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High school leaders fear Friday college football
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Charles Adams, executive direc
tor of the North Carolina High
School Athletic Association, is
worried.
"Telecasting college football on
Friday nights could do all kinds
of harm to high school athletic
programs," Adams said. "High
school athletic programs depend
tremendously on the gate receipts
of their football games."
North Carolina high schools
could lose 40 to 60 percent of their
revenues if college football is
telecast on Friday nights, a time
traditionally reserved for high
school football, Adams said.
High schools are protected
during this, the 1984 season, due
to a resolution passed at last
summer's NCAA meetings pro
hibiting simultaneous Friday even
ing college football telecasts. But
next season, and those that follow,
hold many questions for high
school athletic programs through
out the country and for the 323
high school football programs in
North Carolina.
"The resolution applies only to
1984," Adams said. "We at the
NCHSAA are going to request the
NCAA during their meetings in
January to sponsor an amendment
that would permanently prohibit
telecasts oh Friday nights. If they
dont agree, it could wipe us out."
High schools, had, 32 years of
written protection from the
NCAA, dating back to the 1952
NCAA football TV plan. That
plan provided protection by stat
ing that tio NCAA. member could
be involved on television on
Friday, nights during the tradi
tional high school football season
the first Friday in September
through the last Friday in
November. But the Supreme
Court ruled this summer in a suit
brought against the NCAA by
College Football Association
members Georgia and Oklahoma
that the NCAA has no power to
restrict colleges from working out
their own TV deals.
So, if NCAA members do not
agree to adopt a resolution ban
ning Friday night telecasts, many
high schools could end up having
to drop their football programs,
or making many cuts in their
athletic programs.
Warren Brown, assistant direc
tor of the National Federation of
State High School Athletic Asso
ciations, seemed a bit more optim
istic about the colleges banning
Friday night TV.
"At the NCAA meetings last
July, they voted unanimously to
ban Friday night telecasts this
season, so I don't see them chang
ing their stance in the future,"
Brown said. "However, the lead
ership of the CFA (of which North
Carolina is a member) is much
more sensitive to money than it
is to the high schools' plight."
If the colleges do not agree to
ban Friday night telecasts, the
members of the NCHSAA are not
quite sure what to do. "We would
prefer an enforcable NCAA policy
over legislation," Adams said.
"Right now, we are writing all the
college presidents in North Carol
ina to get support in adoption of
the resolution to keep Friday
nights for high school."
Bill Hodgin, head football
coach at nearby Chapel Hill High
School and a member of the
athletic department, has seen the
NCAA deal trample on ground
that is sacred to high school
athletics before.
"This could be just like college
basketball," Hodgin said. "For
years, Tuesday and Friday even
ings were generally regarded as the
nights that high schools played
basketball, and it was just an
accepted thing that the colleges did
not televise their basketball games
on those nights. But then they
started doing it a little at a time,
and now colleges are televised all
the time."
Adams agreed, noting that the
colleges would tell the NCHSAA
it was a one-time thing. "If we let
them say 'let us telecast just this
once' like they did with basketball,
there's no way well be able to stop
it. We do have to worry about
this."
UNC athletic director John
Swofford said that televising
football on Fridays would be a big
mistake.
"It would be terribly insensitive
to high school programs, and a
gross wrong-doing to high school
football," Swofford said. "I don't
see an inclination for UNC to
televise on Friday nights."
Swofford said that he thought
it was a "very reasonable" possi
bility that the NCAA would adopt
a permanent resolution banning
college football telecasts on Friday
nights.
"I think the sound football
programs will survive," Hodgin
said, "but I think well lose that
marginal fan, the one who would
rather stay at home on a Friday
if he hears that two top-ranked
college teams will be playing on
TV.
"I would think tht the colleges
will start televising Friday nights
if they can. In a way, I don't blame
them. Football is their main
revenue sport just like ours is.
They've got to survive, but we do,
too."
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