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The Daily Nebraskan Friday, March 1, 1968 Page 6 "m"aTn if I Ll .IMMI. HI,IWI.l.lllillA ! 1 1 I"? Ill - "A-i'lt m " mMrM. ., . . It's finally here that 'crucial' game Coach Orval Borgialli's NU wrestlers make their final hone appearance Sat urday night at 7:30 as they take on nationally third-ranked Oklahoma at the Coliseum. Above, Jerry Munson is taken down by a Missouri wrestler in an earlier quadrangular. By George Kaufman Sports Editor It's finally happened. After writing all season dur ing this ridiculous Big Eight basketball dogfight of "cru cial" games, "must" contests and "do-or-die situations the Nebraska Cornhuskers finally face extinction Friday night when Iowa State hits town for a Coliseum clash. Before this, whenever a front-runner would drop a "crucial" game, every other contender would soon follow suit, and things would be right back where they had been: four teams deadlocked so tight at the top that there was just no room to breathe. But now, with the Huskers and Cyclones burdened with four losses after the upstart Colorado Buffs knocked off both within five days, neither can afford a fifth. So after to night, one of the teams will just have to forget about trips to Wichita or New York City. "Iowa State has been a sur prising team since the tour ney," says NU coach Joe Cip riano of the visitors. Cip should know. Nebraska was the first team the Cy clones surprised after the Christmas tournament, sad dling the hopeful Huskers with their first league loss, 85-70, MB.WWWIIWIWWIIW "Uillll i1 '"""iim iiimmiiim mum i r the N crowd by George Kaufman I i a i i A lot has been written and said recently about the sup posedly shocking accusations made by the Michigan Uni versity Daily student newspa per and subsequent investiga tion of the school's recruiting practices. For the uninformed, the pa per's sports editor wrote a copyrighted expose, in the best tradition of those 1940 movies about newspapers you see on the late show, of how the athletes were being pam pered and given special privi leges. Shock. My only explanations are that either the sports editor is a pitifully naive fellow, in which case he shouldn't be sports editor, or he wanted a headline in a real newspaper very badly. Open your eyes For the fact is that amateur sports, in the true sense of the words, does not exist among major universities to day, and very rarely in any colleges which take their teams' won-loss record seri ously. The fact that this story was immediately picked up by the wire services and the Big Ten and NCAA jumped right in with both feet sounding quite indignant at the suggestion, only illustrates the amazing degree of hypocrisy concern ing the subject of amateurism in America. The paper charges, among other things, that athletes arc given special rates by local merchants movie houses, tailors, etc. and just given special treatment by coaches and alums in general Athletes across the country get their tuition paid, get spe cial food services and, in cases like Alabama's "Bryant Hilton," live in specially-built plush residence halls. These are only the basics. "Laundry money" is thrown in and, in many instances, coaches and alums have been known to loan the athlete money, car, etc. Degree, not principle All this is quite "legal" ac cording to the NCAA and all the conference rules books. So it seems that the infringement is to the degree of pay given the athlete, not the principle of amateurism. - Personally, I can see noth ing ".wrong with giving the athlete anything he can be offered to get him to the school and to get him to per form his best. If a young man who can sing and play a guiter can work his way through college performing at a local bar, no one objects. If he is good in journalism and becomes edi tor of the school newspaper, he is given an office, funds and a newspaper with which to practice his trade and per haps impress a newspaper which will, as a consequence of his work, hire him upon graduation. No one objects. All this is probably on top of several School of Journalism scholarships, by the way. So why all the fuss when a young man makes a deal w ith a college to sell his talents of getting the team in the na tional ratings and filling a 65-000-seat stadium for sev eral Saturdays, or a coliseum more often? Amateur sports in its pure sense means that an athlete chooses the college best fit for his choice of subjects, then participates in the schools' team sports because he likes the sports. Anyone who thinks American colleges have amateur athletics step down off your carriage and speak the spades Professional sports means an athlete picks out the team with the best offer to his in terests after bargaining with them with his talent and ability to draw crowds. Any one who still thinks American colleges are engaged in ama teur sports put down your bow and arrow and speak up. The only thing wrong with professional sports m college is the ridiculous hypocrisy and defensive attitude prac ticed by the ruling bodies of college sports, especially con ference groups. The Nebras ka "scandal" of this fall provides a beautiful example of this. A recruit was being courted by NU officials. A few favors were done for him. As things turned out, he never even came to the University as a student. But because the courting coaches had done him a personal favor so he would wind up on the NU team rather than on, say, Okla homa's team, the coaches were slapped on the hand by the NCAA and one coach sus pended from recruiting for a year. The conference was trying to say to the press and the public, "See, we are clean, we don't violate the rules of amatuerism. We're just a bunch of colleges which hap pen to like sports." This, of course, is not true. Universities and colleges to day have sports on the level of professionals, and should admit it and even be proud of it. Forget Dear Old U. And fans should admit they are no longer going out to cheer for their teammates who are defending the honor ot uear uia t ool u. aeainst! another school. This is not to mean they should stop cheering. It is a great thing to get behind a team and follow them all the way, win or lose. The Husker basketball and football teams of this year provided a very exciting year for NU fans. But they were not out there giving their all for their 18, 000 classmates, most of whom they do not know on a perso nal basis or want to. With few exceptions, they are talented young athletes who chose Nebraska because we gave them the best deal on a free college education or a stepping stone to the pros or both. You might say this is not true of the uncorrupted so called "minor" sports. Bat that depends on where you are attending college. Wrestling is unfortunately an all too min or sport here, according to financial and fan support. But had you chosen to go to either of the Oklahoma universities, you would find, I believe, that basketball is minor compared to wrestling there. And it shows. Study proves it A study done a few years back by now sports editor of the Lincoln Star Hal Brown showed that a school's suc cess in any given sport is in almost direct proportion to the amount of scholarship aid ap pointed the sport. So, whatever else the MSU sports editor set out to do, he has only succeeded in bringing to light the witch hunt type atmosphere sur rounding "amatuerism" in college sports. It's quite ironic that it should come from a school which has appreciated substantial success in football on a national scale until a disappointing year this past season. at Ames. But, as K-State coach Tex Winter has observed, Nebras ka is a different team in the Coliseum than on the road. A perfect record this year in Lincoln attests to that fact. But the Huskers also showed there's a good reason for that record. Against both Kansas and Kansas State, they learned their lesson via road losses, then made the right adjustments and toppled them at home. In several ways, Iowa State present the same sort of ba sic problem Kansas and K State did: height. "They have two big guys (6-10 Don Smith and 6-7 B i 1 1 Cain) inside, and they both play post, warns Cipnano, "We'll have to set the tem po," predicts Cip. 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