The NCAA~- ~~~_August- .-15,1984,~~ ~- Volume~ 21 Number._ 29- Official Publication of the I\iational Collegiate Athletic As&iation Executive Committee approves record budget Meeting August IT-14in Monterey, which was struck down by the U.S. team field in the Division I Men’s season, no more than 30 allied confer- Division I Women’s Basketball& California, the NCAA Executive Supreme Court, major adjustments Basketball Championship. ences would be granted automatic The Executive Committee denied a Committee approved a record S41- in budget planning for 1984-85 and The 64-team field will be in effect qualification. request to increase the Division I million budget for the 1984-85 fiscal 19X5-86 were set in motion by the through the 1990 championship, The Executive Committee also Women’s Basketball Championship year. Executive Committee. which will be held at McNichols approved a realignment of geographic bracket from 32 to 40 teams. A plan Except for an increase in the incomr In its budget balancing action, the Arena in Denver, Colorado, March regions in Division I basketball, as to seed eight teams nationally, rather for certain Division I championships, Executive Committrc terminated 3 I and April 2. The 1989 tournament reported in the July IX issue of the than four, and to place them in the resulting in greatrr transportation reserve allocations, cut developmental was awarded to The Kingdome in News. bracket without geographical or payments to teams participatmg in grants, voted to limit the Division III Seattle, Washington, April I and 3, In other sports committee recom- regional restriction was approved. those championships, the budget Football Championship to eight with the University of Washington mendations, the Executive Committee Division III Women’s Basketball- reflected an overall decrease in expcn- teams (instead of 16) and concluded as host institution. approved a recommendation from The Executive Committee approved ditures compared to a year ago. Full it was not in a position to subsidize Dates and sites for 1986 first- and the Baseball Committee to expand a request to conduct the 1984 Division details of the budget will be reported transportation costs for any new second-round and regional games the championship bracket in Division III Women’s Basketball Champion- in the August 29 issue of The NCAA championship. were approved as published in the 1 baseball from 36 to 38 teams. ship(March 15-16) on thecampusof News. In championships matters, the July 18 issue of The NCAA News. Following are highlights of other one of the participating teams. Faced with the net loss 01 approxi- Executive Committee approved all The Executive Committee also sports committee reports: (A full Division I-AA Football~~~The matcly $4.2 million in anticipated recommendations from the Division approved automatic qualification for report of all Executive Committee Executive Committee denied a request revenue from the 1984 portion of the I Men’s Basketball Committee, in- the same 29 Division I conferences action will appear in the August 29 from the Divisign I-AA Football 1982-1985 Football Television Plan, eluding a five-year cap on the 64- and agreed that through the 1990 issue of the News.) Committee to expand the champion- Eligibility Committee statement ship bracket to I6 teams. The 1984 championship will remain at I2 teams. Also denied was a request to increase Athletes warned about commercial endorsements the squad size from 52 to 55. In responseto concerns about the promotions; however, there is a the loss of any opportunities for ofthe application of NCAA legislation Men’s Golf-Ohio State University continued involvement of student- disturbing number of cases where competition has fostered the erro- will result in the student being charged was awarded the 1987 Division I athletes in the promotion of commer- the student has failed to contact neous impression that student-athletes with the loss of competitive oppor- Men’s Golf Championships May 27- cial businessescontrary to Constitu- appropriate institutional personnel can participate in the promotion of tunities. 30, and the University of Tampa will tion 3-l-(e), the NCAA Eligibility prior to participation, or misinformed commercial products with impunity Each case will be reviewed indi- host the 1986 Division II Men’s Golf Committee has announced that it staff members have authorized the so long as they are not paid or vidually, based upon the facts of that Championships May 20-23. The field will not be as lenient in restoring promotion,” Kollevoll noted. identified by name. case, in order to determine whether for the Division II Men’s Golf Cham- eligibility for future violations. In past cases, the committee In response, the Eligibility Com- eligibility should be restored and, if pionships will remain at 88 partici- “In the past academic year, the generally has restored a student’s mittee has determined that, effective so, after what period of