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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
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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
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publicly pushed for a quick decisioi
and he's still anxious to resolve tl
matter.
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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
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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
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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]
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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.
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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
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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
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a. Commissioner Gary Bettman, who on:s
ly recently rode into town from the NBA
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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
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tt as they attend their first games,
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certainly no pro-union supporter but
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fiscal ways. This flight of reason is ruining
the sport because the resources
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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.
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ironies of sports and labor strife. j
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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