Football Outlook:
continiued from pg. 9
Although this year’s recruits possess the speed to pose a serious threat on opposing
teams, Hayes said that he could not really rate them to other recruiting years. “It is dif
ficult to measure whether you have done a good job of recruiting. Only after their four
years of participation in the program can you say if you have done well.” Hayes pointed
to several factors off the grid-iron that determine what type of recruiting year you have.
“Once you sign a quality athlete, there are other things that affect them, Hayes
asserted. “Academics, student life on campus and peer pressure are factors that weigh
heavily on an athlete’s success in our program,” Hayes stated. “If the student-athlete
can blend in with his surroundings and deal with being a college student, his chances of
making a positive contribution are greatly enhanced.”
There have been speculations that coach Hayes would scrap the veer offense, which
has brought the Ram football program so much success in the past, for the power I. This
was based on the assumption that the Ram offensive attack would be built around Byers,
a punishing and durable runner who Hayes recruited as a tailback.
Hayes made it clear that he would not completely abandon the veer offense or use the I
offense exclusively. “All I said as that we recruited Edward Byers as a tailback,” Hayes
said, “from that, members of the media assumed that we would go with the I offense.” “I
can’t really say for now what we’ll use,” stated Hayes. “But I don’t think we should
throw out something that has been successful for us.”
List of 1983 WSSU Signees
Anthony McNeil - 5’10”/170 lbs. - Dunn;
James Winfield - 5’ll”/205 lbs. - Raleigh;
Charles Twitty - 6’4”/185 lbs. - Marion;
James Wheeley -6’2”/260lbs. -Reidsville;
Carlton High - 6’/175 lbs. - Raleigh; Jerry
Maynard - 6’4”/290 lbs. - Reidsville;
Robert Hargrove - 6’1”/189 lbs. - Hender
son; Edward Byers - 6’/205 lbs. - Winston-
Salem; John Templeton - 6’4”/260 lbs. -
Statesville; Rickey Davidson - 5’9”/175
lbs. - Statesville; Charles Moore - 6’/ISO
lbs. - Waynesville; Mark Wallace -
6’2”/196 lbs. - Waynesville; Barry Turner -
6’4”/247 - Statesville; Ronald Evans -
6’3”/225 lbs. - Raleigh; Anthony Kim
brough - 6’1”/180 lbs. - Detroit, Michigan;
Darryl Hall - 6’2”/185 lbs. - Trenton, N.J.
Top Ten Teams Say
New Grade Rules
Wouldn’t Hurt Them
(CPS) - The top college football and
basketball teams in the country this year
say they’d still be competing for national
championships even if the NCAA’s
(National Collegiate Athletic Association)
new, tougher academic standards for
athletes had been in force this year.
College Press Service asked athletic
directors and coaches of teams ranked in
the final Top 10 Associated Press football
poll and in the Top 10 of the AP basketball
poll the last week of January, 1983 if a
significant number of players would be in
eligible under the new rules.
Some said the new rules, which set
higher admission standards and require
that athletes do well in certain language
and science courses, wouldn’t affect their
standings at all.
Others say they would have affected
them a little. The athletic director at a
predominantly-black college says they’re
all lying.
Most major conferences are now survey
ing their member schools to see how many
current athletes would be disqualified.
Results so far are sketchy.
But the Big Eight’s completed study said
that 10 to 27 percent of its white athletes
might have been disqualified, while 60 per
cent of its black athletes might not have
the NCAA’s standards.
That’s a marked contrast to what
athletic department officials at some of
the Top Ten teams reported.
UCLA’s Hobbs, for example, noted the
new standards would have no effect on the
basketball team “because we have no
freshmen on the team, and the proposal
only deals with freshmen.”
“Everyone will be affected,” flatly
states Tom McCullough, a spokesman for
the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
Some, however, will be affected more
than others.
“The proposal would have no effect” on
UCLA’s basketball team, asserts UCLA
faculty representative Douglas Hobbs.
The Memphis State, Virginia, Missouri
and St. John’s basketball lineups would
also be unchanged, sources at those
schools contend.
Indiana does “have an athlete on the
basketball team who would not meet the
requirements as written for the SATs
(Scholastic Aptitude Test),” reports Anita
House, an academic counselor for
athletes.
“But SATs don’t measure determinatin
or self-discipline,” she adds.
Indeed, most department spokespersons
qualified their estimates of the rules’ ef
fects somehow.
Based on preliminary results of the SEC
survey, for example, McCullough thinks
“basketball will be affected more than
football.”
But football teams will be hurt,
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Fred Hobdy, assistant athletic director
at Grambling, finds it all hard to believe.
Hobdy says he recurits against the top
schools all over the country, and that if
they wouldn’t be affected by the new rules,
“then we’re getting the wrong academic
information” on potential recruits.
“In Chicago, New Orleans, Miami,
Atlanta, it’s all the same,” he says “In one
section the schools are excellent, in other
sections there are boards instead of
doors.”
The new rules “will affect Grambling,”
he readily concedes. “But I say it will also
affect Alabama, the University of Georgia,
Texas, and the Kentuckys and the LSUs.”
“The effects of the proposal will really
depend on the individual school,” NCAA
spokesman Tom Yeager observes.
“Ivy League schools and schools like
Northwestern will feel zero effects, but the
other schools with open-door policies will
be affected the most.”
“Of all the Big Eight schools,” observes
Jean Cerra, assistant athletic director at
the University of Missouri-Columbia, “I
assume the proposal will have the least ef
fect on us than on the others that have open
admissions policies.”
Thirty-seven percent of Missouri’s black
athletes would be ineligible to play inter-
collegiately under the new rules, accor
ding to the Big Eight survey.
It is on black athletes that the rules will
fall most heavily, most critics seem to
a»»ree.
The new rules require an SAT score of
700 or an ACT (American College Testing)
score of 15, but such standardized tests
have long been critized as culturally-
biased toward white, middle-class
students.
Many athletic directors seem to have
joined thecritics. “I do think the SAT re
quirement has racial bias,” Cerra says.
“The test is weighted against minorities,
especially rural minorities,” says Mem
phis State Athletic Director Charles
Cavagnaro.
Advocates of the new rules seem to feel
the losses may be worth it. “Someone has
to tell the Ralph Sampsons right now how
important it is to get a degree,” says
Virginia Athletic Director Dick Schultz.
At the NCAA January convention, which
adopted the new rules, Penn State coach
Joe Paterno asserted black athletes can
compete on the SATs as successfully as the
do on the field.
But Paterno’s remarks drew a lot of
flak, and now a Penn State athletic depart
ment spokesman says the rules are “too
controversial” to comment upon.
Grambling’s Hobdy is sure the rules will
change before they become effective in
1986 because “too many people are making
a living and feeding their families on the
black athlete for the NCAA to make the
proposal stand as it is.”
“There are three more conventions
before the proposal goes into effect,”
agrees the NCAA’s Yeager, “and a real
possibility the test will be optional.”
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