last two groups of frst-year studentathletes those who began ther freshman year n 1987 and 1988 so we soon wll be able to make some comparsons among all freshman classes from 1984 to Changes after 86 Most mportantly, the data wll reveal how the preparaton, performance and demography of freshman student-athletes changed after 1986, the year Bylaw 14.3 (commonly called Proposton 48) went nto effect. The overrdng research queston behnd the study s What have been the effects of Proposton 4x? sad Ursula R. Walsh, NCAA drector of research. Specfcally, has the hgh school preparaton of freshman student-athletes mproved? Has collegate performance mproved? The results of ths study wll help us determne how welt the standards establshed n Bylaw 14.3 predct the academc success of stu- dent-athletes. In addton, t wll enable us to test other combnatons of hgh school grade-pont averages and standardzed-test scores to determne the cuttng ponts that wll best predct academc success and, at the same tme, reduce the potental for a negatve effect on mnorty groups. Study s comprehensve The NCAA study may be the See NCA A. pugs 3 Thrd forum set on athlete counselng The thrd n a seres of forums on career counselng panels wll focus more on the nuts and bolts of panels efforts to advse studentathletes about ther optons n professonal sports. The December 3-4 event n Kan- sas Cty, Mssour, s next n a seres of sx forums that the Assocaton s legslatve servces department wll See Thrd, page 3 Two vacances Nomnatons arc beng sought to fll two vacances on NCAA commttees. See Commttee Notces, page 2.

2 2 TH NCAA NWS/October 23,1989 NYSP reached more than 55,000 youths last summer Last summer, 55,85 I youths partcpated n Natonal Youth Sports Program projects n 42 states. More than 90 percent of those partcpants met Federal poverty gudelnes. A total of medcal examnatons were gven, and 8,628 partcpants were referred for further medcal attenton. These fgures were released durng the October 12 to 15 meetng of the NYSP Commttee n Kansas Cty, Mssour. Durng ts meetng, the commttee revewed evaluatons of each of 135 projects. Fve projects were com- mended as outstandng. These projects were n complance wth all Federal gudelnes, met all reportng deadlnes for flng paper work and offered features that went beyond the requrements of the gudelnes. Another 23 projects receved specal recognton and three were ac- I-A drectors name award for Rce The Dvson 1-A Drectors Assocaton, under the admnstraton of the Natonal Assocaton of Collegate Drectors of Athletcs, has named one of ts three annual natonal awards after Homer C. Rce, athletcs drector at Georga Insttute of Technology. The assocaton, whch annually presents The Delta Male and Female Scholar-Athlete Awards to the naton s top collegate student-athletes, named ts Dvson I-A Drector Award after Rce at ts naugural luncheon October IO n Tucson, Arzona. The award wll be known as the Homer C. Rce Dvson I-A Drectors Award and wll be presented annually to a past or present Dvson I-A drector of athletcs or conference commssoner who has contrbuted exemplary servce to ntercollegate athletcs n general and Dvson I-A concerns n partc- ular. NCAA xecutve Drector Rchard D. Schultz was the frst Holday Bowl pay-out goes to $1 mllon The earlest sellout n ts hstory s one of the key ngredents enablng the Sea World Holday Bowl to announce that t wll guarantee a mnmum of I mllon to each team partcpatng n the 19X9 game. The Holday Bowl also announced a new SPN agreement that extends the orgnal three-year pact sgned n Forty thousand seats n the 60,OOC~seat San Dego Jack Murphy Stadum are avalable for local dstrbuton. The remanng 20,000 are held for the two teams n accordance wth NCAA regulatons. Homer C. Rce wnner of the award. After Schultz was presented wth the honor, Mlo R. Lude, drector of athletcs at the Unversty of Washngton and the char of the drectors assocaton, announced that the award would be named for Rce. The offcers deemed t approprate that we name ths award after Homer, sad Lude. He founded ths organzaton, he spearheaded the Msson and Values Commttee, and he founded our awards program. There s no one who has Legslatve 1989 Column No. 37 Assstance worked harder to make our assocaton a vable one. And there s no one more approprate to have hs name on ths award. The Dvson I-A drectors group n ts fourth year. Rce served as the frst char of the organzaton n He was also presdent of NACDA n l The Dvson I-A Delta Male Scholar-Athlete for 1989 s former Pennsylvana State Unversty wrestler James Martn, the 1989 NCAA l26-pound natonal champon who has a grade-pont average n premedcne. The Delta Female Scholar-Athlete honoree was Unversty of Nebraska, Lncoln, volleyball all-amerca Vrgna Stahr, who compled a GPA n educaton. Both were honored n Tucson. NCAA Bylaw 14.3-qualfers, partal qualfers and nonqualfers The NCAA Legslaton and Interpretatlom Commttee rcccntly approved the followng ntalelgblty chart ndcatng how Bylaw 14.3 affects actvtes n whch qualfers, partal qualfers and nonqualfers may be nvolved. The NCAA Legslatve Revew Commttee plans to nclude ths chart n the NCAA Manual. INITIAL LIGIBILITY Dvsons 1 and II How current It.g,laton (NC-AA bylaw 14 3) alf~~ts student-athletes durng thclr ln~l~al year of collcgatc attcndancc knowledged as most mproved. Sxty-sx other projects met all Federal gudelnes. Only 38 projects faled to meet all of the gudelnes, down from approxmately 60 n The commttee attrbuted the decrease n part to NYSP s regonal workshop program, whch began before last summer. The