79th annual Convention issue January 9,1985, Volume 22 Number 2 tional Collegiate Athletic-Association John R. Davis Elizabeth A. Kruczek Ade L. Spot&erg Francis W Bonner Thomas J. Frericks Association’s annual ConGentioISl opens Monday Thoughts will turn from country gates, among I45 legislative proposals are I3 I chief executive officers. For a and 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday, music to key issues in intercollegiate that will be considered by the Con- list of CEOs who have preregistered. January 15, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and athletics beginning Monday, January vention. The 145 proposals are down see page I I Wednesday, January 16, 8 a.m. to 14, when the NCAA Convention is from the 162 on the agenda at last Registration for the Convention noon. held for the first time at the Opryland year’s Convention in Dallas, when an begins at 2 pm. Saturday, January The 79th annual Convention begins Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. all-time record 1,737 persons were in 12. and continues until 8 p.m. that officially Monday, January 14, at 8 A proposal to increase the voting attendance. day. Other registration times are Sun- a.m. with division round tables, fol- autonomy in Division 1 may be the Among the delegates who have day, January 13, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; lowed by the opening general session key issue, at least for Division I dele- preregistered for the 1985 Convention Monday, January 14. 7 a.m. to noon at IO a.m. and the honors luncheon at noon. Additional round tables will be held that afternoon from 3 p.m. to Toner will end term as president 5130p.m. The general business session A ,. begins at 8 a.m. Tuesday, January IS. : John L. Toner, president of the NCAA since his Convention leaders who will chair election following the 1983 Convention in San the various sessions are Division I Diego, will chair his second business session at the Vice-President Gwendolyn Norrell, 1985 Convention in Nashville. Michigan State University, chair of Toner, director of athletics of the University of the Division I round table; Division Connecticut, will open the business session at 8 II Vice-President Ade L. Sponberg, a.m. Tuesday and about noon Wednesday will North Dakota State University, chair conclude eight years of service as an NCAA of the Division II round table; Divi- Council member and officer. sion 111Vice-President Elizabeth A. Toner, the 26th president of the NCAA, served Kruczek, Fitchburg State College, Gwendolyn Norrell on the Council from 1977 to.1980, followed by chair of the Division 111round table: two-year stints as secretary-treasurer and president. that may be amended by a division President John L. Toner, University The Dighton, Massachusetts, native also has acting separately, with the following of Connecticut, chair of the opening exceptions: served as chair of the Eligibility Committee, the general session and the business ses- 0 -,--~---~Bvlaws 5-6 and 5-7.I which deal Toner 1estifie.sat IRS hearing. page 16 sion: Secretary-Treasurer John R. with institutional and conference eli- Davis, Oregon State University, chair gibility for NCAA championships. Nominating Committee and the Special Committee of the Division I-A round table: l Bylaw 6-5-(e), which pertains to on Legislative Review, and as a member of the Francis W. Banner, Furman Univer- See Association k page 13 Division I Steering Committee and the Special sity, chair of the Division I -AA round Committee on NCAA Governance, Organization table, and Thomas J. Frericks, Uni- In the News and Services. versity of Dayton, chair of the Divi- Toner is past president of the National Associa- sion I-AAA round table. Basketball notes and statistics in all tion of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the divisions.. .3-5 Legislative proposals Eastern College Athletic Conference. NCAA to conduct its 79th annual Director of athletics at Connecticut since 1968, The Council-sponsored proposal Convention in Nashville . .6- I I Toner coached the Huskies’ football team for five (No. 30) to increase voting autonomy years, sharing the Yankee Conference title in 1968 within Division I is supported by the Preliminary results of a nationwide and winning the championship outright in 1970. Presidents’ Commission and would study of drug use by student-athletes He is a graduate of Boston University, where he permit the Division I-A membership indicate that alcohol is the most widely quarterbacked the Terriers in 1947 and 1948 after and the combined membership of useddrug.................... returning from a 42-month tour in the European Divisions I-AA and I-AAA to vote Legislative Assistance . I3 