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Minority Hiring Ignored WASHINGTON (AP) _ Univer sity of Maryland Chancellor John B. Slaughter says the na tion's colleges and universities deserve a falling grade for lack of progress in hiring minority coaches and athletic adminis trators. Slaughter, chairman of the NCAA Presidents Commission, told the American Counsel on Education Monday that minori ty hiring gains aren't likely In athletics until schools Increase their number of minority facul ty members. ”1 generally agree that. If we offered letter grades to higher education, higher education would deserve an F In terms of what It has done to Improve the place of blacks, Mexlcan- Amerlcans and American Indi ans In places of responslblllfy,” Slaughter said. "It's not likely In my opinion that we're going to make a significant amount of progress In the area of coaching positions and administrative positions In Intercollegiate ath letics unless higher education addresses the more significant problem of the lack of presence of minorities at all levels of high education." Less than 2 percent of the facul ty members at colleges across the country are black, and less than 7 percent are In adminis trative posts. Slaughter claimed. Slaughter and NCAA Execu tive Director Dick Schultz at tended the conference to outline NCAA and President's Commis sion efforts to bring about re forms within the Intercollegiate athletic body. Slaughter added that since the NCAA cannot mandate to members what their hiring practices should be, gains In mi nority hiring may slowed. "I feel more confident that the NCAA..will take a more pos itive stance than some of the member Institutions will," Slaughter said. “I'm somewhat dismayed when I come to realize the NCAA, really. Is made up of all those member universities, and the universities have not demonstrated a great deal of suc cess In the lot of minorltle.s." Slaughter said the NCAA re form program would Include making Its members more aware of minority hiring goals, awarding grants for minorities and women to pursue graduate degrees In athletic admlnlsta- tlon, an Intern program at NCAA headquarters for minori ties, and seminars to help mi nority assistant coaches Im prove their marketabllty. Doug Williams will lead the Washington Redskins Into Super Bowl XXII on January 31, 1987. Doug will be the first Black signal caller to lead a NFL team to the Super Bowl. If you recall, Doug had a rocky start with the Tampa Bay Bu- Vccaueers, where he began his career ten years ago. Playing \ Iwith sub par talent, Doug got the lion's share of the blame Tor the Bug's failures. Several years ago he opted to play with the USFL until it folded. The Redskins purchased the rights to his contracts a year ago. Doug left the USFL after negotiating a payoff substantially less than his contract called for. Fortunes have finally turned for a great football jlayer and a very fine gentleman. The Redskins passed out Doug Williams tee shirts after their victory over the VI- dngs for the NFC championship. The tee shirts read, "Doug Williams, a touch of class". I couldn't agree more. CBS Broadcasting fired popular sportscaster and prog nosticator Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder. The Greek upset some Negroes for making some comments that were con strued as racially motivated. Though the comments were stupid, I find It hard to believe that anybody would have been offended by his statements. Unlike the comments made by Campanls last year. The Greek's comments were not an attack on the Intelligence of Black people. Instead, It appeared he was trying to compliment Blacks for possess ing more athletic prowess than other ethnic groups. E>en though he did a poor job of making his point, I find It diffi cult to believe anybody took offense to the statements. Moreover, CBS' action was a little harsh. A genius, Jimmy Is not, but neither Is he a bigot. • ••••• Super Bowl xxn Prediction Redskins 27, Broncos 23 • ••••• Bob Wade head basketball coach for the Maryland Terra pins should be well on his way to becoming the ACC coach of the year. Wade has taken a program submerged in con troversy and turned It around In one year. The Terrapins victory over an overrated Duke Blue Devil team should give them some respectability In the ACC. Carolina Is still the Class of the ACC, but N. C. State and Maryland will give tiem a run. Duke, Georgia Tech, Virginia will hold the mld- le of the league, while Clemson and Wake will bring up the rear. Chris Corchlanl, North Carolina State and Brian Wll- Tams, from Maryland look like strong contenders for 'Freshman Of The Year" honors. Eddie Robinson was one of ten distinguished americans to receive the 1988 Horatio Alger Association Awards. The awards are given to outstanding men and women who have received success desolte humble beglnnlnfis. Robinson, the atheletlc director and Head football coach at Grambllng University, was the first