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Page 14/The Battalion/Thursday, April 5, 1984 NCAA stiffens hoop rules TANK MCNAMARA United Press International SEATTLE — The NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Com mittee Wednesday approved a 28-foot coaching box to prevent coaches from straying up and down the court sidelines, but left open the question of adopt ing a 45-second shot clock. “The committee felt that the adoption of the coaching box would be a significant step in improving bench decorum and the image of an already-great game,” said Edward S. Steitz, the committee’s secretary-rules editor and director of athletics at Springfield College. Coaching boxes were used expei imentally in six Division I conferences this past season. Coaches, players and bench personnel were required to re main in a designated bench area except to request specific infor mation from the scorers’ table during a timeout, address a cor rectable error or report into the game. “We’ve had coaches straying off beyond areas of their benches. We’ve had coaches going down in front of the other team’s bench,” Steitz said. Coaches have been meeting at the court mid-line during games, he said, noting that two assistant coaches converged in an on-court fist fight at one game this year. Part of the side line wandering was for pur poses of intimidation, said St eitz. “We want (the coaches) back in the area to coach the ball- game. The boxes would extend from the baselines to the court hash marks, normally 18 feet on either side of center court. The adoption of a 45-second shot clock, considered by many coaches to be inevitable for the development of the college game, was left in place as a con ference option. However, the committee de cided the clock may be used alone the entire game or in con junction with a three-point shot option from beyond a line 19 feet, 9 inches from the center of the basket. Some members of the 13- member rules committee are still opposed to the shot clock, said Steitz, even though 53 per cent of coaches polled on the rule change voted in favor of it. However, 77 percent of the coaches rejected the three-point shot Steitz said some coaches are still saying, “Look, if I’m ahead and I’m about to pull off the biggest upset in the history of the institution, I may want to freeze the ball.” “I believe you will see a 45- second clock adopted in Lex ington,” he said, referring to the next rules committee meet ing at the NCAA finals to be held next year at the University of Kentucky. Steitz said he favored the clock option to “prevent the all- out farce or travesty-type game” in which an inferior team gains a lead through a fluke and then stalls the rest of the game. 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In each of the past three years, the 32-year-old Stephen son has taken one of the three other titles designated as a “ma jor” by the LPGA. “Oh, yes, I’m very much aware of the pattern,” Stephen son said during a tuneup round. “I think my chances are quite good this week.” Stephenson will match talents with a limited field of 97 other professionals and four top ama teurs in the event rivaled in pre stige only by the U.S. Women’s Open, which she won last sum mer in Tulsa, Okla. Excited as she was with that triumph, she said only minutes later that the Dinah Shore was her next goal. ilw gill ‘If I'm putting well, I feel like I can win on any course' —Jan Ste phenson “I just wish the course for this tournament was set up a little tougher,” said Stephenson. “I feel like my strength is shot- making. I’ve won the other ma jors on tough courses. You don’t have a lot of rough on this course and the players who hit it long can’t get into too much trouble. like I can win on any count I’ve had good chances to the last few years but I seem to put extra pressure myself.” Stephenson won the 1! Peter Jackson event in Cadi and the LPGA champioml the following year. No top player is missingfron the field in this richest evemtf the year, which carries a fin prize of $55,000. One of the favorites Bradley, who has never woml Dinah Shore and leads theIDlJatii money list with $73,635 »il two seconds and two thirdsi Juvenile lore than a prob lodes a ho ie young p Janet W lountyjuve i for for mseling on irobation. ( ictnain fu irobation o "It’s a lo lb kids," (irking wit orking wi lesare difl McNutt a irobation indie the iveniles, aj ioninBt “As prol seven events. “If I’m putting well, I feel Also expected to contend Nancy Lopez. Lopez st; fifth on the money listthisyoi and won three weeks ago Costa Mesa, Calif. She won Dinah Shore in 1981. Coach tries to change Chiefs United Press International KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Mackovic is trying to transform the Kansas City Chiefs into Kansas City’s Chiefs. Mackovic established year- round residency in Kansas City last spring