Official Publication of the National Collegiate Athletic Association December 23,1992, Volume 29, Number 45 Association selects T&y’s Top Six winners Two NCAA individual cham- pions, the 1992 Heisman and Wade Trophy winners and two football all-Americans have been selected as this year’s Today’s Top Six. The honorees are football player Michael Compton, West Vir- ginia University; football player Carlton Gray, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles; track and field athlete Clyston “Steve” Hol- b man, Georgetown University; gym- Compton Gray Holman Marlowe Robinson Torretta nast Missy Marlowe, University of Utah; basketball player Susan Ro- Anniversary Award winners (see Dallas. American center on West Virginia’s A dean’s list student, Compton binson, Pennsylvania State LJni- December 16 issue of The NCAA Following are biographical football team. A three-year starter has compiled a 3.500 grade-point versity, and football player Gino News) will be recognized as this sketches of Today’s Top Six: for the Mountaineers, Compton average (4.000 scale) while earning Torretta, University of Miami (Flor- year’s College Athletics Top XII has been named to the all-Big East a degree in professional physical Michael Compton ida). January 13 at the honors dinner Conference team and the all-East The Today’s Top Six and Silver during the NCPLA Convention in Compton is a consensus all- squad. See lop Six, page 20 ) New member joins Council Financial committee offers concepts package A list of If “legislative con- proved by the committee for sponsored. There would be fi- package of legislative proposals Jerry L. Kingston, professor of cepts” has been developed by circulation in a December 16 nancial aid maximums for all for the NCAA Presidents Com- economics and faculty athletics the NCAA Special Committee to telephone conference. spon~ but not minimums. Each mission to consider for the 1994 representative Review Financial Conditions in In addition, the special com- institution would have greater Convention, the concepts do not at Arizona Intercollegiate Athletics and will mittee established a subcommit- flexibility in controlling the costs represent the special committee’s State Univer- be forwarded to various constitu- tee to develop for membership of its athletics programs. finished product, according to sity, is thr Pa- encies within the membership reaction a proposal to modify the Also, two tiers of champion- James E. Delany, commissioner cific-10 for consideration. NCfi division structure to afford ships could be conducted in each of the Big Ten Conference and Conference’s Part of a package that includes Divisions 1 and 11 institutions sport, with each institution cur- chair of the committee. new repre- longer-tenn legislative consider- greater flexibility in their athletics rently in Division I or II selecting “Since late September, the spe- sentative on 1 ations as well as proposed rec- prorams. the level at which it chooses to cial committee has heard and the NCAA ommendations to institutions Under this concept, institu- compete. considered numerous proposals, Council. and conferences for ways to tions would decide on a sport-hy- rejecting some and retaining oth- Kingston re- Hold merit achieve economies in their pro- sport basis the grant-in-aid leveli places Mich- Kingston grams, the concepts were ap- at which each sport would be Charged with developing a See Financial, page 15 b ael B. McGee, f.omler director of athletics at the University of South- ern California, as the conference’s representative. McGee recently be- came athletics director at the Uni- Cost-reduction proposals drawing opposition versity of South Carolina, Colum- bia. Thk U the sixth in a series of seven be withdrawn if the NCAA Council season conference and noncon- en’s skiing, 12 each; men’s and Kingston is in his sixth year as alticles covering the kgislution that and Presidents Commission have ferencc competition: baseball, 22 women’s soccer, 18 each; women’s Arizona State’s faculty representa- will be voted upon at the NCAA Con- their way. participants; men’s and women’s softball, 20; men’s and women’s tive. He has been on the Arizona vention next month in Dallas. Thrc Of four proposals offered by basketball, 12 each; men’s and swimming, 20 earl,; men’s and State fdCUky since 1969. His teach- article features proposals in the member conferences to cut costs, women’s cross country, 10 each; women’s tennis, eight each; men’s ing interests are in the field of [email protected]/arnuteurism and gvv- thr one that appeared to be draw- mm’s and women’s fencing, 12 indoor track, 25; women’s indoor labor economics, and his research emance groupings. ing the most attention-at least each; field hockey, 16; football, track, 22; men’s outdoor track, 30; activities have centered on the