University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 30.1978
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KU sprinters Wiley and Newell await NCAA ruling on eligibility
By GARY VICE
Spark Writer
Bob Timmons, University of Kansas head track coach, is anxiously awaiting word from the NCAA national headquarters in Shawnee Mission to usernam a financial aid entanglement that has sidelined Jayhawk sprinters Cliff Wiley and Kevin Newell.
Wiley and Newell, two mainstays of KU's potent spirit corps, are concerned about an ruling that limits the amount of financial support received to remain eligible for competition.
Until the NCAA renders a judgment clearing them of any infraction of constitutional bylaw, Wiley and Newell won't be reprimanded. The Midwest relays circuit this weekup.
At issue is whether the combination of athletic scholarships and government funds they are receiving exceeds the maximum amount allowed under NCAA rules.
THE NCAA HAS notified the University that it must reduce its scholarship aid to the athletes so as not to exceed the "commonly accepted educational expenses" for the course of the academic year. For KU, the maximum scholarship费 is $2,756 for the out-of-state athlete.
Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director,
said yesterday that scholarship funds to
Wiley and Newell had been restricted in
order to comply with the NCAA bylaw.
But despite having their aid cut off for the rest of the year, both Wiley and Newell will still have received financial assistance in lieu of the maximum allowed, Waugh said.
"The problem is that we (the athletic department) are responsible for information of government funds for which we have no control," he said. "The grant should be controlled so we would need to dig into the athlete's private matters to be informed."
WILEY AND NEWELL received the government funds under a program for assisting economically underprivileged students to attend college. The financial aid, bursary and grant unit County Grant (BEGO), is awarded without regard to the applicant's athletic ability.
Two other trackmen, freshmen hurrier Anthony Coleman and middle-distance runner Tommy McCall have also received BEOG funds and exceeded the NCAA limit. But the government aid they received was less than the amounts Wiley and Newell received, and they were still eligible for competition. Their scholarship funds also were halted.
Waugh said he became aware that the athletes had qualified for the BEOG funds last fall, but because the amounts were the same as the money not known of any infraction of NCAA rules.
"IT'S NOT A situation that has just come
up," he said. "It began last September when we sat down with the athletes and alerted them of the rule. I was uncertain as to total amount of money they had received.
"When we recognized the fact that it was in excess, we stopped payments," he said. "Now we've asked the NCAA for help. I think we will know more in a day or two when we get a determination from the NCAA as to what our position should be."
'They (the NCA) have not responded to us because they still have to discuss the issue with Mr. Sauer.'
acceptance of the BEOG funds was in a
matter of doubt. The BEOG has been
very difficult to understand.
WAUGH SAID Wiley and Newell were being withheld from competition to prevent jeopardizing their future eligibility and the University's position.
"At this point we are reluctant to use the answer," he said. "so far, we haven't used any evidence."
"ammons said, "At this time they are ineligible to compete and we will make an appeal to the NCAA to get them eligible. We want them to get the kids and I'm so励 to fight for them."
David Berst, executive assistant in the NCAA's enforcement department, said, The problem is primarily the athletes. The aid doesn't exceed so that the aid doesn't exceed the limit.
"An athlete who is receiving BEGO funds is limited to that amount and cannot receive financial aid which exceeds the total in the bylaws of the NCAA Constitution.
"TO MAKE SURE the athlete doesn't violate the financial aid limits, they (the university) would adjust their own in-vestment plan downward and retrieve funds necessary."
Berst said the University's limit on further aid would ensure that the athlete's room and board allowances didn't exceed the maximum aid total when added to the BOEG funds.
However, in the case of Wiley and Newell,
the cutoff of University funds was too late
to permit the introduction of a new
model.
ALSO, HE SAID the student-athlete might apply for the government aid late in the year, so late in fact, that it would be impossible for the University to keep the athlete under the allowable aid limit by discontinuing his athletic scholarship.