when he purchased a home during his first month as the head coach of the Chiefs. Now he wants some year-round company — company from his players. Mackovic’s desire for such company is three-pronged. First, he wants to develop a family atmosphere on the Chiefs, a “We’re all in this thing together” attitude. Second, he wants his players lo utilize the Kansas City coaching staff 12 months out of the year instead of only seven. And third, he wants to shed the club’s “absen tee” image. i “I don’t dictate where they live,” Mackovic said. “The ulti mate decision on whether the Kansas City Chiefs football players care to live and work and be together in Kansas City lies with the Kansas City Chiefs football players. That is their responsibility to address. I’ve expressed my feelings on more than a few occasions, including the first meeting I ever had with them, the last meeting (at sea son’s end) and several times in- between.” The “absentee” image ex tends from the club’s owner, Dallas-native Lamar Hunt, on down to the players. In Marv Levy’s final season as head coach of the Chiefs in 1982, only 15 players lived year- round in Kansas City. The Chiefs lack the high pro file in the community that their neighbors across the road at the Harry S. Truman Sports Com plex, the baseball Royals, have achieved with the permanent residency of stars George Brett, Dan Quisenberry, Frank White, Willie Wilson, Dennis Leonard and Larry Gura. Mackovic has undertaken a one-man campaign to give the Chiefs some visibility in the community, filling his calendar with speaking engagements at civic breakfasts, luncheons and dinners. But he’d like to wage that war with an army — and the only army readily available to him is his players. “Pro footoall is not a secure business,” Mackovic said. “There is some uncertainty there and I can appreciate what the player must weigh in his de cision where he should live. But I cannot step back from the stance I feel is the best path to a championship team — which is to have the majority of our play ers living and working in this community. “That way they feel better about the community and the community gets to really know and appreciate them. Football is such a non-personal sport be cause of the helmets, the bulky uniforms and the distance the fans sit away from the players. The recognition of the players is much different from basket ball, baseball, golf and sports like that. You see them in a much different light. It be comes important to be able to identify them and recognize them. 1 think having players vis ible in the community is good for both sides.” Mackovic brought his “We’re all in this thing together” phi losophy from Dallas, where he had served for two seasons as Tom Landry’s quarterback coach. Being a member of America’s Team was a year- round commitment and the re sults were evident. “It’s important for our play ers to live in Kansas City be cause we can help develop their careers in football better than anyone else,” Mackovic said. “Our coaching staff has done an excellent job of putting forth their time during the offseason tutor lave been | The pr< to develop our players and»3 continue to do so. That'sab tobation tiling for a player topassup niitingTe lie wants to be the besthea he. “Just the association tl spending time together wi ias soliciu other players builds a bondd ampusorg understanding and teamwil that you cannot possibly geli) other way. You cannot doiilf igraa, the being pen-pals. You havetoj iety, has 1 in the weight room, sitdowni) mvolunt gather, go to lunch have wives and girlfriends^ ookup to to know each other. Mackovic has a five-w nnent sj plan: he wants five more ers to move to Kansas City tad nodelfort ByREB ■Ag yo ByREI' The Bra These k Texas AS ee slue The juvt 18. i« tm lad ifc season. That would givelk Chiefs 40 players living ytf ten mate round in Kansas City by Mackovic got a solid star! his plan when five 1983 rooW — quarterback Todd ledge, defensive back Albert wis, punter Jim Arnold, cent Adam Linger and tight ei Ron Wetzel — purchas homes in the Kansas City an That brought the number, Chiefs owning homes in Kani City to 20. “It’s much easier fori younger players who ardf starting out and feeling go about their careers with I team to say, ‘I’ve started, Hi what I did, they like me,l going to stay here and plaj Mackovic said. “A number our rookies have boughthoil here and are interested inlbi here for the most part. “Nick Lowery also home; he had been going bat to Washington D.C. duringi offseason and now he’s goii give Kansas City a chance, ron Cherry bought a hi We’ve also got commitittg from players to come early. Some who before won have stayed out of town ini July are interested in comii back in April or May —spent ing six to eight weeks normally wouldn’t spend lift I think it’s a step in theri rection.” Where will FCIIDaVT the I t"' I