November 26,1990, Volume 27 Number 42
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The NCAA Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association November 26,1990, Volume 27 Number 42 David Bing Edith McGuire Duvall Michael L. Gam?tt Tone N. Grant Steve Juday Capt. James C. Lewis NCAA selects Silver Anniversary. award winners. Community service is the com- This year’s six honorees are David vention in Nashville, Tennessee, in While at Syracuse, Bing was a Steel, a wholesale steel and steel- mon denominator among the 1990 Bing, basketball: Edith McGuire January. member of Phi Kappa Alpha and strip-processing business. In addi- NCAA Silver Anniversary award Duvall, track; Michael Locknett Following are biographical Sigma Alpha Mu. tion, he formed Superb Manuidc- winners. While each one of the six Garrett, football and baseball; Tone sketches of the six award winners: After graduation, Bing enjoyed a turing, Inc., an automotive recipients has achieved professional N. Grant, football and lacrosse; David Bing l2-year career in the National Bas- stampings business in 1985, and success, each has given back to his Steve Juday, football and baseball, Ring was a 1966 consensus all- ketball Association. He played nine Heritage 21, Inc., a construction or her community specifically by and Capt. James C. Lewis, lacrosse America basketball player at Syra- years for the Detroit Pistons and management firm for commercial serving its youth. and soccer. cuse University. He was the first was voted the league’s rookie of the and office buildings in 1989. NCAA Silver Anniversary These individuals and six of to- basketball player to be named the year in 1967. A seven-time all-star Ring’s civic contributions include Awards recognize former student- day’s top student-athletes will be school’s athlete of the year. Bing selection, Bing’s jersey number (21) work with the Michigan Cancer athletes who have gone on to distin- honored as this year’s College Ath- averaged 24.9 points and 10.3 re- was retired by the Pistons in 1983. Foundation, March of Dimes, Mich- guished careers since completing lctics Top XII. The group will be bounds per game during his career. A member of the Naismith Me- igan Society of Crippled Children their college athletics careers 25 recognized at the Association’s ho- He scored 1,883 career points, a morial Basketball Hall of Fame, and Adults, Big Brothers, Metro- years ago. nors dinner during the NCAA Con- school record that stood umtil 1989. Bing currently is president of Bing See NCAA, page I2 Certification, -pro-draft resolution on Convention agenda (Editor’s Note: 7% is the third in gram mandatory if the NCAA Coun mandatory program. thirds majority is required. with difficulties faced by Division u series uj’ seven urlicles reviewing cil deems that appropriate after Also in the general package is a Three of the general proposals III institutions in complying with the IegrsLtlon to be ucted upon ut the reviewing the pilot program. Southeastern Conference amend- deal with NCAA playing rules. One certain rules changes that have cost 1991 annuul Convemim. This article Currently, the pilot certification ment that would eliminate the con- would make the rules committees implications. One would permit play- cuver.s the nine propmuls in rhe program involves Division 1 institu- fcrcnce voting privilege. Such that have no championships re ing rules to differ among divisions, generul grouping and five in the tions only and is conducted on a attempts to enhance the one-institu- sponsibilities autonomous by elimi- while the other suggests a study of amateurism section.) voluntary basis. Both the NCAA tion, one-vote principle have been nating the Executive Committee’s means by which more flexibility can Prcsidcnts Commission and the unsuccessful in the past, the most authority to review rules changes be provided in that regard. Knight Commission on Intercolle- recent at the 1985 annual Conven- dealing with player safety, costs to Another proposal that will attract Two resolutions lead off the I99 I giate Athletics have cxprcssed inter- tion when it attracted 53 percent of institutions and image of the sport. attention in the general section is Convention groupings of general est in the development of a the vote but failed because a two- The other two are attempts to deal Se Cerrificarion. page 3 legislation and that dealing with amateurism one envisioning a mandatory athletics certification program and the other calling for a major revision in the Association’s rules regarding professional drafts. The general grouping is a collec tion of proposals that do not lit logically in any of the specific topical groupings. This year’s collection includes proposals dealing with ath- letics certification, conference vot- ing, playing rules, championships awards, football bowl games, Divi- sion I membership criteria and coaching limitations in men’s ice hockey. And while small in number, the amateurism grouping features a couple of proposed changes that would represent a significant depar- ture from the Association’s tradii tional stance regarding athletes who professionalize themselves. Of the total of I4 proposals in the two groupings, all but three involve voting by all three membership di- visions. General The first entry in the general grouping calls for a progress report at the 1992 Convention on the As- One more time sociation’s pilot program of athletics certification, with legislation for the Members of the Universilty of California, San Diego, votleyball NCAA Division Ill Women’s Volleyball Championship 1993 Convention to make the pro- team celebrate with coach Doug Dannevik affer winning the November 18. It was the schools sixth title in the event. 