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SPORTSLOOK College Athletics DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? The Black Coaches Association said it has given up on working with the NCAA and will turn to outside groups for help in attacking what it considers to be inequities in college athletics. The association, upset that NCAA delegates recently approved tougher eligibility standards for incoming athletes, said it had no other recourse but to seek help from other groups. The BCA opposes using standardized entrance examinations as part of those standards, contending they nr*? fnilhimllv hinspH Miami Athletics Director Paul Dee is looking beyond the obvious frontrunners in his search for a new football coach. On Monday, Dee interviewed Youngstown State coach Jim Tressel, who led the Penguins to their third NCAA Division I-AA title in four years last season. Tressel, 42, is the second coach Dee is known to have interviewed after Dennis Erickson left last week to coach the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. Colorado State's Sonny Lubick remained a somewhat frustrated front-runner for the job, while Wisconsin's Barry Alvarez turned down a chance to interview. "He told them he wasn't interested," said Pat Richter, Wisconsin athletics director said Monday. "Prom a college perspective, this is as good a job as there is." South Carolina's Brad Scott, another coach who caught the Hurricane^ attention, earlier said he wasn't interested in the vacancy. Mike McGee, South Carolina's athletics director, said he was contacted by a Miami official on Monday seeking permission to talk with Scott about the Hurricanes' coaching vacancy. The call came from Miami's Senior Associate Athletics Director Larry Wahl. "I just said the coach was not interested, and that basically was it," McGee said. Scott said he was concerned the publicity would hurt his ability to recruit for the Gamecocks. Lubick, a former Miami defen Come by the [newappl i ja * (f you are infer * If you enjoy be people while h ^ ff unn tuanf ovr II r VM " ?"? Vfir a leader... * If you need C3J academic cred on A STUDENT HEA sive coordinator, met Sunday wit Dee in Chicago. Lubick last wee publicly pushed for a quick decisioi and he's still anxious to resolve tl matter. "We talked at length about tl: direction they would like the prograi to go, and if I felt comfortable takir that direction," Lubick said, addir he wasn't offered the job. "He loves Fort Collins, and he concerned about the time frame said his wife, Carol. "He has a big n cruiting week next weekend and ha one this weekend. "He has a good job here, and the] are a lot of things about Miami, toi ... He's going to do some soul searcl ir>or " * 6* Dee also called Duke officials Moi day to seek permission to inter-vie1 Blue Devils coach Fred Goldsmitl Former Hurricanes assistanl Gary Stevens and Butch Davis als continue to surface as possible cai didates. Stevens is the offense coac for the Miami Dolphins, and Dav is the defensive coordinator for th Dallas Cowboys. Blake Williamson, South Carol na's backup quarterback the past tw seasons, has told coach Brad Scoi he will not return for his final yes of eligibility. School spokesman Kerry Thar confirmed Tuesday that WiUiamso fhnsp notrp.tiim Willinmsnn nlavp in seven games this year, complei ing 11 of 27 passes for 126 yards, or TD and three interceptions. Williamson got married earlie this month and is scheduled to gra< uate in May. Scott said Williamso decided to concentrate on academit and possibly attending gradual school. "Certainly, hell be a guy thaf be missed in our program and ws one of the special young men for oi program," Scott said. If Williamson had returned, I likely would have battled redshii freshman Anthony Wright for tl backup role behind Steve Taneyhi] Tve never been on a team whei I had a second-team quarterback th prepared as hard and was alwaj ready, if called upon down the stretc like he was," Scott said. ested in health., (ping other i?>fDin<? umircoff viriiid /vui tfviiM >erience being three lit hours... Ml* 0RGANIZA1 LTh EDUCfl Student Health Ce r call us at 777-82' ICATION D1 NUARY 19,1 I] Hockey's resti h NIGEL RAVENHILL Staff Writer k a What a relief In what was proving tg to be an even more painful experience than awaiting USCs first ever bowl vicie tory, life without hockey was sheer misrjj ery. Millions of supporters who follow g the fortunes of their chosen heros with ,g the zeal of rabid dogs were forced to cast their gazes past their beer mugs to tele's vized scenes of beach volleyball and jet ? ski racing. g_ With the passage of the late summer 1(j sunshine and the approach of fall and winter, my thoughts pass to the "Boys *e of Winter" who do battle in frozen are0. nas. How will the Maple Leafs do this j. season? Will Gretzky mark 100 points for the millionth season, and will some > one please punch the crap out of Mark w Messier? But National Hockey League a. Commissioner Gary Bettman, who on:s ly recently rode into town from the NBA jo where he served a long apprenticeship > under salary cap honcho David Stern, :h brought similar visions of greed to the is hockey owners. In the ensuing battle of ie avarice, the owners pitted themselves against the players. The immediate result was a halt to millions of friendly dei bates, stadium hot dog sales and the ro baptismal rites of passage for young fans tt as they attend their first games, ir To what good was all of this? I am certainly no pro-union supporter but p hockey owners seem to suffer from the n same selective responsibility lapse as d baseball owners. They fall over themt selves signing marquee players, untestie ed junior draftees and pretty much anybody with a silver tongued agent and sr cry later when they