THE NCAA NEWS/August 11.1982 3 Two Gymnastics Regions Realigned
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The NCAA August 11,1982, Volume 19 Number 14 Offkial Publication of th ational Collegiate Athletic Association Council, Executive Committee meet in August Approval of the 1982-83 budget CommIttee also will determine the will be the main order of business for guaranteed transportation allowance the NCAA Executive Committee in its for teams and individuals competing in August 16- 17 meeting at Lake Ozark, NCAA chatnpionstups. A revised plan to restructure the Missouri. The NCAA travel service will bc NCAA Council and various recom- The Executive Committee will be given a one-year evaluation by the mendations from the NCAA Recruit- asked to approve a budget of more than Executive Committee. The NCAA and ing Committee and its subcommittee $30 million for the 1982-83 fiscal Fugazy International entered an agree- of coaches arc among the agenda items year. The 1981-82 budget was nearly ment In August I98 I to transport indi- facing the Council in its August 18-20 $28 million. vlduals to committee meetings and meeting at Lake Ozark, Missouri. In other budget matters, the con- championships. NCAA Controller The Council’s Subcommittee on mittcc will fix the football television Louis J. Spry said the Executive Com- Council Restructuring, chaired by assessment for the 1982 season and mittee wdl study the comparison in John R. Davis, Oregon State Univer- review the status of the championship costs and discuss any problems that sity, will submit a modified version of transportation reserve. The Executive See Executive Committee, page I2 its original plan to restructure the Council, as mandated by adoption of a resolution at the 1982 NCAA Conven- tion. The new plan would increase the size of the Council to 44 members in The Association’s officers, acting eligible under NCAA rules governing addition to the officers-22 from Divi- on a recommendation by the NCAA seasons of competition, transfers, sion I and I I each from Divisions II Special Committee on Legislative amateurism, the five-year rule and the and III, Review, have approved an interpreta- 2.000 requirement, provided the stu- Recruiting recommendations will tion to permit women student-athletes dent-athlete does nothing after the be presented by Robert C. James, at NCAA member institutions who rules transition to affect her eligibility committee chair and commissioner of were eligible under AIAW rules to adversely. the Atlantic Coast Conference. remain eligible under certain circum- This interpretation applies only to a Other key items on the Council’s stances when the institution makes the woman enrolled in the institution agenda include a discussion of increas- transition to governing its women’s when the rules transition occurs and ing concern regarding the proliferation program under NCAA rules. only until August I, 1985, or the com- of membership in Division I and a sug- :’ Specifically, a woman studentmath- pletion of her fourth season of compe- gested policy that would refine the lete who was enrolled in a member tition, whichever occurs first. procedure by which individuals at institution during the last regular term The interpretation, which the member institutions request interpreta- prior to the time the institution places NCAA Council will review at its tions of NCAA legislation. its women’s athletic program under August 18-20 meeting, was prompted The Council also will approve addi- NCAA legislation and who was eligi- in part by responses from representa- tional planning for the 1982 NCAA- ble under the rules governing that pro- tives of women’s programs who sponsored meeting of selected chief gram prior to that change shall remain See Interprelution, pa,ge I2 executive officers to be held Septem- ber 27-28 in Kansas City and for the round tables at the 1983 NCAA Con- vention in San Diego. A review of all Judge Thomas P. Jackson, assigned examination in the trial. legislation for that Convention last month to hear the Association for received in the national office by the The AIAW must submit it Intercollegiate Athletics for Women’s dates of the meeting also appears on tional testimony +v antitrust suit against the NCAA, has the agenda. both parties must rescheduled the trial in that case for One of the most extensive topics findings of fact ant October 18. before the Council will be several by that same date. The NCAA will In a status conference with attorneys dozen applications for membership in have the opportunity to submit further Football preview the Association and other matters deal- for the two organizations August 5, rebuttal to the AIAW claims by Sep- Jackson established the later trial date ing with membership classification. tember 9. A pretrial conference will be Although Stanford promotional literature says Cardinalfootball is and granted the AIAW the opportunity The number of new applications for conducted on that date and will result to augment its written direct testi- not just ’ ‘a passing