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Pac-10 votes no to conference expansion
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On Iraq,
ninja turtles
& expansion ...
I’m sick and tired of
[hearing about Iraq in the news.
Iff see one more green,
[mutant, Japanese turtle walking
around the boob tube saying
“Kowabunga, dude!,” I’m likely
| to lose my lunch.
And if Bo Jackson or that
| damned Duracell bunny marches
through one more commercial.
I’m going to take that copper-
topped battery and ... well I think
you can deduce where I’m going
I with that.
However, none of these
I seemingly mundane distractions
causes me more grief and
aggravation than the new and
improved conference merging
rumours that seem to run amuck
since the University of Arkansas’
defection to the Southeastern
Conference.
Anonymous sources
Every day, the Associated
I Press and sportswriters around
Texas inundate the sports page
with “sources that wish to remain
anonymous” and their “inside
scoop” about conference
| realignment.
The only thing more irritating
I than anonymous sources is
athletic directors who can’t seem
| to make up their minds.
Arkansas Athletic Director
I Frank Broyles should be
commended. Or better yet, let’s
give him a rousing hog call.
Broyles, unlike some of his
colleagues in Tekas, saXv an
opportunity with the SEsC and
acted on it. His bold move to the
east will give the Razorbacks
oodles of athletic revenues.
“Athletic revenues!r\ can
already hear the whiney,
scholastic liberals calling for my
head.
Pigs reap bucks
Contrary to their belief, the
television exposure Arkansas will
receive as a result of a better
contract will not only generate
funds for the athletic mongers,
but also serve as a valuable public
relations promotion, attracting
students and scholars. This means
more funding from the state and
tuition revenues (in addition to all
those neat hidden fees as well).
Some schools around Texas
could be eating Crow if they
don’t make the bold move to
secure the futures of their athletic
programs.
And if arguing with the
scholarly folk wasn’t enough,
meet Joe Bob Ag. He’ll tell you
that leaving the SWC is breaking
tradition. And here in the bastion
See Rasmussen/Page 10
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) —
The Pac-10 Conference has decided
that 10 members is enough. For
now.
After discussing the possibility of
expanding the conference at two
meetings last month, the top officers
of the Pac-10 schools decided Tues
day that the conference is not pre
pared to expand its current mem
bership.
“After studying the data devel
oped by the conference’s directors,
senior women administrators and
faculty representatives, the chief ex
ecutive officers determined it was
not in the Pac-lO’s best interests to
actively pursue expansion at this
Texas A&M, Texas must now look elsewhere
time,” commissioner Tom Hansen
said in a news release issued Tues
day.
“There is opposition generically
to expansion, not to any institution
which may have been mentioned,
and addition of a member requires a
unanimous vote of all 10 members
of the conference,” Hansen said.
The presidents and chancellors of
the Pac-10 met Tuesday by confer
ence call to review information sub
mitted by athletic administrators in
meetings earlier this month.
During those meetings, which
were prompted by announced and
rumored changes in the mem
berships of other athletic confer
ences, Hansen met with Texas ath
letic director DeLoss Dodds to
discuss the possibility of Texas and
Texas A&M joining the conference.
“We are pleased that there has
been interest expressed by a number
of distinguished institutions in mem
bership in the Pac-10, but find it im
possible to even consider expansion
without extensive additional study,
which will require some time,” Han
sen said.
The Pac-10 is currently made up
of 10 universities: Arizona, Arizona
State, Southern Cal, UCLA, Oregon,
Oregon State, Washington, Wash
ington State, Stanford and Cal-Ber-
keley.
The conference expanded from
eight to 10 schools in 1978 when Ari
zona and Arizona State were ad
mitted.
One conclusion drawn by Pac-10
administrators was that predicting
the status of college football tele
vision and how it Would be affected
by conference realignment was im
possible to determine.
Bears gearing up for 1990 football season
All-SWC tackle
Dotson moved
to defensive end
WACO (AP) — Coach Grant
Teaff of Baylor said Tuesday he
has shifted all-Southwest Confer
ence defensive tackle Santana
Dotson to defensive end.
Teaff also told the SWC media
tour that he has moved reserve
cornerback Frankie Smith to full
back, where he is ahead of fresh
man redshirt Robert Strait, rated
by some as the top running back
in high school two years ago.
Dotson (6-5, 264), is replacing
John Godfrey, (249), who has he
patitis, Teaff said. Dotson, a ju
nior, played defensive end as a
freshman.
Smith, only 5-9 and 177, was a
backup to cornerbacks Charles
Bell and Malcolm Frank who,
according to Teaff, are as good as
any cornerbacks in college foot
ball. At fullback Smith, a senior, is
listed No. 1 with sophomore Da
vid Loeb, 215.
As a high school senior, Smith
rushed for 1,246 yards and 14
touchdowns and averaged 39.2
yards on kickoff returns.
“Yesterday, for the first time, I
saw a smile on his face,” Teaff
said of Smith.
Strait and another freshman
redshirt, Brent Underwood, are
running with the second team.
Teaff said, however, he is not
disappointed in the highly re
cruited Strait, but at 235 he is
about 15 pounds overweight.
“Robert is in a position where
he has got to rise to the occasion
and do what it takes,” he said.
“I’m not going to rush him into
something when he’s not ready —
Robert Strait will be an outstand
ing player down the road.”
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Junior safety Trooper Taylor (2) and the rest of the Baylor Bears
are ready to start the 1990 season against Nebraska on Sept. 1.
over the past three years, is going
back to a veer offense after using
a dropback passing offense from
1987-89. “1 wanted to return to
that which I believed in,” Teaff
said.
