THE NCAA NEWS/March 29,1989 Commission’S NACDA Convention Agenda Includes Continued from Page I Mission Session, While the Division Pionships in Certain Sports
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
The NCAA Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association March 29,1989, Volume 26 Number 13 Commission’s agenda includes graduation rates, Proposa* l 42 Possible legislation to require Other topics l Means by which the Commis- institutional disclosure of graduation Among the other topics to be sion might support or assist chief rates and a review of the adoption discussed by the Commission in the executive officers in athletics mat- of Proposal No. 42 by the 1989 meeting: ters. NCAA Convention are among the l A progress report by the Com- Subcommittees major items on the agenda for the mission’s Advisory Committee to The Commission’s division sub- NCAA Presidents Commission’s Review the NCAA Governance committees also have topics to dis- April 5-6 meeting in Chicago. Process. cuss in their separate sessions in In its pre-Convention meeting l A review of the approach used Chicago: January 8 in San Francisco, the by the Commission in grouping l Division I-The Proposal No. Commission adopted a statement certain legislative proposals at 42 issue, including the annual urging member institutions that cur- NCAA Conventions. NCAA study of partial qualifiers rently collect graduation-rate data aA status report on special and nonqualifiers. to make that information available NCAA committees dealing with l Division II ~ A review of cur- in the recruiting process. It also current major issues, including the rent Division II academic require- pledged to prepare legislation for Special Committee to Review Ama- ments, including the first study of the 1990 NCAA Convention to teurism Issues, the Special Commit- Division II partial qualifiers and make such disclosure mandatory, tee on Cost Reduction and the nonqualifiers. and that will be before the Commis- Special Committee to Review the 0 Division 111-A review of cur- sion in Chicago. NCAA Membership Structure. rent Division III financial aid legis- The review of Proposal No. 42 l A review of issues involving lation, a study of the undergraduate was placed on the Commission’s sports agents. enrollments of successful institutions agenda (as well as that of the NCAA l Consideration of the concept of in Division III championships and Council’s April 17-l 9 meeting) when some type of certification or exter- consideration of replacing national Commission Chair Martin A. Mas- nal-review process in intercollegiate championships with regional cham- sengale and NCAA President Albert athletics. See Commission 5. page 2 M. Witte met with representatives of the Southeastern Conference and of Georgetown University earlier this year. Massengale andl Witte Tournament participants agreed that both the Comlmission and the Council would review the issues involved. to share in $31 million Proposal No. 42 would eliiminate More than 90 percent of Division 1 basketball-playing institutions the partial-qualifier category in will share in the proceeds from the 5 1st Division I Men’s Basketball NCAA Bylaws 14.3.1 and 1,4.3.2 as Championship April 1 and 3 in Seattle, Washington, according to they apply to Division I institutions. NCAA Associate Executive Director Louis J. Spry. It will become effective August 1, This year, every automatic-qualifying conference has in place a 1990, unless the 1990 Convention revenue-sharing formula for tournament receipts. Therefore, 266 of rescinds or modifies it in some way. 293 (90.8 percent) Division 1 basketball-playing institutions will Another major issue on the April receive a portion of the proceeds. Spry, the Association’s controller, 5-6 agenda is the Commission’s reported that the total proceeds will be $3 I ,024,800. review of the discussions in the 1% The Atlantic Coast and Big Ten Conferences will receive the month National Forum that it spon- largest amounts ~$4,503,600 each. The Big East Conference is next, sored, as well as the American Insti- at $3,753,000. As noted in the table below, 10 conferences will receive tutes for Research studies related to tournament proceeds in excess of $1 million-up from eight in 1988. that Forum. The 64-team tournament field represents 21.8 percent of Division It is anticipated that the next I member institutions, which is a participation ratio of I to 4.5. report in that research effort -data 1989National C&gilts Divisim I Mm’s Baskdbdl Champ&hip Two more relating to the black student-ath- Analysisd Projadad0lsbibuUm d Net Rtipk lete ~~will be available for review by two of his 12 points against Tdrl Numbs d Entrants Total Dominhue Stephens swtes the Commission in Chicago. If so, it lnstltutim Mmlbm mdllmndsRedad Units lll2kkf Southeast Mksourt State in lrelping North Cstvfina Central also will be released publicly from Atlantic Coast 8 I-2-3-3-4-5 10 WWMXI to the Divtsion II Menf Basketbell Championship- Story on the NCAA national office at that Big Ten 10 2-3-3-5-5 4sD3,6OD page 8. time. Big East 9 l-I-4-4-5 1: 3.753.DOcl Big Eight l-l-3-3 a 2,001,6Dcl Pacific-10 1: l-l-2-3 1,751,4ai Metro 7 l-i-l-3 i 1,501,200 Southeastern.. 