European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 21,1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary act of some a ass of to Ege Side by Side the brochures were stacked in press roams at All eight sub regional Sites in inc National collegiate athletic association basketball tournament. Quickly and efficiently the sports information director for each tournament team had produced a Post season Medici guide to update the regular sea son guide. Pages and pages of stats. Pages and pages of puffy profiles. Tic is one of the most versatile players we have. Because of his quickness and great touch from the perimeter one coach was quoted As saying in a typical player profile. He has worked extremely  nowhere was there a q Lotc from any of that player s professors As to How hard this so called student nah late has worked As a student. Nothing about that player s Louch in balancing studies and athletics in progressing toward a meaningful degree. Nothing about his quickness in completing assign mints. Nothing about his versatility in coordinating his classroom attendance with his basketball travels. But in l it Lime thai colleges if they Are really. Trying to clean out the cesspool in which so Many of them exist provided some evidence thai a student athlete is really a student athlete in t it Lime that colleges with a basketball team in the Mcaa tournament or a football team in a bowl game issued a Media guide that included some Aca Dumic information beyond that of a player s major in t it Lime that colleges Lei the Public know what courses their so called student athletes Are taking or would that information be More of an Embarrass ment to the College than to the athletes would t it be reassuring to know that some so called student athletes did t Cut any classes in the previous semester or that their Only cuts were excused because they were caused by the basketball team s travels. / according to the family educational rights and privacy act a College student s Marks arc considered confidential information not to be announced pub Dave Anderson Lily fair enough. Such disclosure is potentially embarrassing. But colleges have no qualms about disclosing a student s basketball Marks so to speak Embarrass ing or not. Those Marks Are in All the tournament Media guides for All to Sec. All 27 columns of Statis tics including turnovers. Those Marks enhance an All american s credentials for the National basketball association but those Marks also Embarrass the Bench warmer who averaged 1.2 Points a game and missed All 8 of his 3 Point attempts. During the current Chicago trial of the sports agents Norby wallers and Lloyd Bloom on charge of mail fraud racketeering and extortion Ronnie Harmon now a running Back with inc Buffalo Bills testified to having taken a summer course in wat Creolor painting at the University of Iowa while on academic probation before his final season. Despite a d in Waler color painting he scored 10 touchdowns As a co Captain of the Hawkeye team that went to the Rose bowl. Watercolour painting in t that what Little kids do in kindergarten or in preschool once upon a time Basket weaving was considered the ultimate snap course for a College Jock but any body who took Basket weaving in the Good old Days had to be offended not Only by Harmon s testimony but also by How it s just not As Tough for a Jock to get through College As it was in the Good old Days when Basket weavers were Basket weavers. Not that Harmon s academic schedule was con fined to Watercolour painting. As an Iowa freshman he produced a 1.62 average on a 4.0 scale an Over alld in such physical education courses As billiards Bowling soccer and coaching football. On the stand Harmon insisted that his curriculum was not a  the tragedy is he was serious. But an even greater tragedy is that too Many colleges create too Many schemes that enable too Many so called student athletes to perpetrate the same fraud. Too Many so called student athletes who never Grad uate from College. With thai in mind. Bill Bradley the senator from new Jersey who was a Rhodes scholar and an All America basketball player at Princeton before join ing the kicks has introduced Federal legislation that would Force colleges and universities to disclose their graduation rate of student athletes so that in coming student athletes would have what Bradley described As an informed  for now colleges May or May not disclose that graduation rate. But those that jul Fly id i a real Stu Dent All that student needs to know the fun of rooting or a College Ficarri is knowing that its athletes Are serious students who take serious courses who go to serious classes and Complete serious assignments in earning a serious degree. Not Long ago Duke suspended its 6-foot-10 Center. Alaa Abdelnaby for academic reasons. Not because he had t met the Atlantic coast conference s stand Ards but because he had t met Duke s standards. Afler missing two games Abdolnaby was re instated in time for the acc tournament. Hut at least Duke had not been willingly win Kat. Much less close its eyes to an academic problem. Bill Bradley is  legislation the Stu Donl Al lies right to know act. Bui should t a College rooter have a right to know what courses a student athlete is taking in order to know if that athlete is Worth rooting Lor is thai athlete taking medieval history or Walc Cpl or painting Shakespeare or Basket weaving sociology or negotiating with an agent chemistry or shopping for a trans am that a Booster Hus arranged let the colleges put that