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Texas A&M veterinary medi-
I cine program and his desire to
I participate in what he thought
I would be a varsity soccer prog
ram under Franco.
“His (Franco’s) voice was a
deciding factor in my coming to
school here,” he said. “When I
came to visit during the spring,
he gave me a pamphlet and told
us about the dorm we’d be living
In and the place we’d be eating
>11 our meals together.”
The pamphlet, entitled
“Texas A&M 1982 Soccer: Our
First Varsity Year,” listed four
jighted practice fields, indoor
[•facilities, weight training for
hletes, complete medical facili
ties and athletes’ cafeteria as
conveniences which would be
| available to Texas A&M soccer
players.
But the soccer players have
not received all of these prom
ised facilities. In fact, even if the
Aggies’ varsity status had been
awarded for this year, the team
members would not be living in
da Soi the University’s athletic dorm or
eating in its cafeteria.
. Triolo said the Aggies’ loss of
wo sirf varsity status became particular
ly distressing after the team had
endured eight days of two-a-day
mpreAworkouts starting Aug. 19.
two-fs rFranco held practices from 5:45
and, C a.m. to 8 a.m. each morning on
the main drill field and from
6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. each
night. In addition, the team had
“chalk talk,” or separate group
_ meetings from 3 p.m. to 4:30
h tend: p m each Q f those eight days.
That’s quite a time commit
ment.
■ “I thought I could help our
team grow to national status
while I was here, because I
thought it would be a challenge
HasAl to build the team up,” Triolo
said.
“They (the Athletic Depart
ment) can’t have any perception
of what’s going on with soccer
and the growth of it. They’ve
never worn our shoes a nd
they’ve probably never watched
a soccer game.”
Gutierrez, who as a freshman
ast year made the all-Southwest
Conference Soccer League
team, said the status of the squad
land the limited amount of rec-
gnition have caused him to
onsider transferring to another
chool. Before coming to Texas
&M, Gutierrez had been
ccepted by Stanford and Prin-
eton. Both schools have varsity
occer programs.
“Before I came here,” Gutier-
Irez said, “I heard from Coach
ranco that the team was going
d turn varsity, and it did for a
ear. But I thought it was going
stay that way.”
Gutierrez receives two finan-
ial grants to help pay for school
xpenses, so he doesn’t need an
ithletic scholarship. He said if
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tain a certain degree of success
[at the extramural level, he might
hot transfer to another school,
[since he would have to wait a
year before regaining soccer eli-
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The women’s club, whose fa
culty sponsor is Dr. Sue Beall,
made its latest request for varsity
status during the first week of
school. In the request, women’s
coach Butts said, Beall asked for
elevation to varsity status only,
not funds to support the team’s
efforts.
The Athletic Council did not
announce a final decision on the
women’s status at last week’s
“We’d like to piggy
back (soccer) where the
soccer team can play on
Saturday afternoons
when the football team
plays that night. ” — Bill
McLellan, Clemson
athletic director.
meeting. Butts’ deadline to tell
the NCAA whether his club
would compete as a varsity this
season passed Sept. 15, so any
chances of the Aggies participat
ing in the national champion
ships were lost at that time.
But what would it take for
soccer to become a full-fledged
varsity undertaking at Texas
A&M.
Groff, who handles most of
the Athletic Department’s fi
nances, estimated that a success
ful soccer program needs at least
$100,000 in support. Of this fi
gure, he said, about $40,000 fi
nances the 10 or 12 scholarships
for team members, and
$15,000-$20,000 goes toward
the coach’s salary.
But Groff said elevating one
sport to varsity status might
cause problems among parents
of other athletes and among
other campus athletic clubs.
“If you’re talking about sup
porting one sport over another
sport,” Groff said, “then the pa
rents of the athletes in other
sports will complain. If you
spend, say, $5,000 on the soccer
program, which isn’t enough to
point a stick at, the parents of
those kids will ask why other
sports get more money for their
equipment.
“Where do you stop? The
other clubs would also want sup
port and varsity status. In that
case, we’d have to ask the Uni
versity for (financial) help.”
Groff said the soccer squads’
loss of varsity status doesn’t in
volve a lack of interest on the
part of the Athletic Department,
nor does it mean a greater
emphasis is being placed on
other more established sports. It
simply means that, with the va
rious factors involved in giving a
sport varsity status, more study
must be devoted to the entire
procedure through which a club
can be elevated to the varsity
level.
“I’m not anti-soccer,” Groff
said. “I definitely believe it’s an
up and coming game.”
Other schools with successful
athletic programs have brought
soccer to the varsity level and
have watched their teams pros
per under full support from
fans and officials.
Bill McLellan, athletic dire
ctor at Clemson, said a key to the
success of the Tigers’ soccer
program has been the support
of its boosters.
Men’s soccer at Clemson 1
reached varsity status in 1967, |
McLellan said, when Clemson
athletic officials felt it was “a vi
able sport to put in on the varsity
level.”
The Tigers’ athletic scholar
ships are provided through the
45-year-old IPTAY Club, the
Clemson equivalent of the Aggie
Club. McLellan said the athletic
department awards the full
complement of athletic scholar
ships available, which for each
NCAA Division I school totals
70 in all sports other than foot
ball.
As part of a $5.8 million
athletic budget, McLellan said,
the Clemson soccer program’s
funds amount to about $50,000
a year. McLellan said he antici
pates the Clemson soccer prog
ram, which does not include a
women’s team, becoming the
school’s next self-supporting)
sport.
“I foresee the soccer program
being able to finance itself down
the road,” he said. “We’d like to
piggyback the sport where the
soccer team can play on Satur
day afternoons when the foot
ball team plays that night.”
But Groff said that big-money
undertakings in Texas A&M
soccer can only be “somewhere
down the line.”
There may be hope for Aggie
soccer in the future. At this
point, Texas A&M athletic offi
cials have devised a plan for
studying the procedure a sport
must follow to become a varsity-
recognized organization.
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