European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 29, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 33 4-- a univ split by fallout from Massimino mess by Alan Goldstein the Baltimore Sun Las vegas two years ago when former Villanova basketball coach Rollie Massimino came to Nevada Las vegas to replace Jerry Tarkanian then univ pres ident Robert Maxson said we had to hire someone who the Day he walked onto Cam pus we would be perceived As a better University and Massimino was a perfect fit to which a teary eyed Massimino re plied i never had As Nice a compliment in 20 years at  wednesday the Nevada ethics commis Sion was to look into what has become known in this town As the Massimino  v 7 y  Vyma son who left earlier this year to become president of Cal state Long Beach allegedly negotiated an under the table contract with Massimino that guaranteed the coach an extra $375,000 in addition to his $511,000 annual salary. The ethics commission will be investigating allegations that the contract signed in april 1992, May have violated a state Law prohibiting Public employees from accepting supplementary income from private sources. Reports of Dummy corporations set up to funnel Money to Massimino were published by the Las vegas Sun last summer. The state attorney s office and the Nevada Board of regents Are conducting their own inquiries into the Massimino contract. The controversy has split the gambling capital into two factions those Loyal to Tarkanian and those who support Massimino. Last month univ interim president Kenny Guinn said that because the con tract giving Massimino an extra $375,000 a year above his base salary never was approved by the 11-Merhber Board of re gents the University is not obligated to path coach. The fallout has started. Univ vice pres ident John Irsfeld who served As Maspn Schief Deputy and allegedly helped arrange the confidential Deal was demoted to the English department last week. Massimino did not respond to requests to be interviewed for this article. Maxson Saban named Alfred coach Alfred . A Lou Saban who has coached football from the pros thigh school at age 71 is Back in coaching. Saban on tuesday was named coach at Alfred state College a two year school which will Field its first team next fall. I will give my Best Effort in kicking of the program to a successful venture Saban said in a statement. Saban was fired in june from his last Job As coach of the Milwaukee Mustangs in the Arena football league after the team started 0-4 in its first season. Saban did two coaching stints with the Bills leading them to the Al championship in 1964 and 1965. He quit in a contract dispute with Bills owner Ralph Wilson but returned to coach Buffalo again from 1972-1976, overseeing . Simpson s 2,003-Yard Rushing season in 1973. Saban also coached the Boston Patri ots and Denver Broncos and has since worked a lengthy string of collegiate and High school jobs. As athletic director at Miami in the late 1970s, Saban recruited Bills quarterback Jim Kelly. It s not often you get a Chance to work Ith or play for a legend said Alfred state athletic director Stephen Babcock. Coach Rollie Massimino. Caught in univ fallout could not be reached for comment but last month Maxson was quoted As saying there was never a record of the presi Dent not being brutally honest with the Board in his 10-year tenure. In fact this honesty several years ago regarding severe problems in men s basketball negatively affected his relation ship with certain regents Many univ boosters certainly had their differences with Maxson who forced Tarkanian to resign in 1992. Tar kanian coached 19 years at univ and his teams reached four final fours and won the National championship in 1990, he has the highest winning percentage in division i history 625-122, .837but also ranks among the leaders in Mcaa investigations. In november 1993, a six year Mcaa investigation ended with univ s admitting 26 violations that occurred during Tarkanian s tenure. In Massimino s first season the Runnin rebels went 21-8, but last season they were 15-13, losing to Utah state san Jose state and intrastate rival Nevada. Attendance at the 18,216-seat Thomas & Mack Center dropped to 8,915 a game. The basketball program which once provided 80 percent of the school s $9 million athletic budget was no longer a Cash cow. Many boosters began boycotting  used to have to Cut season ticket requests off at 17,000 to allow some game Day sales said restaurateur fre Glussman. For this coming season they be sold Only 2,700 so called scholarship seats to regular donors. Nobody in town likes this Massimino not even the italians Glussman added when Tark was coaching he d make appearances at every civic club even Gar Den clubs. Massimino won t go anywhere. He even stiffed the rotarians. The Man s a loser. We got rid of Maxson when Rollie goes too the fans will come  Glussman is not exactly a Neutral observer. A close Friend of Tarkanian s for 20 years he has a Tark room filled with univ Memorabilia in a Corner of Pieros his restaurant. But Glussman has plenty of allies. One is neurosurgeon Lonnie Hammar Grinj a member of the Board of regents who is running for lieutenant governor. Maxson and Massimino perpetuated a fraud on univ said Hammargren. They had not one but two contracts approved without the Board of regents Blessing. Then they set up this Dummy corporation the varsity club to illegally funnel Money to Massimino who personally requested All this  attorney Shelley Berkley a former state Assembly member and now a Regent also wants to void Massimino s contract. At the time we were told by Maxson the contract had not been completed but that basically it was a five year Deal Worth $511,000 a year Berkley said. Then we find out it was for eight years plus All this supplementary pay that made the Deal Worth $7.8 million. These were the people brought in to clean up athletics said Berkley a univ alumnus. But they be caused us More embarrassment than anything that happened under  Nebraska forced info plan by Lincoln neb. A now that Star quarterback Tommie Fra Zier is out indefinitely with a blood clot in his leg Nebraska coach Tom Osborne is forced to go to plan by. As in Brook  second ranked Cor huskers Learned that Frazier would be out for an undetermined time after a clot was found in tests of his sore calf  said tuesday that the Junior from Bradenton fla., would Likely be hospitalized at least a few More Days to continue treatment with blood thinners an enzymes dissolve clot. Tothe  would mean Berringer a Junior will be called to Start saturday when Wyoming comes to Lincoln. Osborne and Derringer s teammate said they had full Confidence in the Goodland Kan native. I be really Felt everybody was behind me yesterday at practice when we found out Berringer said. But i hate to have taken the Job this  doctor told Osborne tuesday that the treatment had dissolved 40 to 50 percent of the clot. I Don t think it s a done Deal that hell miss the rest of the season necessarily Osborne said. Neither Frazier nor Osborne could recall when the Young quarterback might have taken a hit that could have caused the clot. 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