coach from a predominantly black college to have a player signed by the NFL. Robinson as sent more than 200 players to the professional ranks during his 40 plus years In coaching. He has a career record of 329-109-15. Other recipients of the award are Carol Bur nett. Waylon Jennings. W. Thomas Johnson. Donald Ke- ough, Frank Resnlk, David Floderlck, Robert Dole, Tram mell Crow, and Dr. WlUle Herenton. ^ College Rankings ^ 1. North Carolina Central 11. Rust 2. North Carolina A&T 12. Paine 3. Alabama A&M 13. Lincoln 4. Clark 14. Southern 5. Virginia Union 15. Texas Southern 6. Howard 16. Cheyney State 7. Norfolk State 17. Albany State 8. Virginia State 18. Hampton 9. Winston-Salem State 19. District of Columbia 10. Morgan State 20. Alabama Stale CIAA To Fight Proposal Reggie Barnes stretches to block a Jacksonville player’s shot in the 49ers 68-65 win over the Dolphins at the Charlotte Coliseum last Satur* day night. Photo by C«lvtoFcnHMon CIAA Commissioner Bob Moorman will travel to the NCAA convention In Nashville, TN, this week to propose for the CIAA the postponement of the Proposal 64 which requires that ■ Division II schools adhere to the same academic require ments as Division I schools, or as It Is widely known as Propo sition 48. The Division II pro posal Is scheduled to go Into ef fect August 1. 1988 and will be voted on next Tuesday in Nash ville. The Proposal Moorman will be submitting recommends that no minimum test scores will be re quired In August, 1988, but on a graduated scale from 1989 until 1991. An athlete with a 2.0 and a core curriculum would be eli gible next season under the pro posal. The current rule requires that athletes maintain a mini mum 2.0 (C) gpa In 11 core courses and score 700 on the SAT or 15 on the ACT. At present, the only way to get around the ruling Is to attend a junior college or not by playing for a year. According to the commission er, many of the 14-member CIAA schools are having to de cline athletes they would have accepted a year ago. "Our insti tutions simply can not afford to do that. If a guy comes to a CIAA school, he's got to play." "We're not trying to change the course requirement. We think that's great. We just want to change the requirement on the test scores. There are a lot of gu}^ who do much better than a 2.0 and can't get the test score because they don't test well. One of the things we hope this wUl do Is give the high schools and junior high schools time to get squared away so they'll have time to prepare for the propo sal," Moorman said. Rucker's 39 Is Career _ , SEE PA6E Best lie Broncos, Skins Get Second Chance In Super Bowl WASHINGTON (AP) _ If at first you don't succeed ... A year ago, the Washington Redskins dominated just atout everyone _ except the New York Giants, who beat them three times. Including 17-0 In the NFC title game. A year ago, the Denver Bron cos won the AFC title with the kind of drive that fell short for the Cleveland Browns Sunday, then got steamrollered by the Giants 39-20 in the Super Bowl. With the Giants having been done In by Injuries, the strike and the standard post-Super Bowl blah. Super Bowl XXII In San Diego In two weeks might also be called the Consolation Bowl, an opportunity to make up for past failures. Conditions had to be just right, and they were. For one thing, there was no "hot" team this season like the Giants and Bears the past two years. Minnesota, which lost to the Redskins 17-10 In the NFC title game Sunday, took care of that. They dispatched San Fran cisco a week ago after the 49ers had become everyone's favorite by finishing 13-2 and winning their last three regular-season games by a combined score of 124-7. The Broncos, who joined the 1982-83 Redskins as the only team In this decade to make it to two straight NFL champion ships, were Immediately in stalled as 3-point favorites after their 38-33 win over Cleveland. This Is the first time in at least five years that the AFC team was the opening line favor ite _ the last two years the were double-digit underdogs. Moreo ver, the NFC team romped the last three times _ by 22, 36 and 19 points. In this case, the game In volves two teams who. In a sea son Interrupted by the 24-day strike, may not be as good as they were a year ago when they could not get by the Giants. "We've been very spotty," the Redskins' Charles Mann said be fore the victory over Minnesota that sent Washington to San Diego for Its third Super Bowl appearance In six years. "Sometimes we've played well but we seem play in halfs rather than in full games." Mann played weU, emerging from Dexter Manley's shadow to have his best season. “It's seemed like we're always In a hole that we have to climb out of," said Joe Gibbs, whose 1986 team was 14-5 overall, with three of the losses to the Giants. This year's team Is now 13-4. But three of those victories were by the replacement Red skins and four others required late comebacks. Moreover, Jay Schroeder, whose 