program helps motvate projects to meet gudelnes and responds to project staff members concerns. ach sponsorng nsttuton wll receve a letter that explans the status of ts project and asks for recommendatons for future cornplance. Three departng evaluators were Commttee recognlrd for servce to NYSP. Barbara A. Thompson, an educator n Kansas Cty, Mssour, worked wth the program for I7 years Jerry W. Shelton, Floyd College n Georga, tght years, and Henry D. Shannon of St. Lous Communty College, Forest Park, sx years. The commttee also hred four new evaluators. A workshop for the extended Natonal Youth Sports Program wll be held January I2 to 14 n San Antono, Texas. The actvty drector, enrchment coordnator and drug-educaton specalst from each of the 45 partcpatng projects wll attend to help evaluate the plot program. Notces Member nsttutons are nvted to submt nomnatons to fll nterm vacances on NCAA commttees. Nomnatons to fll the followng vacances must be receved by Fanne B. Vaughan, executve assstant, n the NCAA offce no later than November 6. Men s and Women s Track and Feld Commttee Replacement for Wllard L. Huyck, Unversty of the South, resgned. Appontee must be a Dvson III representatve of men s track and must be an admnstrator. Commttee on Fnancal Ad and Amateursm Replacement for Lews S. Salter, Wabash College, resgned from the commttee. Appontee must be from Dvson III. COMMllT CHANGS Rce s n hs 10th year as drector Presdents Commsson Apponted to replace the Rev. Tmothy S. of athletcs and assstant to the Healy, Georgetown Unversty, s the Rev. Albert J. DUlo, presdent, presdent at Georga Tech. Hs ca- Xaver Unversty, Cncnnat, Oho 45207; apponted to replace Frederck reer n athletcs spans 39 years as a P. Whddon, Unversty of South Alabama, s Mchael R. Ferrar, coach and an athletcs drector. presdent, Drake Unversty, Des Mones, Iowa 503 I I Partal Qualfer NO No Nmqualfer No No Durng remander of the acadrmc year (other than durng lhc \c l\cm) Summer alter the academc year OutGde compcttmn (other than hazkcthall) Ijurng the season I)urmg remundcr ol thc acsdemlc year (other than durng the wren) No (Cwqll No (except Nu (uxcept 1n1ramursla ~nlramurals mtr;murll\ and nd\dual and Indwdwl and Indvdual compctlton) conlprtltlon) compcttun) No (except tntramurals,uki ndvdual No (cxccpt ntramurals and tndw~dual The prevous sellout record occurred n 1987 when the last of the local tckets were sold by November 15. In 1988, SPN had a 6. I Holday Bowl ratng for the Oklahoma State- Wyomng game, makng t the seeond most-watched event outsde of NFL games n the hstory of the network. Yes (super- Yes (supervsed only by ved only by Instltutlon \ In\tllutll>n \ strength strength c0uch) Lxwh) News Fact Fle Nl From March I, 19X9, to August 29, 1989, the NCAA vta bank for women and ethnc mnortes made a total of 340 referrals to 77 nsttutons. As of August 29. there were I93 regstrants n the vta bank, of whom I35 wcrc women and 5X were mtn. Sxty-tght of the 193 wcrc ethnc mnortes. Approxmately 36 percent of those referred were consdered for postons. and a thrd of those consdered were ntervewed. Student lcanl Team hwt managu travel (ranng-room lacllcs (n conjunctwn wth weghttralnlng program) Iralnng Wclght tahlc tralnlng No NO

3 Councl Contnuedfrom page 1 as nonqualfers, n most cases reducng or elmnatng the amount of fnancal ad they could receve as freshmen. The Commsson has proposed that the partal-qualfer category be retaned and that such ndvduals be allowed to receve need-based, nonathletcally related fnancal ad avalable to all other students. The Councl n August favored rlmnatng fnancal ad from consderaton n the Bylaw 14.3 provsons, thus allowng all nonqualfers, ncludng the current partal-qualfer category, to receve nonathletcally related fnancal ad wth certtcaton that t was awarded wthout rcga;d to athletcs ablty. The Councl and the Presdents Commsson are both agreed that WC should seek to make certan that partal quallers have access to an educaton through some form of fnancal ad, and we are agreed that thclc should be no loosenng of elgblty (for the freshman year), Wttc sad. The Admnstratve Commttee and the Prcsdcnts Commsson executve commttee wll be mertng to work out any dfferences of emphass that both groups mght take, he sad. The Dvson II Steerng Commttee contnues to favor the COLJnCl S earler approach for ts dlvslon, whle the Dvson I Steer- NCAA most comprehensve data base on the academc preparaton and performance of student-athlctcs ever assembled, sad Petr. ach of the 29 I Dvson I nsttutons has been assgned to one of Ive cohorts; each cohort collects data on the class enterng college n the year assgned to t, begnnng wth 1984 and endng wth All studcnl-alhletcs rcccvng grants-n-ad are tracked throughout thclr careers at the nsttutons, wth school di ~cds provdng nformaton on each athlete s hgh school preparaton, core-currculum gradepont average, SAT or ACT scores, declared majors, credts earned, college grade-pont Wcrdge, tutorilg requred, summer school hours, play- Inp tme, varsty status and more. kcaljse the last three cohorts ng Commttee authorzed the Admnstratve Commttee to make a fnal determnaton regardng legslaton for that dvson. The Councl declned to sponsor legslaton to delay the effectve date of Proposal No. 42 but noted that groups of members probably wll submt that proposal, one to rescnd No. 42 and possbly others to modfy the partal-quahfer provsons. Tme demands Notng the Commsson s mtenton to sponsor legslaton to reduce sprng football practce, reduce the basketball playng and practce