realize errors of their ____________ n inn i e ^T^e^Howmg awar^winners^we ^ Ed Guerard Academic Award: R; Scott Si nc iai HNewcomer^y^en 11 special yearns Mvr^j^enseji i U. Most Outstanding Back: (Offens re MostOutstanding Wide Receive at Most Outstanding Offensive Lint is Most Outstanding Inside Linebai h, Most Outstanding Defensive Lin mip ^ NON OF PEER TORS :nter Basement 48. | EADLINE IS | 995 | art means time fiscal ways. This flight of reason is ruining the sport because the resources simply don't exist. > Hockey is unique in that small cities in both Canada and the United States can field championship teams, and the < NHL has historically been the poor cousin of the four major professional sports in j Nnr+h Amprira Tt is rvnlv vprv rpppntlv in the past five years that salaries (and to a lesser extent revenues) have sharply i increased to approach the absurdly high levels of other sports. The players are only too happy to sign huge contracts and collect their monthly checks, and who can blame them. The "man in the street" questions of "do you think professional athletes are paid too much?" ' are moot point at best. Of course they i are, but the players are paid the going rate of their vocation just like the best welders or doctors. I In profesional sports, owners exercise a strange level, monopolisttic con- ; trol over the markets, an anti-trust heaven that Congress strangely ignores. While ! they may have little control over revenues, they can budget to the exact pen- 1 ny like any other company their expenses. This serves as one of the more amusing ironies of sports and labor strife. j Picture this: The auto industry de- 1 rides next spring that wage agreements 1 with their employees, a.k.a. the UAW, < have been too generous and as such they ] plan to lock out the workers to extract 1 concessions including an industry-wide cap on how much players can make, ] where they live and who they can work i for. Essentially that is what contempo- ] rary pro sports and hockey have, only i re honored^^^ii^g| nightytirefpg Beckwith, OL; jDefense) Be ^eedMlorton, PK; (D^ense^Lee^Wi^ e)^randon Bennett, RB; (Defense J 1 smanjJamj^^xler e^arrJD^id^T m^psee^^ s^yy GAN Welc To The Pool Board Gam< Lounge Arc Bring this coupon in | One FREE I j of Pool I One Visit per customi Student ID expires September S L s for celebratii followed by their bigger cousins by trying to dose the bam gate after the horse called "Sane Fiscal Planning for the Future" has bolted and run away to the distant hills where it lives. Instead of strategy for tomorrow, they have lost their sanity today and want the players to give back what they have only been too happy to accept. Hockey has always been the poor cousin for many reasons. The main reason is the average American television viewer, who regularly watches Troy Aiken an and Roger Clentons, wouldn't know a slapshot if it reached out from the TV set and smashed his beer. And no matter how.much the networks hype the Olympics every four years, a groundswdl of interest in the game will never last in moinefwiom Amnrioc T+ \inll A i a\rowr UXUX1I0UMUU I XLLLtsi Xlsd. lb TV ill U1VIVVX CTU1J time ABC plays the last seconds of the great aberration of 1980, the gold medal victory over the Russians, but the game just doesn't have the deep cultural roots like Harry Caray at Wrigley Field. As Stuart Smalley would say, "that's OK" But Gary Bettman, conniving weasel that he is, has convinced the owners they are in the big leagues with Jerry Jones and the DeBartolos. As long as they rejoice in these deluded visions of grandeur, they will continue to run amuck. The bottom line is that without the broadcasting crutch of a few billion dollars, hockey will never be able to compete with baseball, basketball or football. Who is at fault, the owners or the players? In short who really cares? The Dwners think they are business-ubermensrh and willincrlv nnv nlavprs thpir ridiculous demands. Agents are only too iot Smith, n Washington, FS L___ igins, DB _______ )hnsRurr^h,DE ony Watkins, SS ev THE IERC omes All Stuck 1994 Fall Serr ' for I sr with , ] 2nd Fl Available to all I ? ?? ... ? ? mmJL on, questions happy to push the envelop as far as the) can. And why not? It doesn't hurt to asli for the moon and celebrate righteousl) when some idiot who happens to run a sports franchise more haphazardly than a 6-year-old would run her first lemonade stand agrees. If I was a player, Fd do likewise and ask for the whole, gooey enchilada. Il will sure help with the kid's college expenses. The owners have acted like those parents who leave their kids at home and then when they return home, wonder incredulously at the mess. A little more sanity five years ago when the salary explosion began would have avoided the pain of the last three months. But all of these questions don't lessen the pain. We had to do without the game for 103 days and, if you include the time from the Ranger's Stanley Cup victory, that was almost eight months with no hockey and almost no reason to drink beer. Think of it. It's like eight months without sex, an enforced and very inopportune celibacy that is neither welcome nor of any residual value. With the promise of a reduced schedule of 48 games, the depths of winter will not be as harsh as the past months. There will once again be a reason to stay at home on Saturday nights and cradle a beer in front of the TV. Hockey is back in town and may the greedy players and owners be banished to a frozen wasteland without skates and pucks for the rest in their next lives. Long live the greatest game on earth and take Gary Bettman back to the NBA if their warranty is still valid. It's Time to Play. )0M 5nts lester so Games ng Pong [evisions i 9^ oor, Russell House ISC Students, Staff & Faculty *