Thursday, May 7, 1987/nThe Battalion/Page 7
Sports
CAA infractions plague TCU, SMU
Mustangs may be crippled for years to come
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By Doug Hail
Assistant Sports Editor
Third in a fi ve-part series
Without a doubt. Southern
Methodist University’s athletic
department has withstood more
turmoil, more accusations, more
allegations and more investiga
tions than any other major col
lege in the country in the past
four years.
Being the recipient of the
NCAA’s infamous “death penal
ty,” which involves suspension of
■ SMU’s football schedule for the
■ 1987 season, loss of scholarships
■ and forfeiture of television reve-
■ nue, makes the other reprimands
1 received by SWC schools pale in
■ comparison.
SMU has since decided to
■ forgo its 1988 football season
■ also.
No one is quite sure what might
■ go next.
In fact, at the moment, SMU
■ doesn’t even have an athletic di-
■ rector since Bob Hitch, the for-
■ mer athletic director, resigned
■ during the NCAA investigation.
■ Head Football Coach Bobby Coi
nns, who led the Ponies to the
SWC championship in 1981 (No.
5 nationally) and 82 (No. 2 na
tionally), also resigned.
SMU’s recent disasters how
ever, do not reflect the success
their football team has enjoyed
over the past century.The Mus
tangs have won 11 SWC cham
pionships and one national
championship (1935).
Like TCU, Rice and Baylor,
SMU is a private institution. Con
sequently, its 9,150 enrollment is
somewhat similar to Baylor’s
11,000 but considerably more
than Rice’s 3,600.
Because it is a private institu
tion, SMU did not reveal its ath
letic budget.
Dr. Steven Picou, professor of
sports sociology at Texas A&M,
said that even with expert super
vision, it will take at least five
years for SMU to recover from its
most recent NCAA probation.
“It will take at least five years
for them to recover,” Picou said.
“And that is with excellent man
agement.
“The reason I say five years is
because of the recruiting. Their
image, shall we say, will have to be
reconstructed.
“The athletic department has
to go beyond the stigma of their
continuing allegations. Right now
they are in shock.”
Considering the length of the
rebuilding process, Picou said he
is surprised that SMU has not
taken action to replace Hitch or
Collins as of yet.
However, Picou also said the
football program’s suspension
should not negatively affect
SMU’s other athletic teams. In
fact, he said, those teams “will
probably play more inspired in an
effort to try and be a legitimate
representative of the school.”
After finishing fourth in SWC
basketball last season, the Pony’s
finished 16-13 this season includ
ing a home-court thrashing of the
Aggies. SMU contributions to the
NBA include Atlanta Hawks’
sixth man Jon Koncak.
Southern Methodist disconti
nued its baseball program in 1974
and has not distinguished itself in
men’s golf since it won the con
ference in 1957, despite having
current professional Payne Stew
art play on the squad during the
late ’70’s.
The men’s tennis team did,
however, win the SWC
championship in 1982 and in
1983.
Currently, however, SMU’s
primary concern is getting the
football program back on its feet
and white-washed clean of it’s
past infractions.
It won’t, however, be an easy
task.
In wake of the NCAA investi
gation, both the SMU faculty sen
ate and student senate voiced
strong opinions about abolishing
the athletic department entirely.
Meanwhile, Texas Governor Bill
Clements was admitting to kno
wingly allowing illegal
to players to continue at
was originally put on probation
for similar infractions that oc
curred under former Head
Coach Ron Meyer.
Fred Jacoby, the SWC commis
sioner, perhaps best summed up
SMU’s situation last week when
he said that each school under in
vestigation has a chance to accept
its guilt, correct the wrong and
re-establish the program in a bet
ter state than it was prior to the
incident.
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acker, basketball keep Horned Frogs going
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By Doug Hall
Assistant Sports Editor
Texas Christian University is a
[rather secluded school of nearly
7,000 students located in the quiet
section of Fort Worth. The town
that used to hold millions of head
of cattle is now the home of some
what fewer Horned Frogs.
But the serenity of Fort Worth
burst like a hot-air balloon almost
two years ago when second-year
Head Foytball Coach Jim Wacker
suspended six of his key players
for the season for allegedly re
ceiving illegal cash payments
from boosters.
After the ensuing 1985 NCAA
investigation and probation that
cost TCU scholars!ii ps,“(television
revenue and a chance at a bowl
appearance, the Horned Frogs
stumbled to a 3-8, eighth-place
finish. 1986 was much the same
as TCU again went 3-8 and fin
ished ahead of only 1-10 UH.
But it there are those who be-
teve that “as the football pro
gram goes, so goes the athletic de
partment,” let TCU dispel the
umor.
Over the past two years, the
lorned Frogs have won one
>WC basketball title outright,
peen part of a three-way tie for
hat same title in 1986 and won a
ten’s golf title.
Frank Windegger, TCU’s ath
letic director, said he too once be
lieved the football-first theory,
but has discovered his mistake.
“You know, surprisingly that
(theory) doesn’t hold true all the
time,” Windegger said. “Since the
football program was put on pro
bation, we have won two basket
ball championships and one
men’s golf title.”
Indeed, the Horned Frogs
have been the toast of the SWC
over the past two seasons. In
1986, the Frogs finished 12-4 in
the SWC and tied for first with
Texas A&M and Texas.
In 1987, however, the Frogs
went 15-1 in the conference and
24-7 overall to finish in first
[place. Despite being knocked out
of the SWC post-season tourney
by the Aggies, TCU went on to
the NCCA post-season tourna
ment and finished 18th nationally
on the season.
In baseball, the Horned Frogs
have won five SWC titles. Most of
that success, however, came ear
lier this century. TCU last made a
run at the title in 1972 when they
tied Texas for first place with
identical 12-6 records.
TCU, like Rice and SMU, did
not reveal its athletic budget be
cause it’s a private institution.
Windegger did say, however, that
student participation at athletic
events is in the 60 - 70 percent
range.
Concerning the football team’s
probation and recent struggles,
Windegger said he thinks the
rough times are over, and the
fruits of hard labor will begin to
show this year.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt
that we’re finally moving up in to
the upper class of football,”
Windegger said. “The culmina
tion of four recruiting classes will
finally pay off for us. We’ve been
playing freshmen and sopho
mores so long that we should
have a lot of experience on the
field for us.”
If there’s one area that the
Horned F’rogs have been able to
outdo many of the SWC schools
over the past several years, it has
been in the area of recruiting.
Wacker, who ran the football pro
gram at Southwest Texas State
before transferring over to TCU,
is able to lure prospective recruits
to TCU by combining his positive
attitude with incredible enthu
siasm for the game.
Consistently, TCU has been
able to keep up with the big-name
recruiting schools such as A&M,
Texas and Arkansas thanks
largely to Wacker.
But just as it seems the football
program is on the verge of
bouncing back, the TCU basket
ball team must get ready to reb
uild. After eight seasons at the
helm of the Florned Frog’s bas
ketball program, Head Coach Jim
Killingsworth retired this spring
to pursue other interests. Replac
ing “The Killer,” as the humor
ous Killingsworth was often
called, next year will be Moe Iba,
who left Drake University to take
over the Horned Frog program.
The Frogs, however, lost more
than just a coach from this year’s
league champions. All-SWC play
ers Carven Holcombe and Jamie
Dixon, and starters Tony Papa
and Carl Lott will not return in
the Fall. Only two players — Nor
man Anderson and Larry Rich
ards — will return for I CU next
Maybe one of these years, the
football team and the basketball
team will both put together win
ning seasons.
Horned Frog fans certainly
have been patient.
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