fancy, ” few would deny that quarterback John NCAA membership is the highest in at in a pretrial order that will include mony. He also sustained previous Elway is afancypasser. The gifted senior completed 2 llpassesfor least a decade. stipulations of fact. Judge Charles R. Richey’s order that 2,674 yards last year. This season, he hopes to help his team Much of the meeting will involve all direct testimony be in writing, The trial originally was scheduled improve on 1981’s disappointing 4-7 record. See a preview of the reports and recommendations from 20 rather than permitting oral direct for August 25. approaching NCAA football season beginning on page four. NCAA committees. In the News University of Tennessee, Chatta- nooga, Chancellor Frederick W. Stadiums can leave the dark ages Obear outlines the responsibilities a chief executive officer faces in con- By James A. Sheldon televised contest. trolling an intercollegiate athletics NCAA News Staff The game, which will be carried by ABC, will be the first program . _.. .2 Early on the evening of September 18, someone in the contest televised using a portable lighting system. It will be hierarchy of Fighting Irish football will whisper, “Let there an important test for Musco, the networks and those schools College basketball attendance reached be light.” without lighted fields who hope the new system will provide 31. I million in 1981-82. surpassing And, lo, the light shall flood forth on the hallowed the kind of scheduling flexibility that can attract television ’ the previous record by more than grounds of Notre Dame Stadium for the first night football coverage. 170,000 __............................... 3 game in the field’s history. So far, Crookham has had few problems in selling the net- The NCAA Insurance Committee has One might ask who hath wrought this miracle. Gerry works or schools on his idea. adopted a policy statement that details Faust’? Gene Corrigan? Surely, the Rev. Theodore M. Hes- Musco has agreements with the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten ” suggested levels of coverage for all burgh? No, Joe Crookham. and Big Eight Conferences. One of the feature games will be members . ..____......... 3 That is Joe Crookham of Oskaloosa, Iowa, president of the November 26 Oklahoma-Nebraska showdown on CBS. Writers from throughout the country Musco Mobile Lighting, Inc. Crookham and partner Myron The network and schools agreed to a late-afternoon kickoff, examine the approaching football sea- Gordin have spent three years working on a mobile lighting which will be made possible by portable lights. son .._._____________._......._._____.__4-8 system that will illuminate some of the nation’s stadiums this Musco also figures in a number of supplementary series fall for the first time. television contests 10 be cablecast by Turner Broadcasting Heat stress poses a major risk for ath- In the past. the only inhabitants of Notre Dame Stadium on System, Inc. letes training during late summer. an autumn Saturday night would have been a few late-filing Although portable lighting seems to dovetail perfectly NCAA Research Coordinator Eric D. reporters with the new two-network (plus Turner) NCAA Football Zemper offers suggestions for recog- But on September 18, those reporters will be snacking on a Television Plan, that is not what spurred its development. nizing the symptoms of heat stress and pregame meal before the Irish face Michigan in a nationally See Lighting. puge I2 for minimizing the dangers.. 9 _ 2 August 11.1982 1 I I The NCAA Comment Chancellor cites CEO’s duties in athletics By Frederick W. Obear, chancellor know that the Greek gymnasium was a school as well. The Greeks bearing responsibility for a complex and diverse athletic program. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga considered athletics one of the fine arts, and the spirit of the Olym- First, UTC must maintain its academic integrity. In so doing, the pic flame still bums in every civilized country of the world today. role of the student-athlete must reflect the standards and obliga- It’s hard for me to believe, but appearances indicate and the calm Turning from an aesthetic to a practical view, one can conclude tions of student foremost and then those of athlete. It also is my endar demonstrates that I have survived a challenging, invigorat- that colleges hardly could exist as they are today without some task in observing this priority to ensure that the rules and regula- ing and busy first year as UTC’s chancellor. This fact gains even involvement with intercollegiate sports. Institutions which have tions of state and university, of athletic association and confer- more significance whtn one realizes the kind of year that UTC begun without athletics quickly have altered their decision; those ence, and of societal conduct-by participant and spectator experienced in our intercollegiate athletic program, in addition to which have tried to eliminate such a commitment later in their his- alike-are recognized and met by strict compliance.