Thursday, November 4, 1976
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Sports Scene Brent Anderson Associate Sports Editor
New football association would keep powers mighty
The midguts slay the giants—that's what happens each year when colleges and universities that are members of the NCAA play at the Pac-10. The NCAA teams they have in intercollegiate athletics.
The giants are apparently getting tired of the midges telling them what to do in the NCAA, so they are going to try to get rid of the midges.
That's what the proposed College Football Association (CFA) would do. Instead of the large numbers of smaller colleges and universities having the power to restrict the number of players in their athletics, the CFA would have that power.
Larger universities, especially ones with big football programs, have become weary of being ruled by schools that don't have the same problems they do. Athletic directors of universities like Nebraska, Michigan, and Ohio have said that the problems they have to face aren't the ones that Ball State University in Munice, Ind., have to face.
THEREFORE, they say, Ball State shouldn't have the same power they do when votes are taken on proposals restricting football programs.
The argument is illogical. It is easy to understand the frustration the big boys experience when they are told to do by smaller and less solvent schools, but that is not appropriate for an apparent desire to turn college (outdoor) into an even bigger machine than it already is.
If those football giants want to govern themselves (which is basically what the CF A proposal probably would accomplish), then they should be the smaller schools are jealous of them and
want to ruin their football programs is ridiculous.
To be a member of the CFA, a school must have a stadium with a seating capacity of at least 30,000, an average attendance of at least 20,000 a game in the last five years, and an average of at least 80 grants-in-aid to football players in the last five years.
All Big Eight Conference teams could be members of the CPA, should the conference decide to join. Chances are they will conferences decide to do the same thing.
THE FIRST formal meeting of potential members of the CFA is scheduled for mid-December. Judging by the reactions of many athletic directors to decisions made during the CFA convention, it is likely that the College Football Association will become a reality.
If it does, my guess (and reason for concern) is that the Nebraskas and Oklahoma will get stronger and richer and schools similar to Kansas State and Kansas will have to continue to struggle even harder to compete with them.
Also, the pressures on the lesser school's budgets will increase and, unless the school wins a few games each year, they might themselves wanting to rejoin the NCAA.
The potential exists for the CFA to have a positive effect on college football, and maybe it will. It could, for example, bring a national champion to a true national champion in football.
Conceivably, the CFA could bring about competition between member schools. But, considering the high correlation between the amount of money a school has to spend on football and the success of its program, it is doubtful that will happen.
When the KU field hockey team takes the field this Saturday against the University of St. Louis, it will play a different brand of field hockey.
By DAN BOWERMAN
Different turf awaits hockey team
The Jayhawks aren't going to try a strategy of offense or defense; they're trying a different one.
KU's field hockey team has been used to play on fields that have grass on part of the field and holes all over the field. But the university's athletic department provides an official turf in Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
"It's a lot different," Nancy Lumbros, St. Louis junior, said yesterday. "It's a better game. It's faster, much more highly skilled and more challenging."
The team got a feeling of what it will be like playing on artificial turf yesterday and Tuesday by practicing in Memorial Stadium.
BOTH THE TEACH, Diana Beebe, and the players seem to be excited about playing in Busch Stadium, but they agree that it will seem to play a different type of field hockey.
She also said that the Jayhawks would have to reel on ball control more than they did in last year's game.
"We'll have to have more control and use lighter passes," she said. "You can't use long passes because they'll get by you and go out of bounds."
BEEEB SAID that playing on artificial turf was "absolutely unbelievable."
"It's a totally different game. It's a more
game, a more finezese game and a
very fast game."
Beebe said she was looking forward to playing on the artificial turf, but she was worried about injuries that the turf might help cause.
"We're not going to practice on it any more," she said. "This game isn't worth any knee strains or ankle strains on. We're not going to win, but we hope no one gets injured."
BEEEB SAID that her team hadn't experienced any injuries in practice other than tight leg muscles from running on the concrete-bared turf and bruises on the goalie's feet from stopping the ball, which moves faster on the turf than grass.
"On artificial turf, the goalkeeper is in 'a very vulnerable position,' she said. "In the goal, he could go give him a chance to have change if a lot of games are played on artificial turf. But it'll be fun and an
experience that we don't want to pass up"
But the game will provide added excitement.
"I've seen the professional teams play
things going to be something else to play
here myself."
Kings clobber Sonics
Kansas CITY (AP)—Guard Ron Boone pumped in a game-half 20 points and reserve center Jim Eakins added 23 as the Kansas City Kings romped to a 126-106 National Basketball Association decision over the Seattle Supersonics last night.
The victory was Kansas City's fourth straight loss on the road that year.
Brian combined with backcourt mate Brian Taylor for half of Kansas City's first-quarter points as the kings pulled away, 36-21. Kansas City led 63-48 at the half and extended its lead to 20 in the third quarter. The Sonics couldn't recover.
NCAA inquiry begins at OU
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association said in Kansas City yesterday that the NCAA was conducting a preliminary probe into the University of Oklahoma's athletic department, apparently refuting statements made Tuesday by OU officials.
The director, Walter Byers, told the Associated Press that OU President Paul Sharp had called him Oct. 25, inquiring about reports in the Oklahoma City Times that the NCAA was conducting an investigation.
"I advised him that allegations of non-compliance with NCAA requirements previously had been received by our office, that we were in the process of investigating those allegations and that the sources of the allegations and the extent of supporting details for the charges and that results of those initial interviews would determine whether there was cause for the formal notification procedures of the NCAA athletic program." Byers said in the statement.
OU officials in a statement Tuesday they had been notified that the Big Eight Conference was planning an investigation of whether players had sold tickets at inflated prices.
The release by the Office of Media Information insisted that the allegations weren't being investigated by the NCAA, as reported last month in the Times.
It said Big Eight Commissioner Chuck Neinas arrived on the OU campus Tuesday afternoon to inform officials that "the adverse publicity in the press was the reason for the Big Eight involvement at this time.
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