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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1979 Page 9 Spurs, Bullets still at the opera Gov. Rafael I rule Thui, ley is innocent md guilty, he ;ing from $2,K 3 dollars. ilio Cesar TunJ ‘t reed the ah g territorial and a po Ulantico ani If-limits to all did not have it ion. The ha 'eminent! i«i inst mariju; cracks down I United Press International ^R)USTON — The stakes just ini? from rJ jnt up for a Southwest Conference es fool to illegally recruit a high ■>1 athlete and get caught. Under a sanction unanimously ipipved by the nine schools a } n,® school prohibited by the I * ^ I dlBA from playing in televised Trs or bowl games will not share • ■ • by SWC edict — in the revenues "1 T” Qlpnei.ited hy the other SWC mem- participation. Had such a sanction been in effect 1077 when the University of ro 1 m "Bton was slapped with a one- p» n a ne ' VSf ^probation for illegallv recruit- d a d,s P“) J t Darrell Shepard, the' Houston » atmc)sphertBjj t . department would have for tunes past. ltet [ about $300,000. i the Houseoflpis is a damned serious action, ;t in recentvidi Houston Athletic Director an 10 minutesjTy Fouke, who expressed reser- d by the qti- tfop despite his affirmative vote, ic Throne’ alfe 6 Athletic Director Augie Er- govemment rth said, “If we lost that much s its legislatitfnpy our administration would session. rtainly frown on it, to say the ist. ; was on cutti JMurth said the new sanction was irbs on tl -o^ght to the floor and passed dur um greater Ipree days of meetings at the Bdlands Inn. e, dealing»ri| was not on the agenda,” Er- titude tow rth said. is, said: declined to say which school ive prioriti dposed the penalty, controllingiuj'lt was discussed — not debated rsuit of firm I quite at length. The vote was not olicies. ade hastily. I think the general the burden ocensus was that we felt there was :ricting thee Ing to have to be something strin- r on the natijnt done to stop the so-called , they will Nations,” he said, es, encourailt was his opinion that if the e a climateiipAA’s probation included penal- d industnR prohibiting a team from playing i television and in a bowl game, contents Wi SWC would automatically stop sy already I yment to the probated school of y the Const'Venues generated by those games, ampaign. Outgoing SWC President Albert dressed in 'itte of Arkansas made the an- nroidered g luncement and added, “The feel- kingham i Irish Statf i: white hors* 1 lousehold Ci ates on their: ing was widespread that current procedures were insufficient deter rents to the institution, some of which can profit from their own wrongdoing. ” Fouke, contacted by phone, seemed to think the new rules needed more work. But he said once the proposal came to a vote, there was no way to vote against it without looking like an illegal re cruiter. “This is an extreme penalty and would likely be used in only the most serious of cases,” he said. SWC Commissioner Cliff Speegle said the new sanction received “unanimous consent of the institu tions.” In the 1977 recruiting case of Odessa quarterback Shepard, the three infractions pointed out by the NCAA against Houston were rela tively minor. Nevertheless, that case would have cost Houston its share of television and bowl reve nues had the present rule been in effect. Generally, a SWC team playing in a television or bowl game takes its expenses from the revenue. Then the remainder — an estimated $2.8 million in 1978 — is divided among the nine schools. In the case of Rice, a team which did not play on televi sion or in a bowl, its estimated $300,000 revenue represented 15 to 20 percent of its athletic budget. One of Fouke’s reservations con cerned the redistribution of the rev enue if a school or schools were placed on probation. That question was not discussed at the meetings, he said. The new sanction was patterned after one imposed by the Southeast Conference last year. “This is what everyone in the country is going to,” Speegle said. All SWC sports will come under the new sanction but imposition of the penalty on a school for one sport will not affect that school’s other sports, Witte said. Cowboys ink top picks United Press International 1LLAS — The Dallas Cowboys aesday signed their top two draft Dpks — center Robert Shaw of ’nnessee and defensive back iiron Mitchell