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Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association March 25,1992, Volume 29 Number 13 Extensive agenda facing presidents The NCAA Presidents Commis- The Commission’s major topics sion begins its work for the year for the year fall under the heading when it conducts its annual spring identified last fall by its Subcorn- meeting April I-2 in Dallas, Texas, mittec on Strategic Planning as the with three Commission subcommit- next area of emphasis: institutional tees getting a head start with meet- responsibility and presidential con- ings March 31 at the same site to trol in college athletics. discuss strategic planning, the role Thus, the highlights of the spring of the Commission itself and ways meeting promise to include: to strengthen the role of chief exec- l The proposed certification pro- utive officers in athletics matters. See E~xrwsiw ujyndu. /7aze 23 ._ . .I Nominating committee set The nominating committee re- sponsible for selecting chief ex- ecutive officers to serve on the NCAA Presidents Commission has been appointed by Commis- sion Chair Gregory M. St. L. O’Brien, chancellor of the Uni- versity of New Orleans. In keeping with the policy observed since the Commission’s founding in 1984, O’Brien ap- pointed eight Commission Everybody in! members whose terms do not expire this year to serve on the committee. All membership di- Stanford Universiry women’s swimming coach Richard Quick (right) is a veteran of visions and subdivisions and all championship celebration-he has won seven Division I team titles in his came< including NCAA geographical regions are the one he claimed at the Division I Women3 Swlmmlng and Diving Championships hlatrh represented. 19-21 at tfre University of Texas at Austin- Quick, however; is no solitary celebratoq when he O’Brien named Jon C. Strauss, took his tradltional dunking at the end of the meet, he took team and staff member with him. SW Nominoring, page 23 Jon C. Strauss See championships results beginning on page 6. 1. Inthe News Lertmcation legislation enters review process The NCAA Special Committee l-2 meeting, and the NCAA COI, dent-athlete experience. Transfer provision on Certification has reviewed a draft will review both when it meets As proposed, external peer-re- In its review of the plan, the of legislation that would create an 13-15. view teams would examine the self- special committee agreed with a LegMaifve Assistance . 2 institutional certification program study of each institution. If the self- suggestion from NCAA legal coun- Committee notices... .____,2 if it is adopted by the 1993 NCAA Every five years study is judged unsatisfactory and sel that would allow student-athletes Kwht report _____.._______.___3 Convention. The program calls for each Divi- the institution is unable to correct to transfer to another institution Comment 4 Meeting March 16-17, the special sion 1 member to complete at least the specified problems within a rea- without loss of eligibility if the Big 10 mafketlng _. 5 committee also reviewed written once every five years a verified and sonable period of time, the institu- student-athlete’s original institution i9yen?-lzl..... 11 comments solicited from the mem- evaluated institutional self-study. tion could be placed in a is placed in a membership category l3a8k&idl notes .12 bership and considered several legal This self-study is to encompass seven probationary status for a period of that renders the institution ineligible eaaeb3ll stats.. .14 ramifications of the proposed pro- basic areas-institutional mission, up to one year. If problems still are for NCAA championship competi- Eli@bN& appaals . 15 gram. institutional control and presidential not addressed properly, privileges tion for the duration of the student- #MC’ McoM.. .24 The NCAA Presidents Commis- authority, fiscal integrity, academic as an active NCAA member could athlete’s eligibility. The proposal is Tire Ma&et ______._.___.._. .._.24 sion will examine the draft of the integrity, conduct of student-athletes be reduced gradually through re- similar to legislation in place involv- Bddy _ . 28 legislation, as well as the special and athletics personnel, commit- classification into restricted or corm ing student-athletes who are affected committee’s.final report, at its April ment to rules compliance, and stu- responding membership. See Cerrificalion. page 22 Cryer bucks tradition, ropes a new career By David D. Smale had one of the nation’s best collegiate Thr NCAA News Staff \ rodeo teams, and it was there that Cryer Lewis A. Cryer learned a lot about the sport. Lewis A. Cryer never called a meeting Lives in: Colorado Springs, Colorado From San Luis Obispo, Cryer went to of the Division I subcommittee of the Occupation: Commrsroner of the ProfessIona Stockton, California, where he was the Rodeo Cowboys Assocrabon. president NCAA Council togcthcr like