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DALLAS (AP) — They are joking
now that there are only two sports in
the Southwest Conference: regular
season basketball and tournament
basketball.
With Texas and Arkansas making
the NCAA tournament final eight,
spring football was a back burner
topic around SWC sports circles.
What would D.X. Bible, Homer
Norton, and Abe Martin think?
Suddenly the commissioner of the
SWC, Fred Jacoby, is facing prob
lems that former commissioners
Howard Grubbs and Cliff Speegle
wouldn’t have dreamed possible. It’s
giving Jacoby hoopmares.
How about the demands for a
full-time supervisor of officials for
basketball, for example?
There will be an SWC officiating
committee meeting in May to discuss
the matter.
Texas coach Tom Penders has
criticized part-time supervisor Paul
Galvan, who also supervises ihe
Southland Conference when he isn’t
busy as a principal for a Fort Worth
junior high school.
“I don’t have anything against
Paul,” Penders said. “I just think you
can’t be a big-time basketball league
until you have a full-time supervisor
of officials. I tried to call him three
times and he never got back to me.”
Jacoby is doing his homework.
He said that of the 30 automatic
qualifiers in the NCAA tournament,
only five leagues have full-time offi
cials. They are the Atlantic Coast
Conference (which has two Final
Four teams), the Southeast Confer
ence, the Big 10, the Big Eight, and a
fifth that Jacoby wasn’t sure of. The
Big 10 and Big Eight just went to a
full-time official this last season.
Jacoby said he wants to present
the total picture at the May meeting
and ‘‘if the conference wants to hire
one, we’ll hire one.”
Jacoby wants to make three points
Ag tracksters
tiy to qualify
for NCAA
about officiating:
— “As long as you’ve gota
and a loser you will haveoflia
problems.”
— “You can’t remove emotn
ism from a coach’s evaluation.'
— “ I he officiating problem
more than an official. Its cos
players, game administrators
all have to work with theproWc
He added, ‘‘There’s no pm
hiring somebody. The proU
getting somebody who is t®
who wants to give up a good jot
Jacoby is looking into a
that would provide a regional
where officials could be drawn
the Big Eight, SEC, etc. He
of the problems is familiarin
tween coaches and officials.]:
SWC, the league has a 2-plus-!!
“We try to prevent overexpo
between an official and a school
coby said. “We try to see toil
referees no more than two g
home and two on the road.A
shouldn’t see an official fourtii
a 28-game season.”
Jacoby said he doesn’t bel
SWC officiating is any betterorl
worse than any other conferenu!
Speaking of Penders,Jaccfcj
he will wait until after the Finall
“to have something to sav"
Penders’ outbursts againstSW(1
ciating during the recent ItJ
tout n.imrnt I he once-reprimaij
Penders could be taken outcl
coach’s box f or a game nextsosl
“Anything we do will haven I
until next season,” Jacoby said
Such are the problems nowd
rninistrating a “basketball cot
ence.”
Grubbs and Speegle never!
what they were going to miss,
By NADJA SABAWALA
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M track and field
squad will try to qualify more athletes
for the NCAA Outdoor
Championship this weekend when
they travel to Dallas to compete in
Saturday’s SMU Relay Festival.
Morrison-Bell Track Stadium will
play host to a field of 10 teams, in
cluding Southwest Conference rivals
A&M, Texas Christian, Baylor and
Texas.
“This should be a good meet for
us since we’ll be going against some
of the better teams in our conferen
ce,” head coach Charlie Thomas
said.
Some Aggies already have qual
ified for the NCAA Outdoor Cham
pionships including pole vaulter
Greg West, decathlete Steve Pere-
gory and high hurdler Richard
Bucknor.
NCAA indoor champion shotput-
ter Mike Stulce, who holds the re
cord 70-6 1/4 throw which is a per
sonal best as well as the longest
recorded throw in the world so far
this year, will sit out this weekend be
cause of an elbow injury sustained in
the indoor championship meet.
Junior College All-American shot-
putter Steve Collier, discus thrower
Henrik Ramstad, high hurdler Greg
Williams and high jumper Wally
Reid hope to qualify this weekend.
The 400-meter relay team of se
niors Richard Bucknor and Derrick
Florence, and juniors Andre Cason
and Steve Lofton missed qualifying
last weekend by a .02 margin at the
College Station Relays with a time of
39.67 and look forward to improv
ing their time.
“We’ll really concentrate on our
relays and hopefully we’ll be able to
qualify some people,” Thomas said.
The 400-meter team also must
concentrate on defeating the NCAA
title-holding TCU Horned Frog re
lay team who the beat Aggies by .3 a
year ago.
A&M’s 1600-meter relay team of
junior Brandon Williams, sopho
more Ray Griffiths, Florence and
Lofton will be defending their
NCAA title against the Baylor Bears
who posted a world-leading time last
spring. This year’s team set a school
Lady Ags I<
for sunny
By VINCE SNYDER
Of The Battalion Staff
Despite a little rain, Its
A&M Lady Aggies' softballte
is hoping to play their {jit
against Sam Houston State!:
versity today. , ■fl
A&M will travel to SHSl.
rain allows, with the pirstpitcli
the doubleheader set for 3
p.tn.
The Lady Aggies’ dor
header against Kent State
Wednesday was canceled beta
of rain, and will not be madeuf
The rain could be a blessitif
disguise for A&M, espert
coining off back-to-back tour
ments the past two weeketK
I he Lady Aggies are on a I
streak winning 22 of their Iasi■
games, with a 29-8 overallreco:
Sam Houston State is curve:
10-22. The Lady Kats w:
forced to forfeit nine games
season when junior AIl-Amen
outfielder Shonta Gan vvasrus
academically ineligible.
A&M cttach Bob Brock,
SHSU graduate, feels that
squad is way ahead of where
thought they would be for f-
time of the year.
“I’m really excited about is
team," Brock said, “l couldn't *
happier with the way our defer,
is playing right now, along"*
the good pitching from Mr
Young and Dana Mitchell.”
Young’s record for the yea;
17-5 with a 0.47 Earned Run!
erage. Mitchell is 12-2 and
sporting a 0.95 ERA.
record with a time of 3:08.57.
Texas A&M, which finished in
door season with a second place
ish at the NCAA Indoor Champ
ships in early March, is predicted;
Track & Field News magazine to"
ish in the top two of the NCAA!
door Championships, May 311
3 in Durham, N.C.
In the 1989 Outdoor Champ
ships, the Aggies narrowly mi 1 -
first place, finishing two points
hind Lousiana State.
High schools, Special Olymp 1
masters and wheelchairs will have
visions as well.
Events in the university divi* 1
begin at 9:30 a.m. and will coni
until approximately 6:10 p.m.
K Thomas
(Continued from page 7)
in high school,” Thomas said- “I’d
never seen a real good slider until I
came here.
“It’s definitely a big step up. Col
lege pitchers know where to pitch it,
and they can usually put it where
they want it.”
Thomas has been where he wants
to be lately — in the outfield. But
taking over for the injured Dan Rob
inson wasn’t the way that Thomas
wanted to break into the outfield.
“Everybody wants to get in and
play, but not in that circumstat> (
Thomas said.
When Thomas isn’t playing l*
ball, lie likes to be outdoors. Hf
he likes skiing and hunting.
“Being out walking around in
snow lias to be the best thing in
world ... besides baseball and(k 1
he said.
In one month, Thomas hasf
from bench warmer to herofot
Aggies.
“I’m happy and I thank God
giving me a chance to play this"'* 1
Thomas said.
And Aggie fans are glad '
Thomas calls Olsen Field home