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resentatives of the Big Eight and
iouthwest Conference meet today in
Oklahoma City to discuss a television
alliance that could mean more view-
rs for the leagues.
Officials from both conferences
talked in recent weeks about
forming an alliance to enlarge each
other’s television markets, a move
that could mean more revenues.
Iowa State Athletic Director Max
rick said he and several athletic di
rectors and faculty representatives
from the Big Eight were invited to
meet with at least five SWC officials
in Oklahoma City.
The best way to describe the
meeting is exploratory,” Urick told
the Des Moines Register. “No deci
sions will be made. I doubt much will
happen other than just a lot of talk.”
‘We’ve been told there’s a meet
ing, but right now everything’s kind
of confidential,” SWC spokesman
Bo Carter said T uesday.
Urick said the discussions would
involve only a television agreement
for football and possibly other
sports. He said he doubts the leagues
will merge.
“We are talking about using the
inventory of games in both confer
ences to market ourselves to viewers
in our region,” Urick said. “That
could mean the lowa-Iowa State
game could be broadcast into Texas
every couple of years when we have
the rights to the game.”
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I his is just to talk with
the Southwest Conference
people”
—Bob Devaney,
University of Nebraska
Athletic Director
At other times, top conference or
non-conference games involving
SWC teams could be broadcast in the
Big Eight region.
Carter said Tuesday he did not
know who would attend from the
SWC, but the Register said SWC of
ficials scheduled to attend the meet
ing include Texas A&M Athletic Di
rector John David Crow, Texas
Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds and
SWC Commissioner Fred Jacoby.
The Big Eight delegation will in
clude Commissioner Carl James,
Urick, Oklahoma Athletic Director
Donnie Duncan and Colorado Ath
letic Director Bill Marolt. Sources
told The Associated Press that Kan
sas Athletic Director Bob Frederick
and Nebraska faculty advisor James
O’Hanlon also were expected to rep
resent the Big Eight at the meeting
at an Oklahoma City hotel.
Duncan was out of town Tuesday
and not immediately available for
Senator says Razorbacks
could create SWC exodus
LUBBOCK (AP) — T he pros
pect of seeing Texas A&M and
Texas follow Arkansas out of the
Southwest Conference “is more
serious than meets the eye,” says
one state senator.
Although it’s uncertain what
could be done politically to hold
the Aggies and the Longhorns in
tow, “The Legislature ts not going
to turn a deaf ear to it (an at
tempted departure),” State Sen.
John Montford, D-Lubbock, said
Monday. “If we need to get in
volved, we will.”
John David Crow, Texas A&M
athletic director, told the Lub
bock Avalanche-Journal Mont-
ford’s comments were un
founded.
“There has not been anything
talked about on this campus
about us leaving the Southwest
Conference,” Crow said Monday.
“I’m not the one to talk to
about it," Crow said. “Any deci
sion would be made by the presi
dent of the university or the
board of regents.”
Speculation that A&M and
Texas would defect from the
SWC for more revenue has coin
cided with Arkansas’ decision last
week to join the Southeastern
Conference.
Texas Tech president Robert
Lawless said last week that steps
should be taken to keep the con
ference intact, perhaps including
financial packages that would
fairly distribute revenue gener
ated by bowl and tournament ap
pearances, gate receipts and
other sources.
Board of regents Chairman J.
Fred Bucy said if A&M and
Texas try to leave the SWC, “We
must do anything we can to stop
it.”
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UT officials claim investigation
of gambling finds minor violation
[ AUSTIN (AP) — The University
i of Texas reported T uesday that an
| investigation into alleged gambling
;l among its athletes has been turned
over to the NCAA and that only iso
lated, mostly minor, violations were
found.
“We don’t expect these violations
to warrant NCAA action against the
university or any individual student-
athletes,” said Athletics Director
DeLoss Dodds.
The report was turned over to the
National Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion two months ago, but no re
sponse has been received, Dodds
said.
“It (the report) is extremely thor
ough, and we feel good about the re
sults in that we were dealing with iso
lated cases and very minor NCAA
1 violations,” he added.
The report was compiled by the
Houston-based law firm of Vinson &
Elkins in response to a story in the
Austin American-Statesman alleging
that as many as 40 student-athletes
at UT had been involved in betting.