Waugh said the BEOG fund provided two problems for the athletic department. First, he said that the government fund was not controlled by the University and that they would be unaware of the amount the student-athlete received.
The last filing date for the BEGO funds in March 15 of each year. Therefore, a student-athlete could receive the government aid during the state of March 15 and then exceed the limit.
Berst said that athletes who received more than the financial assistance limit would still remain eligible, as in the case of Coleman and McCall.
"It probably comes down to what is recoverable from the athlete in that particular year." Berst said. "He would be eligible, assuming the aid is adjusted and at least to exceed the amount or at least to the extent they can adjust it at that time."
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—All-Americas Kent Benson and Scott may unfit for 51 points as Indiana's unbeaten Hoosiers rallied in the second half to crush Michigan 86-8 last night and win college basketball's 1976 national championship.
The 6-11, 245-pound Benson scored 25 points on 11 field goals and three free throws while the Wolverines inside, while May collected eight and eight from the foul line for 28 points.
The victory was No.1-ranked Indiana's 32nd. Ninth-ranked Michigan wound up 25,7 with three of those losses coming at the hands of Indiana, after the first NCAA final in history between teams from the same conference.
TRAILING 35-28 at halftime, the Hoolesss drew even at 38:00 on an 11-foot jump by the Warriors.
The score was tied five times and the lead changed six times before May, college basketball's Player of the Year, drove the lane for an eight-foot at 9:58 to put Indiana out front. 53-51. The Hoskers then steadily pulled away.
Hoosiers hose Michigan, 86-68
Indiana outscored the Wolverines 10-4,
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THE CLOSEST Michigan could get-area that was four points when Steve Grote made two free throws with 6:22 left to cut the Indiana margin to 68-59. But May hit from behind in a close play and Abernethy each made two free throws to quickly boost the Hoosiers to a 68-59 margin.
the third national championship with the third national championship for India in each time defeating Kansas in the finals. It was the first national title for India in the volatile 59-year-old coach, Bobby Knight.
INDIANA ROLLED into the championship game with tournament victories over St. John's of New York, Alabama, second-ranked Marquette and defending A-队. A probably the toughest opposition in the 324a field that entered the playoffs.
Michigan, which finished second to Indiana in the Big Ten, defeated Wichita State, Notre Dame, Missouri and previously unbeaten Rutgers to reach the championship game for the fourth time in its seven appearances in the NCAA tour
Indiana's 32-0 season equaled the best perfect record in major college basketball history, accomplished by North Carolina in 1967.
Knight haped off the bench as the clocked
players began to huggle haggaged each
play as he cleared his bench.
THE HOOSIERS were able to win handily despite a discouraging injury only 2:43 into the first half. Bobby Wilkerson, the 6-7 senior guard, suffered a slight concussion and had to be carried from the floor on a stretcher. Wilkerson, who had collected 19 touchdowns in the game, UCLA Saturday, was admitted to Temple University hospital for observation.
"For two years this has been our objective," said the jubilant Knight. "Not just this, but for two years these kids have known one knows how hard any hard than I do."
UCLA wins consolation
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Marques Johnson scored 30 points and triggered a game-breaking 15-8 burst midway through the second half to carry UCLA to a 108-82 victory over Rutgers yesterday night in the NCAA basketball championships.
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -Quarterback John Haliad, the two-time All-America from KU, will be traded from the Green Bay Oilers, an Oilers Ollies, it was reported yesterday.
Matt Mitchell, sports editor of the El Cajon Californian, said Hadl, a 1961 KU graduate and a former resident of El Cajon, will go to the Oliers along with defensive tackle Ella Jones Houston backup quarterback Ellis Dickey, a graduate of K-State.
Johnson led the Bruins on their game-winning surge, scoring four points as UCLA bolted to a 90-83 lead with 6:41 to play. ULA, ranked fifth nationally, later outscored the fourth-ranked Scarlet Knights 14-2 with Johnson getting another field goal giving ULA a 104-87 advantage with only 2:47 remaining.
Hadl traded to Houston
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