ineligibility. pants. committee has considered I9 eligi- eligibility when no compensation has with the administration of the 1984- Committee members are urging Men’s Ice Hockey -The following bility cases involving 74 student- been provided to the student and the 85 student-athlete statement, at member institutions to emphasize conferences were approved for auto- athletes involved in the promotion involved advertisement or commercial which time student-athletes should this particular rule [Constitution 3- matic qualification for the 1985 of commercial products,” Olav item has been removed immediately be informed of the prohibition against l-(e)] and its interpretations to their Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Cham- B. Kolkvoll, chair of the Eligibility from further use or sale. involvement in the promotion of a student-athletes and athletics depart- pionship-western Collegiate Hock- Committee, reported. These cases However, committee members ex- commercial product, any violation ment personnel in administering the ey Association, Central Collegiate have run the gamut from magazine pressed concern that publicity of of Constitution 3-I-(e) in which the 1984-85 student-athlete statement SO Hockey Association and Eastern covers, men-on-campus calendars, several cases in which a student’s committee concludes the student- that potential eligibility problems College Athletic Conference. modeling, television commercials and eligibility has been restored without athlete knew or should have known can be averted. Men’s Lacrosse-The Executive newspaper advertisements to personal Committee approved a request to appearances at commercial businesses have a final four at a predetermined and shopping malls. site for the Division I Men’s Lacrosse “In most instances, the committee Championship, effective 1986. Semi- has felt that the member institutions finals will be played on Saturday and attempted to inform student-athletes the championship game on Monday of the prohibition against commercial of Memorial Day weekend. The com- mittee denied a request to increase the Division I championship from Collegians See Executwe, page 12 strike gold Attendance up in Olympics f or women’s NCAA collegians played a major role in the United States winning a record number of medals in the 1984 basketball Summer Olympics by capturing 49 Women’scollege basketball attend- of the 174 U.S. medals. ance showed strong growth in nearly The 56 NCAA athletes, whocom- every sector in 1984, reaching a peted at member institutions this record national total of 2,870,845, past year or who currently are excludingdouble-headers with men’s enrolled, won 24 gold medals, 17 teams. That is an increase of 368.4 19, silver medals and eight bronze or 14.72 percent, over 1983. medals, either individually or as The figures include all I, I47 senior members of relay teams. This total colleges in the country with women’s does not include medal winners from varsity teams (759 are NCAA other countries who are enrolled at members). NCAA member institutions. It does, NCAA Division I increased however, include performances of 159,674, or 13. IO percent; NCAA coaches at NCAA member institutions Division II jumped 90,512, or 25.70 who competed in men’s rifle and percent, and NCAA Division Ill women’s field hockey. climbed 33,404. or 9.88 percent. Non-NCAA teams also increased. Heading the list is UCLA gymnast Mitch Gaylord, who won three indi- NCAA Division I reached a record vidual medals and a fourth as a See Attendance, page 3 member of the U.S. team that won the gold medal. In the News Gaylord, the all-around cham- Two leading Division III football pion at the 1984 Division I Men’s coaches differ on the effects of the Gymnastics Championships, won a elimination of the NCAA as the silver medal on the vault and bronze packager of TV football program- medals on the rings and parallel ming . ...2 bars. Legislative Assistance 8 Gaylord’s UCLA teammate Tim The Volunteers for Youth program Daggett was another member of the demands dedication and energy from six-man U.S. gymnastics team and its national directors . .10 See Collegians, page I2 2 August l&l984 The NCAA Comment Is there life after TV for Division III football? By Bob Stewart “1 like what has been said about Division Ill football, that pay for it.” Canton (Ohlo) Repository this 1swhere real college football is being played, with student- Wable’s Purple Raiders got a taste of TV last season when Gene Slaughter and Ken Wable are the deans of college athletes. At least we can he honest wtth ourselves and look ABC televised the Mount Unwon-Heidelberg game on a football coaches in the Ohio Athletic Conference. each other in the eye,” he said. regional basis from the Alhancc stadium. Both are alike in a lot of ways, not the least of which, of Slaughter said the new ‘I‘V policies that evolved from the “That was quite a production, and I’m grateful for the course, is their longevity of location in their vocation.