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November 9,1983 Page 16
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Kansas, K-State ADs oppose changes in NCAA power structure
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The athletic directors at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University say that an American Council on Education's proposal will be overbearing if approved.
The proposal, one of two recommendations to be presented at the 1984 National Collegiate Athletic Association convention Jan. 6-12 in Dallas, would allow a board of chief executive officers to suspend or replace any legislation passed by the NCAA convention.
KU Athletic Director Monte Johnson and K-State Athletic Director Dick Towers said the ACE proposal would be a superfluous piece of legislation.
However, there was some agreement with the counterproposal announced last Tuesday by the NCAA Council that would establish a President's team that would allow far less power than the ACE proposal.
THE NCAA PROPOSAL, submitted by the NCAA Committee on Governance, would incorporate a body of 44 college presidents into the NCAA.
According to the proposed legislation, Division I schools would have 22 members while Division II and III would have 11 members each. At least two officers of civil servants would be included in that number.
The proposal would allow the board of presidents to review any activity of the NCAA, place any matter of concern on the agenda for any meeting of the NCAA Council or any NCAA convention, commission studies of matters of concern in intercollegiate athletics anduge proposals legislative directio t to the convention, establish the final sequence of legislative proposals in any convention agenda and call for a special meeting of the NCAA on a two-thirds vote.
THE ACE PROPOSAL, however, would not only give the presidents power to suspend or replace any legislation passed by the NCAA convention, but it would also enable them to enact commission's own rules apart from the convention. Both types of action would be reversible only by a two-thirds recursion vote
"The ACE's proposal is way out of line," Towers said yesterday.
by the entire NCAA membership at a subsequent convention.
Johnson said that he saw the amendments he would not be in favor of them. He said he might approve the legislation only if he thought it would benefit athletes in the long run.
"Division I-A schools should be calling the shots on Division I-A problems. I think that the governance should be done within our own federation or group."
"THERE'S NO WAY that Division I and Division II schools have the exact same problems. In Division I A football there are 100 coaches, and in Division II could be making the decisions concerning them."
"I hope we wouldn't get into more regulation but rather cooperation," Johnson said. "I just hope changes are not made just to be making changes."
Johnson said he thought more time should be spent on making regulations more understandable rather than worrying about transferring authority.
He said that he and Del Brinkman, KU's faculty representative to the Big Eight and NCAA, would cast KU's vote on the legislation in January.
KU'S VOSIT, Johnson said, will be decided by him, Cancellor Gene A. Budig and Brinkman.
Brinkman declined to comment on the legislation. Budig could not be reached.
Both the ACE and NCAA Council proposals would require two-thirds majority of the nearly 800 schools to become part of the constitution. Each school has one vote.
Although the ACE proposal seeks to get college presidents more involved in NCAA matters, Johnson and Towers think those presidents already have sufficient input into their schools' athletic programs.
Towers said, "I really think it's good that our residents have a concern. It's very important to them to have a feeling of the problems of athletics, but they're very busy and some of them are not."
Towers said that college administrators
already had influence through committees such as the NCAA Council.
LAURENCE ROSE, KU assistant athletic director for NCAA rules and interpretations, said he did not know if there was more that college presidents could do.
"What people have to realize is that the NCAA is basically run by the college presidents." Rose said.
Johnson declined to say whether he thought either of the proposals would pass.
Towers, however, said that if history repeated itself the NCAA Council's proposal would play a major role.
“你'll just find that what comes out of the NCAA Council has a better chance.” Towers said. “Now, if it were to be coming from the Big Eight or say the Southwest Conference or the CFA (College Football Association), the chances of it making it would be pretty tough”
Big Eight Commissioner Carl James said Monday that the Big Eight would discuss the proposals as part of the Big Eight meetings next month in Kansas City.
Runners seek District V title this weekend Women compete to qualify for spot in national meet
By JANELLE MARTIN Sports Writer
Members of KU's men's and women's cross country teams are preparing for the NCAA District V Cross Country Championships in Ames, Iowa, this weekend.
Women's coach Cliff Rovelo said that he was taking his team to the meet, but men's coach Bob Timmons said he would not decide until this week whether or not the entire men's team would go.
