Sports
Difficult times ahead
say black educators
SAN DIEGO (AP) - While
black educators are denoun
cing the NCAA's tougher
academic rules, Marino Casern
suggests the traditional college
powers are the ones who really
should be worried
"The ones that have nine
black starters on their football
team, and four black starters on
their basketball team, and
dominate the Top 20 year after
year, they're in trouble," said
Casern, football coach and
athletic director at predom
inantly black Alcorn State, said
Wednesday.
"They've been taking those
kids out of the projects in New
Orleans, plucking them off the
Dan Ryan Expressway in
Chicago Now they've got to get
them to score 700 on the SAT
Are you kidding me? This is go
ing to whiten up a lot of teams
You can't win the Kentucky
Derby riding a jackass, you've
got to have the horses And they
aren't going to have the
horses.'
Some of the most emotionally
charged debate in NCAA
convention history preceeded
the passage of the toughened
academic requirements
Tuesday. The main issue was
the requirement that high
school graduates must score at
least 700 on the SAT or 15 on
the ACT college entrance
exams to be eligible at Division I
schools. Those who fail to meet
the requirements will not be
shut out of college, only out of
NCAA Division I
The rules, which take effect
Aug 1, 1986, do not apply to
NCAA Division II or III, nor do
they affect the National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics, the largest grouping
of small schools
In addition, the delegates
passed what could be viewed as
a loophole when they approved
a measure saying that high
school athletes who do not meet
the new requirements can
accept a college scholarship
but may not compete during
their first year.
Nearly all black delegates
here, along with a few whites,
charged that the ACT and SAT
tests are regionally and racially
discriminatory
But white educators stood
their ground, arguing that steps
have to be taken to stop the
spreading academic scandals
and the exploitation of athletes
of all races A few presidents of
black colleges, including Jesse
Stone of Southern and Joseph
Johnson of Grambling, said the
convention's action was
blatant racism ”
I choose not to believe that,
said Prentice Gautt. who broke
the color line at Oklahoma in the
late 1950s and now serves as
assistant commissioner of the
Big Eight “But this is going to
cause a lot of high schools, and
a lot of universities, to make
some adjustments "
Sampson sparks Cavaliers win
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Ralph
Sampson scored 33 points, 19
In the second half, as No 2
Virginia overcame a 16-point
deficit to beat 19th-ranked
North Carolina State 88-80 in
Atlantic Coast Conference
basketball Wednesday night
Sampson, who hauled down
21 rebounds, keyed a late Vir
ginia surge in the first half and
sparked two more rallies in the
second half as Virginia moved
to 12-1 overall, 3-0 in the ACC.
Rick Carlisle scored 14, while
Othell Wilson and Ricky Stokes
had 10 each
The Cavaliers benefitted from
the absence of N.C. State guard
Dereck Whittenburg, who
suffered an ankle injury and was
taken to a local hospital for
X-rays. Whittenburg scored 27
first-half points, including seven
of nine shots from 3-point
range
NCAA adds new rules
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The
National Collegiate Athletic
Association approved
Wednesday an annual
preseason college football
game between two major
teams to benefit the National
Football Foundation Hall of
Fame
Delegates to the NCAA s
annual convention also
permitted Division l-A
football teams to add a ninth
full-time assistant coach,
while eliminating two part
time assistants However,
they turned down a proposal
to add a third full-time
basketball assistant
The delegates also
attempted to cut down on
recruiting violations by
prohibiting off-campus
recruiting by alumni and
boosters and they adopted
stringent ethical conduct
rules which could result in
athletes being declared ine
ligible. plus punitive action
against staff members who
violate NCAA regulations
They passed a measure
requiring schools to include
in coaches' contracts a
provision that the coach's
employment may be
suspended or terminated if
he violates NCAA regula
tions
Ducks take on mighty Bruins
Don't expect a miracle when
Oregon visits smoggy Los
Angeles to face Pac-10 leader
UCLA tonight
It's not an easy place to
bounce back from a loss, says
Oregon coach Jim Haney, who
watched his Ducks drop an
80-74 league game to Stanford
last weekend to even their
Pac-10 record at 1-1 and drop
their season record to 5-6
Bouncing back against a
team like the Bruins will be more
than not easy'' — it will be
downright difficult
The Ducks have never beaten
the Bruins in the four years
Haney has been at the Oregon
helm In fact, UCLA owns a
10-game winning streak in the
series, and they are currently
ranked fifth in both national wire
service polls with a 9-1 season
record
The Bruins can score from
just about anywhere on the
floor, with their inside game
centered around 7-0 so
phomore center Stuart Gray
and UCLA's two leading
scorers, forwards Darren Daye
(16.5 points per game) and
Kenny Fields (18.3 points).
They don’t lack at the guard
position either with senior Rod
Foster, who masquerades as a
greyhound when he takes to the
basketball court and averages
15.1 points per game, and junior
Ralph Jackson.
UCLA, with four starters
returning from last year,
bumped off Arizona 92-87 and
barely edged Arizona State
87-86 in its opening Pac-10
weekend last week
Haney, whose Ducks are tied
for third in the conference with
five other teams, may offer the
Bruins a chance to look at Ore
gon's seventh different starting
lineup of the year.
Senior Paul Bain may be the
latest addition to the Duck's
starting lineup, replacing so
phomore Greg Bell — who only
played four minutes last
Saturday — at point guard. Bain
played 30 minutes in Oregon’s
loss to Stanford and tallied 12
points, proving especially
effective from the baseline.
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