J.P. Caruso/Daily Nebraskan
Walsh
NCAA rulings never please everyone,
former NU academic counselor says
By Kip Fry
Senior Editor
The National Collegiate Athletic
Association is a “pure democracy,”
said Ursula Walsn, director of re
search and sports science for the or
ganization, which governs all college
athletics.
Some people will always be dissat
isfied with NCAA legislation even
though the NCAA is run like a New
England town meeting, said Walsh, a
former academic counselor for the
Nebraska athletic department. Walsh
spoke Friday at Nebraska Wesleyan
University.
Walsh said the NCAA doesn’t
make its legislative decisions from its
central office in Mission, Kan. She
said the decisions arc made after rep
resentatives vote on issues concerning
schools in their divisions.
Walsh said it’s the NCAA’s job to
enforce its rulings, whethc* it’s sus
pending former Indiana and current
Dallas Maverick guard Steve Alford
for appearing x>n a charity sorority
calendar, or not allowing a college
basketball coach to watch his son play
in a high school loumamcntbccausc it
violates NCAA recruiting regula
tions.
Incidents such as these, Walsh
said, have led to the joke that the two
biggest lies arc “the check is in the
mail” and “I’m a representative from
the NCAA and I’m here to help you.”
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Injured wrestler sets clear goals
DROEGE MUELLER from Page 8
“You’ve got to expect to get banged up
here,” he said. “Everybody’s working pretty
hard.”
Drocgcmucllcr said the eight losses he sus
tained before suffering a 10-5 setback to Ari
zona State’s Glenn McMinnis Saturday at the
Cowboy Duals in Stillwater, Okla., weren’t
because of his back injury.
“I beat myself in a lot of those matches,”
Drocgcmucller said. “Those losses were all
within one or two points, so it was a matter of
me and not my back.
“I was a little tentative at the start of the
season,” he said, “like when someone would
throw their legs into my back or something. But
I’m used to it hurting now.”
Drocgemucller, a sophomore, has set some
clear-cut, long-range goals for the remainderof
his college career.
“I want to be a national champion at my
weight class,” he said. “I’ve got two more years
to accomplish that. It’s been way too much
work, here and in high school, not to go for No.
1.
“It’s just like anything else. If you don’t go
for the top, why bother to do it at all?”
Two solid halves of basketball
add up to NU win at Kansas
By Mark Derowitsch
Senior Reporter
For the first time this season, Nebraska
women’s basketball coach Angela Beck said,
the Comhuskers were able
solid halves in the same
game during their 80-64
victory over Kansas Sat
urday at Allen Field
House in Lawrence,
Kan.
“I thought we pul
them away when we had
the chance,” Beck said.
“We were ahead by Halsne
seven points in the first half and secured the win
in the first 10 minutes of the second half.
“I was very pleased with our effort.”
Beck said the Husker bench also played a
major role in the victory. Substitute guard
Sabrina Brooks scored a game-high 20 points,
and freshman center Ann Halsne added 16.
“I felt that both Sabrina and Ann Halsne
played well,” Beck said. “We need Sabrina’s
speed and her penetration. 1 think she played
her best game of the season. Her defense came
through for us."
Brooks, who transferred this season from
Moberly (Mo.) Junior College, said she is ad
justing to her reserve role this season.
“At first, I didn’t like it,” Brooks said, “but
now I’ve learned to live with it.”
Beck said Halsne keyed the Husker defense
that yielded a season-low 64 points to Kansas.
“Halsneplayed their big people very tough,”
Beck said. “She made a couple of big steals for
us.”
Beck said although the win against the Jay
hawks was a big one for Nebraska, the next two
games will clear up the picture in the Big Eight.
The Huskers, 14-2 overall and 4-0 in the confer
ence, will play at Oklahoma Wednesday night
and at Colorado Saturday.
“I think this is our biggest win of the year,”
Beck said. “But right now we’re in the big part
of our season. This year, those road games
become oh so important.
“These next two road games arc the most
critical games of our season.”
Beck said the Huskers have some work to do
in some aspects of their game. She said re
bounding will play a big part in the next two
road games.
“I still think rebounding will be a key down
the stretch,” Beck said. “We need to cut down
on opponents’ rebounds.”
Although the Jayhawks out-rebounded
Nebraska 47-44, Beck said that statistic was
misleading.
“They shot only 32 percent and they bricked
almost everything they threw up,” she said.
“They were pulling down a lot of long re
bounds, and we’re not used to rebounding like
that.”
Amy Stephens scored 16 points for Ne
braska, and Maurtice Ivy added 13.
Reader says sports
should be intramural
It’s time for Nebraska to admit that
its football program has peaked.
Nebraska will always be No. 2 and
Oklahoma No. 1.
Nebraska doesn’t have to be
ashamed. It just seems to me that when
you’ve peaked it’s time to go on to
something else. I’d like to see all
sports be reduced to intramural pro
grams.
I think it would be nice for Ne
braska football coach Tom Osborne to
enter politics (to run for some high
level political office). My relatives in
Nebraska like him and would vote for
him. First, I think he would win and,
second, I think he would do a good job.
Osborne is very popular in Nebraska
and has national recognition.
There is far too much media hype
in sports today (Nebraska vs. Okla
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