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The NCAA August 25,1982, Volume 19 Number 15 Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Executive Committee Record budget approved Approval of the NCAA’s 1982-83 Travel, Inc., to handle all travel ice. The principal sum of the insurance budget and the recommendations from arrangements for teams and individ- plan is $100,000. Individuals are cov- the Division I Men’s Basketball Com- uals traveling to championships, for ered if they use a common carrier to mittee highlighted the August 16- I8 committee members, and for staff per- and from the airport (rather than a per- meeting of the NCAA Executive Com- sonnel sonal car), in addition to the normal mittee in Lake Ozark, Missouri. Although the cost of all Association coverage on the airplane. The.Executive Committee approved travel for the first year under Fugazy In other action, the committee: a budget of $32,041,000, an increase has not been tallied, the early reports 0 Approved an increase in per diem of $4,152,000 (14.9 percent) over the are favorable. In the 12 men’s champi- from $50 to $60 to officials who are 1981-82 budget. Virtually all of the onships for which financial summaries required to remain overnight. In Divi- increase is attributable to increased have been prepared, the NCAA saved sion I men’s basketball, per diem was revenues from the Division I Men’s approximately $250,000 in travel increased from $60 to $70. Officials Basketball Championship and televi- expenses under the new arrangement. who are not required to remain over- sion assessments in football. This figure is based upon a comparison night can receive a maximum of one- Revenues from Division I men’s of 1980-81 transportation costs but half day’s per diem, contingent upon basketball are expected to increase also takes into account increases in air- actual expenses; $2,384,X0, while the expected hike in line fares. l Supported the Division I Men’s television revenues is $2,197,800. The committee also approved a tra- Basketball Committee regarding The additional television packages vel accident insurance plan for all indi- Executive Regulation 1-6-(b)-(2)-(i). with CBS and Turner Broadcasting viduals who use the NCAA travel serv- See Executive Committee, page I2 System, Inc., will produce the additional revenues in television assessments. The Executive Committee agreed to Soccer preview dissolve the division reserves that were established for the purpose of Ail-America defender Tom Groark (leftf) is one of ttine returning paying transportation. Instead, the starters for Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. The Cougars are one of a host of teams that could win the 1982 NCAA Division I Men’s See Council story, page 12 Soccer Championship. See a preview of the approaching NCAA soccer season beginning on page four. budget now will contain adequa!e money to pay championships transportation guarantees. These costs will be paid directly from the operating ,/,^ -.,_. , . NCAA lVews changes budget. The budget is balanced, so 1982-83 Readers who recently have returned Divisions I-A and I-AA football statis expenditures also are projected at to their campuses after being gone for tics and football notes, all of which $32,041,000. the summer will notice that The previously was mailed to the member- The Executive Committee approved NCAA News has undergone major ship. Divisions II and III football sta- the key recommendations of the Divi- David P. Gardner Willie D . Davis changes in appearance, extent of news tistics will be published on a one- sion I Men’s Basketball Committee, coverage and frequency of delivery. week-delay basis, beginning with the which were reported in the July I4 Beginning with the June 16 issue, September 27 issue. issue of The NCAA News. Committee complete The NCAA News tookon a new look Sports preview sections and adver- Under the plan approved by the and a new production schedule. Issues tising are other features of the Executive Committee, the 1983 have been published biweekly since expanded News. The NCAA News NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball David P. Gardner, president of the nia system in 197 I. He was the princi- then, this being the sixth publication now is accepting display, classified Championship will maintain a 48-team University of Utah and regarded pal architect of the “extended univer- under the new format. and display-classified advertising for bracket but will allow automatic quali- nationwide as one of the leading sity,” a new off-campus, part-time More changes are ahead. From Sep- the first time in its 18-year existence. fication for the representatives of all 28 authorities on higher education, has degree program for adult students. He tember through May, The NCAA Persons interested in advertising in eligible Division I conferences. been