seasons, and requre development of smlar reductons n all other sports for future acton, the Councl had a great deal of support for the dea of reducng the amount 01 lme and the burden that athlctcs sutter from ther nvolvement, Wtte sad. There s some concern as to whcthcr WC can reach unanmty on the detals. WC strongly agree wth the presdents that WC should rcducc the amount of tme athlctcs spend n athletcs. but WC want to assure that the steps taken are senshlc and effectve. I saw no sgns of controver>y wth the Prcsdcnts Commsson n ths area,just some concerns regardng detals. The season-reducton proposals also wll brdscusscd by the Admn- were subject to the rcqurcments of Bylaw 14.3 and the lnt two wcrc not, the study wll provde etnprcal data on how all 01 these varables have hccn affected by the legslaton. The NCAA membershp wll have to make some dffcult decsons aboul Proposton 48, Walsh sad. At least those decsons wll have the beneft of scentfcally obtaned data. fforts doubled NCAA members eagerness to address the ssue of ntal elgblty has prompted W&h \ staft to nearly double ts data-collecton efforts. The aiiwjnt of lme between the end of summer school and the deadlnt for submttng data has been reduced drastcally, and three cohorts are beng asked to submt data from two academc years ths fall. Broadcasters urged to fght any lmts on TV beer ads Members of the Natonal Assoc- In a letter to member televson aton 01 Rroadcastcrs have been and rado statons, Frtt sad t asked to fght any move by the appeared the NCAA was consder- NCAA to lmt beer advertsng ng lmtng beer ads to 60 seconds durng the Dvson I Men s Basket- an hour as well as requrng that ball C bamponshp, accordng to a they hc restrcted to educatonal report by Reuters news servce. messages, apparently rcfcrrng to dward Frtts, presdent of the those ads that urge peoplr to drnk NAB, asked members October 20 n moderaton. to tell ther local college and unver- Frtts sad the lmtatons could sty offcals that a restrcton on ads set a dangerous precedent. Should by breweres, whch advertse heav- such restrctons be duplcated wth ly on sports programs, would have other spol~ts, rttb sad We could a serous economc effect for broad- see mllon\ of dollars of ad rcvcnucs casters. flow out of sports broadcastng. Calendar October October 29-J I October 30-3 I November 3-5 Novcmbcr 6 November 7-8 Sprcal Commlttec to Revew the NCAA Membershp Structure, Denver, Colorado Dlvlson I Women s Basketball Cornmttcc, Knoxvlle, Tennessee Professonal Sports Lason Commttre, Kansas Cty, Mssour Commttee on Infractons, Tucson, Arzona 1,egslatve Revew Commttee, Kansas Cty, Mssour Specal CommIttee on Cost Reducton, Kansas Cty. Mssour TH NCAA NWS/October 23, stratve Commttee and the Corn- to receve Pell Grant assstance n dent-athletes to take advantage of msson offcers to see f a common combnaton wth other nsttutonal the U.S. Olympc Commttee s poston can be reached pror to the fnancal ad that does not exceed health-nsurance program. legslaton deadlne. the value of a full grant plus $1,700 There s a felt need to work Other actons or the actual cost of attendance at more closely and to dcvclop better In other actons at the Indanap- the nsttuton, whchever s less. relatonshps wth the USOC and ohs meetng, the Councl That would represent a $300 nthe natonal governng bodes, l Strongly supported Schultz s crease from the current $1,400 lm- Wtte sad. We are hopeful that WC development of a certfcaton pro- taton. can take some postve steps wth gram for Dvson I athletcs pro- * Agreed to sponsor legslaton ths legslaton. grams and urged that t be to extend the Assocaton s current mplemented as a voluntary, plot regulatons regardng recept of hro- A summary of all votng actons program n ken-tme payments by rtudcnt-ath- by the Councl n the Indanapols l Voted to sponsor legslaton to letcs nvolved n partcpaton on meetng wlt appear n the November permt a Dvson 1 student-athlete natonal teams and to permt stu- 6 ssue of the News. Wrappng up Thrd I k- < -7 xteror work has begun on the new NCAA natonal offce buldng n Overland Park, Kansas, and work on rthe nteror soon wll be under way. The buldng contractor beleves the structure wll tre ready for occupancy by the natonal offce staff durng February prcscnt as part of a three-year program to a.~+~st member nsttutons n dealng wth agents. Among those nvted to attend the event at the Kansas Cty Intrrnatonal Arport Marrott arc chars of exstng career counselng pancts and faculty athletcs rcprcscntatvcs from nsttutons that have not formed panels. N< AA Icgslaton pcrmlts the cstahlshncnt of on-campu\ career counselng panels to assst studentathletes n dctcrmnng thcu optons n professonal sports and LO provde nformaton on player agents and IKhX ls\ljf3. In addton to provldmg mcmhcrs of cstabhshed panels wth the oppol~tunty to exchange Ideas, the NCAA forum are desgned to cm courage the formaton 01 career counselng panels at member InsttutIons. In a sense. ths s phase two. Saud Rchard (. f crko. NCAA legslatvc assstant, who explaned that the frst two forums were desgned to fnd out what pcoplc want to know about and what peoplc arc dong. At the next forum, I thnk we ll get nto the nuts and bolts of how a carecr counselng panel should work, he sad~ Among topcs of dscusson at the forum are the Assocaton s amateursm and professonalsm teglslatlon, a proposal to assst student-athletes n obtanng dsablty nsurance, and methods of provdng assstance to student-athletes n rcvcwng professonal sports contracts. Speakers scheduled to appear at the forum