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An NCAA football superconference. The idea has been bounced
around for the past few years, but if University president William Boyd is
correct on his hunch, it will become a reality at the NCAA convention
Wednesday through Friday in Atlanta.
There are several parts to the superconference idea, which essen
tially boils down to a restructuring of the NCAA's Division I or big school
division.
The realignment would place many of the 145 Division I schools in
a l-AA class which would leave just the members of the major confer
ences (Pacific-8, Big 10, Big-Eight etc.) and the major independents
(Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt, etc.) to do battle in the remaining l-A or
superconference division.
The proposal has been before the NCAA before, but this time all
indications are that its time has come.
"Yes, I believe that the restructuring will be approved," admitted
Boyd, who cited the power of the football titans as the primary factor
involved.
If the proposal is passed, however, it will be over Oregon’s protest.
The University’s voting delegate, Wendall Basye, will represent the
official University position of opposition to the measure when it comes
time to cast ballots.
Boyd explained the University’s reasons for opposing the super
conference idea.
"I believe that the reform that has already taken place, the 30-rule
being the most visible, has already improved the quality of varsity
intercollegiate football," said Boyd. "No small group dominates football.
There have been so many surprises, games which could be called
upsets, that it shows the reform being used is working.”
Boyd’s primary concern is trying to restore a competitive nature to
collegiate football. The University president believes that passage of
the superconference idea could actually reverse the progress that has
taken place.
"The motives of some of the schools supporting the proposal are to
turnaround the measures taken to equalize football," said Boyd. “They
would do away with the limits and take steps in the wrong direction.”
Although Oregon will remain in the major classification regardless
of which way the measure goes, Boyd supports its rejection because he
feels that Oregon’s goals can be best served if football remains as it is.
“I think that it is the preference of Oregon followers that Oregon
remain in the Pac-8 and compete successfully,” said Boyd. ‘“I believe
we can do that more successfully if we oppose restructuring.”
Of even more importance from the Oregon viewpoint is the possi
bility of inflation gripping football costs again if the restructuring takes
place.
“In the long run restructuring would up costs and they are already
nearly more than we can bear,” said Boyd.
To get priced out of the football market would be a tragedy. As
would seeing the good things that are happening stopped. That’s why I
have to hope Oregon’s protest of the superconference is successful.
Notre Dame was the national champion this season, which is
hardly a change, but Washington won the Rose Bowl and Kentucky was
in the top 10. Neither team has exactly made football history in the past
10 years.
To create the superconference would be to give the super-powers
a license to move college football even closer to its professional cousin.
If anything, it should move the other way.
College football is already bordering on getting out of hand finan
cially. A restructuring wouldn’t guarantee that it would happen, but it
would increase the chances of runaway spending and competition that
could drive schools like Oregon out of the same league with the power
ful schools.
Improvement has taken place and will continue. That progress
shouldn’t be put in jeopardy by an unnecessary restructuring which
would be only to cater to the interests of the football factories.
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Super Bowl frenzy mounts as
Dallas, Denver ready for clash
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Let the
games begin.
The week-long flood of inter
views, parties and pre-game
hoopla that are as much a Super
Bowl tradition as the silver trophy
that goes to the winner starts
Monday when the Dallas Cow
boys and the Denver Broncos are
expected to arrive here.
Every detail — important and
irrelevant — will be recorded by a
massive media entourage that
may be reduced to chronicling
players’ shoe sizes before the Na
tional Football League champion
ship is decided for the 12th time
under the Super Bowl format next
Sunday.
For the first time, it will be con
tested indoors — at the Super
dome, where some 75,000 spec
tators and a national television
audience expected to reach 69
million will watch the teams which
feature explosive offenses and
awesome defenses with equally
imposing nicknames.
For the first time, the media will
have some form of access to the
player workouts and to the game
officials. This latest move was in
stituted in an apparent effort to
prevent either team from hiding in
juries and to present the public
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return to home base
After spending the major portion of its early season schedule
travelling from one city to another, the Oregon wrestling team finally
gets a chance to return home.
Only four of Oregon’s 14 matches so far this season have been in
Eugene, but the Ducks will be at McArthur Court tonight at 7:30 when
they host the Clarion State Golden Eagles.
Continuing their home stand, Coach Ron Finley’s squad will host
Fresno State at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night at McArthur Court.
After an extremely slow start, the Ducks have begun to put together
their season. Led by Scott Bliss, who was named the tournament’s
cutstanding wrestler, the Ducks finished second at the Colorado Invita
tional last weekend.
Tonight’s meeting with the Golden Eagles will be the first meeting
ever between the Ducks and Clarion State. Earlier in the year Clarion
was rated as high as 11th in the nation.
Skiers bomb foes
The winter ski season has
hardly begun, but the Oregon ski
team has already established it
self as one of the top teams in the
Northwest.
Competing in a nonconference
race Saturday and Sunday at Mt.
Bachelor, Oregon individuals won
the giant slalom and dual slalom
races.
In the men’s giant slalom, Char
lie Gould captured first with a time
of 1:16. Teammate Scott Kime
was third. In the women’s race
Oregon’s Evelyn Duffy and Barb
Nash tied for first.
Dual Slalom competition was
also spiced with an Oregon flavor.
Duffy and Central Oregon Com
munity College’s Monica McClain
tied for first and Oregon’s Nash
finished second. Kime claimed
runner-up honors in the men’s
race.
The University contingent didn’t
fare as well in the cross-country
portion of the racing as Dick Mur
ray was Oregon’s top finisher. He
was ninth. The women did better
as Aven Switzer and Elaine Pow
ers claimed second and third re
spectively.
Other teams competing in the
races were Oregon State, Califor
nia and COCO.
with clearer explanations of any
controversial ruling made by the
men in the striped shirts.
To Dallas’ “Doomsday II” de
fense, led by Harvey Martin and
Too Tall Jones, will go the task of
stopping the Denver offense run
by former Cowboy quarterback
Craig Morton. To Denver’s
“Orange Crush" brigade will go
the chore of dealing with the run
ning of rushing star Tony Dorsett
and quarterback Roger Stau
bach’s drive to give his Cowboys
their second NFL title here.
Dallas, which will be making its
fourth Super Bowl appearance,
has won it only once — at New
Orleans in 1972, when they
drowned the Miami Dolphins 24-3.
They’ll be shooting for another
crown against a team which is
making the first championship ap
pearance of its 17-year history.
The Broncos reached the
climactic game of the NFL season
by beating Pittsburgh and Oak
land in the American Football
Conference playoffs while the
Cowboys earned their travel ex
penses by scoring playoff vic
tories over Chicago and Min
nesota.
Dallas led the NFL in total de
fense while its offense produced
42 touchdowns and 345 points —
both tops in the National Football
Conference. The Broncos were
third-best against the rush in the
American Conference but did not
have a player among the top
rushers or receivers.
Morton and his offensive line
will have to contend with the
“Doomsday II” pass rush which
produced 53 quarterback sacks
and permitted just 26 touchdowns
all season. Staubach and com
pany will be facing an “Orange
Crush" which contained Pitts
burgh and Oakland, the winners of
the last three NFL titles.
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Forward Moreck quits Ducks
Junior forward Joe Moreck left the Oregon basketball team, it
was announced Monday evening. Moreck is the third Duck to quit
the team this season. Coach Dick Harter, following team policy,
had no comment on the issue, as did Moreck.
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