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Measure 5 sinking college athletics
FROM THE
SIDELINES
BY JAKE BERG
T he ship of higher educa
lion in ihe stain of Oregon
is quickly sinking, ami
lied to thi! bow of that ship is a
dinghy c olInd intercollegiate
athletics
Measure,5 i an take a bow for
Ilia flailing condition of higher
education today but only the
ignorance of the system is to
blame for what is happening to
the state's intercollegiate ethic!
it s Sports at Portland State,
Oregon Stale and Oregon have
been almost entirely self-sup
porting, getting by without the
help ol taxpayers, unlike most
other state schools fit the na
lion
Dick Schii.lt/. executive di
rector of the NCAA, visited the
University on Friday and S.itur
day, where he expressed his
disappointment at the fact that
the state's three universities are
looking at an accumulated $0
million deficit
The pressure on an athletic
department to turn a profit is
already great enough without
having to worry about raising
funds to simply survive, said
Schultz, who was on campus as
part of his plan to visit a dllter
ent campus every weekend on
what could liti called a goodwill
tour.
Me said people must first be
willing to give it they expect to
rw oive
"That's really the way it's got
to work if vou want athletics to
lie an integral part of ihe uni
versity," Schultz said "When
you really step away from it
and look at it, that's the way
you have to do it
It's something whose time
probably hasn't i nine yet, but
athletic departments have to do
it "
In other states, athletic de
partmrnts would not be able to
iiv; and breathe were they in
the same situation as Oregon's
three universities. Si bull/ said
Most other athletic departments
would collapse without the
staio lunils they receive. unlike
Oregon schools
in lac!, proposed legislation
presently ponding before the
State Board of Higher liducii
Inin would funnel taxpayers''
money toward tin- state's colic
glate athletic departments
"The athletic revenue in 70
peri ent of the cases is not
enough to pay the cost of uth
let-lev. Schultz said "The li
naricial pressure is one of the
pressures .that not only athlete s
but higher education in gener.il
bn es right now
Athletic programs are really
going to have to bite their
c hecks 1 think it's just a mat
ter of tightening the licit," lie
said "At the same time, we
have to have good cost control,
and I think that athletic depart
merits are just learning how to
do that right now
The Sports Action loiters
games were created to help
fund the stale's intercollegiate
athletics, hut Schultz is not in
favor of the lottery He said the
NCAA .is a whole was also very
much against sports lottery
games, hut because of Oregon's
spw ial situation, the state is ex
ompt from any legislation the
NCAA passes against the lot
lory
He suggested a hypothetical
situation where two teams are
tied at the end ol the game and
a player on the free throw line
misses two free throw-.
And somebody veils out.
How many lottery tickets did
you have on the game'
Schultz said "You're doing
nothing more than betting on
the point spread" rather than
on the chance of who will win
The pressure to will Is great
on any team, but to make men
ey, winning is almost a must
football is easily the most prof
liable o! Oregon sports, and t )r
egon football coach Kith
Brooks has always expressed
his concern this pressure lor
his football team to w in would
eventually trickle down to the
players
"II your team isn't winning."
Schultz said, "people will just
stay at home to watch someone
else on television
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