nclude d Garvcy. the former cxc~l~tivc drector of the Natonal Football League Players ~~w~aton, who wll descrbe hs nrw program desgned to Ijon cornpctent agents wth educated studentalhlctcs. &d Tom < ondon, a playct~-agent based n Kansas Crty and a former N F I. player. Otbct~ spcakrrs wll be announced at ;I later date. 1 hc forum also wll set asde tme for ; round~tablc dscusson among career counselng panel members whcrc thcv can ~ISXISS and rcsolvc Those plannng to attend the forum must regster by u~ng the form that appears elsewhcrc on ths page. 7-hc regstraton fee s $15 n advance or $25 at the forum ste. Those rcqulrng hotel rcscrvatons must call Sherry Abrls at the NCAA (913/ (j) by Novcmbcr 27. t.ravcl and hotel accommodatons arc the rcsponsbhty 01 those atlendng. Furthe,- nlormaton s avalable Irorn Rchard.I. Lvrud, drector 01 legslatve sclgces, or Perko a( the ssues 0L mutual ntcrcst. Gsocaton s natonal offce NCAA CARR COUNSLING PANL FORUM Regstraton Form (Please Prnt) NOT One regstraton form should be completed for each ndvdual who wll attend To preregster, ths form must be receved n the natonal offce one week n advance of the forum. NAM INSTITUTION TITL CITY Phone( -)-- STAT -ZIP December , KCI Marrott Room Rates $59 sngle/double. 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4 4 TH NCAA NWS/October Comment Prep players made to ht books before takng on opponents By Greg Sms Iky1on rhly News When the NCAA nsttuted Proposton 4X, I tred to tell my mothern-law and aunt t was unfar. They ddn t say anythng to mc, but f looks could kll or mam, I would have been n trouble The argument aganst Propostlon 48 s that the requrements are too stff for nner-cty kds lvng lves of the dsadvantaged. Sure, a kd can put forth the effort and achcvc a GPA, but wll t help hm on one of those (SAT or ACT) tests? Is the educaton he or she s gettng anywhere near the same as the educaton a kd n the suburbs receves? And what about the percepton that the tests arc wrtten wth a bas to test suburban kds? That was the argument I was tryng to delver. My mother-law ddn t buy t and I no longer do ether, especally after bearng about Tom Montgomery s efforts at Dun- bar Hgh School. Montgomery, the Wolvernes football coach, has been dcvclopng hs own program to help hs players develop and mantan study habts as well as averages. The program s smple. ach player has to attend study table one hour before practce, three days each week. At the end of the week, the players grades arc chcckcd. If they are not par, they don t play. Montgomery started the program three years ago wth good reason. Top recruts pay lttle heed to recrutng One hundred of the country s most hghly regarded hgh school athlctcs scored an F average when quzted about the rules and ethcs of college recrutng, a newspaper survey revealed. I he Orlando Sentnel sad the survey suggests the athletes themsclvcs form a major lnk n a chan of corrupton plagung college ath- Ictcs, bccausc the athletes ether don t know or don t cart about ther rghts or ethcal dutes. In telcphonc surveys wth the newspaper, athlctcs dentfed by experts as the top IO0 football and basketball recruts sad they looked upon offers Iranglnp lrom free I shrts to cars as tokens of cstccm 01~ ther share of the booty from a corrupt system. The collcgc s gong to make a lot of money otf mc. I m gong to put down what 1 want when I m recruted and f we can t agree, 1 11 be on my way, sad a basketball prospect from the Mdwest whose name the Sentnel wthheld. F.ven though we re gettng a free educaton, t s nothng compared to what thcy rc grttmg, vad a football player from Florda. I look at t as a way of cxtcndng my educaton wthout payng for t, and anythng Kke f t s not traccablc. The survey showed other athletes WKrK smply gnorant 01 the rules of collcgc athletrcs recrutment, accordng to Unted Press lntcrnatonal s report on the ncwspapcr s survey. ght of 10 thought college boosters are permtted to partcpate n recrutng. and nearly one-thrd thought a booster could cosgn a car loan for them. Nearly twothrds mstakenly thought they were requred to sgn bndng lcttcrs 01 ntent wth the college of ther choce. Hgh school coaches contacted by the Sentnel sad many of thclr young charges do not know the dllerencc between rght and wrong n terms of recigtng. I can see the mentalty of these kds, sad Bll Byrd, basketball coach at Redan Hgh n Stone Mountan, Georga vcrybody cheats. Ther parents cxpcct t, and they cxpcct t. Some coaches beleve the NCAA s lmted mmunty procedure s an mpedment to cleanng up the SYStern. NCAA offcals defend that procedure, notng that t s seldom used n nfractons cases and then only when t wll result n nformaton regardng serous volatons that otherwse would not be avalable. We re just a mcrocosm of our own socety, sad Bobby Bowden, head football coach at Florda State Un- Smth takes dm vew of basketball proposals The NCAA may want to help students graduate, but not at the expcnsc of the lucratve televson packages that brng n money for the organzaton, says basketball coach Dean Smth of the lnversty of North Carolna, Chapel Hll. Durng a news conference October I7 n Chapel Hll, Smth seemed dsturbed when asked about recent NCAA Presdents Commsson proposals to cut practce tme and shorten the season, accordng to the Assocated Press. The Presdents Commsson recommendaton knd of took me by surprse, Smth sad. I thnk poltcally, they feel they have to say somethng about basketball and football. The Presdents Commrsslon has proposed that the start of basketball practce be delayed one month, untl