Friday, December 2,1988
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■ LOS ANGELES (AP) — When
UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman
was transferring from Oklahoma
wo years ago, he thought about
Baying for the Texas Longhorns.
But Aikman saw a problem that con-
Biues to hound the Southwest Con
ference— probation.
“When I transferred from OU, I
s going to go to Texas,” said Aik-
ian, one of the top candidates for
e Heisman Trophy. “But the way
conference has gone, it’s been
• k »*rred a bit. It’s going to be a while
n m Dallas Bfore they heal ”
“" "Aikman isn’t the only one who has
avoided the SWC. UCLA, which will
play SWC champ Arkansas in the
Cotton Bowl Classic, has five Texas
players who passed up opportunities
to play in the SWC.
Some said they came to UCLA be
cause they were afraid of the prob
lems that have plagued the SWC in
recent years.
“If the Southwest Conference
would have stayed clean, I would be
at SMU right now,” said Fred Gil
bert, a flanker from Huntsville. “But
I wanted to play in some bowl
games, and didn’t want to be on pro
bation.”
The SWC has had six of its nine
football teams on probation in the
past three years, including SMU,
which received the NCAA’s severest
penalty — the suspension of its team
for the 1987 season. School officials
later canceled the 1988 season.
UCLA’s transplanted Texas play
ers say they wanted to go where they
could receive national attention, play
on television and in bowl games. But
the constant NCAA investigations in
the SWC. which in many times re
sulted in probations, loss of bowl ap
pearances and other sanctions,
forced them to go elsewhere.
Tight end Charles Arbuckle said
the SWC has suffered because eight
of its nine teams are in Texas, and
the proximity of the schools gener
ates intense recruiting competition.
“I really didn’t like that recruiting
war, and it seemed everyone was on
probation,” Arbuckle said. “When I
was being recruited, I knew some
thing was not right. They were all
saying, ‘This school’s doing this and
that school’s doing that.”
Although Reggie Moore said he
liked Texas and Houston, he
thought he could get more exposure
and possibly get drafted by the NFL
if he went outside the SWC.
“Texas has the best players, but
there are a lot of bad things going on
in that conference,” Moore said.
Arbuc, .le said he recently spoke
with friend Mickey Washington of
Texas A& M, which received proba
tion in Sep ?mber.
“I talked to him about two weeks
ago and he said he was really upset,”
Arbuckle said. “Suffering from what
someone else did is tough, and it
seems like the problems are going to
last for a long time.”
For the year, Aikman completed
64 percent of his passes for 2,599
yards and 23 touchdowns.
But Aikman said he decided to
play it safe by avoiding the SWC.
“Out here, everybody is saying
we’re going to walk over them,” Gil
bert said of SWC champ Arkansas.
SWC teams. “If you are highly re
cruited and live in Texas, you don’t
want to stay.”
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