luesday, January 22,1991
The Battalion
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HOUSTON (AP) — Athletic re
cruiters no longer are just interested
in how fast a student runs or how far
they jump, sports observers say.
As the Southwest Conference
pushes for higher test scores for ath
letic recruits, at least six of the state’s
top 10 high school prospects are in
jeopardy of losing a major college
scholarship because of grade prob
lems.
“Obviously, grade problems are a
concern for everybody,” Texas
A&M recruiting coordinator Tim
Cassidy said. “There's a bigger con
cern around the SWC because you
can’t take a kid who doesn’t have his
grades.”
To receive an athletic scholarship
in the SWC, a recruit must score a
minimum of 700 on the Scholastic
Aptitude Test or 18 on the Ameri
can College Test and have at least a
2.0 grade-point average in high
school core curriculum.
Mike Miller of Willowridge, Brian
Brown of Grand Prairie, Rodney
Thomas of Groveton, Tommy Pres
ton of A&M Consolidated, Charles
Horton of Dallas Carter and Louis
Fite of Waco had yet to qualify aca
demically when the recruiting pe
riod began Dec. 1.
Mill,er, Thomas and Preston have
received passing test scores. Brown,
Horton and Fite are still considered
worth the risk of offering a schol
arship.
“You’re going to have to take
some guys and then wait,” Cassidy
said. “You have to do some home
work after meeting with the kid to
project if he will make it. The guys
we’re considering taking are either
close on their test score or have it
close on their core.”
Those athletes SWC schools take a
chance on have until the first day of
the fall semester to achieve a passing
test score or core grades.
SWC Commissioner Fred Jacoby
is looking forward to 1992, vyhen
conference recruiters won’t have to
take as many chances.
“Grade problems are the catalyst
that made the people at the (recent)
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NCAA convention pass a resolution
that recruits must present a test
score before taking an expense-paid
visit to a college,” he said. “They
want to have some idea that this per
son can make it at that university.”
Willowridge coach Eddie Brister
liked the idea.
“If you’ve got to have that test
score, you might as well take the test
as a junior,” Brister said. “All of our
kids this year would have had a test
score to show recruiters before tak
ing a visit.”
Cassidy agreed.
“If a guy takes his test during his
junior year and makes alb (on the
ACT, for example), we’re not wor
ried about that guy,” Cassidy said.
“It’s the guy who hasn’t taken it at all
that concerns us.
Although there are still some
problems with the state’s top ath
letes, Cassidy believes the number of
academic troubles among athletes is
decreasing in Texas.
Hogs win
]5th straight
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) —
Todd Day scored 30 points and five
other players scored in double fig
ures as second-ranked Arkansas ex
tended its winning streak to 15
games by beating Florida State 109-
92 on Monday night.
The Razorbacks (18-1) led 62-57
at the half, but took control by scor
ing the first five points of the second
half and kept pulling away.
Day, who entered the game aver
aging 22.1 points, hit 11 of 15 shots
and led his team with nine rebounds.
Ron Huery added 17 points, Lee
Mayberry and Arlyn Bowers 16
each, Oliver Miller 12 and Isaiah
Morris 10 for Arkansas, which has
scored more than 100 points in 10
games this season.
Douglas Edwards led Florida
State (9-6) with 24 points. Aubry
Boyd added 16, Chuck Graham 14,
and Charlie Ward and Michael Po
lite 13 each.
Arkansas opened a 37-20 lead
midway through the first half, but
Florida State, led by Graham’s 14
first-half points, closed the gap to
five points at intermission.
Super security
for Bills/Giants
TAMPA (AP) If you want to
watch the Super Bowl on a porta
ble television set, don’t try it in
Tampa Stadium, site of Sunday’s
silver anniversary game. And if it
happens to rain on game day,
prepare to get a little wet.
Portable TVs and umbrellas
are among the items barred from
the stadium as part of increased
security for the game. Also pro
hibited are camcorders, still cam
eras, headset radios, bottles, cans
and other containers. Cameras
and TV have been popular items
at previous Super Bowls, with
flash bulbs popping at the open-
ingkickoff and halftime show.
The host city began tightening
security Monday as the AFC
champion Buffalo Bills and NFC
champion New York Giants ar
rived in town. Bob Smith, Tam
pa’s public safety administrator,
said 18 law enforcement agencies
will assist in the effort to combat
possible terrorism resulting from
the Persian Gulf war.
Smith said 500 officers would
be in and around the park on
game day and the Federal Avi
ation Administration is being
asked to restrict airspace to
10,000 feet for a half-mile and
3,000 feet for five miles around
the 'Uadimn.
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