European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday september 25,1966 athletes lose out under Mcaa ruling by Hal Bockar sports writer Alan Iii Sho major Colt cafe football and basketball recruits Are ineligible this year under new stricter Mcaa academic standards an associated press Survey shows. The Survey found thai 358 football recruits and 134 basketball prospects will be Unak o play their freshmen year twelve schools did not respond. Amon i other findings attn Ort half of he 186 Mcaa Divi Sion 1-a schools lost recruit for Basket Ball football or bolls. Hit hardest were Small predominantly Black schools such As bal Hunt Cookman and Alabama stale who lost almost their entire football recruiting classes. Oklahoma College football s de fending National Champion Tost the most recruits a Motif major schools with 11 ineligible freshmen. The Ivy league Brown Penn Cornell Columbia Princeton Vale Dartmouth and Harvard had the Beni recruiting record la lost no one. About 20 percent of the ineligible players come from four major conferences he Southeastern 35. Southwest 30big eight 24 and the big ten 22. "1 Don l think the number is alarming when you spread it across 286 schools said Jack Davis Mcaa president and faculty representative for Oregon slate. I thought More athletes would be in Eli  a school recruits Between 30 and 3sathletes in football and basketball he said. Multiply hat by the 286 division schools and that s 8,500 kids less really because not All schools ate in both sports. To find 400 or so ineligible dial s 5 per cent. On average that s very  proposition 48, adopted in 1983 and implemented aug. I requires a mini mum Grade Point average and standardized lest scores covering a Basic Core curriculum of 11 High school courses. A sliding scale is in effect now but by 1988 on a a 2.0 spa and a 700 on the Scho Lastic aptitude test 15 on the american College test will be acceptable mini mums for freshmen eligibility. Schools that failed to respond to the Survey included Memphis stale Basket bal Coppin stale Lamar University of Pennsylvania Mississippi Valley Prairie View. Boston University Cal Santa bar Bara and Tennessee slate. The University of Virginia and Washington stale declined to answer questions about freshmen eligibility grumbling referred phone Calls to football coach Eddie Robinson who was unavailable for comment. Black athletes appeared to be bearing the Brunt of the new rules Impact. Behunc Cookman a Small Blac school that plays in the mid Eastern ath Letic conference recruited 12 freshman football players and lost All of  slate in the same conference Losi 13 players. Alabama stale of the southwestern athletic conference lost 19 of 25 football recruits. A recent Dallas times Herald examination of 105 football programs in Divi Sion 1-a reported thai of 206 freshmen who tailed to meet the new standards 175 were Black. The numbers did t Surprise Gayle Hopkins a Black who is assistant athletic director at the University of Arizona which Low two football recruits. "1 expected the casualty Rale to be High he said. Young Popic recruited to be Impact players in Revenue spoils generally come from poor educational backgrounds. They Are Urban areas and there is the minority Factor. It s nothing invented it s not  but Hopkins a member of the . Trade team at the 1964 olympics Sard it s not proposition 4b that he opposes. "1 oppose using lest scores to adversely affect a class of people from going 10 College and getting a degree. The tests arc biased. When has any inner City Distad Vanla cd Community Ever tested Well i am an example of that. Don l test from a background of knowledge. Test what these kids have lived Small cd and tasted for iwo or three generations Nick Anderson an Illinois basketball recruit is one of the hundreds of teen agers who will sit out his freshman  on Public broadcasting Mancil Lochrer news hour Anderson recalled encountering sat questions on science and chemistry. Some things i did t have in High school he said. Some things 1 had never  some educator however think the 2.0 spa and 700 test score standards Are still too lax. Arliss Reader executive director of the higher education commission in Tennessee is Oneo Flem. "1 like the Ingi Lalion he said but i think in the future the Mcaa ought to look at increasing the standards. They Are awfully Low right  Roaden said he was t surprised at the number of this season s ineligible fresh men i am disappointed  he said. After it was passed with the Lime Frame for implementation nobody really believed it would happen. There seemed to be an undercurrent of feeling that they d Back off. When icy did to athletes were caught unprepared when they should t have been. They were  Roaden said he thinks the numbers eventually will improve. As the number of ineligible recruits drops in will make the legislation More  seven of the Sec football casualties the highest individual school number in the conference came from Auburn. Wilford Bailey Secretary treasurer of the Mcaa and Auburn s faculty athletic representative cited test score data thai shows average scores vary by geographic regions and he lowest average come from the Southeast and Southwest  the highest Are the East and West he said. That s expected in