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38The Tar Heel Thursday, August 19, 1935 Bloom County ;)jp))jnr5i just 15 i me, mmpire' CaFmicIhiael? By Phyllis A. Fair Sports Editor The UNC-CH Athletic Director John Swofford announced this week that Carolina may play part or all of its 1 985-86 basketball season in Carmichael Auditorium instead of the new Student Activities Center, now under construction on the Tar Heel campus. The Student Activities Center, a $33.8 million building financed by private donations, is scheduled to be ready for Carolina to open its season there against UCLA on November 24. In fact, the University's contract with Howard Construction Com pany called for the facility to be ready for occupancy this summer. " However, construction work is running behind schedule. Thus, contingency plans have been made to play in Carmichael if the new building is not ready. "The firm of HakanCorley, coor dinating architect for the Student Activities Center and in that position the University's agent through the building phase of the project, has informed the University the building may not be ready by November 24," said Swofford. "It is not impossible that the facility could be ready, but it is unlikely." If the building is not available in November, Swofford said the Tar Heels would play UCLA in Carmi chael, Carolina's homecourt since 1 965. I n 20 years at Carmichael, Coach Dean Smith's teams posted an amazing record of 164-20. However, x the building seats only 10,000 and the tremendous demand for tickets led to the construction of the 21,426-seat SAC. ;;. . "If the Center is not ready for the first game, it would be our intention to move into it at whatever point in time it becomes acceptable during the course of the 1985-86 season," said Swofford. "This is going to make ticket allocations a very difficult procedure which is why we're making our plans as far ahead of time as possible. We have to be prepared for, three pos . sibilities: playing the entire season in the SAC, playing the entire season in Carmichael or beginning the season in Carmichael, but moving to the SAC upon completion. "We certainly hope the new build ing will be ready in November. It is going to be a quality facility and, we think, the best basketball arena in the country." EMU ckes will he pt&M uuuoute for wins Ypsilanti, MI (CPS) Amid cheat ing scandals and accusations that college sports are too obsessed with winning, Eastern Michigan Univer sity has adopted a reform plan that pegs coaches Salaries to their won loss record. The plan, announced last week, has aroused nationwide interest. Like most colleges, EMU always paid coaches fixed salaries, regardless of how well their teams did. Now EMU coaches will get mere money if they win more games, increase game attendance, and improve their conference standings. EMU officials say they are making sports more honest by treating sports issues "upfront." Some critics worry that the school, which currently pays its coaches anywhere from $14,000 to $41,000 per year and recently was implicated in a questionable ticket-buying scheme to keep its place in the Mid America Conference, is sowing the seeds for a more oppressive emphasis on winning. "The plan has been under devel opment for nearly two years, and arose from , our concern that we lacked a way to reward our sucessful coaches, while at the same time avoid punishing coaches who had bad years," explains EMU spokesperson Kathy Tinney. Coaches will be paid according to factors like "won-loss records, con ference standing, progress athletes make toward degrees, adherence to NCAA and conference rules and regulations, adherence to budgets, game attendance figures, and fun draising goals," (Tinney says. But EMU's new system could give coaches one more reason to win at any cost, other experts suggest. "There are pressures being brought to bare to avoid tying coaches salaries to won-loss records and to de emphasize winning," notes David Berst with the NCAA's enforcement division. N80UN& KSTDeS fCSCeNTVf-. I 5 v if jHT... I I icM&Tm sum county 1 1 , , , , n.-, , ,, r, j,L. questions-. msstSHefim t vsm eces us umr r tm ooopemim. ipcntknow &&& 1 awe FROM AfJPl CANTt&weRwmiA 1P0,HMGR, KNOW WAT iMA0ourwms$our RtoHTONKimiKER. - jj. num.. t tji wtn joYMPmonxxmzr urns v xr mm our vm 1HG TRASH AtV 60 BACKId KP IN BltSSFVL GNOMNCe. EMU's plan "runs contrrary to the trend we're beginning to see emerge from (college sports directors) to measure coaches performance in ways other than won-loss records, such as the number of athletes who actualy finish their degrees." But rather than encouraging cheat ing, EMU's Tinney contends the new system "merely acknowledges and deals up-front with the pressures and realities that all coaches face anyway." "In addition," she says, "one of the main criteria the coaches must meet is that they must adhere to all conferences and NCAA rules, sdo no matter how sucessful they are it negates everything if . they violate those regulations." Indeed, "setting down your goals and objectives ahead of time takes the guesswork and pressure off the coaches," says Leslie Ann Wiliams, a management consultant with San Francisco-based Abney and Asso ciates, which designs and administers employee incentive and salary programs. Many of the nation's top busi nesses use similar "Management by Objective" r or MBO salary programs, she says. "We even encour age families and social groups to use the same kinds of up-front, p re-set programs. It lets sverybody know what is expected of them, and gives them a chance to ask for help beforehand rather than making excuses when it's too late." "If (EMU's salary plan) works, that's great," says Tim Gleason, assistant director for the National Association of College Directors of Athletics. "But if they run into problems, then it may be a system that just won't work in college sports." "To my knowledge this is some- thing new, something the majority of the schools don't practice he . observes. "ItH be very interesting to see how it works and if other institutions follow suit." he m Kssim sack esBtr he'svov. I CPVS i km I i$ confusbp. ontsirs fWTYA not em avscL'guivy PONT G( f&CCGNIte miHSECf mt-AMt&IAOR NOT.mdLAPKRWT P5AP. 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