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Football
for Heels
By SCOTT FOWLER
Sports Editor
; Watching UNC football last "year
was a lot like driving an old VW '
bug. It usually didn't run well and
had a lot of trouble in the clutch.
But this year promises to be
different, says UNC coach Dick
Crum and his players, who met the
Monday after last season's Duke
fiasco, a 23-2 1 loss in which the Tar
Heels blew a 21-3 lead and then had
to listen to Duke players clang the
Victory Bell repeatedly on Kenan
Field.
At that Nov. 25 meeting, Crum
told his players there would not be
another season like the last two, in
which the team has gone a combined
10-1 1-1. It's the first time UNC failed
to have a winning season for two
straight years since 1968-9, when Bill
Dooley was coaching and a guy
named Saulis Zemaitis was one of
the captains.
Crum also announced a stricter
work schedule at the meeting,
effective immediately. "He told us we
were going to get after it right away,"
says linebacker Brett Rudolph, who
tied for the team lead in tackles last
season. That meant logging endless
hours in the weightroom, turning out
for 6 a.m. practices in the spring and
suffering through the white heat of
two-a-days in August.
Players say it has paid off. "We're
a lot better team," says reserve
quarterback Mike Bowman. "WeVe
been working awfully hard."
UNC's offensive line this season
averages about 285 pounds a man
this season, led by Creighton Incor
minias 300-lb. bulk and preseason
All-ACC Hards' Barton, a measly
283. How did they get that way?
"They've been eating like crazy,"
laughs starting quarterback Jona
than Hall.
That offensive line will be blocking
Smith not
in favor of
shortening
b-ball year
By SCOTT FOWLER
Sports Editor
Dean Smith expounded on Jerry
Falwell, shortened seasons, and
investigative reporting Tuesday in an
odd press conference held at the
Ehringhaus cafeteria.
The conference had been called
because of various requests by
writers to talk to Smith about his
feelings on the University of Mary
land basketball program and its
recently announced plan to shorten
its basketball season by at least three
games.
"1 can't speak for Maryland, nor
will I try," Smith said. "Chancellor
(John) Slaughter is an old classmate
of mine, and I think he's doing what's
best for the program."
Smith said he was opposed to
shortening UNC's season. "I person
ally find it hard to change," he said.
"We've never been away for more
than four class days anyway, not
including the NCAA tournament. It
would almost all be solved if (the
athletes) would go to class when ;
they're on campus."
Smith then went on to various
subjects. His wife Dr. Linnea Smith
has been involved in a campaign
against Playboy magazine and the
supposedly favorable stance it takes
on drug use. "Drug education has
begun in many cases in Playboy,?
Smith said. "I'd like to be known
as a liberal thinker. But I always
wanted to agree with (Jerry) Falwell
on one thing, even for different
Academic woes to sideline Madden
By JAMES SUROWIECKI
Assistant Sports Editor
When last year ended, UNC
basketball coach Dean Smith
thought he would be losing only the
.four graduating seniors. But a new
casualty, has been added to the list
of last year's lettermen who won't
be seen in the SAC during the 1986
1987 season. Sophomore Kevin
Madden will not play for UNC this
season for academic reasons.
"I'd prefer not to say it was my
decision, Smith said at a press
986: High hopes
after 5-6 seasoui
for a backfield led by William
Humes, who Crum says is as good
as Amos Lawrence or Kelvin Bryant
when he's right. Humes also needs
to hold onto the ball. Last season,
for the first time in 13 years, UNC
didn't have a back go over 1,000
yards. That was partly due to UNC's
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Dean Smith says he is not in favor
reasons," he laughed.
Sports pages have read much like
court reports in recent weeks, what
with Len Bias' death and various
other drug-related problemsSmith
said that was due as much to
investigative reporting as athletes
being more involved with drugs. "A
Bias situation could happen at
Carolina, Duke, State . . .," he said.
"If it's on campus, it's available to
the student-athlete. It doesn't have
to be a big city."
conference held Tuesday. "It was the
university's decision and I think it
was a wise one." Madden, having
passed 27 hours his freshman year,
was eligible by NCAA standards, but
not by those of the university and
was required to sit out a year. .
Madden's stay at UNC has been
an eventful one. Attention was
focused on him at the start of last
year when Smith said that one of
the incoming freshmen had SAT
scores which were far below the
team's norm. Madden also had early
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to the running basics, no star
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of reducing UNC's schedule
UNC has had a voluntary drug
testing program with its basketball
team for several years, and Smith
said everyone has volunteered to be
tested. The UNC Athletic Council
is considering a new drug testing
program now. Smith said he wasn't
opposed to mandatory drug testing.
