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SMU going to pay piper
for years of wrong doing
It was a slow news day around
The Battalion sports desk, so we got
talking about the upcoming South
west Conference football season.
Dreams and wishes fell like so many
autumn leaves.
Texas A&M would go at least 8-3,
if they got past Alabama, one person
said. Where would TCU, Texas and
Arkansas be at the end of the 1985
season, another one asked?
Then the talk got around to SMU.
The voices got hushed and sympa
thetic sighs interspaced the conver
sation as talk waxed over the fate or
supposed fate of the Mustang foot
ball program.
The prognosis, at least in our little
world, was not very optimistic.
Right now, SMU representatives
are in Boston to go before the
NCAA Council to appeal penalties
which reportedly will prohibit the
Ponies from giving any football
scholarships this season.
The source of SMU’s problems go
back to repeated NCAA charges that
the SMU football program allegedly
use illegal recruiting practices to
build their powerful football team.
Now, it appears, it’s time for SMU
to pay the piper.
The loss of scholarships would be
a major blow to any program. No
university can hope to attract top
athletes without the promise of a full
athletic scholarship.
Further NCAA sanctions that
could be imposed, and likely will be,
are the loss of the right to go to bowl
games or appear on television.
So the discussion, around the
desk, shifted to what, pray tell, is
SMU going to do?
Try getting a top football
bluecnipper to come to a program
without a scholarship, with no expo
sure to national audiences or a
chance to go to bowl game. Realisti
cally, the biggies won’t just come to
play for school pride.
It’s obvious that SMU is going to
get nailed by the NCAA for lengthy
history of questionable practices.
They deserve it.
And the powerful SMU football
program will have its legs knocked
out from under it. The question re
mains whether SMU Head Football
Coach Bobby Collins will stick
around to see what happens.
SMU made a number of lousy
ethical decisions and they got
caught. Now they will probably pay
for it for a lot of years.
I don’t feel especially sympathetic
for SMU and I’m glad the NCAA is
turning the heat up on universities
that break the rules.
Granted, the NCAA probably is
using the high-visibility case of SMU
for public relations purpose and
some critics say the NCAA is really
not doing the policingjob it should.
TCU’s Head Coach Jim Wacker
publicly asked SWC coaches to agree
to some ethical guidelines, but no
one trusted the idea.
Maybe the SWC’s only hope is for
some sort of regulatory board to be
created to keep an eye out for prob
lem programs. There’ll still be the
usual amount of ax grinding and
finger pointing between the coaches,
but hopefully the dialogue gener
ated will be useful.
Maybe someone can think of a
way to control alumni or booster
clubs associated with the different
universities. Some of the worst of
fenders in college football are for
mer students tossing money and cars
at athletes.
How do you control them?
With the big money, television
revenues and bowl bucks, collegiate
football programs will get even more
competitive, looking for that edge.
The problem of recruiting practices
will not go away.
Universities are left to decide on
their own, what they should do. Ev
ery so often a player gets nailed car
rying a shoe box full of cash (a gift
from some “fan”), or a program gets
fined for recruiting violations.
So the whole college football scene
becomes a event right out of the Ro
man coliseum.
Each school’s representatives sit in
the stands munching hotdogs,
watching the daily bloodfest as the
line up of school representatives get
tossed to the lions.
Sighs go up from the assembled
crowd as they think, “at least it
wasn’t us this time.”
Dorsett’s
contract
settled
Cowboy runningbock
will report to comp
Associated Press
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. —
Dallas Cowboys running back Tony
Dorsett ended his holdout with the
team Wednesday when he reached
agreement with team president Tex
Schramm, a team spokesman said.
Dorsett, who has been absent
from National Football League
team’s camp in Thousand Oaks,
Calif., since July 21, is expected to
report on Thursday, spokesman
Greg Aiello said.
“We’re obviously happy about
that,” Aiello said from his Thousand
Oaks office. “He’ll be on a flight to
morrow morning out of Dallas and
will be here.”
Witt Stewart, Dorsett’s adviser,
and Schramm negotiated for five
hours in Schramm’s office before an
agreement was reached. Contract
details were not available.
Schramm did not immediately re
turn calls to The Associated Press.
Earlier Wednesday, agent How
ard Slusher, who had been hired by
Dorsett to negotiate on July 18, re
signed. Sources told The Dallas
Morning News that Slusher objected
to Wednesday’s meeting and told
Stewart he could no longer work
with Dorsett.
Slusher, the source told the News,
wanted to wait two weeks — or right
before the season — to talk with the
Cowboys. Slusher’s answering serv
ice said it could not immediately lo
cate him.
Dorsett, 31, and a Heisman Tro
phy winner from the University of
Pittsburgh, had three years remain
ing on his contract.
Dorsett had been asking for a deal
comparable to the one signed last
year by Randy White with a $6.4 mil
lion annuity package and a $1.5 mil
lion real estate plan.
Dorsett’s existing contract would
have paid him $450,000 this year,
$500,000 in 1986 and $550,000 in
1987.
Ags’ football opener still unchanged
By ED CASSAVOY
Sports Writer
In last couple of weeks, a number of rumors have been circultating that
Texas A&M’s 1985 football season opener against Alabama will be moved
up from its present date.
“Not so, maybe,” says A&M assistant sports information director Alan
Cannon, who says nothing has been formalized yet.
“It’s going to be September 14,” Cannon says, “with the starting time still
at 1:30 p.m. as of right now.
“There’s a possrbrlvty that the startinc time of the game could be later if
ESPN decides to pick up the game (for television).”
The first game of A&M Head Football Coach Jackie Sherrill’s fourth
year at the helm of the Aggies is being played in Birmingham, Ala. at Le
gion Field.
The game will match Sherrill against former Alabama teammate and
now head coach of the Crimson Tide, Ray Perkins. Perkins and Sherrill tea
med with quarterbacks Ken Stabler and Joe Namath to hand legendary
coach Paul “Bear” Bryant back-to-back national championships in 1964-65.
The A&M-Bama game is considered important for both teams. Perkins’
Tide needs an early win to turn his program around after two dismal sea
son, while the Ags also need a big win on the road to get Sherrill’s must-win
season off on the right foot.
There were a number of rumors that the A&M-Alabama game was re
scheduled for Sept. 3 or 4 for television purposes, but Cannon says the pre
sent date has not, as of yet, changed.
“There is no way to know for sure until later on,” Cannon says. “I expect
our office will get a call, on the Monday after Alabama plays Georgia, from
ESPN. That’s when we’ll know for sure.”
1985 A&M Football Schedule
— at Alabama (Birmingham, Legion Field) —1:30 p.m.
— NORTHEAST LOUISIANA — 6 p.m.
— TULSA — 6 p.m.
— at Texas Tech (Lubbock. Jones Stadium) — 7:30 p.m.
-HOUSTON —2 p.m.
— at Baylor (Waco, Baylor Stadium) — 7:00 p.m.
— at Rice (Houston, Rice Stadium) — 2 p.m.
SMU — 2 p.m.
-ARKANSAS —2 p.m.
- at TCU (Fort Worth — Amon Carter Stadium) — 2 p.m.
-TEXAS —2 p.m.
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