November I5, and that three games be shaved from regular-searon schedules to provde players more study tme. The commttee atso recommended that no games be played before December 20. I don t have any dea what they can accomplsh wth ther sugges- -- Dean Smth tlon f t s to help the studentathlete, Smth sad. What t does s jam up more games n January and February. and that gves you three games a week -and they all can t be at home ~ vs. two games a week. I thnk f they are really serous, they should spread out the season and say you only practce three days a week and play only weekends, Smth sad. Of course, the real thng to do s take away some nterest and do away wth the NCAA tournament. See Smth, pqe 5 versty. WC Ict kds go just lke socety often lets crmnals go. But we re not sendng good sgnals out. If a person s gulty, he s gulty. Other coaches sad part of the problem s that NCAA rules arc frequently changed. Scvcral coaches admtted usng outdated rules When we played n the play-offs n 19x6, Montgomery sad, WC lost our star lnebacker. Hc was acadcmcally nelgble. That alarmed 11s~ Sa n 1987, WC started the program. WC ddn t lose anybody. But after the season, WC lost a lot of kds. That was bccausc football players wcrc not rcqurcd to attend study table after football season. Montgomery came up wth a remedy for that. Ths year. when the season s over, we are stlt gong to montor players, he 5ad. We are gong to make sure they are stll makng progress. So now, Dunbar tootball players are requred to attend study table from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursdays When they arrve, they fnd four teachers there one each for nglsh, math. socal studes and sccncc. If they are havng problems n a course. that teacher wll tutor them, See Prep, page 5 rules, polls show books. Many of the alhlctes contacted by the Sentnel sad they beleve they are worth more to a collcgc than a $30,000 scholarshp. Some cted poverty as an cxcusc. but others rejected that argument. My famly sn t rch. Ncthcr of my parents graduated from hgh school, and I don t have cvcrythmg I want, sad Davd Mayfeld, a dcfcnsvc back from Morgantown, West Vrgna. Hut I would say, No, (to llegal offers) and others should, too. A bg college s offerng you a scholarshrp. That s an honor. Athletes do set goals, acheve them Cyntha Patterson, assocate athletcs drector Southern Methodst Unversty Athletc AdmnstratIon ln the seven or eght years that 1 have worked wth student&athletes one-on-one, they have contmued to delght me wth ther ablty to set goals and acheve them. I hat s a great qualty they have that s much greater than other students. If you say, Ths IS what you need to do, they do t. That doesn t mean some won t struggle to get there. Fven the most gttcd student s gong to struggle sometmes, wth the tme commtment of athletcs and a full-tme academc load. But the majorty of them wll take whatever steps t takes to succeed. assumng they had a legtmate chance to succeed when they were recruted. I.et the academc process take ts natural course. I.et the kd flunk (an exam) and learn that there s a drect relatonshp bctwecn beng n class and passng a class. Athletes don t need specal prvleges, and they don t need breaks. l hcy need support. Bll Snyder, head football coach Kansas State Unversty Des Mones Sunday Regster I m m favor (01 a tre-breaker rule n Dvson I lootball). It adds a lttle somethng to the game ~~ a lttle color. There are tmes when tes have an mpact on the outcome of the conference season, and you wsh you had an opportunty to come back and play t off. My ma.jor concern would be how t was desgned. One thng that all of us would bc conccrncd about. when you play extra tme. s that the njury factor ncreases when krds get tred. I wouldn t want t to bc somethng that s gong to last halfway through the nght. Don Leahy, athletcs drector Creghton Unversty Omaha World-Herald A lot of us would lke to sue a shorter season (n basketball), hut you te that n wth a mnmum of 25 games and that would mean a substantal cut n ncome. Many of us are really fghtng the battle of the dollar hll. I hat proposal would further complcate our problems. Glen Mason, head football coach Unversty of Kansas The Assocated Press I happen to bc n a program rght now where l really need sprng practce. I used to coach at Oho State, where we went to a bowl every year. When the other programs fnshed, they were fnshed practcng n November, done wth football. In our case, we had all those days to practce untl January, and WK thought that was a great advantage By use of that bowl practce, our players were a year to a year and a half more mature n football. 1 don t know when we d teach our players the game 11 we cut back on sprng practce. I m aganst t. By way of compromse If you go to a bowl game, Cyntha Patterson Bll Snyder you 105~ 5prng practce. If you don t go to a bowl game, you get your sprng practce. Lou Holtz, head football coach Unversty of Notre Dame The New York Tmes I m very much a proponent of sprng practce. It s a great lme to establsh good rapport wth players. And you get lhc opportunty to work wth everyhody, pjb and you gve everybody an KqUal chance If you do away wth sprng practce. you re gong to have to prejudge certan people. Martn A. Massengale, chancellor Unversty of Nebraska, Lncoln The New York Tmes We re gong to ask the athletcs drectors to come torth wth reductons m other sports (n addton to See Opnons. pa@ 5 The NCAA I.. TG ~, _I News [ISSNOO27-1X70] PublIshed weekly, except bweekly n the summer, by the NatlanaI Collegate Athlebc Assoclabon. Nal Avenue at 63rd Street, P.0. Box MssIon. Kansas Phone 913/ Subscnptmn rate $24 annually prepald. $15 annually prepad for junor college and hgh school faculty members and students, $12 annually prepad for students and faculty at NCAA member nsttutons Second-class postage pald at Shawnee MISSION. Kansas. Address correctons requested Postmaster send address changes to NCAA Publlshmg. PO Box MIssIon. Kansas Dsplay advertsng representatw Host Communlcatlons. Inc. 