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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 1976
Consol athletes face
lack of space, equipment
By MARIE HOMEYER
Battalion Staff Writer
Growth in athletic participation
along with growth in student enroll
ment has created problems for the
A&M Consolidated High School
coaching staff.
Athletic Director Bob McLeroy
said that success of their athletic
teams has increased the participation
in their programs. “It’s a healthy
situation if you have the facilities,’
McLeroy explained.
But Consolidated does not have
the facilities. At2:30p.m. everyday,
170 to 180 athletes report to the
gymnasium for class. Since all cannot
be crammed into one gym, they are
scattered to other parts of the cam
pus.
The Physical Education classes are
forced to be held in the cafeteria.
The cross country track team, num
bering close to 40, run the aisles in
the auditorium. Half of the off
season football players are crowded
into the weightlifting room while the
other half has difficulty in finding
somewhere to go. “It’s a struggle to
get the job done,’ McLeroy said.
Consolidated offers every sport
included in University Interscholas
tic League competition.
At the present time seven basket
ball teams are trying to operate in
one gym. There are four boy teams
and three girl teams. Each week
Consolidated hosts 10 games. “It’s a
challenge to coordinate,” McLeroy
said. Besides planning for the home
games, practice time for each team
Coach vows
no cheating
for Mustangs
“An assistant coach gets beat out
on a kid by Darrell Royal or Frank
Broyles and he figures ‘well, they
bought him, said Meyer, who took
his Nevada-Las Vegas team to the
NCAA Division II playoffs last sea
son.
Davis said SMU is going to change
its image from one that has been in
and out of trouble with the NCAA
rules committee in recent years, to
one of a solid winning football pro
gram .
“I think we’ve lost sight of one
thing,” Davis said. “The NCAA rules
book is that thick,” he added,
suggesting about a three inch thick
book with his thumb and forefinger.
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Another area in which over
crowded conditions occur is in the
dressing and office facilities. Because
12 coaches could not operate out of
one office, the training room was
converted into another office. Due to
this conversion, a homemade train
ing room was set up in a corner of the
boys dressing room.
For 180 athletes there are only two
toilets in the dressing room. Three to
four persons share a locker. Shoulder
pads are placed on shelves in the
dressing room. Other storage is
packed into very compact areas mak
ing access to equipment difficult.
In other areas additional problems
exist. In past years the Consolidated
swimming team and golf team were
allowed to use University facilities.
But because of the growth in the
University, Consolidated was “cut
out. The track is the only facility still
utilized by Consolidated.
The swimming team is now using
the College Station city pool, which
is heated. The golf team has moved
to the Bryan Municipal Course
where they must pay a green fee for
every player. Bryan High School
students do not have to pay this fee.
The only promising outlook for
Consolidated coaches is that a bond
issue be passed in the near future.
But first the school board must ap
prove it and then the citizens must
approve it. If such a bond issue were'
to be passed, McLeroy said, new
dressing and office facilities and in
door workout areas would get top
priority.
The crowded conditions and competition for space in
athletic facilities at A&M Consolidated High School is
evidenced by the number of groups using the school gym.
Several boys and girls basketball teams use the facility
as well as the gymnastics team. Because of the growth
of Texas A&M in recent years. Consol is no longer able
to use university facilities.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Ron Meyer,
Southern Methodist University’s
new head football coach, said Tues
day he intends to create a new win
ning image for the Mustangs and he
intends to do it within the rules.
“I don t want some athlete coming
in and telling me he’s going to blow
the whistle on me,” Meyer told a
meeting of the Houston Sports Wri
ter’s and Sportscasters’ Association.
“There’s no doubt we can recruit
without cheating. It turns a lot of
prospects off. ”
Meyer, named last week to re
place Dave Smith, said he thinks re
cruiting violations are blown out of
proportion.
‘ Football is getting a bum rap,”
the former Navada-Las Vegas coach
said. “One per cent is fouling up col
lege football for the rest of us. 111 tell
you. I’ll take that lie detector test and
111 say I don’t know of a program that
is cheating now.
Meyer, accompanied by SMU ath
letic Director Dick Davis, is getting
his recruiting campaign in high gear
since assuming his duties last week.
He said rumors of recruiting
violations often get started as ex
cuses.
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