"If you accept a scholarship,
you're going to represent the univer
sity, and some things may be
required that don't seem right," he
said.
problems fulfilling Smith's require
ment that all his players run the mile
in 5:45 before they can play in a
game.
Once the season got underway,
though, Madden showed flashes of
brilliance, and seemed to grow into
his role as an explosive small
forward. By mid-season, he was
getting substantial playing time, and
for the year averaged 4.9 points and
1 .8 rebounds a game, while shooting
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This William Humes fumble against Clemson was a microcosm of UNC's disappointing 1985 season
Late-night stakeout: behind
the scenes at the Bias coverage
The death of Len Bias has been
replayed and recounted in thou
sands of columns and news stories
in the past two months. The story
has gripped the nation and pro
pelled the national fight against
drug abuse. As an intern for The
Washington Post this summer, I
was involved in the coverage of
what has become one of the more
wide-reaching stories of the decade.
Here is a behind-the-scenes look at
how a major newspaper covers a
major story.
It was 2 a.m., June 20th, on the
Maryland campus in College Park.
Twenty, hours earlier, Bias had died
of cocaine intoxication. Ed and I
were on a stakeout of the dorm
room where Bias had collapsed in
the presence of two other Terrapin
basketball players, David Gregg
and Terry Long, and a mutual
friend, Brian Tribble. If it sounds
exciting and rather "Dragnet-ish," it
wasn't.
We had been there since 1 1 that
morning, corraling Maryland play
ers as they walked by to try and put
the pieces of Bias' death together. A
few would talk; most wouldn't. The
players' grief was genuine, as was
their suspicion of reporters in
general. Less than eight hours after
Bias' death, a local television sta
tion had reported that cocaine was
involved. What had been labeled a
pure tragedy suddenly gained a
darker, more insidious meaning.
Keith Gatlin, a guard for the
Maryland basketball team, walked
up. "Keith, can you talk to us for a
minute?" Ed asked. Gatlin slowed
down briefly, issued a few "no com
ments," and exited. We called the
editors at our newspaper and were
sent home. The last edition had just
gone to press, so there was no need
to stay.
More than a dozen reporters had
worked on the story throughout the
day and night. There were some
grisly aspects to the job. Someone
had to call Bias' parents and Mary
land's coach. Lefty Driesell. Both
have been hounded incessantly
since, with reporters camping out at
their homes, questioning them at
memorial services, etc.
The next two days Ed and I tried
to get more player reaction with
Scott Fowler
The Far Sideline
mixed results. We would pick up
bits of information occasionally
and call it in to the editors, who
would add it to one of the Bias sto
ries. Meanwhile, some of the .more
seasoned sportswriters were calling .
every source they could think of,
and every media outlet within 1 00
miles was trying to reconstruct the
fatal night.
That wasn't easy. As the story
grew, so did the number of people
who claimed to have seen Bias that
night. If you believed everything, he
had been to bars, liquor stores,
home at his dorm, shooting baskets
at an outside goal, hung around
with several girls, gotten three
speeding tickets all within about
six hours.
As gruesome as it may sound,
Bias could not have died at a more
opportune time for the media's
sake. He had been the second pick
of the NBA draft only the day
before, and reporters had been hav
ing a field day imagining Bias and
Larry Bird on the same team. Of
course, that didn't happen. Bias'
family, which had prayed for him
to be picked by the Celtics, now
faced camera crews daily in their
driveway.
And it kept building. Post repor
ter Bill Brubaker wrote that Bias
hadn't passed any of his classes dur
ing the spring semester, and sud
denly Maryland academics were
under fire, as a former athletic
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Len Bias
counselor said the basketball play
ers missed 35 to 40 percent of their
classes.
The coverage has had some
effect. Maryland Chancellor John
Slaughter recently decided to
shorten the Terrapin academic sea
son by three games and reschedule
four more in the spring semester as
a result of the continuing pressure
from alumni and the media.
Although that may be a cosmetic
move that will only postpone
Maryland's problems, it should
keep the wolves pacified
temporarily.
Meanwhile, Bias' death has
reached its two-month anniversary.
Only 10 more months until it beg
ins all over again with "Len Bias -One
Year After the Tragedy" head
lines. Ugh.
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