of Nevada-Las Shaw signed a four-year contract 1 Mitchell a five-year pact. No her terms were disclosed. ‘I’m surprised I signed as early as lid,” said Shaw. “I believe it was offer they gave my agent and it Alvarez Yairi Large selection at Keyboard Center. Ask to see them as they are stored in cases safely away from other guitars. / was an equitable and acceptable one.” Both players have dropped out of school and are working daily at the Cowboys’ practice facility, receiving j individual attention from the j coaches before the opening of train- ; ing camp. They were the first two draft picks signed by the club, although the Cowboys have signed about 50 free agents since the draft. fairi are made with care and attention to detail. Select seasoned woods are carefully selected and handcrafted into instru ments which are recog nized by guitarists all over the world. Keyboard [Center offers a full line ) selection of Alvarez, Yairi guitars i? accessories. Come by soon for more specific details. * Layaway & Terms ★ KEyboARd Center Manor East MaII Bryan • 779-7080 Randy Stuart, Owner OPEN 6 DAYS TILL 6 Layaway Monthly Speegle, reading from a list of other actions taken by the SWC offi cials, said no action was taken by the conference on any investigations of wrongdoing. He said the SWC’s radio and television committee met with rep resentatives of the Mutual radio network to improve broadcasts this fall. Witte said, “They (Mutual) agreed that the quality of many broadcasts should be improved,” but neither SWC official would dis cuss specific problems. Athletic directors attending were asked to study an earlier starting date for football, possibly to the middle of August in order to coin cide with the beginning of the schools’ fall semesters. Speegle said a proposal to start a SWC soccer league was tabled for further discussion. United Press International SAN ANTONIO — It’s not as catchy as the one involving the fat lady and the opera, but Coach Dick Motta has coined a new phrase which means essentially the same thing: don’t count the world cham pion Washington Bullets out yet. “Don’t write the epitaph,” Motta cautioned sportswriters after his team captured a 107-103 victory over San Antonio in Landover, Md., and cut the Spurs’ lead in the East ern Conference title series to 3-2. Though it lacked the flare of “the opera ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings,” which Motta sprang on the press a year ago as his team edged toward the NBA championship, Motta’s epitaph quote fit neatly into Monday headlines. “Don’t count the Bullets out. Washington will be back,’’ said Motta. “We have a positive attitude. We re hustling and I really believe we re capable of winning the next two games.” So confident was Motta that his team could come back, that he suggested the pressure now is on San Antonio, which jumped to a 3-1 lead in the series before losing nar rowly Sunday. “Game 6 (tonight at HemisFair Arena) is the pressure game for them,” he said. “They came up here on Cloud Nine — a loss wouldn’t matter. But now they have to win. They don’t want to come back to Landover.” Naturally, San Antonio Coach Doug Moe disagreed. “You’d have to be a complete idiot to believe that,” Moe coun tered. “The pressure is on both teams. Sure, we’d like to win at home but if we don’t, we have another game up there Friday night. What do the Bullets do if they lose?” “If we don’t win,” Bullet guard Kevin Grevey offered as the obvious answer to Moe’s question, “school’s out for the summer.” Bob Bass, the Spurs’ assistant coach, said he was incensed that the officials allowed mammoth Bullets’ center Wes Unseld to camp out in the lane during Game 5. “He was in there longer than Smokey the Bear has been in the woods,” Bass complained. “I told Darrel (Garretson) that if there weren’t any three-second violations, there had to have been a bunch of 2.9’s.” “I feel good about tonight,” said Spurs Center Billy Paultz. “We played poorly Sunday but didn’t let them put us away, even while we were struggling.” You save about one-half the cost of using a moving company by renting a Ryder truck and moving it yourself. Not bad pay for doing your own moving, is it? And, with Ryder, you know that you’re renting a truck from the best- maintained, most dependable fleet in the world. 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