John L. Toner theater. Financial report in the black College football viewing dips 27 percent but budget restraints urged National network viewing of percent from its 1983 rating of 9.6. homes in 1981 with its 12-game The NCAA Executive Committee %5,043,767), other Division 1 cham- college football dropped 27 percent ABC telecast most of its games in schedule and TBS. which nation- will report an excess of revenue over pionships ($316,570) publishing rev- during 1984, according to figures the late Saturday afternoon time ally distributed Southeastern Con- expenses for the 1983-84 fiscal year at enue ($101,177) and marketing released by the A. C. Nielsen Com- slots. CBS telecast most of its ference football to cable homes in the 1985 Convention, but it also will ($287,321). Income from investment paw games in the early Saturday after- 1984, reached an average of advise NCAA members that budget- increased by S494.022. The average rating of ABC and noon time slot, frequently against 736,000 homes. ary restraints should be planned for Expenses for 1983-84 operations CBS was 7.2 compared to the ESPN and regional telecasts by A chart showing national net- coming years. The report will be increased by 24.5 percent to two-network average rating of 9.8 area syndicators. work comparative ratings figures published in the Association’s Annual $37,4 IO.39 I. The major increases were in 1983. One point on the Nielsen The average audience in 1984 for college football since the cur- Reports, which will be available to in the areas of championships rating charts amounts to 849,000 was 7, I 19,000 homes for ABC and rent ratings system was adopted in the membership at the Convention. ($5,153,940) and general expenses television homes, or one percent 5,OIO,OQOhomes for CBS. Mean- 1968 appears on page 12. According to the report, revenues (S I, 129,390). primarily because of an of the 84.9 million U.S. homes while, ESPN attracted an average Nielsen ratings achieved by re- exceeded expenses by $2.6 million for increase of %I million in the funded with w leaat one television set. audience of I ,3 10,000 cable homes gional syndicators are being com- the 1983-84 fiscal year. Actual revenue operating reserve. ABC’s 1984 rating for its l3- in I984 compared to the I ,02 I.000 piled, to the extent they are avail- of 539,969,096 was an increase of 20.6 The excess of revenue over expenses game schedule was 8.4, down 15.2 homes reached by Turner Broad- able. Preliminary reports to date percent over 1982-83 income. is part of an unallocated surplus of percent from its 1983 rating of 9.9; casting System (TBS) with its Sat- indicate that the various confer- The primary factors in the rise $3.096.222, all of which has been and CBS’s 1984 rating for I4 urday night releases of 1983. USA ence television packages fell short in income were the Division I earmarked in the 1984-85 budget. games was 5.9, a drop of 38.5 Network drew an average 25 1,000 See College.page I2 Men’s Basketball Championship (up See Financial. page IO 2 January 9.1985 The NCAA Buying of athletes something Looking Back I I Five years ago that should not be tolerated The 74th annual NCAA Convention, January 7-9, 1980, at the Fairmont John Wooden, former men’s basketball coach Robert Brodhad, director of athletics Hotel in New Orleans, approved proposals to establish five women’s University of California, Los Angeia _ Louiaian8 State University championships in Divisions Ii and III and increased the number of accredited Athletic Business . --.._ i’7teAssociated Press Convention delegates from each institution from three to four to encourage the ‘I still feel that there is not nearly the amount of ’ ‘I met a lot of agents in my years in the National inclusion of women in Convention delegations. William J. Flynn, Boston cheating going on that there is supposed to be. A lot of it Football League. Most of them are honest. A few are College, was president of the NCAA. is simply suspicion. Now, there are a lot of little rules that unscrupulous. Ill use that word. The unscrupulous ones Ten years ago am constantly being broken and it’s impossible to police should be eliminated. them, but the main worry is this buying of athletes. 1 feel “We’re at their mercy. We’re at the mercy of society and The 69th annual Convention, January 6-8, 1975, at the Sheraton Park that if a coach is guilty of buying an athlete, bar him. 1 economics. You take a kid out to dinner and give him Hotel in Washington, D.C., honored President Gerald R. Ford as recipient of also don’t accept this idea that the poor athlete was taken some money-and he’s never had anything in his life- the Theodore Roosevelt Award and authorized a select meeting to discuss advantage of.