Baylor stands
to lose a lot if
A&M, UT go
From Staff and Wire Reports
Baylor University could lose
both students and money if Texas
A&M and the University of Texas
flee the Southwest Conference, a
Baylor economist says.
Tom Kelly, director of the
Center for Economic Analysis,
said BU could lose 10 percent of
its students and cost the sur
rounding McLennan County up
to $37 million in revenues if other
SWC schools leave.
Kelly said his analysis doesn’t
include losses in television reve
nue and contributions.
For weeks, conference re
alignment has been a major topic.
Rumors that UT and A&M are
considering a move to either the
Southeastern Conference or the
Pacific 10 since the University of
Arkansas announced its move to
the SEC.
State Sen. Chet Edwards, an
A&M graduate, asked for an in
quiry into whether the Legis
lature should become involved in
tax-supported universities if they
leave the SWC.
Sen. Bob Glasgow, chairman of
the Senate State Affairs Connit-
tee, said he would convene his
group Sept. 8 to hold hearings on
the conference movements.
At Baylor, Kelly said, many
students first identify with the
school through its football pro
gram, and contributions increase
when the team beats a major col-
lege.
“Baylor gets a lot of advertising
every year from participating in
athletic events,” Kelly said.
Ex-UF head coach finds happy home at Penn State
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) —
Galen Hall was never a high-profile
coach like Barry Switzer or Jackie
Sherrill. But like those big-name
coaches, Hall was ousted from his
job for violating NCAA rules.
Unlike his peers, though, Hall
had nothing to fall back on: No real
estate business, no car dealership, no
book deal, no nothing.
Only football.
So now Hall is starting over, work
ing as an unpaid graduate assistant
at Penn State, where he played quar
terback three decades ago.
“If we could help Galen, we
wanted to help him,” said Penn State
coach Joe Paterno, who recruited
Hall when he was a prep player in
Williamsburg, Pa. “All he needed
was a place to regroup.”
The 53-year-old Hall was forced
to resign as Florida coach during the
1989 season after admitting he gave
money to a player and two assistant
coaches.
He tried to find another job, but
the only person who would give him
a chance was Paterno.
“He belongs in coaching,” said
Sherrill, former coach at Pitt and
Texas A&M. “I’m not saying he can’t
do a lot of other things, but he’s got a
natural coaching ability.”
In his resignation letter, Hall said
he helped a player who was having
trouble meeting child support pay
ments and gave a total of $22,000 to
two assistant coaches.
Hall, who was an assistant at Okla
homa for 17 years, claims he didn’t
know it was an NCAA violation to
give his assistants supplemental pay.
“I think you can violate a rule
without intentionally doing so,” said
Penn State assistant Dick Anderson,
former coach at Rutgers who was
one of Hall’s college teammates.
“Galen gave some money to an as
sistant. Frankly, I didn’t know that
was a violation. I could have done
that at Rutgers. I didn’t, but I could
have.”
Charles McClendon, executive di
rector of the American Football
Coaches Association, said Hall de
serves another chance.
“I appreciate Joe giving him an
opportunity. He has been punished
enough,” McClendon said.
John David Crow
“While it has been interesting to
observe various conference configu
rations which have been suggested,
pritnarily because of the Pac-lO’s
geographic location and existing
travel demands — timewise and fi
nancially — it was determined that
there was concern about the un
knowns of football television in the
future, a balance of factors seemed
to weigh against expansion at this
time,” Hansen said.
Since last season, Penn State has
been admitted as the 11th member
of the Big 10 Conference, and Ar
kansas has left the Southwest Con
ference and joined the Southeastern
Conference.
SWC ADs
postpone talks
on expansion
DALLAS
(AP) — A
meeting be-
tween
Southwest
Conference
athletic di-
rectors
scheduled
for today
has been
postponed,
SWC com
missioner
Fred Jacoby
said.
“It was decided to postpone the
meeting until after the presidents
meet in Dallas on Sept. 7,” Jacoby
said. “The athletic directors decided
they would have more information
to work with after then.”
A consulting firm will present a
study of the future of the SWC to
the school presidents.
The University of Arkansas has
left the SWC for the Southeastern
Conference and Texas A&M and
Texas are studying options which in
clude the SEC and the Pacific-10
Conference.
LIT athletic director DeLoss
Dodds and A&M AD John David
Crow met with Pac-10 commissioner
Tom Hansen last week in Kansas
City to discuss the possibility of
A&M and Texas moving into the
league.
Meanwhile, Joe Dean, athletic di
rector at SEC-member Louisiana
State University, said Monday that
conference has made no move to
ward luring either UT or A&M al
though the conference was inter
ested.
“There has been no contact by our
commissioner,” Dean told Houston
television station KRIV. “They have
been talked about as institutions that
have shown some interest.”
Dean said Dodds cancelled a
meeting that also was to include
Crow so the issue of a conference
switch involving UT and A&M could
cool.
“DeLoss was nervous because
some members of the state Legis
lature were calling, and there was
some conversation that the governor
had called,” Dean said.
Instead, Dean said he and Dotlds
and Crow spoke via a conference
telephone call for about an hour on
Friday.
“I told them if you can make
things work there and be happy,
then stay where you are,” Dean said.
Dean also said he has spoken with
University of Houston Athletic Di
rector Rudy Davalos about the Cou
gars joining the SEC if the South
west Conference crumbles.
“I have had a lot of conversations
with Rudy,” he said.
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