Page 8 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1981
Sports
Aggie medic
Lagan stays busy as A&M team doctor
By SHELLEY EMSHOFF
Battalion Reporter
Three hundred family members
are a lot to care for, but Dr. Duane
Lagan enjoys his job.
Lagan, associate director of
A.P. Beutel Health Center, is the
doctor for all Texas A&M Univer
sity sports teams.
'T have to know the athletes
like a family,” Lagan said, “so I can
function in response to their in
juries. Lagan said he also must
know how each individual reacts
to injury.
Some athletes are afraid of get
ting hurt and others want to play
when they are injured. It is
Lagan’s responsibility to know
what an athlete can handle, both
physically and mentally.
“Safety is first,” Lagan said.
“The player can participate with
an injury if it won’t worsen,
though there will be pain.”
He said athletes train daily by
lifting weights and practicing, yet
at the end of a game, a win or loss
is attributed to being mentally
prepared and motivated,
“Like a skill, the athletes should
be taught to be mentally prepared
for the game,” Lagan said. “Each
player is individual.”
Some need pepping up by yell
ing and some need to be calmed
by a quiet voice, he said. More
mental preparation is being used
by athletes. Lagan said, although
it is a gradual process at Texas
A&M.
Lagan said he talks one-to-one
with the athletes about any prob
lem or concern.
“The players feel more open
and seem to improve after talk
ing,” he said.
In addition to attending classes
they must spend time in team
meetings, practices and waiting as
long as two hours to see the
doctor.
Lagan’s schedule is no less
busy. After seeing other students
until 4 p.m. at the Health Center,
he goes to the Kyle Field Training
Room, where he sees athletes un
til 8 p.m.
He travels to the Aggies’ out-of-
town football games and tries to
attend as many sports activities as
possible. He tries to stay near a
central location where the
greatest number of events are
held, so he can help the most
athletes.
Always attentive. Lagan watch
es athletes as they get up from the
ground during a game, looking for
injuries and abnormal posture.
This type of work is different
than the private practice he for
merly held in Oklahoma. He said
he misses performing surgery on a
regular basis.
Lagan said he loves to care for
college-age people. In his private
practice, he often delivered in
fants and cared for them through
out their lives.
Being in sports medicine allows
Lagan a comprehensive care of his
students — from skin rashes to
broken bones.
Dr. Duane Lagan, associate director of the A.P. Beutel
Health Center and doctor for all Texas A&M University sports
teams, works on the right knee of Robert Love, an assistant
manager for the Aggie football team. Love, a high school
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United Press International
BOULDER, Colo. — An
NCAA official says a last-ditch
move to restructure the organiza
tion’s major-college division
helped turn back a move by the
CoUege Football Association to
gain control of television rights for
major college football games.
The CFA, a Boulder-based
organization of 61 of the nation’s
biggest schools, Monday informed
NBC Sports that too few of its
members had decided to partici
pate in a $180 million television
package drawn up during the sum
mer as a direct challenge to the
NCAA.
The CFA package with NBC
was announced just a few days af
ter the NCAA unveiled its $263.5
million agreement with ABC and
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“I think the restructuring of
Division I-A did say to many CFA
members that the NCAA was
being responsive,” said NCAA
Executive Director Tom Hansen,
who was in San Diego Monday for
a meeting of the association’s Tele
vision Committee.
“I’m sure all member institu
tions now have faith that the new’
agreement (with CBS and ABC) is
justified and the next four years
will be better than ever for college
football on television."
All CEA members are members
of the NCAA, and all are Division
1-A teams. The CFA-NBC agree
ment would have guaranteed each
of the members at least $1 million
for the next four seasons, and at
least two television appearances.
CFA Executive Director Chuck
Neinas said: "Although a number
of CFA members expressed in
terest in the NBC agreement
there was a continued concern ab
out the possibility of the NCAA
initiating enforcement proce
dures."
Hansen, however, said the
organization had never
threatened CFA members.
“There never has been a threat or
absolute penalty mentioned,” he
said. “I don’t believe this was a
factor in their decison.”
Neinas refused to say how many
schools had agreed to participate
in the CFA deal, but Oklahoma,
Clemson, Georgia, Florida and
Texas bad publicly announced
support for the package.
Following the announcement of
the terms of the NBC agreement
during the summer, each CFA
school was given until mid-
September to decide whether to
participate. The deadline was ex
tended until Dec. 14 after the
NCAA announced that it would
convene a special meeting on the
television rights issue in St. Louis
Dec. 3.
Under a restructuring approved
in St. Louis, Division I-A will be
reduced from 137 members to be
tween 90 and 95 next year, Han
sen said, and CBS and ABC each
must use 82 different teams in two
years. That, he predicted, will
"provide a large number of teams
participating in TV games.”
Dr. Ralph E. Christoffersen,
president of Colorado State Uni
versity in Fort Collins, Colo., was
encouraged by the St. Louis meet
ing. Last week, Christoffersen
announced CSU would not parti
cipate in the NBC-CFA agree
ment.
"He (Christoffersen) felt there
was significant progress made in
St. Louis." said Gary Ozello,
CSU’s sports information dire
ctor. "The main complaint of CFA
is that everyone in the NCAA has
the same vote. As a result, the
small schools with 700 or so stu
dents are controlling the televi
sion policies of schools like Okla
homa. That has been their main
complaint.
Wyoming Assistant Athletic Di
rector Bill Young said UW voted
against participating in the CFA-
NBC agreement because “CFA
has accomplished what is was
organized to do, and that was the
reorganization of the NCAA.”
He said there is now a better
chance Wyoming will be on televi
sion because of the reduction in
the number of Division I-A
schools.
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