until last week-was Proposal No. 60; men’s and women’s golf, seven women’s outdoor track, 26; men’s federal-state unemployment-insur- Several proposals intended to 145, which would establish limits each; men’s gymnastics, 13; wom- and women’s volleyball, 12 each; ance program. reduce costs in intercollegiate ath- on the size of travel squads in en’s gymnastics, 12; men’s ice hoc- men’s water polo, 15, and wrestling, He currently serves as chair of letics are featured in the awards/ Division I. key, 20; men’s and women’s 13. the NCAAAcademic Requirements expenses/amateurism grouping at The proposal would establish lacrosse, 32 each; men’s and wom- Committee. the 1!)93 Convention, but all would the following limits for regular- en’s rifle, 12 total; men’s and wom- See Proposals, page 16 b N In the News N On deck Briefly Page 2 WConstance H. Hurlbut is selected as executive January 2-4 National Youth Sports Program Com- diiector of the Patriot League, making her the mittee, Key West, Florida Comment 4 first woman to head a Division I all-sports confer- January 11 Special Events Committee, Dallas Compliance briefs 5 ence for men and women: Page 2. Championships results 6 WWomen’s basketball is getting more television January 11-14/ Council, Dallas time these days than ever before, with much of 16-17 Football postgraduate the increased exposure coming on cable TV: scholarships 8 January 13 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Page 3. Dallas Basketball statistics 11 n Big Ten Conference Commissioner James E. January 13 Presidents Commission, Dallas Executive Committee Delany, chair of the NCAA Special Committee to minutes 12-14 Review Financial Conditions in Intercollegiate January 13-16 NCAA Convention, Dallas Athletics, discusses some of that group’s ap- NCAA Record 17-18 January 19-20 Gender-Equity Task Farce, Palm proaches to its work: Page 4. Springs, California The Market The NCAA News December 23.1992 ~_l Briefly in the News n Facilities Then everyone started asking who had No. The installation of lights at Scott Newcomer 4. That’s when we realized they had six Field at Abilene Christian University players on the court. will enable the Wildcat baseball team “We didn’t know which players to to play several night games nexr makes mark guard . .it was just total ronfusion.” spring. A majority of the $144,000 in With a 6-5 advantage on the floor, Regis funding for the prqjert was provided Not many college basketball players wait- scored, but then referees realized what had hy the family of the late Crutcher ed until their senior year of high school happened. They allowed the Regis basket Scott, longtime Abilene, Texas, busi- beforr beginning competitive careers. But to stand, bur gave North Dakota State two nessman and member of rhe Abilene Caynor O’Donnell can claim that distinc- technical free throws, which the Bison Christian board of trustees, for whom tion, and a f‘ew others as well. converted. the stadium is named. O’Donnrll, a senior point guard at East (Carolina IJniversity and the Division 1 The men’s and women’s track teams assists leader through December 14, grew Sweet receives honor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute will up in Merscyside, England. Although she be running outdoors by 1994, thanks began tinkering around with the game of NCAA President Judith M. Sweet, direc- in part to iltl anonymous donor Who basketball when she was a junior high tor of athletics at the University of Califor- contributed $500,000 for construction school student, she did not play competi- nia, San Diego, has been named the 1992 of a track. A little more than $1.1 mil- tively until a foreign-exchange program Thrifty Car Rental Holiday Bowl’s honorary lion has heen pledged for the project- sent her-as a high-school senior-thou- chair. Currently, Virginia Tech has only an sands of miles from home to Goldsboro, The honor is awarded annually to an indoor facility, which it purchased in Nonh Carolina. individual “who has contributed to the San 1980 from Madison Square Garden Al Southern Wayne County High School, Diego community in a meaningful way.” and erected in Rector Field House. she received the 1989 Mid-Eastern 4A The bowl gdnle will be played December 30 player-of-the-year award and since then at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego. Westfield State College rolled out has enjoyed a fine career at East Carolina, Sweet, who has served as UC San Diego’s the carpet-Astroturf, more specifi- where she is the school’s career assists athletics director since 1975, was impressed cally-in an October 17 dedication leader. with the accolade. ceremony for its refurbished outdoor “In England, WCnever really kept statistics It sure didn’t take East Carolina Uni- “I am overwhelmed with the honor,” she athletics complex.