Rovello said that juniors Paula Berquist, Susan Glatter and Heather Sterbenz; sophomore Caryne Finlay; and freshmen Cindy Blakeley and Tracey Keith would run for the Jayhaws Saturday.
"I am kind of disappointed at the competition that will be there," he said.
The Jayhawks have run on the course once this year, in the Iowa State Invitational Oct. 12, and placed fifth with a record fastest time this season at that meet.
at the way the teams qualifying for national would be chosen in this meet.
"It is a pretty good course," Rovetoil said. "We ran well as a team on it before and we should run well Saturday."
"The formula is that X number of schools must compete before more than one team advances to nationals," he said. "The district is decided geographically and we don't have that many participating."
"Unfortunately, a lot of coaches are making it worse by not sending a team. They complain about the setup but they are not even participating."
"We just got a bad deal this year," he said. "It is pretty bad when only six or seven schools out of 23 in the district are going to the meet.
KU's chances at winning the meet and advancing to nationals are slim, he said, but the team is going to run anyway.
He also said that his team was healthy and ready for the district meet except for a few minor, nagging injuries such as sore shins and joints.
He was disappointed because with this formula, some districts may have as many as three or four schools that receive funding while KU's district only has one.
the competition the Jayhawks will face this weekend is Kansas State, Iowa State and Missouri from the Big Eight and possibly one or two other teams.
"We need to run against good competition that will be there," Rovetto said. "If you want to build a program you have got to go and compete."
Men's coach Bob Timmons said that regardless of the decision to send the entire team, seniors Tim Gundy, Greg Sterner and Stenner would run in the district meet.
Murphy would rather win division than awards
Gundy placed fifth in the Big Eight Cross Country Championships on KU's website.
Dale Murphy
By United Press International
ATLANTA — Dale Murphy, a "Lli Abner" look-alike, took an "aw-shucks" approach yesterday to becoming only the fourth player in league history to be named the National League's Most Valuable Player for two consecutive seasons.
"I'm honored, of course," said the boyish-looking Atlanta Braves outfielder. "But it would have meant a lot more to me if we had made it to the playoffs and into the World Series. That's what you play for. Being out of the race leaves a sour taste in your mouth."
Murphy, who kept the Braves in the National League West race with his team, was a huge asset.
final days of the season, had his wite,
Nancy, at his side when he met with the
media in a hotel across the street from
Atlanta Stadium.
"How will we celebrate?" he replied to a question. "The same way I always do. We'll pick up our children (three sons) and go get something to eat."
MVP, "I'd look at what a player contributed to help his team, which one did the most to get his team where it was. The most important thing is that they have series and I didn't do that. There are so many ways a player can contribute."
Murphy's manager, Joe Torre, said the 27-year-old center fielder has not yet reached his prime despite winning back-to-back MVP Awards.
like Hank Aaron was when he was with the Braves," said Torre. "He can help you in so many different ways. Like Aaron, he's not a leader in that he's a rah-rah person out on the field. But he is a leader in that the other players look to him to provide whatever is needed to win."
Murphy said he wanted to thank all the people who helped him, "Joe, my coaches, my teammates and (Braves owner) Ted Turner, who had confidence in me when I wasn't playing very well."
"Murph is just beginning to mature as a baseball player," said Torre, who was MVP with St. Louis in 1971. "He definitely captures of hitting a concepteur, and he also homers for many years to come, especially playing in our ball park.
"Winning the MVP doesn't put me on a different level than the other players on our team," Murphy said. "I still have a lot to learn, a lot of things I can learn and I don't need it. I need to cut down on my strikeouts. I need to learn to concentrate better."
Murphy came to the Braves as a catered with a reputation for overheated pitching.
"It's difficult to compare ballplayers, but I'd have to say that Murph is a lot
"There are times when I feel I played up to 100 percent of my capability. But there were others when I felt I wasn't better than about 13 percent."
"There was a time when I didn't know where or whether I would play at all," he said. "I'm just happy that they found a place for me in the outfield."