View of the Quality of higher education available in those  in North Carolina ignored the Mcaa s sliding stale opting instead to require i he 2.0 spa and 700 sat test score now instead of 1988. North Carolina slate Wake Forest and North Carolina each Tost one foot Ball recruit to the new rules they lost no basketball recruits. Duke lost no one. Like Bailey Al Auburn Owen Norrell faculty athletic representative at Michi Gan state is deeply involved in Mcaa research on academics. She finds the proposition 48 casualties alarming "1 Don t like in at All she said. I worry constantly on this Campus. I talk to these kids. In frightens me that we Are no doing a better Job with these kids. I believe we can. I Don t know Why we Don to if it s the teachers or what. I think some coaches thought the Mcaa was not serious. It starts in High school. They can learn to Lake tests. But coaches or Counselor Don l bother to Tell them to get their acts  Bailey said most division i school officials believe Fie number of ineligible freshmen will drop off. More and More coaches and counsel ors arc encouraging students to take the tests earlier he said. Thai s especially True of those such As Blacks who traditionally do not test  athletes sidelined by the new Stan Dards May enrol but May not practice with their teams. Norrell worries about that restriction. They will find ways around that she said. There will be pickup games in schoolyards. They need thai. It is a motivational thing. A football Blocker needs to hit to rid himself of frustration. I d rather have them practising in the team environment so would Hopkins at Arizona who wonders about removing an athlete from the one area in which he has excelled. It devastates them he said. You can see it in their eyes. It kills me to take away from them what is so important to them. Basketball especially is a cultural thing an inner City game a minority sport. Taking the Ball away now nailing them at 18, that s just  no. 1 is. No. 2 in Miami saturday Switzer worried about hurricanes by John Thompso Norman okla. Up Miami was the Only team to beat National Cham Pion Oklahoma last year. Sooner coach Barry Switzer says this year s hurricanes could be Oklahoma s biggest Challenge in recent seasons."1 can say that Miami presents la us the most talented football team that behave played in Overall ability. Proba Bly since he Era of Turner Gill Mike Rozier and Irving Fryar up Al Nebraska in the Early 80s, Switzer said at his weekly Media luncheon tuesday. Miami claimed a 27-14 Victory i Norman a year ago with Vinny Testa verde passing for 270 Yards tossing two touchdown passes Ana running for an  will be the quarterback saturday when the no. 1 sooner meet the no. 2 hurricanes in the Orange bowl but Switzer says Testaverdi snot the Only reason Why they Are a very Good football team. I think if they just had him you d have a Chance defensively in controlling the Ball  they be got two what we consider first round draft choices in the Backfield fullback Janzo Highsmith and Tail Back Mclvin brat on two of the big Gest and strongest backs in College fool Ball."1 would say Highsmith without a Switzer Campbell with Bis great strength and explosive ability to break tackles and run through people and step on people and trounce people. With that Type of running ability and Talent it presents a problem Swite said. Appal Toxbury swtatr., Ball control will be crucial for us to be Able to have an Opportunity to defense the passer we have to be Able to control the first and second Down. We be got to get Ihird-and-7s and Lhird-and-8s," he said. I Don t knowhow Many times Miami Ever gets in those situations. They Haven t in any of the games i be looked at. Swizer said bait control and the kick ing game will be crucial in saturday game. The key for us to  the Ball game obviously is for us to oui Lrol the Foobar offensively he said. We be got to score Points and play great in the kicking game. We lost the kicking game last  will be critical to our Success. Two things great kicking Gam and our ability to maybe control toe football game and control the Ball an that gives us our Only Chance Prol ably Switzer said Wilkins signs 5-year, $6.3 million contract Atlanta a Atlanta s Domin ique Wilkins the Aba s top scorer last season tuesday signed a new ,$6.3 million contract with the Hawks. We re Happy to announce that do min que has signed a contract that secures the Hawks future for the next five years Stan Kaston team president and general manager told a news  will provide Dominique with lifetime  the 26-year-old Wilkins who negotiated the contract without the Aid of his agent came to the news conference with his Mother Gertrude Baker. He said signing without an agent was not  it s not unusual Wilkins said Guys Are getting much smarter after they be been around a few  he said he had had discussions with his agent Patrick heavy but wanted to get it Over  the 6-foot-8 Wilkins was drafted out of the University of Georgia by the Utah jazz in 1982, then traded to Atlanta Tor John Drew Freeman Williams and Cash. Known for his drives to the Basket an remarkable leaping ability he has aver aged 24.1 Points in four years including30.3 last season when he Wra named to the Eastern conference All Star Leflem