4,109 yards a year ago were the 10th most in history, completed Just 48 percent of his passes this season. He has been replaced by Doug Williams, who has been Inconsistent himself. He was just 9 of 26 for 119 yards against Minnesota, although two of the nine completions were for touchdowns. Denver, 13-5 before Its Super Bowl loss a year ago, is a largely different team with one com mon thread _ John Elway, a one-man team In at least half the Broncos' 12 victories. The Broncos are 12-4-1 going Into the Super Bowl. The retirements of defensive backs Louis Wright and Steve Foley and linebacker Tom Jack- son stripped the team of experi ence and depth. Moreover, injuries to players like running backs Steve Sewell and Gerald Willhite; center Bill Bryan and safeties Mike Harden and Dennis Smith and most re Crum Joins Kent State cently wide receiver Vance Johnson forced Elway to Impro vise each week with makeshift lineups. At times, he had to match op ponents score for score, as he did Sunday, when Bernle Kosar might have done for Cleveland what Elway did In the AFC title game last season had Earnest Byner not been stripped of the ball at the two In the final min ute. Elway and his receivers _ Mark Jackson, Ricky Nattlel, Sewell, tight ends Orson Mobley and Clarence Kay and Johnson if he's ready _ are the main rea son the Broncos are favored. The Redskins don't come close at quarterback with Williams, who would be the first black quarter back to start a Super Bowl. Super Bowl experience Is im- likely to be a factor because both teams have been there. Nor does either team have a coaching edge. Several Vikings said they were not ready for the Washing ton defenses Sunday, but Denver coach Dan Reeves and defensive coordinator Joe Collier match up with Gibbs better than Jeny Bums and his Minnesota staff. “I just hope we play better In the Super Bowl than we did last year," Reeves said. Ohio (AP) _ Two months after he resigned under pressure from his coaching job at North Carolina, Dick Crum has been hired as head football coach at Kent State, school offi cials announced Tuesday. Kent State President Michael Schwartz said the school had three reasons for wanting to hire Crum, who had been criticized by Tar Heel fans In recent years for his conservative brand of football and his team's failure to beat highly ranked opponents. Crum had a 72-41-3 record at North Carolina. “First, he's a proven winner," Schwartz told a news confer ence. “Secondly, he's been asso ciated with fine programs noted for their Integrity, and third, he has very serious academic con cerns with regard to student- athletes. He wants them to grad uate. In fact, his athletes do graduate." The northeast Ohio school de clined to release the terms and length of Crum's contract In a news release Issued Tuesday, but The (Akron) Beacon Journal re ported In Tuesday's editions that Crum had agreed to a three-year contract with a salary of $60,000 a year. Crum had a $90,000 an nual salary In North Carolina, the newspaper reported. Athletic Director Paul Amo- dio said $60,000 “Is In the ball- game" and that Cmm would be paid at least that much. A native of the Youngstown suburb of Boardman, Crum, 53, graduated from Mount Union College In Alliance. Crum said he was looking forward to re turning to his home state. “Football Is very Important In Ohio, and It produces year-in and year-out many good players," Crum said. “I think the respect that Is In the state for the quality of high school foot ball is In evidence by the number of colleges that are In there re cruiting." Crum said recruiting and orga nizing a staff are his first priori ties In his new job. He said he has no plans to hire any of his staff members from North Caro lina. Before he went to North Caro lina, Crum coached Kent State rival Miami of Ohio to a 34-10-1 record between 1974 and 1977. In 1974, Miami was ranked 10th nationally, the highest finish ever by a Mid-American Confer ence team. "I like the Mid-American Conference. It Is as competitive a league as there Is In the countty _ maybe not the most- publicized, but when It comes to competition, everyone In the league Is so close," Crum said. “There are no teams that are head-and-shoulders above any one else, and I think that makes for a good conference." in November, Crum accepted an $800,000 buyout of the re maining four years of his con tract at North Carolina. At Kent State he replaces Glen Mason, who accepted the head coaching job at the University of Kansas on Dec. 29. With only three weeks re maining before high school ath letes start commltlng them selves to colleges, Crum said he has plenty of work to do. MxXo by Fimok J. WilliBim An offensive lineman on the football field and a power forward on the basketball court, West Charlotte's Antionne Rivens (#44) muscles in side for a score as Harding's Terrance Rough watches in the Lions win over the Rams recently.
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