Murphy said if he were picking the
Woolridge's 29 helps Chicago break streak by edging Kansas City
CHICAGO — Orlando Woolridge scored 29 points and Dave Corzine added 21 to pace Chicago to a 100-97 victory last night over the Kansas City Kings and end the Bulls' three-game losing streak
By United Press International
The Bulls led 77-68 entering the fourth quarter. Rookie Mitchell Wiggins scored the first two Chicago baskets in the final quarter, giving Chicago an 81-72 lead. The Kings then rattled off 11 straight points and, on a basket by Eddie Johnson, led 82-41 with 5:35 left.
A free throw by Mark Olberding gave the Kings an B3-81 lead with 4:24 left. Quintin Dailey added two
free throws, which added to the six points Chicago had scored in the final period, and tied the game at 83-83 with 41 remaining. The teams traded 14篮, and a layup by Cormire with 2:02 left put Chicago in front for good, 89-87.
Woolridge had 13 points at the half and scored 11 in the third quarter to lead the Bulls. In the third quarter, Chicago shot 56 percent and built its biggest lead at 72-59 with 4:19 left in the quarter. The Kings' Billy Knight had 11 points in the final quarter and paced all scorers with 33.
The loss was the fourth in six contests for Kansas City. last night's game was the Kings' first on the road this season.
CHICAGO (100)
KANSAS CITY (97)
Greenwood 4-7 0-2, Woolridge
12-16 5-8 29, Cormine 9-13 3-3 21,
Dalley 2-10 4-4 8, Whattte 0-4 0-0,
Theus 7-9 2-3 16, Wiggins 4-10 2-10,
Green 1-7 0-2 0, Oldham 2-5 0-4,
Higgins 1-2 0-1 2
Totals 42-83 16-23 100.
E. Johnson 3-15 0-10, O. Berlinger 1-5 2-4, Thompson 2-6 0-4, Drew 8-15 2-4, Knight 13-2 0-7, Muse 3-12 0-4, Nealy 2-5 1-2, S. Johnson 2-3 0-4, Suttle 1-7 2-4, E. Johnson 2-5 0-4, Meriweather 4-5 2-0
Three-point goal — Drew, Fouled out — None. Total fouls — Kansas City 26, Chicago 25, Rebounds — Kansas City 40, (Olberding 7), Chicago 43 (Greenwood 12). Assists — Kansas City 26 (E. Johnson 9), Chicago 31 (Theus 11) A — 4,647.
CHICAGO — The Bulls' Mitchell Wiggins attempts to pass the ball over three Kansas City defenders, from left to right, LaSalle Thompson, Larry Drew and Eddie Johnson. Chicago won last night's game. 100-97 Last night.
Switzer says OU looking to Hawaii game as bowl appearance
NORMAN. Okla. — The Oklahoma Sooners may not go "bowl-ing" in the traditional sense but they will have a bowl-ing coach. Barry Swiffer said yesterday.
Up until last Saturday there still were hopes for a Big Eight championship and with it the host role in the Orange Bowl, but the loss to Missouri took care
By United Press International
The 10-0 loss at Columbia dropped the Sooners' record to 6-3 and the three losses knocked them out of the top 20 ratings for the first time this season.
sports publicist Mike Treps said none
came to the scandal plans to be in Norman
for this week.
of that.
"I JUST DON'T THINK we attractive right now," he said. "Oh, we could get in a bowl (but) I'm not going to go ask to get in a bowl."
It also apparently knocked them out of consideration for any bowl that may have been thinking about extending an invitation.
At his weekly lunchmeet yesterday, Switzerland said that so far no bowel treatment had been given.
finale at Honolulu on Dec. 3 may be hampering the Sooners' chances for a bowl bid as much as their win-loss record.
But Switzer said Oklahoma still will have a bowl game of sorts.
"The Hawaii game . . . that is our bowl game." he said.
Ironically. the scheduled season
Switzer said the bowl selection committees "know that we'll have a following of people who plan on that we'll be able to meet them, so we're not attractive as a bowl team."
For $6,357, KU has bought 19 home and away game jerseys along with new warmups and some extra shorts and shirts.
For the first time in 20 years the KU Jayhawks have a new basketball coach in Larry Brown. Along with a new coach the Jayhawks also will have a new wardrobe when they open the gym against a fight the Netherlands National team
Brown buys new basketball uniforms, warmups for Jayhawks
"We're taking a lot of people and making a vacation out of Honolulu."
