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Monday, August 18. 1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANGAN
Texas Tech to clean house
The Associated Press
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech will let go two employees involved in administrative gaffes that forced the Red Raiders to forfeit their Big 12 men's basketball games, athletic director Gerald Myers said.
Taylor McNeel and Michele Matticks' employment will end Aug. 31
The university's athletic administrators are ranked here.
McNeel had been assistant ath
letic director in charge of compliance and certification for nine years when he was demoted last March after an error cost two men's basketball players their eligibility. As a result, the Red Raiders forfeited their conference victories and withdrew from NCAA Tournament consideration.
Matticks, Tech's assistant director of the athletic department's academic services, also was reassigned in March. Her boss, Alfonso Scandrett, quit in June to become athletic
director at Buffalo (N.Y.) State.
assistant football coach and recruiting coordinator. Matthias joined the staff in 1995 after spending 11 years at Houston.
Two athletic department employees accused of violating NCAA rules
by former football player Stephen Gaines have resigned this year. Assistant football coach Rhudy Maskew quit because of health problems; events manager Ronn Reeger said he went into private business.
Mistakes in compliance and certification have cost six football and men's basketball players playing time or eligibility. And the baseball team could face NCAA sanctions because the school miscalculated the number of scholarships awarded.
Bible school may haunt football players
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — New York Jets player Marcus Coleman was among seven ex-Texas Tech athletes who took a Bible school correspondence course currently under NCAA scrutiny, the "Houston Chronicle" reported.
Unidentified sources told the newspaper that Coleman, a defensive back, was one of the seven who obtained course credit from Southeastern College of Lakeland, Fla.
Coleman, through team spokesman Doug Miller, declined to comment on the matter for
The Associated Press
Texas Tech has acknowledged that seven of its former athletes, five of them football players, obtained correspondence-course credit from the Bible school. The school has refused to identify the players.
If credits were used to establish Coleman's eligibility for that 1993 season, the NCAA could cite the school for using an ineligible player and direct the university to forfeit the games in which he played.
Coleman started 10 games in 1983, helping the Red Raiders reach the John Hancock Bowl and
His father, Vongle Coleman, said that he had been contacted by NCAA officials and had refused to answer their questions.
post a 6-6 record.
"I have nobody (in school) at Tech, and I don't care about the NCAA," Coleman told the "Chronicle." "Those rules are a bunch of crap, selectively enforced. You wouldn't be here if this was Notre Dame."
Telephone records show that 35 minutes in calls to Southeastern College's 800 number were placed to the school in 1993 from the home of Coleman's parents in Dallas.
Orlando Pace signs with St. Louis Rams
The Associated Press
IRVING, Texas — The St. Louis Rams lost a preseason game while adding a 320-pound hunk of talent to the team.
Orlando Pace, the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft out of Ohio State, has agreed to terms with the Rams after missing most of training camp in a holdout.
St. Louis coach Dick Vermeil, was happy negotiations were completed. "I'm really excited. This is great. It's nice that it is over," Vermeil said.
He added, "It's taken a long time. We're just glad to get it all over with. I respect Orlando Pace tremendously. I'm happy he's going to be with us. I'm also pleased that our administration was as patient as it was."
Pace's agent, Kevin Poston, said the seven-year contract is worth about $25.6 million. Pace can opt out of the contract after three years if certain playing time incentives are met.
The two sides had been at a standstill since the last offer by the Rams of six-year deal for $24.7 million — only $9.5 million of which was guaranteed.
"We're pleased with it. We're sorry it took so long, but we think we got fair market value for Orlando," Poston said.
"He's very excited."
The Rams' take on the contract was different than Poston's.
"Basically, this is a six-year," $18.3 million deal and it's not substantially different from what we offered in late July," Rams executive vice president Jay Zygmunt told the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch."
Zygmunt said the deal actually is worth $29.4 million during seven years.
"The reality is Pace will never see the seventh year," Zygmunt said.
The seventh year calls for Pace to make a base salary of $2.1 million with an astounding roster bonus of $9 million, which Pace would get merely for making the roster.
The entire deal is structured on the basis of Pace voiding the contract after the third year, with the Rams having the rights to buy back years 4 through 6 of the deal.
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