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5 Basketball on rht track U at Tulane, CO Kelly says Men s basketball returns to Tulane Unversty ths season, endng a four-year, self-mposed exle resultng from a pont-shavng nvestgaton and NCAA volatons. Frst-year head coach Perry Clark says he cannot wat to brng the Green Wave back to the hardwoods at Fogelberg Arena. 1 feel lke a woman that s n about her seventh month. I m just anxous to get ths thng gong, Clark sad. l ulane also returns to the Metropoltan Collegate Athletc Conference followng the school s decson to abandon the program n Aprl The Green Wave s frst regular-season game s at home aganst Texas Chrstan Uruversty Novem- Smth ber thnk we have really class kds and that s gong to help us through the tough tmes, Clark told Unted Press Internatonal. Tulane Presdent amon M. Kelly ndcated that he s confdent the knd of problems that ht the basketball program n 1985 wll not be repeated. The envronment at lulane has changed dramatcally, because everyone knows where the unversty stands on ethcal ssues, he sad. The confdcncc of the unversty communty s renforced by the fact that we have Chet Gladchuk as our athletcs drector and Perry Clark as out basketball coach, two men n whom I have complete confdence. Opnons basketball and football). The tme demands on our athletes s sgnfcant; we want to try to free some of that tme for them to have more tme for ther academc work. Lou Camesecca, head men s basketball coach St. John s Unversty (New York) The New York Tmes The area that concerns me (regardng proposed cuts n Dvson I basketball season) s startng December 20, and your frst league game could be January 2, 3 or 4. I have dffculty wth that because you re gong nto the league wth just two weeks of preseason games. Are basketball and football bemg unfarly sngled out? That s a good pont. College swmmers are all over the world; the track people are runnng all over the world. But basketball and football are n the lmelght, so they re gettng hammcrcd. Why? Because the bottom lne s dollars. TH NCAA NWSlOcIober Jm Walden, head football coach Iowa State Unversty The Assooated Press Colorado should bc complmented for stckng wth hm (head football coach Bll McCartney) when tmes were tough, and they re now beng rewarded. I thnk t s a trbute to Colorado s patence. More schools should look at that and not be so mpatent. They should take a look at truly how t s when a guy gets there, and say, We ve got the best guy we could get, and we re gong to make a commtment to hm. ugene F. Corrgan, commssoner Atlantc Coast Conference The Atlanta Journal and Consttuton 1 thnk what I m hearng from out among the Dvson I schools s there are huge fnancal problems and they want to fnd a way to cut costs. If, n fact, cost contanment s a prorty, those people who have to run the programs day n and day out can t solate freshman nelgblty from cost contanment. You notce they ddn t say anythng about that. Of course, they won t because that s all the money for the NCAA. They also sad they wanted to make t a one-semester sport. Well, that would bc easy; make t the sprng semester. Hut they say, I m sorry, we have to play the tournament before The Masters (golf tournament) hccausc of televson agan. I thnk t s rather hypocrtcal to come up wth somethng lke that mstead of really lookng at the ssue. If you want to make t a sprng scmcstcr sport, do t. The pros arc stll playng m the sprng. Have a natonal tournament n May; start n January. That would be dong what you say you want to do. I lke the dea of the presdents beng nvolved. but 1 was hopeful t would be more of a thng whcrc they would lsten to other (qualfed) people, Smth sad. I thnk coaches as a whole could accomplsh much more, especally f you get a smaller number, he sad. It s funny (n) baseball and golf, at least 80 years ago when I played, we mssed a lot of class, Smth joked. They ncvcr menton those sports. Prep Conrm4edfrom pw 4 Montgomery sad. lf they are not havng problems n a subject, they study ahead. If they don t attend study table, they can t go to practce. There has to be a legtmate, legtmate reason for them to mss study table. The athletes study before practce because they wll be tred afterward. The program has been so successful that Montgomery has gotten all Dunbar coaches to use t. And the school has receved fundng for t. Now, all schools n the Dayton Cty League are workng through a tutoral program. Whether ths has an effect on players passng college boards has yet to be seen. It s too early to tell, Montgomery sad. Some kds are good test-takers and some are not. It can t hurt. And you have to beleve that Proposton 48 gves athletes some reason, f not nspraton, to take the study routne serously. There s no guarantee that a student-athlete can attend any college he or she wants to. But f they put forth the effort, they11 go to college somewhere. 