European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 12, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 paper says collegians risk illegal agents Dallas a despite the risk of losing their eligibility Well Over half of All the nation s top collegiate athletes while they re still playing Are being taken care of by agents a 1984 All America defensive lineman with the University of Texas says. That s Why you Sec so Many seniors smiling Tony Mcgrate the 1984 Winner of the Lombard award told the Dallas morning news. A lot of kids Are less fortunate so when they Reott ered All this illegal stuff it s their Golden Opportunity. Of course they re going to jump on Mcgrate added i d say right now from 70 to 80 per cent of the players Are being taken care the news in a sunday Story quoted agent Leigh Steinberg As estimating that 40 per cent of seniors who will be taken in the first rounds of the National football league and National basketball association drafts next year have already been signed by agents and Are receiving Money. National collegiate athletic association rules pro Hibit an agent to sign a College player before the player s eligibility expires. The Mcaa estimates the number of persons who represent College Ash ictus to be close to 2,000. Nearly1,000 arc approved by the nil players association to negotiate contracts. But a Flea officials said Only 100 of those represent 75 pc. Cut of the league s players. Officials said that most commonly agents break Mcaa rules by signing and paying players before their eligibility expires. Agent Mike trope said he Breaks that regulation. I recruit Early. Everybody recruits Early. If you want to succeed in this business you have to the news quoted trope As saying. The Mcaa says it s an Issue of morality. My concept of morality is not to Hurt anybody and not to break the Laws and statutes of the United states. The Mcaa has no right to Tell me How 1 should run my business trope said. Aba and nil officials estimated that 75 to 100 agents give the business a bad name the newspaper said. It s like prostitution or the numbers said Gil Brandt cowboys vice president. If there s Money to be made a lot of people arc going to try to get involved. A lot of people say a 20-year-old kid should know better but when he does t have a lot of Money like a lot of these kids he can be highly the University of Oklahoma in the past two months has investigated reports that several prominent current and former football and basketball players received Money and other illegal benefits from agents while com Peting for the sooner. Ron Watson executive assistant athletic director at Tulane and a former Mcaa investigator said the prob Lem is a lot More serious than the general Public is aware of. It s of major another no. 1-ranked team bites dust with Florida gone Penn state waiting by Ben Walker new York a the problem of probation and College football titles appear to be moot at least for this sea son. Our Hopes Tor a National championship Are definitely Over quarterback Kerwin Bell said after his no. I Florida team lotto Georgia on saturday. Now we just have to try for it next position of no. 1 in College football has always been a precarious one and it has been particularly troublesome this year. This week will bring a new top ranked team almost certainly Penn state. The Villany Lions would be the fifth Tea to hold that spot this year and they would have to defend that ranking saturday at Home against surging notre Dame. Parity along with probation has Bee none of the buzzwords in College football during the last few years. Three of the Las four National champions Clemson Miami Fla and Brigham Young were ranked at the beginning of the season. That balance has produced a succession of no. I teams in recent years. In 1981, a total of seven teams held that ranking believed to be the most Ever in one season. That trend has continued in 1985. Oklahoma began the season As no. I but fell out of that preseason ranking without playing a game when aubur week. Up photo Florida s Kerwin bed. Hopes for no. 1 arc Over Ohio state giving Florida its Chance Arno. 1, the first time in its 50-year history. We re very Happy the voters looked at who we be played and what we be accomplished Florida coach Galen Hall said when the gators were voted no. ranking however created a predicament that caused jurors in 1957 and 1974. Should a team placed on probation by the Mcaa be allowed a Chance to win the National championship Florida was stripped of its first Ever Southeastern conference title last year because of Mcaa sanctions imposed after a two year investigation revealed recruiting violations. Those Mcaa penal ties carried into this season and the gators began the year minus some scholarships and knowing that they would not be allowed to appear on live television could not win the Sec Crown and could not go to a bowl game. But they would be Able to win the nation Al championship. The weekly poll a Tabula Tion of votes by writers and broadcasters from across the country rates All College football teams. That situation has created an uproar some say a contradiction. In 1957, Auburn won the National championship while on probation. In 1974, Oklahoma was on probation and won the National title by going 11-0 As the nation s Only unbeaten and untied team. Ironically Florida coach Hall was an assistant at Oklahoma in 1974. I think the goal to be the Best team in the conference is what motivated us Oklahoma Hall recalled. And that is what this team Florida wants to of course you d rather not have talk of probation thrown in your face every time you turn around he said. But our players have accepted Florida began the current season with Atie against unheralded Rutgers. But then the gators playing what the Mcaa rated As the toughest schedule in the country won seven straight games. And All last week the debate again raged. Should Florida be considered the National Champion if it went on to win its final three games Georgia took care of the problem on saturday. The i7th-Rankcd bulldogs romped to a 24-3 Victory Over Florida thai knocked the gators out of no. I and Oul of the National championship picture. We were thinking about being no. I at the end of the Florida linebacker Alunro Johnson said. It s a Bud feeling being no. 1 for just a now it appears it will be t Enn suite s turn to be no. I. The nil any Lions arc 9 0. With games left versus notre Dame on saturday and struggling Pittsburgh Penn state went into 1985 with a mis Sion having missed Oul on playing in a bowl game last season for the first time in 13 years. The nil any Lions have looked wobbly at times having won Only twice by More than a touchdown. Bul have Kepi winning without a loss. This week notre Dame will have the Chance to play spoiler. The fighting Irish have a four game winning Streak after re bounding from a 1-3 Start. Penn state should be standing in notre Dame s Way the newest team to be ranked no. I. Not that Kittany Lions coach Joe Paterno especially likes thai ranking or cares Aboul it. As i be always said nobody s anything until the season s Over Paterno s cd ally How i feel about took Over the too soot in the third week. The l a " Lou Mai u. Me v.uu.,7, i be always Miu ii Wuy � 2hhff a
