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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1981
Page 11
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ss was made at the N CAA
convention held Thursday
Iriday in St. Louis, Mo., but
nation might become a little
r starting Jan. 11.
e organization’s warring
ier schools, 61 of which be-
) the College Football Asso-
i, will meet at Houston’s
Regency Jan. 11-13 at the
,’s regular convention,
it week’s gathering, held to
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The CFA, which is expected to
formalize a $180 million contract
with NBC, had hoped that the
issue of television rights would
surface a bit more than it did at the
convention. CFA members, who
also belong to the NCAA, feel that
the schools should have the right
to organize their own television
contracts.
However, in a move to thwart
the efforts of the CFA, the NCAA
has signed a $283.5 million pact
with ABC and CBS. The January
convention will deal mostly with
the question of television rights,
as well as several other areas of the
NCAA organization.
The CFA has been advised by
University of Oklahoma President
William S. Banowsky to vote in
favor of the contract with NBC.
The University of Oklahoma is one
of the organization’s major
powers.
Texas A&M Interim Athletic
Director Wally Groff, who
traveled to the St. Louis conven
tion, said each CFA school should
receive by today a ballot with
which to vote on the NBC
package.
University President Frank E.
Vandiver and the Texas A&M Sys
tem Board of Regents will decide
how the school votes on the NBC
proposal, Groff said, but they will
receive input from the Athletic
Department and the Athletic
Council while making their
choice.
“There are good points to both
packages (NBC and ABC-CBS),”
he said.
The convention may have
brought the NCAA and CFA clos
er together, Groff said, although
most other officials have stated
otherwise.
“I’d say they’re closer because
they’ve dropped it (Division I-A)
from 137 to about 105. From that
point of view we’re closer.”
The approved restructuring
idea, which was presented and
organized by the NCAA Council,
was “the lesser of the three pack
ages” presented at the conven
tion, Groff said.
The CFA’s proposed creation of
a Division IV was the first to be
struck down by representatives
from about 350 schools. The plan
submitted by the Big Eight Con
ference, calling for stricter mem
bership requirements in Division
I-A, was also defeated by the dele
gates.
The major opposition to the
accepted proposal came from the
smaller schools which will be
dropped from the top classifica
tion, as well as from some of the
CFA’s larger members. The major
CFA schools fighting for the orga
nization’s rights are Oklahoma,
the University of Georgia and the
University of Texas, Groff said.
The discussion of property and
television rights, ruled out of
order by the convention chairman
because of its irrelevancy to re
structuring, will be resumed at
next month’s meeting, he added.
After first backing the CFA prop
osal, Groff said, he and other
Southwest Conference represen
tatives voted in favor of the NCAA
plan.
Groff, who traveled to the con
vention with Dr. Charles H. Sam
son, Texas A&M vice president for
planning and chairman of the
Athletic Council, said SWC offi
cials feel a need to form a unified
group in taking their stands. The
nine SWC schools, as well as all
major NCAA powers outside the
Big Ten Conference and the Paci
fic 10 Conference, are members of
the CFA.
“All the SWC schools feel
strongly that they need to stay
together,” he said.
However, the SWC represen-
&M-LSU game should give
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tatives didn’t achieve that
“togetherness” with their votes on
the NCAA’s restructuring propos
al, he said.
“There was a pretty split vote,”
Groff said. “I tried to look over my
shoulder to count the hands, and it
looked (like) about a 5-4 vote.
There was no certain stand on the
proposal.”
Groff said Texas, Oklahoma and
Georgia, leading the CFA’s efforts
to oversee some of its own activi
ties, came to the convention with
the intent of making their objec
tives known.
“They were pretty much pre
pared to make their stands,” he
said.
Many CFA members feel that
cable television, which offers
viewers another source for watch
ing football, is an issue which must
be dealt with, Groff said. The CFA
wants to establish property rights
for each school, and the problem
of cablevision ownership should
be an important topic for argu
ment or discussion in January.
“Live television everybody
seems to agree on, but I really feel
that the difference is in cable tele
vision,” he said. “I think that’s
where the property rights issue
came up.
“We re not too far from where
we could put games on cablevision
and bring in 10 to 100 times as
much as we do at the gate. As I
understand it, we re not more
than a year off from those capabili
ties. This is what I really feel like
... maybe that’s what Texas and
some of these big schools are get
ting to. That (creating a cablevi
sion market) could make the
Southwest Conference a big draw
in the South.”
NCAA representatives at next
month’s convention should dis
cuss about 122 separate articles,
Groff said. Among the topics to be
considered are the property rights
issue, the penalty structure for
violations of NCAA rules, eligibil
ity rules and transfer rules.
RANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Staff
Louisiana State Tigers have
only one game this season
they lost. But they’re hun-
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ing that lif
gainstTeii
Tigers, whose last appear-
s wereh jfore the 1981 season came
NCAA Final Four the past
lost their first game to
Las Vegas by a score of
in overtime. Coach Dale
le way tlip and his team are anxious to
choolsvi'Pieir opponents that gradua-
and the UNLV loss
ignify that LSU has a weak
is season.
Tigers, playing with no
and eight sophomores
Ishmen, play the 2-0 Texas
tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie
Coliseum. It might seem
I'ith such a young squad,
itingohcipight have its sights on the
’ards A&M
• e after an® ev er, the Tigers plan on
vill startthings this year.
S' opening the season rank-
toTexad 0 ' 17 in the nation, LSU has
ruit. Wei M ou t of the Top 20 polls.
| will start 6-5 junior Ho-
Parter and 6-7 sophomore
rd Mitchell at the forward
ins, while 6-10, 230-pound
an Ray Borner will open at
The guards will be 6-2
inore Johnny Jones and 6-3
ardor, brother of Rice sharp
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LSU Assistant Sports Informa
tion Director Larry White said the
Tigers’ tough opponents this
month will provide the team with
an advantage when the Southeast
ern Conference race begins.
“I think we found out that we re
a better team than most people
thought,” White said. “Our De
cember schedule, during which
we play Texas El-Paso, Wake
Forest and UCLA, should help us
when we get to January.”
Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf will
rely on starting forwards Claude
Riley and Roy Jones, along with
center Rudy Woods and guards
Tyren Naulls and Reggie Roberts.
Riley is the Aggies’ leading scorer
and rebounder through two games
with 22 points and 13 rebounds a
game. Naulls follows with 17
points a game, and Roberts is third
with 11 points a game. The Aggies
are shooting 53 percent from the
field after a 104-57 win over St.
Edward’s University and a 81-53
victory over Sam Houston State
University.
The game will be the Aggies’
last before entering a difficult
tournament schedule which will
take them to Illinois, El Paso and
Las Vegas. Four teams will parti
cipate in each tournament.
Metcalf said LSU, which defe
ated the Aggies 67-57 near the end
of last season, will offer his team
one of its toughest challenges of
the season.
“LSU is a very tough ball club,”
Metcalf said. “Leonard Mitchell is
a great player. He has the kind of
quickness that (former Texas
A&M star) Sonny Parker had.
They have a great club and it
ought to be a good game for the
people to see.
“We’re really going to find out
what we’ve got,” Metcalf said.
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