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SUNDAY Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, March 5, 1987 CHICKEN FRIED STEAK SPECIAL, $3 95 " with fries t & tea xpxJ + tax ^ just show your A&M Student I. D. Happy Hour 4-7 CKariif s , 2005 Texas Ave. S. Across From The Water Tower SMU could have legal case against NCAA By Hal L. Hammons Sports Writer Restaurant Lounge By now everybody and his Aunt Martha has heard about the “death penalty” the NCAA levied against SMU last week. «««„ And chances are you are pre- Viewpoint tty tired of hearing about try to play even as few as seven games of college football with only 30 players to fill 24 positions. HISS THE DEADLINE For GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS? Don’t Sweat - We Can Help - Call today $5. 00 off with ad expires 3/18/87 • Q*MCk Qc«o*ry Pnmiyf a 093-8011 1801 Holleman • College Station The California Department of Transportation will be recruiting Civil Engineers on March 31 sign up at the TAMU Placement Center, Rudder. it. But I think there is another aspect to the story, that has been severely underpublicized. Consider for a moment the fact that the penalty is being received meekly and without complaint by SMU officials. And then consider that it is entirely possible, and in fact likely, that the sanctions would be overturned in a higher court. Consistently the governors have been quoted as saying they wanted the truth to emerge and were com pletely willing to accept without ap peal any punishment the NCAA felt was appropriate. Considering the magnitude of the sanctions imposed against the pro gram, that is quite a burden to bear quietly. Think about the long-range ramifications of the penalties. • SMU will not be allowed to play football during the 1987 season. At all. • SMU will be limited to seven games in 1988, all in conference and none at home. • SMU will be limited to 15 schol arships in 1988. Already all of this year’s scholarships and half of last year’s scholarships have been taken away. • The Mustangs will be prohib ited from playing in a televised or post-season game in 1988. • They cannot recruit off-cam- E us until August 1988, and no foot- all prospects will receive expenses- paid visits to the campus until 1988. No more than 45 can visit in 1989. • They can keep on staff no more than six football coaches, including a head coach, until August 1988. Just looking at these facts on the surface does not do justice to the weight of these sanctions. Combined with the measures al ready in place before the ruling Wednesday, SMU will have at most 30 returning players on the team to greet the 15 incoming freshmen in ’88. Even that is misleading. Because SMU players will be allowed to trans fer to another school and play foot ball next season, liberal estimates are putting the number of returning players at closer to 12 or 15. In case you didn’t know, it is fool hardy, not to mention impossible, to Even assuming SMU keeps its nose clean hereafter, which seems to be quite a leap of logic considering its prior conduct, the Ponies will not be a factor in the conference until 1991 at the earliest. And if you think these sanctions won’t have a negative effect on re cruiting in the future, you have been deluded. It is quite possible that the Mus tang football dynasty, the program that gave us Doak Walker and Kyle Rote, Don Meredith, Craig James and Eric Dickerson, may never re cover from this penalty. Considering the magnitude of these sanctions, it is easy to wonder why SMU has repeatedly insisted it will not appeal the NCAA’s decision. After all, when the plain facts are considered, it is difficult to believe that SMU would not easily win such Think about it; although I am glad there is an NCAA that imposes iletics, regulations upon collegiate athl the plain fact of the matter is that such an organization does not have the right to do what it does. Many of these improprieties would be called into question in a higher court, should SMU choose to pursue its right of appeal. Even more might surface that are not di rectly related. Some examples? OK, what gives the NCAA the right to: 1. tell athletic boosters they are not allowed to give their own money to anyone they please, including col lege athletes. 2. tell a school, even a privately funded one like SMU, it is not al lowed to give its own money to any one it pleases, or to as many people as it pleases. 3. tell the representatives of such an institution that they are not al lowed to travel wherever they like, to invite whomever they like to attend their university and play on their football team. 4. tell bowl officials that they are not allowed to invite whomever they want to their bowl game. 5. tell a school it is not allowed to raise revenue in some legal way,, such as staging a game of football. 6. tell a school it is not allowed to raise revenue for itself and its con ference by participating in a bowl game. 7. tell a TV network it cannot tele- se whatever game the network This sprirt make a break for it. $ This Spring Break, catch a Greyhound® to the beach, the mountains, or your hometown. 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Not valid in Canada. © 1987 Greyhound Lines, Inc. thinks will be to its greatest financial advantage. pursue gainful employment dur the school year. 8. tell an institution that its foot ball team is only allowed to play a certain number of times during the year. 9. tell two teams that might finish the season No. 1 and 2 in the nation that they are not allowed to play each other, officially or otherwise, to determine which team is better. 10. and tell a college athlete, possi bly from an impoverished back ground, he or she is not allowed to By 1 can’t help but speculate the future of the NCAA. One^ and probably not too far somebody with an ax to grindi appeal the NCAA’s judgment, i the higher courts will have tin ton ^ as chances to make a decision pt affect collegiate athletics imme reably. di no Few at vo collej If they interpret the law likeli the ramifications are endless "I’m pr uch to ' tics,” La Langstc TCU sweeps SWC honors From the Associated Press Texas Christian, which won the Southwest Conference regu lar season basketball title by foui games, also swept the individual honors, including Player and Coach of the Year and the De fensive MVP award on the 1986- 1987 Associated Press A1I-SWC team. Versatile Carven Holcombe, who averaged almost 16 points per game, five rebounds and shot over 50 percent from the field was the unanimous Player of the Year in balloting by the confer ence coaches. Jim Killingsworth, who took a team favored to win the title but did even more than the experts predicted with a 14-2 SWC re cord and a runaway title, was named Coach of the Year by his peers over Baylor’s Gene Iba, who took the surprising Bears into second place. Iba’s Bears were generally picked for a sec ond-division finish. TCU’s Larry Richard, a 6-7 se nior forward, averaged almost 11 rebounds per game and blocked almost 50 shots to win Defensive Player of the Year honors. Richard and Holcombe led the AP’s top five players with Frog guard Jamie Dixon, who set school assist records, narrowly missing out on the first team bal loting that would have made it a TCU first-team trio. Baylor had two first learners, guard Michael Williams and cen ter Darryl Middleton, both ju niors, who brought Baylor its highest finish in the SWC in the 1980s. Middleton was the leading SWC scorer, averaging almost 20 points per contest. The other first learner was Greg Anderson of Houston, oik of the SWC’s leading relxiundcrs scorers and shot blockers. Arkansas’ Ron Huery, a fresk man from West Memphis, Tenn was named Newcomer of tht Year and headed the All-Ne» comer Team. Here is the 1986-1987 As» ciated Press All-Southwest Con ference basketball team: FIRST TEAM Carven Holcombe, 6-5, 201), TCU, Sr., Fort Worth; Greg At derson, 6-11, 200, Houston, Sr Houston; Michael Williams, 6-2 175, Baylor, Jr., Dallas; Lam Richard, 6-7, 200, TCU, Sr, Baldwin Park, Calif.; Darryl Mid dleton, 6-9, 230, Jr., Queem N.Y. SECOND TEAM Jamie Dixon, 6-4, 190, TCU, Sr., North Hollywood, Calif Sean Gay , 6-3, 162, Texas Teck Soph., Houston; Winston Cm, 6-7, 225,Texas A&M, Sr Bakersfield, Calif; Kato Arm strong, 5-11, 160, SMU, Soph Garland, Texas; Carlton McKit ney, 6-5, 190, SMU, Jr., Nixon, Texas. MVP—Holcombe. TCU. ’ Defensive MVP — Richard, TCU. 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