The report concludes a month
long investigation, Dodds said.
Knox Nunnally said he and an
other Vinson & Elkins lawyer inter
viewed more than 100 current and
former Longhorn athletes, as well as
head football coach David McWil
liams, his staff and coaches in other
sports.
Betting on collegiate sports is an
NCAA violation.
The American-Statesman re
ported earlier that an NCAA spokes
man said knowledge by a coach or
other staff member of gambling ac
tivities among student-athletes
would make the school subject to
NCAA sanctions.
comment.
Nebraska Athletic Director Bob
Devaney, who said last week that he
was opposed to an alliance, con
firmed Tuesday that he will go to
Oklahoma City for the meeting.
“This is just to talk with the South
west Conference people,” he told the
Omaha World-Herald in a tele
phone interview.
The Big Eight, which has only
Denver, St. Louis and Kansas City as
major metropolitan areas, has one of
the nation’s smallest TV markets. By
forming an agreement with the
Southwest Conference, the Big
Eight could add the large Dallas-
Fort Worth and Houston markets.
The SWC is looking to stabilize af
ter losing Arkansas to the Southeast
ern Conference.
“It is a way to get greater expo
sure as well as increasing our reve
nues,” Urick said of a potential alli
ance. “At the same time, I want to
hear more about what is contem
plated before I make any decisions.”
Another Big Eight official, who
asked not to be identified, told the
Register that nothing formal will
come from the discussions this week.
“I’d say everything is on the table,
but nothing is on the table,” the offi
cial said. “There are a lot of things
that can be done, and we are just try
ing to set up a dialogue on it.”
Carter said he didn’t know if any
announcements would be made af
ter the meeting.
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A&M recruits Steve Emerson and Jeff Granger
go through drills for the coming football season.
Photo by Thomas J. Lavin
Freshmen were required to report to practice
Monday while full team practice begins Aug. 13.
Grambling ready despite loss of key players
GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Forget about any
tears being shed for Grambling’s football team in
1990.
Coaches who oppose the Tigers’ legendary
leader, Eddie Robinson, and his perennially tal
ented team don’t want to hear about all of those
“key losses” from the 1989 Southwestern Athletic
Conference champions.
Although the pass-catch duo of Clemente Gor
don and Fred Jones departed, along with two of
the three starting linebackers, Grambling’s oppo
nents realize how tough the north Louisiana
power looms for the upcoming season.
“Eddie never rebuilds, he just reloads,” ob
served Jackson State head coach W.C. Gorden.
“When they passed out the pre-season ballots to
us, I didn’t even hesitate to pick anybody but
Grambling. They’re the team to beat, again.”
Indeed, Grambling appears to be plenty tough
despite the loss of numerous talented players
from last year’s 9-3-0 club which participated in
the NCAA’s national Division I-AA playoffs.
Robinson, who enters into his 49th season with
the program and has 358 lifetime wins, returns
48 lettermen and 15 starters from the 1989 edi
tion.
Included among the returnees: talented tail
back Walter Dean, who set a single season rush
ing record for the school last year with 1,269
yards and is being promoted for the Heisman
Trophy; defensive back Ivan Geralds, consid
ered one of the team’s top I-AA All-American
candidates and who led the club in interceptions
last year with four; offensive tackle Raymond
“World” Smith, who checks in at 420 pounds on a
6-foot-6 frame; and linebacker Thomas Griffin,
the lone returning starter from that position who
ranked third in team tackles last year with 60.
“We lost some outstanding players, but we
have some good ones coming back, too,” said
Robinson. “The main task at hand for us is, as
coaches, being able to develop these players into
champions again. If we’re not successful, iUdCmld
be that we didn’t do a good enough job of coach
ing.”
While Grambling is the consensus choice to
win the league title, traditional power Jackson
State and Southern could be close behind.
Jackson State has an excellent pro prospect in
senior Tim Barnett, who totalled 36 catches for
857 yards and nine TD’s in 1989.
A major factor, however, lies in the team’s ad
justment to having lost three of its returning
members in an automobile crash earlier this year.
“Tm still wrestling with the question of
whether it’s right to use this tragic incident as a
motivation for our team this year,” said Gorden.
“I just don’t have the answer, but I do feel as if
our team will do the very best it can under some
very trying circumstances.”
