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Hello, sports fans. Wake up, open a
beer, it's me. I'm making a surprise
guest appearance on the sports page to
solve a little controversy that has
recently flared up.
Women can't eat at that new mon
strosity, the athletic training table.
"Outsiders" say that's discriminatory.
At least, Bob Devaney said it was "out
siders." He was quoted in a Lincoln
Journal-Star article saying that it was
only "outsiders" and not female ath
letes and coaches who complained
about the discriminatory policy of the
training table.
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Then one of our humblest (down
right humble, you might say) reporters
just happened to ask a couple of these
athletes and a coach and darned if they
didn't say, yep, we're being discrimi
nated against. They wondered why
Devaney and other training table plan
ners hadn't asked their opinion in the
first place.
So do I.
Now, being just a low-life college
student and not an athlete or anything
like that, I don't know if I have the
right, as an "outsider," you know, to
complain about sexist discrimination
m the athletic department or anywhere
else for that matter. But it seems to me
that at one time a bunch of "outsiders"
complained about what was going on in
Nazi Germany by a fellow named Hitler.
I didn't hear tell of any of Hitler's men
complaining, but the situation was
wrong anyway.
Maybe that analogy doesn't quite
apply here, and maybe we're just lucky
that no one has been killed in this
training table thing yet. Time will tell.
However, I would like to offer my
humble solution to this crisis. I hope
Devaney likes it, and if he does, I'm
sure those cheerleaders the local media
(otherwise known as the humble sports
writers) will like the solution, too. You
know, I can't think of anything that
Devaney likes that the local sports wri
ters wouldn't like. At least not from
reading the Lincoln papers.
For instance a typical article: "I had
lunch with Bob Devaney today. Wow,
can you imagine that. We had coffee.
He ordered cream. I ordered cream,
too. I usually don't like cream but now I
do. Eventually we talked about sports,
but I don't have time to write about
that now."
Yep, that's how they go in the Lin
coln papers. Randy York, where are
you?
But anyway, let's settle this training
table discrimination thing and by doing
so we can also save UNL athletics from
those godawful legislators who cut
mucho dinero from the athletic budget
(you can tell it's not an election year,
huh).
The solution: Let female athletes
work as cooks and dishwashers in the
training cafeteria. Pay them what you
would pay anyone else and let them
finance their education with that. Sure,
they wouldn't be able to practice as
much, but they're just girls anyway,
right, Devaney?
Afterall, athletics are for making
money, right? Why else even have a
college athletic program if it isn't the
biggest, bestest, gosh darn program in
the country, for male athletes, of course,
only males, mind you.
Why with the money women make
washing dishes they wouldn't need
those oT scholarships anyway and we
could give more money to football play
ers. Why, if we try real hard we might
even find a way to break a few NCAA
Double role suits Husker
freshman coach Young fine
By Jeff Apel graduate assistant, I was shocked," as his JV squads have compiled an
Senior Reporter young saidf i about fell off my focker impressive u record Qver
Nebraska freshman football coach The opportunity for Young to join the His only loss, a 23-2 1 setback to Wal
Dan Young has had to make a lot of big Nebraska staff, one that he always dorf Junior College, snapped both his
decisions in his 22 years of coaching regarded as the best in the nation, personal 32-game winning streak which
iootDan, dui none were as Dig as ine created a anema. He was forced to dated back to 1981 as well as the iunior
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decision he made three years ago.
Young, who was the football coach at
Omaha Westside High School at the
time, had just coached the Warriors to
a record 24 straight victories, including
its second consecutive Class A state
championship.
Immediately following Westside's
34-0 victory over Lincoln Northeast,
which wrapped up the Warriors 12-0
state championship season in 1982,
Young approached first-year Iowa State
football coach Jim Criner about a posi
tion on the Cyclone coaching staff.
"Jim came over and we had an inter
view so I assumed he was interested in
me," Young said. "I saw it as a good
opportunity. It was a chance to get into
major college football.
varsitv 24 came streak which went.
$dU,000 a year job at Westside, the back to 1979.
assistant coaching position at Iowa
State, or the job at Nebraska which The last two years have been
paid only for his room, board, and "rugged," Young said. He has had to
books. bear the pain of being away from his
After some admitted soul searching, wife, son and daughter who live in
Young chose to part with his family and Omaha while he resides in Lincoln in
the financial security of his teaching- either Abel Hall or his apartment
coaching position at Westside in favor which he shares with his cousin, Bryan
of the job with Nebraska which would Siebler. Siebler is a reserve safety for
pay him nothing directly. the Huskers.
"It was a big decision for me and I "I took a two year leave of absence
never have felt I made the wrong cho- from Westside just so I would have
ice," Young said. "It was probably the something to fall back on if things
biggest decision I have made in my didn't work out," Young said. "It's been
life." tough, but life isn't all a bed of roses."
Making the adjustment to the col- Now, after two years of this drasti-
lege game, however, has admittedly cally different lifestyle, the future is
Following his talk with Criner, Young been easier than was his decision to beginning to look brighter for Young.
asked Nebraska coach Tom Osborne to accept the job for the 42 year old Young
pass along a recommendation for him
to Criner.
However, Osborne ended up not only
giving Criner the recommendation, but
also gave Young the chance to join the
Nebraska coaching staff as a graduate
assistant coach with the iunior varsity.
"When Tom offered me the job as a
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There's more. Not only can those
women athletes earn money from wash
ing dishes, they can do other things
when they're not studying, being tutor
ed, working out, practicing, or sweep
ing up at the male training table study
area.
They could wash football players'
clothes, for money.
And here's the beauty of it it
won't cost the athletic department a
crying red cent. Not a penny. Make the
football players pay for their wash out
of their own pockets.
I think they can afford it. Let's see,
in a hypothetical situation let's say the
average scholarship player gets $200 a
month for rent, $200 a month for other
expenses we won't name, and oh, let's
say $15,000 a month from illegal alumni
contributions.
Add all that up and it's a heap.
Surely they could spare $10 to $20 a
week to pay female athletes to do their
laundry.
Then, after paying rent, buying clo
thes, books, and some food, the female
athletes on this campus would feel
redeemed for that previously scandal
ous discrimination policy.
That's my solution, and it's simple.
If you don't like that one, maybe you
could try my second one. That's the one
where you treat college athletics as
fun, and developmental, and as part of
UNL, rather than as a business. This
solution also involves trying to build
the biggest, bestest gosh darned pro
gram in the country, but not at the
expense of the very athletes, male and
female, who help to build that program.
And certainly not by means of sexist
discrimination.
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