2
Basketball coach
Jim Haney must
find a way to
replace three
veterans who won't
play this season.
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Jeff Lamp and
Darnell Valentine
are the Mutt and
Jeff of the Portland
Trailblazer pre
season camp.
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For as long as
there’s been sport,
there’s been
the stereotype of
the so-called
“dumb Jock.”
emerald
Solving
the puzzle
What the NCAA’s probe
into Oregon’s misdoings
wiii mean for the Duchs
Graphic by Max DeRungs
By JIM LUND
Of tha Emiuld
At last, the end is in sight.
After nearly two years of scandal that has taken
more twists and turns than than a “whodunnit"
mystery, it appears that the last probe of the University
athletic department is nearing completion.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association,
governing body of a majority of the 1,200 college and
university athletic programs across the country,
recently filed its "letter of official inquiry" with the
University. Oregon officials now have until Jan. 18,
1982 to respond to the list of charges of possible
NCAA rule violations.
Once Oregon does respond, the NCAA's
committee on infractions will meet and decide what
penalties, if any, will be levied against the University.
"I think all of us feel, let's get it over with, whatever
it is,” said Ray Hawk, University vice-president for
administration and finance and head of the committee
formed to prepare Oregon's response to the charges.
"Let’s find out what it is and let s go to work and
get it out of the way,” Hawk continued. "The fear of
the unknown, I think, causes as much concern as
anything."
The NCAA inquiry is the last in a seemingly
endless series since the discovery in Dec., 1979, that
three Oregon football players had received credit for
an extension course they did little or no work for.
That discovery led to more investigations, which
uncovered more phony credits, a secret travel agency
account, charges of telephone credit card fraud and
alleged sexual abuses, and enough bad publicity to
make even the most avid Oregon fan to put down the
sports page and go for the comics.
"I think at one time we counted that we'd been
through 13 investigations," Hawk said. “We had the
FBI into this because there was some belief there
might of been gambling involved. We’ve had the local
city police in it because there were athletes involved
with certain sex charges. There was a question of
improper telephone use so we had investigators from
the state attorney general’s office. And we've also had
the county sheriff’s office and the Pac-10 investigate
us.”
According to Hawk, the NCAA has uncovered no
new stones in its own probe of the Duck program. In
fact, he says that Oregon officials did most of the
uncovering themselves.
"it's kind of like having the cart before the horse,"
Hawk said. "We conducted our own inquiry the minute
we found out about our problems. Almost everything
they know is what we’ve given them."
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