Southern surprised the prognosticators last
year by going 6-4-1 and could produce even
more wins this season with the return of 14 start
ers and 42 letter winners.
Second-year head coach Gerald Kimble has an
outstanding tailback in Barry Kimbrough, who
led the team last year with 439 yards and four
touchdowns.
Alcorn State, traditionally a defensive power
in the conference, will try to break into the upper
echelon of the standings with aTTevamped offen
sive attack.
“We plan to throw the football a lot,” said head
coach Theo Danzy. “We could be airing it out a
lot this year.”
The main reason is the presence of speedy
wide receiver Torrance Small, a pre-season All-
SWAC selection who caught a team leading 47
passes for 926 yards and nine scores in ’89.
At Texas Southern, second year head coach
Walter Highsmith is telling everybody to “watch
out for us.”
Stewart kicks up more furor at
1990 PGA Championship course
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)
Payne Stewart may have started an
other controversy at the PGA
Championship on Tuesday.
“If the PGA knew the course
wasn’t good enough without grow
ing rough like this, they should have
taken it to a different golf course,”
Stewart said.
The defending champion took
the PG A to task — not over the racial
controversy that has caused such a
furor in the last month — but over
the deep, tough bermuda rough.
“Almost unplayable,” he said.
“I’m very disappointed with the way
the PGA set up the golf course. It’s
like there were red lines down both
sides of the fairway; like it’s a hazard
any time you’re out of the fairway.
“You can’t chip out of it — it’s
more of a chop,” Stewart said after a
practice round at Shoal Creek, the
previously all-white club that became
the center of a controversy over the
membership policies of clubs hosting
professional tournaments.
That situation apparently was re
solved with the inclusion of a black
businessman as an honorary mem
ber at Shoal Creek and actions by the
PGA, PGA Tour and U.S. Golf Asso
ciation to avoid taking their tourna
ments to clubs that have exclusio
nary membership practices.
The Southern Christian Lead
ership Council abandoned plans to
picket the tournament. No protes
ters or demonstrators were in evi
dence during the first full practice
round on Tuesday.
“I don’t want to talk about it,”
Stewart responded to a question.
Then he talked about it.
“It’s none of my business. I play
golf for a living. I think the players
probably are making more jokes
about it than anything else,” he said.
U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin
declined comment.
“It’s done,” Australian Greg Nor
man said. “Everybody is happy with
the decision. I don’t really want to
comment.”
Norman didn’t hesitate to talk
about the rough, however.
“You better keep it on the short
stuff. No question about it. If you
miss a fairway you’re going to make
bogey 80 percent of the time,” he
said.
“It tends to eliminate those of us
who are not playing well and re
wards those of us who are,” Irwin
said. “I’d rather see too much rough
than not enough.”
Stewart, a winner of two Ameri
can tournaments this season and
runner-up to Nick Faldo in the re
cent British Open, said the condition
of the course will penalize the fans.
“They’re the ones Tm thinking
about,” he said. “We’re supposed to
be the great players. The fans come
out to see us manufacture great
shots from the rough. There’s no
option here. Give us the opportunity
to make the great shots. You can’t do
it from this stuff.”
Some other major figures in the
150-player field include Tom Kite,
Paul Azinger, Curtis Strange, Mark
Calcavecchia, Seve Ballesteros of
Spain, Ian Woosnam of Wales.
Wayne Levi, the only three-time
winner on the American tour this
year, along with Lee Trevino, who
won the 1984 PGA on this course,
and Jack Nicklaus, the man who de
signed the layout, play as well.
ITCA awards
tennis coach
program grant
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Intercollegiate Tennis
Coaches Association (ITCA) an
nounced that Texas A&M wom
en’s tennis coach Bobby Klei-
necke earned $850 for the
Aggie’s tennis program.
Kleinecke’s grant was awarded
for his community service includ
ing running a doubles tourna
ment and serving as a banquet
speaker. The program partici
pants collectively recorded nearly
5,000 hours of community serv
ice.
The Volvo Tennis/Varsity
Awards Program awarded over
$60,000 in grants to 40 tennis
programs throughout the nation,
A maximum of five awards was
given in each women’s and men’s
Division I region and small col
lege division.
Awards in the Southwest Re
gion women’s division included
A&M, Northeast Lousiana and
Texas, which earned $1,000 for
its program.
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