THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1979
Page 9
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^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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.”
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