academic information in their Media guides instead of All Liose puffy profiles. Tigers stand in poised for a Hollywood finish by Doug Tucker Kansas City to. A when Hollywood makes the movie tigers and surely  the part of Rich duly ought to go to Peter Falk Gene Hackman can reprise his role As the Lough head basketball coach he made famous in hoosiers and play Norm Stewart. Bui in the Story of Missouri s Topsy Turvy 1988-89 season Center stage belongs to a Short and somewhat dishes eled character named Rich Daly. For a theme song Sammy Davis or. Can sing. I gotta be  that s what Daly has been telling everybody including him self in rare quiet moment since feb. 9 when he was playing cards one minute and the nest facing the Challenge of a lifetime in a world turned upside Down there Haven to been very Many quiet  Daly interim head coach of the Missouri team seeded third in the Mcaa tournament Midwest regional and heading into the regional semifinal. "1 Haven t had much time to think about anything bul Lac Job at hand. It has been Heel if  Daly and Stewart were playing cards on an air plane in route to Oklahoma when Stewart passed out and went into convulsions. The Day before senior assistant coach Bob Sundvold was sus Pended pending an investigation into allegations of Mcaa violations Ai Stewart s recruiting specialist Daly had t run a team or a practice in More than o dozen years. Now he was in charge of the squad Many believe is the most talented in Stewart s 22 years. I m doing. Inc Best i can. That s All anybody can do Daly said. Stewart s collapse was caused by bleeding ulcers doctors said. Bui an operation a few Days later also disclosed a tumor on the Colon and a diseased Gall bladder. Given a 90 percent Chance for full re covery Stewart is nevertheless out for the rest of this season and can Only watch on television As Daly plays out whatever hand Fate has in mind for his team. After a Rocky Start Daly s collection of talented but Moody athletes seems fully recovered from the shocking events of february. Missouri lost at Oklahoma that first night then went 4-4 the rest of the season winning at Home and losing on the Road the tigers lore through the big eight tournament by winning three games by an average of 15 Points and showed the same Flash and dominance that made them inc first team in the nation this year to reach 20 victories. The Only coach any of us had Ever known was coach Stewart said All big eight guard Byron Irvin Missouri s Lead ing scorer. At first it was kind of strange to look Over to the Bench and see coach Daly standing there instead of coach Stewart the Only game i Felt like we might have somewhat of a letdown was against Iowa state up there Daly said i Felt like we could have played with a Little More  one might assume that the biggest adjustments for the new Boss and is team would be in games when split second decisions must in made while Matching was with coaches like Oklahoma s Billy Tubbs and Kansas state s Lon Kruger. But the real test came in practice. I be coached teams in games before when 1 was at Moberly to Junior col lege Daly said. But i knew we were getting straightened out when they really started giving it everything As a team in Missouri aide Rich Daly doing the Best lean practice and started getting. Something from the practices. This Lime of year that s a Lough situation because they be gone so,.long with somebody else in practice. To make practice interesting is not easy. I can t run a practice exactly like coach Stew Art. Pm not the same person. Now a different person was in charge. And they started responding. 1 knew they,would." nobody knows if the ending to tigers will be Happy or sad. Bui what if they stay hot catch a break Here and there and show up in Seattle on april i in the final four would t the College basketball world Cal a path to Daly door then How Many head coaching jobs might then be offered to a Guy i m not thinking beyond this year. I m not even thinking beyond this week Daly  aide to run by hoops Provo Utah a1 Roger Reid for it years an assistant coach at Brig Ham Young University monday was named to replace retiring head coach la Dell Andersen. By president Jeffrey Holland s announcement came just three Das 5 after Andersen 60, stepped Down following a a dismal 14-1 5 season in which the Cou Gars failed to survive the Western athletic conference playoffs. During the i9s7-8b season the Cou Gars were 26-6 and ranked. No2 in the associated press poll at Misc Asp Roger s longevity and Cuner Ienco As a Cougar assistant coach a. Plus his Excel Lent record As an athlete and coach be fore coming to Brigham voting univer sity make him a popular and Well prepared candidate for this  said in a prepared Slater Nunt. We congratulate Roger and look for Ward to continuation of the i6ng stand ing tradition of exciting basketball at by he added. Under Antenen. Reid 41, had been responsible for by s defense and also had coordinated the cougars recruiting efforts since he joined the staff in 1978, Reid began Liis coaching career in 1971 As a basketball and baseball coach at Payson High school in 1974. He joined the coaching staff at cd Carfield High school where he look the Baskel Ball lean to the state tournament for the first time in five ears Anderson s resignation last week came As a Surprise. Both the coach and the school dented it had been pressured with Andersen saying it was a decision that was made after discussions with his fam ily. In his six years at the mormon Church owned University Anderson Wasl 14-71. ,