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6 6 TH NCAA NWS/October I-A passng, total offense at record-settng pace By James M. Van Valkenburg NCAA rhrccror ol Stalstcs I hc nat~on r hot passers stayed on ther all-tme-record pace October 21 wth a fourth consecutve 400-yard Saturday, hut do not overlook the runners who helped product another hgh scorng day n Dvson I-A. For nstance, Indana talback Anthony Thompson, whose career touchdowns (58) arc just one short of the all-tme Dvson 1-A record of 59 set by the legendary Glenn I)avs of Army from 1943 to 1946 and ted by Pttsburgh s Tony Dorsctt ( 1973 to 1976). Thompson. the natonal scorng leader, was overlooked last year, when hs 24 TDs ~-surpassed by only four players n hstory were IS behlnd the 39 by Barry Sanders of Oklahoma State, the Hesman f rophy wnner. Thompson lost hs No. I rank m rushng when Florda s bmmtt Smth had a 3 lh-yard game October 2 I to squeeze ahead, yards per game to I hompson s Ih0.X. The latest spree brought the natonal passng average to 395 yards per game, both teams combned. far above the record set n ota1 offense per game moved up to 725. I. ahovc last year s record fnal Scorng ncreased to 46.9, stll hclow last year s fnal Houston s record game 1 he bggest spree took place n Houston, where the run-and-shoot Cougars ran up some record fgures 771 yards passng and 1,021 total offense ( I I.9 yards per play)- n a vctory over Southern Methodst s mostly freshman squad. Andre WdrK. Houston quarterhack, played only the frst half but passed for 5 I7 yards, the most ever n one half. Hs 340 and fve I D passes n the second quarter also were retords. t was the most pomts scored n college football smce Houston beat Tulsa, 100-6, m 1968, also n the Houston Astrodome. But t s not a one-team thng. f Houston s sx games wcrc wped oft the hooks, the other A games to date would average passng, 72 I.7 total offense and 46.6 ponts, only a tmy reducton n each cast. Houston s on a 1-A record pace n passng (542.X), total offense (667.2) and scorng (57 3). So s Ware n pasung (430.7 per game), total offense (4 I I.5) and TD passes (4.5). Rcmcmber. however, that the toughest part of Houston s schedule s to come. ts foes to date rank 83rd wth a,391 wnnng pcrccntage, whle ts rcmannp schedule ranks 22nd at 591. Hot quarterbacks Not all the hot quarterbacks are n IIvson I-A, by any means. For nstance, one of the more formdable collegate. or all-dvsms, records s held by Jack Trudcau of Illnos 215 consccutvc pusscs wthout ntercepton n 19X5. Four passers. three of them n Dvl- &)II I-AA, have made a run at lrudcau s record thlx \eason, and one IS stll In pursut Krk Baumgartner of Wsconsn- Strvcns Pont came the closest. ~cachng 205 ln a row bcforc havng one pcked off October 21, hut he lrct I Dvlslon Ill record. I hc 6-4 \cnor s the ~IVISIOI~ ~ record-holder n career passmg at I 1,992 yard\ ;md total offeme at I I,7X2 as well as I I) passes at 9Y. Wth three games Icft. hc ranks thrd n collcpatc pa~mg bchmd Portland State \ Nel.cml;rx. 13,220 yards n a carec1 that ended n IYXO. and Ms&pp Valley State s Wlle lottcn. I2,7 I I Flodda s mmtt Smth leads Dvson I-A rushers wth a yard avenge yards through 1985, so he stll has an outsde chance for No. I Tennessee Tech senor Thomas Debow s next at 199 straght, endng October 14. But he stll set a I-AA record. Hs streak started last season. Idaho s John Fres7 had a streak of 174 ended October 21. He leads al I-AA passers n effcency at ponts, remarkable consderng that he throws more than 35 passes a game. The 6-4 senor stems certan to top 10,000 career yards and has only sx nterceptons vs. 24 touchdowns ths season. Despte njurng the pnke fnger on hs throwmg hand October 14. he conpletrd a I-AA record X4.X percent (28 of 33) aganst Montana State. Mane senor Mke Buck stll has a chance at Trudeau s collegate record and Debow s Dvson I&AA rrcord. Hc has 176 passes n a row wthout an ntercepton, I65 ths season, and ranks second to Fres7 n efllcency at t 7 I t The 64 Buck has I3 1-D passes ths season. Fresz s second m I-A total offense at 346.X yards per game, a shade behnd Todd Brunner of Lehgh at 347.3, wth Holy Cross sophomore Tom Cacco thrd and Stephen F. Austn State senor Todd Hammel fourth. In I-A, Brgham Young sophomore Ty Detmcr leads n effcency at ponts, although, lke Fresz, he s throwng more than 35 tmes a game. Detmer also ranks second lo Ware n total offense al 370.4, followed by the 1988 champon, 6-6 Utah Junor Scott Mtchell, and San Dego State s 6-X Dan Mc- Gure. Vrgna jumor Shawn Moore s second n effcency, a notch ahovc West Vrgna junor Major Harrs. Qualty freshmen As an example of the talent lcvcl comng out of the hgh schools, three frcshmcn rank n the natonal 1-A top IO n passmg eftcency and three more are In the top 40. Gno Torretta of Mam ( F torda) IS fourth at t 54.3, Pttsburgh s AIKX Van Pch s clghth at Texas Peter Gardere s toth at t 39.X, Washngton State s Aaron Garca s 12th at t 37.3, Southern Cahforrua s Todd Marnovch s 26th at and IIC LA s Bret Johnson 40th at I2 t.2 Torretta, Garca and Marnovch stopped n when the starter was r!ured and each has done 311 outstandng job. Van Pelt s team s S-O- I gong aganst Notre Dame octobcr 2X. Garderc has ld TKXaS to the rnest Thompson, Georga Southern, ranks among leadng Dvson I-AA scorers top n ts conference. Me supersttous? Montclar State coach Rck (ancola was lookng for a soluton after hs team lost ts season opener to ( entral Connectcut State, and Jll Jeffrey, head coach n women s basketball, had.just the thng. She gave hm a bag of pumpkn seeds and sad at these. You won t lose agan. That Saturday, hs team upset ast Stroudsburg (a Dvson II team), and t has won cvcry week snce, through October 21. And cvcry Monday mornng, although