Monday, January 30,1989
The Battalion
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ew NCAA inquiries would be useless
t
It was announced Friday that A&M officials
have completed their internal investigation into
the “hush money” allegations against former
A&M Head Football Coach Jackie Sherrill and
found no evidence to support the original claims
made by Smith in a newspaper article.
Good. Now (maybe) the only thing that needs
to be cleared up is the NCAA’s decision of
whether to re-open the investigation into the
A&M football program which resulted in a bowl
ban for 1988, a reduction in scholarships and the
threat of the “death penalty until the 1993
| season.
1 think the NCAA should not re-open the
investigation. I don’t feel this way because I’m an
Aggie or because I’m an A&M football fan.
I’ve been an A&M football fan since before I
could walk and I admit that I felt the penalties
given A&M in September were light considering
that two A&M assistant coaches apparently lied
to NCAA investigators.
1 feel the people involved have received
enough punishment and the only ones hurt by
further penalties would be the football players
now in the A&M program and future Aggie
players and coaches who were only guilty by
association with Aggie football.
In short, new penalties would penalize the
wrong people.
In many of these c ases, the coaches and
players directly involved in the violations escape
any real damage.
The players, if they’re good enough, move on
to the professsional ranks — and even greater
wealth.
i Oklahoma State’s Hart Lee Dvkes (a.k.a.
Doug
Walker
Sports editor
“College Football’s Typhoid Mary”) drives a
Mercedes and received cash and other incentives
from a number of schools bef ore going to
Stillwater. Dykes allegedly turned in A&M,
Illinois, Oklahoma and his alma mater by
revealing details of violations to NCAA
investigators in return for immunity by the
NCAA.
So Dykes is rewarded for being loyal to no one
and gets to turn pro and enjoy a big contract
while his old teammates (most of whom will
never sit in a Mercedes — much less own one)
aren’t allowed to compete in a bowl game for
three years and risk losing the football program
if any investigations in the future reveal new
violations.
Dykes’ teammates pay his price tag while he
makes millions. Not to mention the problems this
has caused for hundreds of innocent players at
the three other schools.
This certainly isn’t to say that they don’t
deserve it. If the football programs had done
nothing wrong they would never have been in
trouble in the First place.
The coach involved in most of the OSU
penalties, former OSU Head Coach Jimmie
Johnson, has since taken over at Miami and won
a national title.
Johnson moves on to greener pastures while
his recruits suffer and his former employer takes
a beating in the media.
This involves more than just football — the
futures and reputations of coaches and players
are affected.
The NCAA.should penalize schools regardless
of whether the coach who committed the
violations is still coaching there or elsewhere.
However, it seems to me that maybe coaches (and
don’t forget boosters) wouldn’t be as willing to
buy players and break other rules if they knew
they would be Fired upon being caught.
Players may not be so willing to look for
handouts if they knew they risking a suspension
of life-long ban from college sports upon being
caught.
I feel A&M deserves a break from the NCAA
because the administration followed through on
Mobley’s promise to the NCAA in August to take
the necessary steps to “clean up” the program.
What else should A&M do? Any further
penalties would be needless.
The problems in college football have come
from the institution that benefits from it more
than any other — the National Football League.
The greedy NFL enjoys the luxury of haveing
the world’s best “farm system” and doesn’t pay a
cent for it.
Perhaps if the NFL instituted a farm suystem
for talent like Major League Baseball.
Aggie swim team
winners over TCU
By Tom Kehoe
SPORTS WRITER
I he T exas A&M men's swimming
team defeated Texas Christian Uni-
*versit\ 70-T 1 in a dual meet Satur-
da\ at the Ric kel Center Pool in Fort
Wot th.
It was the Aggies" second win over
TCI this season.
A&M won all but one of the sw im-
ming ev ents in t he meet.
I he Aggies controlled the meet
from the beginning with a win in the
lOO-vard medlev relax , narrowh de
feating the Horned Frog swimmers
3:i?(i.77 to 3:27.23.