2 THE NCAA NEWS/November 26.1990 Final action expected on revenue-distribution proposals Final action on a number of rec- the October 22, 1990, issue of The California, San Diego. Sweet also A series of regional hearings on mittee are: ommendations developed by the NCAA News. A memorandum out- has been nominated to serve as the the plan was conducted in June, l An increase to $3 million (from Special NCAA Advisory Commit- lining the recommendations also Association’s first woman president. and the distribution recommenda- $1.5 million) in the moneys to be tee to Review Recommendations was mailed last month to all NCAA The Executive Committee ap- tions were explained at several meet- used to establish a fund to which Regarding Distribution of Revenues Division I conferences and directors proved some components of a reve- ings among them the convention needy Division I student-athletes is expected during the December 3 of athletics for their review and nue-distribution plan at its August of the National Association of Colle- could apply for financial assistance, meeting of the Association’s Exccu comment before the Executive Com- meeting, with the proviso that addi- giate Directors of Athletics with no obligation to repay the tive Committee. which will be held mittee meeting. tional suggestions from the mem- (NACDA) last summer and an Oc- amount received. at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Kansas The recommendations are a result bership would be solicited. tober meeting of conference com- l Establishment of a membership City. of nine months of study by the Numerous suggestions from the missioners. trust into which, beginning with Developed by the special advisory special advisory committee, which membership have been incorporated Changes noted fiscal year 1991-92, two percent of committee during an October 17 is chaired by NCAA Sccretary- in the plan that will be presented Among the adjustments being the annual rights fees from the meeting in Chicago, the recommen- Treasurer Judith M. Sweet, director December 3 to the Executive Com- recommended to the plan approved NCAA’s new television contract with dations were reported in detail in of athletics at the University of mittee. in August by the Executive Com- See Final, puge 3 Legislative Assistance 1990 Column No. 42 Arrangement of additional confirmed that a member institution may not reserve tickets 49 .................... ..2 7 admissions/tickets to be purchased at face value by a prospective student-athlete 50 ................. ............ 75 In accordance with NCAA Bylaw 13.752, during an (or a high school, college preparatory school or two-year 51 ................ ................ 76 official visit, Division I member institutions may provide college coach) from the allotment that has been provided to 52 ........... .............. 84 complimentary admissions to a campus athletics event only the institution for an NCAA championship (all rounds) or a 53 ........... ............ 28 to the prospect and the prospect’s parents [or legal postseason football game in which the institution is a 54 ..... ................ ..9 1 guardian(s)] or spouse. Division 1 institutions shall utilize a participant. The committee noted that the prospect (or the 55 ....... .................. ..9 2 pass-list system to distribute such admissions. Divisions II high school, college preparatory school or two-year college 56 ...... ............... ._ 42 and 111institutions may provide hard tickets to prospective coach) may purchase these tickets only in the same manner 57 ....... ............ .90 student-athletes or the prospect’s parents [or legal guardian(s)] as any other member of the general public. 58 ....... .............. ..4 3 or spouse to attend a campus athletics event during an In reference to enrolled student-athletes, Bylaw 16.2.1. I 59 ................. ............ 85 official visit. permits an institution to provide four complimentary admis- 60 .............. .......... 40 During an unofficial visit, it is permissible for an institution sions per home or away contest to a student-athlete in the 61 ............. ............. 41 to provide a maximum of three complimentary admissions sport in which the individual participates (either practices or 62 ................................. .89 to a campus athletics event for the exclusive use of the competes), regardless of whether the student-athlete competes 63 ............... ............ 64 prospect and those persons accompanying the prospect on in the particular contest. The procedures for administering 64 ..............