Gancola says pumpkn seeds have nothng to do wth the wnnng streak ( Supersttous! Me? ), hc enters the offce lookng for Jeffrey. She hands hm a hag of pumpkn seeds, and he eats some every day. (Al Longer. Mmtclar Stone SIT)) Academc standouts M\soul~ Southrrn State senor quarterback Alan Brown, a student (4.000 scale) as a marketng and management major, has overcome leukema and four coachng changes to become an accomplshed quarterback who says, I can prob ably tell you about more dfferent oflenses than just about any collcgc quarterback. In hs frst two seasons n Junor college. the 5-9, 175-pounder ran a multple offense, then the wng-l. I,ast season, usng the run-andshoot, hc threw for 2,373 yards and set 14 school records. Ths season, he s runnng the veer. Hs ffth head coach, Jon Lantr, says, He s just a &rkat kd to coach; guys lke Alan Brown arc the reason I m coachng. He s a survvor. As a thrd-grade kd n Phoenx, Arlrona, Brown wore a baseball cap to school every day. Somctmcs, other kds would take the hat and ~KZ.K hm. That he could handle, but the tauntng about hs baldness was humlatng. He underwent three years of chemotherapy, spnal taps to extract hone marrow samples and 25 plls a day. I hc leukema has hccn n remsson nearly IO years. Only recently has Brown started talkng about t A tot of kds out thcrc arc gong through traumas lke ths. 1 thnk t s encouraagng for them to \ee somconc tkc me. (lknnr.~ Sldw~, M.wortr South077 SlalcJ SI II) Doug RGIVKS, senor detensve back at mory and Henry and an honor student wth a GPA as a hstory major, has three runback touchdowns atrcady ths SKXOn 76 yards on an ntcrccptlon, 63 wth Butler& Steve Roberts s ranked among Dlvson II rushers punt returnen a punt and 90 wth a kckotl. He plans a career n teachng and coachmg (Puts Burtws Tdln~c~r,.!Cmory und Hcyv SILl) Augsburg senor Kerry Owen, a student majormg m psychology, really knows hs way around the offensve lnt. A four-year starter. he lnes up at rght guard but has played both guards, both tackle postons, center and tght end (he caught an I l-yard TD pass n hs frst game there). (Gc,nc, McGovern, Augdmrg SID) Quarterback Tm Day, talback Shane I.aHousse and fullback (arret Moose are called the Rocket Backfeld at Massachusetts Insttute of Technology. All have speed and power, but what really sets ths tro apart IS that all are majorng n aerospace engneerng. (Ruger Croslqr Massach~~srtrs Insrrlrre of TechtldI,Rv siri) Quotes of the week Lberty coach Sam Rutglano at hs weekly luncheon on hs team wnnng two straght clffhangers over astern hnos and astern Mchgan to reman undcfcated The Lord can t bat us out every week. On publcty It s lke perfume t s OK unless you swallow. On prase I he dfference between a pat on the back and a kck n the pants s about sx nches. The team s bus drver at astern Mchgan game was a Detrot Lons follower. He told the coach that hc was hopng the Lons would hre that guy who used to coach the Cleveland Browns (Rutglano). Then he looked back at the coach and,ad, Dd anyone ever tell you that you look lke Sam Rutghano? When hc learned he was talkng to Rutglano, he nearly drove the bus off nterstate 94. (Mtdz Goodman. L,dwrt I SID) Ca State Sacramento s Drew Long, as the holder on a fake fedgoal play, threw hs frst college touchdown pass n a vctory over Southern Utah State. Long, a quarterback n hgh school, was asked what he was thnkng as he came out of hs crouch and turned to throw. He sad, Man, those guys arc bg! (.le/l Mnohan. Cd Stow Summwnlo SID) Cncnnat coach Tm Murphy rcccntly took a page out of Houston Olers coach Jerry Glanvtlc s book. When the Cncnnat tcket offce rcccvcd an order for 37 tckets to ts October I4 Memphs State game from a Robert. Lee, Murphy nssted that LKK be charged for only 36 If Glanvlle can kavk tckets for lvs Presley, 1 can leave NIK for Robert. Isc. (m Hutzu~.q ~ ncnnut SID),oulsvlle s lourth annual athletcs department symposum was attended by more than 300 student- Steve Gnavan of Plttsbuq Sbte s a leadng Dlvslon II punt returner athletes. They heard Phtlp Bond, 1976 academc a&amerca n hasketball at l.ousvlle and now a certfed publc accountant and vcepresdent of the cty s Metro Unted Way. You have a great opportunty. he sad. Any play n athletcs corn petton has optons. When the frst opton doesn t work, you go to the next. For many players, the frst opton s sports, and f they do not take ther studes serously, they could have no second opton. (Jeff Schneder. Lousvlle SID) Can you top ths? DePauw staged one of the greatest comebacks n college football hstory to edge Anderson, 37-36, October 7. Down by 27 ponts (36-9) wth 19 mnutes left n the game, DKP~UW scored 28 unanswered ponts to wn. The Dvson 111 record for most ponts overcome to wn a pamc s 33, set by Wsconsn- Plattevlte vs. Wsconsn-au Clare n 1980 and ted by Salsbury State vs. Randolph-Macon n (Bll Wagner. De Pau H, SI Ll) However. Wsconsn-Plaltevlle traled 33-O wth seven mnutes left n the second quarter and had 3X mnutes to score ts 33 ponts, whle Salsbury State was down 33-O wth t 4 IX left n the second perod and had almost 43 mnutes to score Its 34 ponts. The most-ponts-overcome records n the other dvsons are below the 111 fgure. From the standpont of most ponts overcome per mnute, only one game we know of exceeds DePauw s feat That was n 1984 when Washngton State, down by 28 ponts to Stanford (42-14) wth about I9 mnutes left n the game, scored 35 unanswered ponts to wn, Houston Andre Ware passed for an NCAA nzcord 517 yards n one half to lead the Cougars to a vctory oversouthern Methodst