University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 28, 1976
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By KEN STONE
Associate Sports Editor
Editor's note: This is the first of two stories on the NCAA convention held two weeks ago. See tomorrow's sports page for the second part.
Infighting results in few changes at NCAA meeting
ST. LOUIS—When the National Collegiate Athletic Association convened here, Jan. 14-17, some tempers were blown as high as the nearby Gateway Arch.
Many of those delegates were calling the meeting, "the most important in the history of our country."
On the other hand, the convention may
It would have distributed those funds equally among the hundreds of smaller schools in Divisions II and III, whose names are more pronounced, much less expect to see on ABC.
Stephen Horn, president of Long Beach State University, acquired the nickname "Robin Hood." His school sponsored the income redistribution plan.
With more than $16 million of television revenues being done in 1975, the stakes were high. The state schools in the NCAA, only 113 saw money trickling their way. And of that 113, just 54 actually appeared on television. The 59 broadcasts of conference revenue sharing policies.
have been the scene where sports history was averted.
One amendment would have taken a clause in television money away from the troops in Iraq.
But despite the number of football Davids, the football Goliaths were victorious. Horn's "take from the rich and give to the poor" proposal was defeated.
Going into the four-day meeting many coaches, coaching associations, athletic directors and college presidents were expecting the worst: a bloodbath that saw coaches losing their jobs and athletes their scholarships.
But not every rule change backed by the big-time college athletic powers was appo
Another, a much-publicized and debated plan to split the NCA's Division I into two divisions—a super conference with about 90 schools and the rest in another division—from the floor when the delegates decided they needed more time to think about it.
That brought a sigh of relief from Horn, one of the 85 college president who attended the meeting (an NCAA record, by the way). Horn commented on the reorganization proposal before the convention.
"If this resolution is adopted," Horn said, "it will be the same old story of the 10 per cent in the NCAA getting richer and the 90 per cent getting poorer."
What the reorganization would have meant, Horn said, was the establishment of a new bureaucracy.
Of course, others saw it differently. The major football powers—81 schools made up of 21 independents and schools from eight states—were the 'Eight' were very much in favor of it.
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The reorganization would have allowed these schools to decide for themselves the number of coaches they could employ, the number of players they could dress for a game, the number of recruiting contacts they could make and the number of scholarships they could award in a given sport.
In other words, according to its advocates, the new division would have been given the power of self-determination and independence imposed on the other NCAA member schools.
A special convention on economy last August imposed many restrictions on squad membership. The students' scholarships that could be offered and the number of prospective student-athletes that could be selected.
Many coaches—including several at KU—were certain their jobs were on the line. The NCAA voted to limit football coaching staffs to one head coach, eight full-time assistants and two part-time assistants who didn't recruit.
One of the first things the convention delegates did in St. Louis was vote down or table proposals that would have limited the league in sports other than football and basketball.
Coaching associations, an outcry by many athletic departments and a reversal of last year's gloomy economic outlook could have prevented mind, said participants in St. Louis.
Yet some of the cost-cutting sentiment that had been observed in the August campaign is still evident.
The most controversial and tradition-shattering amendment concerning Division I schools was defeated, 120-112, after the first vote resulted in a tie. 119-118.
That amendment. No 100, would have revenues on the basis of our granting earnings on the basis of our granting
It would have dictated that athletic scholarships be granted on the basis of
According to the amendment, sponsored by the NCAA Council—a small, influential body of athletic directors, faculty representatives and college presidents—a school could offer a prospectus for an athlete enough information it for tuition and that was it. No room. No board. No books. And no $15 a month "laundry money."
But it was defeated, Walter Byers, NCAA executive director, told reporters afterward. "Some rather significant decisions made here may not surface immediately because some matters are a little laborious in getting to the main point.
That is, unless an athlete could prove he was in "rested." A complicated system of tests and records can be used.
It was the kind of thing that Horn earlier said reminded him of "an insurance contract."
"But need has emerged as the major issue, and there are going to be a lot of decisions made in the next year at the highest level of every institution."
family could afford to spend on their sons was offered by the NCAA Council.
Having to show financial need to get a scholarship didn't sit well with many delegates. But more tedious to others were the requests for amendments that showed the convention's failure.
It took three and a half hours for the delegates, seated around circular tables in conferences, to dispose of the "need" amendment. By the time the parliamentary council of order had resolved the other major issues, the convention had come to adjournment.
More than 50 amendments never came to the floor.
This kind of activity prompted Ross
Pritchard, president of Arkansas State University, to say in a speech to the NCAA Honors Luncheon, "While economy is important, it is not economical to engage with them." There are more than 500 professionals to debate whether we should award letter sweaters.
"Somewhere in our concern for economy we have drifted into a tangle of legislative trivia. As a college president already reported and ambiguous guidelines, I would hate to see the NCAA become the HEW of college athletics."
Everyone applauded.
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