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Although the old uniforms needed
Staff Reporter
He said his intention at KU was to choose a good uniform that the players were ready for.
KU bought the new uniforms and warmups from Champion Products in Rochester, N.Y., a company that Brown refers to as "great" and one that he worked with while coaching the New Jersey Nets and UCLA Bruins.
replacing, Brown said, it is basically a tradition for a new coach to buy new uniforms KU last bought all new men's in 1881 under Coach Ted Owens.
"My biggest concern was that I really wanted the kids to be comfortable with what they had to wear;"
Brown said.
The company supplies uniforms to most of the National Football League teams and to the many of the Major League Baseball teams, Brown said.
"IT'S PROBABLY the best company," he said.
The Brooks Company is sponsoring the Jayhawks footwear for the 1983-84 season.
But while Blaire is ushered in as only the eighth KU coach in 86 seasons of collegiate competition, he prefers to play his own way and the uniforms will be writing a new
chapter in KU basketball history.
The 1983-84 ticket brochure shows Brown standing in front of a picture of the legendary Phog Allen, KU's first coach. The "Beginning of A New Fri!"
"That's my not slogan," he said. "I didn't feel comfortable with that."
Brown, however, does not like to think of his work at KU as the beginning of a new era for a school that is fourth in the nation's winning list for college basketball.
THE COST of the new uniforms has put KU $2,819 over the budgeted $11,500 for player supplies, but Susan Wachter,
athletic department business manager,
said it should not pose any problems for
this year's basketball operating budget
of $532,000.
That's because KU was still searching for a new coach during budget-drafting time last year and played it in the room for a $23,000 continuity fund
The extra money, Wachter said, was set aside as a safeguard for any additional expenses that bring a new coach could expect to bring in, such as new uniforms and equipment and moving a new coaching staff to Lawrence.
Playoff hopes dwindle after Chiefs lose 2
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo — The Kansas City Chiefs have certainly had the chances in their bid to end the longest-running playoff drought in the American Football Conference.
The Chefs have not made the playoffs in 11 seasons. The only team in the NFL that has gone longer is the NFC New Orleans Saints, who have never advanced into post-season competition since the team was formed in 1977.
As recently as two weeks ago, Kansas City appeared in a favorable position to that post-season absence, having posted a 4-4 record to sit a game out of first place in the AFC West But their defense was ineffective. Broncos and the Los Angeles Raiders have dropped the Chiefs to a game out of last place at 4-6.
The Chiefs took a 14-10 lead over the San Diego Chargers with three minutes remaining in their nationally televised Sept. 12 game on a 48-yard flea-flicker touchdown pass from Carlos Carson to fellow wide receiver Henry Marshall. But San Diego marched right back down the field to claim a 17-14 victory on a 12-yard Dant Fouls to Wes Chandler touchdown pass.
"We're disappointed that we've played tough, played well, played hard games and haven't won." Kansas City coach John Mackovic said. "When we get to the point where we win those games? I don't know.
It was of minor consolation that Kansas City had a chance to defeat the Raiders Sunday when Nick Lowery lined up for a 43-yard field goal with 1:55 remaining and his team trailing 21-20. But he shanked the kick — booking it left and leaving it short — to los Angeles escape with the victory.
"BUT IT WILL BE, sooner if we don't give up. Human nature is such that you place a bigger value on defeat than victory. If you bowl five straight strikes, you'll have a tougher gutters ball, if a human nature to dwelon in the gutter balls. Why is that?
LOWERY ALSO had a chance to beat the Raiders in the first meeting of the season between the two teams in Los Angeles. He lined up for a 40-yard field goal on the final play of that game with his Cheets also trailing 21-20. But "bucket" *Bet Hendrick* shocked that kick the first block of Lowery's career.
"As long as failures carry a greater value, you'll have a difficult time accomplishing what you hope to accomplish When you learn to reverse that you'll be a lot happier. Happy people win more, happy people are luckier, happy people have a history of doing better things."
Kansas City will also be host on Sunday to one of the hottest teams in the NFL, the Cincinnati Bengals, who have won three in a row to improve their record to 4-6. They remain a top team and have not been the Chiefs other remaining game is on the road against the San Diego Chargers.
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