tonygallucci—second guesses
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1980
Yes, athletes are students too
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G.R. Edwards from the Coaches’
Creed of the National Association of
Basketball Coaches.
I have a feeling Norm Ellenberger
never read his book. And it’s not that
the Univeristy of New Mexico is an
isolated case, but with the troubles
surfacing at UNM and Arizona State
University we are compelled to won
der how many other schools are in
volved in the same circumstance.
Texas A&M certainly is not.
Further, we must ask ourselves,
once again, if college athletics has
not gone beyond what the general
public would consider a reasonable
boundary. Without trying to “second
guess” what the general public
thinks about the subject, I would like
to pursue the subject from a little
different angle.
I will never make excuses for the
gambling associations that have been
revealed at the University of New
Mexico. There is not and never will
be an excuse for that. Whether or not
reports of point-shaving and orga
nized crime involvement prove to be
true, it is to the detriment of college
athletics that an association between
them was ever made.
I want, instead, to focus on the
athlete as student. Hazarding a
guess, I think it not unreasonable
that 50 percent of college athletes
'"erle wou ^ never consider enrolling at a
major university if a suitable profes
sional farm system was available. I
to S uess that knowing that few athletes
would advance beyond a farm system
if they ever even had a chance within
sities are not pro franchises, but they
have been knighted to take athletes
and prepare them for the “real
world” that so many face. Somehow I
feel much better helping athletes
than worrying about how much tax
money might be used by those who
would go through high school, some
small farm system and never make it
to the Big Apple.
We must also realize that there are
many excellent students who also
happen to be excellent athletes. A
farm system and/or the lack of col
lege athletics might prevent those
lucky such people from exploiting all
their talents.
“Jocks have it made” is a dogma of
the twentieth century and it is very
difficult one to defeat. Fact is,
athletes don’t have it made. For ev
ery professor sympathetic to athletes
is at least one who would much
rather flunk all the jocks in his clas
ses. It would be best, of course, if
everyone was treated equally. But I
fear that is as naive a wish as thinking
Norm Ellenberger is totally inno
cent.
This year four members of the
A&M basketball team will graduate
with four athletic letters each. Con
sider that only five other basketball
players have done that previously,
mostly because of the freshman eligi
bility rule. These guys have had to
breathe basketball and attend school
contiguously for four years to be
among the elite.
Someone tell them they haven’t
earned the right to join the rest of the
world as spectators and supporters
just because they were athletes
while earning their degrees.
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The use of universities as a farm
system, per se, is advantageous for
the athlete, pro sports and the uni
versities in the long run. Providing
educational opportunities is the least
we can do for what may be the most
beloved and admired single group of
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the pure academician. The scholar
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athletic abilities and they must per
form those abilities to retain that
scholarship. They must also maintain
a minimum academic standard.
Thus, the student-athlete is ex
pected to concern himself with one
standard, ostensibly for his own
■ good, and at the same time maintain
/ another — athletics — which, if he is
good, will, in a sense, be his educa
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i ar ^ ' will, if he is not good enough for the
| professional ranks, be for his own
satisfaction. Collectively, all those
athletes meeting their athletic stan
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the community. A well-coached,
mentally-prepared team can be a
university’s best ambassador.
A improperly run program can
i destroy a university’s reputation, the
: communities trust, student egos,
coaches recruiting budgets and,
perhaps saddest of all, it can destroy
the lives of the athletes.
Students who are on academic
scholarships do not have to maintain
a double standard. Granted, univer-
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the added responsibilities of acade
mic counselor for athletes, it was
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Sutherland replaces retired en
gineering dean Cliff Ransdell who
has served as interim academic coun
selor since last August, according to
Texas A&M Athletic Director Mar
vin Tate.
“Sutherland has done an excellent
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said. “We are confident he will do
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