named chair of the Select Com- also oversaw University of California News will be published weekly. The The NCAA News should contact the Representatives of eight confer- mittee on Athletic Problems and Con- extension programs, which involved News will be published every Monday NCAA national office. ences will meet in a pretournament cerns in Higher Education. Gardner’s about 325,000 people in 1971-72. from September 6 to December 6 and These changes inThe NCAA News, elimination round March I5 at sites to appointment was announced by John Gardner is the author of the widely will be published on Wednesdays the which will be published 46 times a be determined. The four winners then P. Schaefer, executive director of the acclaimed book, “The California Oath remainder of the year. Second-class year, are a culmination of extensive will join 44 teams already selected (20 committee. Controversy,” published in 1967. postage should deliver the News within studies of the types of publications that automatic qualifiers and 24 at-large At the same time, NCAA President Davis, a two-time team captain and four days of publication to most read- might best fulfill the informational teams) in the full bracket James Frank announced that the corn- an all-America selection at Grambling ers. needs of the NCAA membership and In other financial matters, the Exec- position of the committee has been State University, played on five Beginning with the September I3 the intercollegiate athletic community utive Committee agreed to continue an completed with the appointment of world-championship teams during IO issue, The NCAA News will carry in general. agreement with Fugazy International Willie D. Davis of Los Angeles to an years with the Green Bay Packers. He at-large position. Gardner earlier was never missed a game in that span, appointed to the committee, which served as a defensive captain and was Courts back NCAA in TV suits President Frank announced July 28. an all-pro selection six times. Davis is the 16th member of the After his playing career, he earned a ABC-TV and Cox Broadcasting stop Turner from broadcasting the sup- appear on the network series, will blue-ribbon committee, which will act master’s of business administration at Company have challenged a lower plementary series cablecasts over the receive $7.4 million in rights fees from as an independent body to examine the See Select Committee, page 12 court ruling that would allow Turner airways in Atlanta this fall. Turner pur- the I9 supplementary series games this serious problems affecting college ath- Broadcasting System, Inc., to televise chased rights from the NCAA to cable- year. letics and to recommend solutions to In the News live college football games over the air cast live college football games the Eldridge’s ruling, however, held those problems. this fall in the Atlanta area. next two years for $17.6 million; but its that WSB would be damaged by the Gardner became the 10th president Fulton County Superior Court Judge flagship station, WTBS in Atlanta, is WTBS broadcasts and should be com- of the University of Utah in 1973. In a The Southern Conference is finding life Frank M. Eldridge ruled last week that an over-the-air broadcaster. pensated. Hc enjoined the NCAA and special edition of Time magazine in in Division I-AA quite enjoyable the NCAA’s supplementary series with The plaintiffs claimed that the Turner Broadcasting from televising 1974, Gardner was named one of the despite the demotion _. _. .2 200 men and women “destined to pro- Turner Broadcasting could be pre- WTBS broadcasts would adversely 1983 supplementary series games over Drug education survey shows differ- vide the United States with a new gen- sented as planned this year. However, affect WSB’s coverage of college foot& the air in Atlanta. He also ruled, with- ences in coaches, athletes feelings .3 attorneys for ABC and Cox Broadcast- ball. out regard to the provisions in the foot- eration of leadership.” ing, which owns the network’s affiliate “The uniqueness and value of each ball television plan concerning appre- He became assistant chancellor at 1982-83 basketball games selected by in Atlanta (WSB-TV), asked Tuesday of the I4 (ABC) games to be broadcast ciable damage, that WSB could the University of California, Santa TV networks __. .jl that the Georgia Supreme Ccrurt enjoin by WSB-TV will be greatly dimin- televise live two Georgia and two Barbara. one year after he completed a Staff writer James A. Sheldon pre- the broadcasts for this fall pending a ished because a substantial number of Georgia Tech football games this sea- Ph.D. in higher education at the Uni- views the upcoming college soccer sea- Superior Court decision on the entire additional NCAA games will bc son versity of California, Berkeley.

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