10 l-i-l-l-l 5 1,251.OaI Veteran coaches face challenges Big West. 10 4 4 vw800 Southwest. 2-2 4 1,DOOKQ Western Ath. i 2-2 1.oM),8M) bv two newcomers in Final Four Atlantic 10.. 10 l-2 i 750.6DO J Midwestern l-2 3 By James M. Van Valkenburg had just taken the Arizona State his headcoaching experience came American South ; Egi NCAA Director of Statistics job. The coaching legend never at Rich East High School (Park DePaulUniv. 1 : ; made a quicker, more forceful and Forest, Illinois, 141-70 over eight ECAC No. Atl. _. _. 10 2 z$i The four coaches in the 1989 productive move in his athletics life. seasons, best in school history). Mid-American 9 I Notre Dame Univ. ; 2 zgi men’s Division 1 basketball semi& Ten days and seven hours (or 247 Carlesimo, who played for Digger Ohio Valley : nals offer a study in contrasts. hours) later, Michigan was in its Phelps’ 197 1 Fordham NCAA team, Sun Belt ._. a ; ; z%i Final Four veterans Mike Krzy- first Final Four since 1976 (runner- has increased his victory total every West Coast l-1 2 zewski (only repeater from 1988) up). season at Seton Hall-six, nine, IO, Big Sky : 1 iz% and Lou Henson are facing new- “I pinch myself to make certain 14,15,22 and now 30. His 1988 team Colonial 1 comer P. J. Carlesimo and the first that I am in the land of the living was the school’s firstever NCAA East Coast.. i 1 1 zl:z Ivy 1 interim coach in Final Four history, and it is real,” Fisher said. Before tournament team. His parents were Metro Atlantic.. i 1 z:z Steve Fisher, whose entire head- facing North Carolina and Dean on hand for hugs and kisses after the Mid-Continent 1 coaching career at the four-year Smith, Fisher said: ‘I can remember big victory in Denver. “The best Mid-Eastern i 1 izgi level amazingly includes only the when I was a high school coach, thing you can do is make your Missouri Valley 1 four Michigan games in this tour- sneaking in to try to get his auto- parents happy,” said P. J., oldest of Northeast ii 1 1 Z:Z nament. graph (he got it.)” Fisher turned 44 10 children. A year ago, his father Southern 1 Southland i 1 1 Zgl On March 15 at 7:45 a.m., athlet- the day before the Virginia game. retired as executive director of the Southwestern 1 ics director Bo Schembechler called The Illinois State graduate (M.S. Metropolitan Intercollegiate Bas- Trans America 1: 1 1 z:z him into his office and said: “Fisher, 1968) helped Les Wothke turn West- ketball Association, which conducts Totals 266 124 124 t311324mll you are going to coach.” Bill Frieder em Michigan around in 1981. All See Veteran. page 6 2 THE NCAA NEWS/March 29,1989 Commission’s NACDA convention agenda includes Continued from page I mission session, while the division pionships in certain sports. subcommittees will be chaired by All three division subcommittees Lattie F. Coor, University of Ver- discussions of top athletics issues will review the National Forum mont, Division 1; Thomas A. Bond, Several of the most pressing issues letics, UniGrsity of Connecticut. institutions, who also will participate discussions and the AIR research Clarion Univeristy of Pennsylvania, in intercollegiate athletics today will @“Challenge of the ‘90s: Cost in a meeting of the Division I-A data from the perspective of their Division II, and the Rev. William J. be among topics discussed at the Containment and Financing of In- Directors Association. The group is own divisions. Byron, Catholic University, Division 24th annual convention of the Na- tercollegiate Athletics,“Sam Janko- chaired by J. Frank Broyles, director Massengale will chair the Com- III. tional Association of Collegiate Dii vich, director of athletics, University of athletics at the University of rectors of Athletics June 4-7 in of Miami (Florida). Arkansas, Fayetteville. Anaheim, California. l “Sports on Trial,” Kenneth A. Also, about 200 to 250 convention Shaffer leaving MCC post Sessions on cost containment and Free, commissioner, Mid-Eastern registrants are expected to remain James W. Shaffer, the Midwestern media relations; government rela- financing of athletics, freshman eli- Athletic Conference. in Anaheim June 8-10 for NACDA’s Collegiate Conference’s first full- tions, and responsibility for inter- gibility, and sports law are scheduled Presiding over many of the con- annual management institute.