Page B2-Th€ Chronicle, Thursday, December 22, 1983
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Paisley High’s Tabitha Bines almost decided to unleash her Jumpshot
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(photo by James Parker).
Black College Sports
Annual Exploitation
Of Blacks Begins Soon
By BARR Y COOPER
Syndicated Columnist
With the coming of a new
year, a new athletic season
will begin, but not on any
field. Instead, grown men
will fill their wallets with
credit cards, call airlines for
reservations and make sure
that rental cars are
available.
Those grown men, wear
ing broad smiles and armed
with a zillion promises, will
visit the homes of high
school football players and
try to talk them into signing
grants-in-aid.
Most of their potential
recruits will be black.
The exploitation of black
athletes is rampant in this
country, and is one of the
biggest wastes of resources
in America.
There have been many
horror stories, such as
documented cases of black
high school players who
went on to big,
predominantly white
schools and left the schools
four years later, not good
enough to succeed at pro
sports and not educated
enough to get a job.
In fact, some who attend
ed prestigious schools not
only failed to get a degree,
but somehow did not learn
how to read, either.
This is not to suggest that
all predominantly white
schools are racist institu
tions that care nothing
about their athletes. Cer
tainly, most at least make
an attempt to push their
players in the right
academic direction, and
even some small,
predominantly black
schools are guilty of ex
ploiting athletes.
The problem of black
athletes being exploited
must be addressed long
before the youngsters enter
Grambling, Alcorn State,
UCLA, Southern Califor
nia or any other school
where a great emphasis is
placed on sports.
More attention must be
paid to academics in high
school, particularly to the
basic skills of writing, math
and reading. Without a
firm foundation in those
areas, no athlete can ever
hope to survive in college,
no matter how many tutors
he is provided with or how
many study halls he is
ordered to attend.
The irony in all of this is
that many black athletes
willingly allow themselves
to be exploited. This is
usually the way it works:
The player, an athletic
superstar in high school,
and the kid the local folks
choose mostly likely to
make it to the pros, signs
with a big-time university
despite having achieved
barely a “C” average in
high school.
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Rams Make ‘Bighouse’ Smile With Win
By ROBER T ELLER
Sports Editor
Wiii.ston-Salem State
Coach “Bighouse” Gaines
managed a slight smile Fri
day night as he bade good
bye to most of his basket
ball team until early
.) an Liary.
Part of the smile was the
result of his gaining his
7(K)ih win in the season-
opener for the team.
Another was no doubi due
to the fact that his Rams
had won two tournament
titles cn route to a 5-2 mark
in the early season.
But the biggest part of
(he smile had to come from
the play of his Rams that
night in an 86-64 whipping
of St. Paul’s.
Holding only a 40-35 lead
at halftime, Gaines turned
to senior utility man Buck
Mitchell seven minutes into
the second half. Mitchell
then turned his attention to
shutting down the Tigers’
Charles Bell. Bell, the
league’s second-leading
scorer, entering game with a
23.3-point average, kept the
Tigers close in the first 20
minutes as he fired in 16
points.
But, with Mitchell
shadowing every move and
contesting every shot. Bell
could only manage four
second-half points.
With the Tigers’ big gun
silenced, the Rams steadily
pulled away to grab an easy
win.
Gaines, who has been less
WSSU’s Linwood Gorham (42),shownhere in ac
tion against Elizabeth City, pumped in 16 first-
half points before yielding to defensive
specialist Buck Mitchell (photo by James
Parker).
than pleased with his team’s
play in a number of con
tests, despite the 5-2 mark,
praised the play of Mitchell.
“He is our best defensive
ballplayer and is very
coachable,” Gaines said.
“You give him a task and
he responds.’’
Gaines also was happy
with his team’s second-half
defense. “St. Paul’s aban
doned their pattern when
Mitchell cut off Bell,” he
said. “This was one of our
better defensive games.”
And Gaines was pleased
with the play of point guard
Alonzo Willis, who started
in place of John Watkins
and played 37 minutes,
committing only one tur
nover. “This was Willis’
best game,” he said. “He is
beginning to relax now and
he kept the offense
moving.”
That movement was ob
vious in the second half, the
majority of which the
Rams’ top two scorers spent
on the bench. Freshman
sharpshooter Linwood
Gorham scored all of his 16
points in the opening 20
minutes, and was replaced
by Mitchell, for defensive
purposes, with the Rams up
only 54-52 with more than
13 minutes left in the game.
Troy Russell, the CIAA’s
leading scorer with a
25-point average, had gone
to the bench after picking
up his fourth foul at the
15:53 mark, having tallied
15 points.
But, with those two on
the bench, Mitchell and
Roger Mason took up the
scoring slack. Mason led all
scorers with 22 points and
had a game-high 14 re
bounds. Mitchell scored all
11 of his points in the
game’s final eight and a
half minutes. He also had
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Purzyeki Honored As Top ME A C Coach
tty ROItERT ELLER
Sports Editor
Joe I’lirzycki of Delaware Slate lias been voted tlic
1983 Mid-Eastern Alhletie Cont'erence Football Coach of
Ihe Year by Ids fellow bead coaclies.
The aniioiinecmeiit was made at the third antuial
MHAC' All-Star Football Banqtiet held iti Clreeiisboro's
Airport Hilton Inn Dec. 13.
I’nr/.ycki. in only his third year at the Hornet helm,
guided Delaware State to a 7-3-1 record. The school’s
previous best season had been a 7-4 mark in 1977.
The 3-1 league mark, good enough for second in the
league, was Ihe Hornets' best MEAC finish in five years.
I’nr/ycki. the first while coach in Delaware State and
MFAC history, praised his team. Ills school and the
Ml-'AC in accepting Ihe award. "The recognition is
wonderful and it is even more meaningful because my
peers \oled me die award and it says a lot ahout llteir
quality of thinking and tlieir sense of fairness." I’urzyeki
said, "I want to thank my team for their performance.
Delaware State for giving me my first college head
coaching opportunity and the MEAC as a whole for ben
ding over backwards to see that I got a fair shake.”
t’urzyeki came to Delaware State in 1981 after serving
as defensive backfield coach at the University of
Delaware, his alma mater, for three seasons. A 1971
graduate of the school, he served as defensive captain his
senior year and still holds the school record for intercep
tions in a season, with nine.
Before coaching at Delaware, he coached at Caesar
Rodney High in Delaware, where in three seasons he
compiled a 33-2 record with both losses coming in post-
season play.
Purzyeki did not have an easy time at Delaware State,
His selection as the school’s head coach in 1981 resulted
in student demonstrations and the defection of a large
number of veteran Hornet football players.
lint the 36 year-old workaholic took charge of a pro
gram that had absorbed a 105-0 loss the year before and
immediately installed the Wing T offense that he learned
at Delaware under Tubby Raymonds.
Delaware State finished 2-9 in his first season hut was
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