A&M also won the TOO-vard free-
stvle relax under the same condi
tions. shooting down the Horned
Frogs best cpiai tel In almost two full
seconds.
The meet was filled with excep
tional performances In several .Ag
gie swimmers led In junior Peter
Staruc h and senior .Aaron .McDon
ough.
Staruch. who transferred to A&M
from the ("nixetsitv of Southern
California alter his freshman vear,
won the l()()-xarcl backstroke in
53.26 seconds and swam the leadoff
leg on the x ic torious medlex relax.
His time in the backstroke was a
. personal unshaxed. untapered best.
McDonough won the 100 and
200-xaicl freestvles and swam on the
winning freestxle relax. The free-
stxle specialist from Saletx Harbor,
Fla. won the 100-xard sprint in 47.70
seconds and the 200-xard event in
1:43.97.
Junior Mike \ aro/./a also turned
in a strong performance for the .Ag
gies.
Although Varozza had been both
ered bx flu during the week, he
swam on both winning relax s and
won the 100-xard butterllx in 30.08
seconds.
Other Aggie winners at TCU
were Scott Shippex in the 1000-yard
freestxle. Anthonx Mondelio in the
500-xaicl freestxle. Todd Bailee in
the 400-xard indiv idual medlex and
Don Box cl in the fOO-xatd hreasts-
(roke.
The next meet for the Aggies will
at 6 pan. Fridax in Austin when the
men’s and women’s teams swim
against the I iiixeisiix of Texas at
the T exas Swimming Center.
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needed to,” 1 hompson said. “We
underestimated them. We didn’t get
on them and they pulled ahead and
stayed ahead the whole game.”
tech initially took the lead at the
13-minute mark of the first half,
when forward T racy White got three
of his nine points on a 22-footer.
The lead went back and forth until
Tech went ahead for good with
about three minutes left in the First
half.
Suber pulled the Aggies within six
at 59-53 with 6:13 remaining in the
second half. Tech rebounded with a
seven-point run to drive the Aggies
back.
The Aggies attempted to close the
margin with three-pointers but
could only hit one. Metcalf said his
team was rushing their shots a little.
A&M travels to Austin Wednes
day to battle the Texas Longhorns
(6-1 in the SWC) for a 7:30 p.m. ti-
poff.
Lady Ags
(Continued from page 8)
lead to two with 10 minutes left in
the First half. The Lady Raiders an
swered by outscoring the Lady Ags
18-10 to take a 34-24 lead xvith four
minutes left until halftime.
A&M was able to cut the lead to
two with a shot by Madison with Five
seconds left. Tech responded with a
shot at the buzzer to lead 40-36.
Madison scored 10 of her 16
points during the A&M rallies.
The second half was a repeat of
the first with T ech stretching the
lead to as much as 10, only to have
the Lady Ags close it the margin.
A&M trailed 78-69 with three
minutes left. The Lady Ags ran off
eight straight points to claim the lead
for the first time on a three-pointer
by Dena Russo.
The Lady Ags were optimistic af
ter Russo’s shot.
“We thought, at that point, we
were going to pull it out and win,”
Russo said.
“We thought we were going to win
it at that point, but they came back,”
A&M’s Lori Dillard said. “We aren’t
going to let this affect us. We are
going to take this feeling and use it
to help us win, so we don’t have to
experience this feeling again.
“It’s a long season and we still
have a shot at winning the SWC.”
A&M’s final rally worried Tech
head coach Marsha Sharp.
“I was worried when they hit the
three-pointer,” Sharp said. “We
have a young club and they could
have easily given up.”
However, Tech scored the last
eight points of the game, six from
the line, as A&M failed to get a bas
ket.
“We couldn’t buy a basket out the
re,” Jordon said.
The loss leaves A&M 13-5 for the
year and tied with Arkansas for sec
ond place at 5-2 in SWC play. Tech
is now 9-9 on the year and 3-4 in
SWC.
A&M’s next game will be Saturday
against Texas Christian University
in Fort Worth. Tipoff is scheduled
for 5 p.m.
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