this: “Yiiii and chief executwe oflIter of the Professronal assistant athletics director at the University Rodeo Cowboys Assocrahon Propertres and of the Pacific (California), and then to the president of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and University of Oregon, where he was the Where are they now? Museum of the Amerrcan Cowboy. associate director of athletics. Formerly: Commrssroner of the Pacific Coast Athletic Assocration/Big West Conference A large leap haaaaaa! Git along, little dogies.” But this and NCAA Division I vice-president. His next step was more like a large leap. former Division I vice-president, who now Family: Wrfe. Sandy, son Matthew (24), Without any experience as an athletics is the commissioner of the Professional and daughter, Allrson (21) director, Cryer was named the commis- Rodeo Cowboys Association, says he sioner of the Pacific Coast Athletic Asso- could really run herd on those meetings. technic State University, San Luis Obispo, ciation, later renamed the Big West “I roped them and herded them right in 1964, he went to work as the sports Conference. It was there that Cryer became down the agenda,” he joked. director for a local radio station (yes, he involved in the NCAA structure. Cryer hasn’t followed a typical agenda was called “Town Cryer”). He covered He served as the chair of the NCAA for the up-and-coming executive. rodeo, among other subjects, on the eve- Summer Baseball Committee and the After graduating from California Poly- ning spotts mpott; Cal Poly San Luis Obiipo See C‘ryr bucks, page 22 Lewis A. Cryer 2 THE NCAA NEWS/March 25.1992 Committee Elmira athlete’s condition improved In other action at its recent Mike McNamara, a sophomore Plattsburgh defenseman, suffered stable condition March 23 at Cham- considering meeting, the NCAA Legislative ice hockey player at Elmira College, severe trauma to his head that re- plain Valley Physicians Hospital Rcvicw Committee: regained consciousness March 19, sulted in bleeding between the brain Medical Center in Plattsburgh, New deregulation l Discussed the issue of adopt- five days after he hit his head on the and skull, Elmira’s athletics trainer York. ing rules on a sport-by-sport ice during an NCAA Division 111 John Oliphant told The Associated In carrying out one of its main basis. NCAA Executive Director Men’s Ice Hockey Championship Press. McNamara had no pulse for Oliphant said the severity of duties. the NCAA Legislative Re- Richard D. Schultz mentioned quarterfinal game against State Unii almost a minute while Oliphant McNamara’s injury likely would view Committee is examining ap- in his “State of the Association” versrty College at Plattsburgh. performed cardiopulmonary resus- have been worse had he not been proaches to deregulation specifi- address at the 1992 NCAA Con- The 2 l-year old McNamara, who citation. wearing a helmet, which is required cally, reducing the size and com- vention the possibility of feder- fell to the ice after a legal check by a He was listed m satisfactory and by NCAA rules. plexity of the 473-page NCAA ating rules on a sport-by-sport Manual. basis. His thoughts originated Solutions to these problems were from a coaches’ meeting conduc- the locus of the committee’s March ted by the NCAA last April in Committee notices 16-18 meeting in Hilton Head, Kansas City, Missouri. South Carolina. The committee will advise the Member institutions are advised that the new I992 a noncontroversial amendment, which provides that The committee will offer to the Council that it believes a mecha- NCAA Committee Hundbook should be used for members of this committee may be reelected. committee information. rather than the 1991-92 NCAA Council in April the follow- nism for adopting rules on a Sports committees ing approaches for cutting the Man NCAA Directory. The handbook should be used sport-by-sport basis exists and Division I Men’s Basketball: Roy F. Kramer ap- ual down in size and for simplifying that expanded LISCof the mccha- until October 1992, when the committee listings will be updated and printed in the 1992-93 NCAA pointed chair to replace Thomas J. Frericks, deceased. the rules as they appear in the book: nism is worth reviewing. C. M. Newton’s appointment to the committee Playing and practice-seasons Directory. *One option the committee will effective March 1, 1992, instead of September I, 1992, legislation in Bylaw I7 can be suggest to the Council is to eliminate replacing Thomas J. Frericks. duplication. Specific legislation is adopted on a sport-by-sport ba- COMMITTEE CHANGES Field Hockey: Linda L. Arena, Wittenberg Univer- sis; the committee said expanding Following are committee appointments, changes repeated several times in the Man- sity, appointed to replace Sandra L. Moore, Kenyon this process beyond Bylaw I7 and corrections that have occurred in NCAA commit- ual. The best example of replication College, effective September I, 1992.