Official: NU would support NCAA changes
By Thomas Clouse
Staff Reporter
Proposed NCAA rule changes could
force some smaller universities out of
the Division I ranking, but would
benefit Division I sports, the Nebraska
assistant athletic director said.
A1 Papik, who is also UNL’s NCAA
compliance officer, said he thinks
Nebraska will support the National
Collegiate Athletic Association leg
islation.
“This plan has merit in creating a
well-rounded collegiate program,” he
said.
Ted Tow, associate executive di
rector of the NCAA, said the pro
posed rule changes would require
universities to sponsor a minimum of
seven men’s and seven women’s sports
to be ranked Division I.
The NCAA Presidents Commis
sion promised in October to fight for
the restructuring plan, which will be
debated at January’s NCAA conven
tion.
Papik said that currently the NCAA
requires universities to sponsor six
men’s and six women’s sports to be
eligible for Division I competition.
“We feel the seven (men’s) and
seven (women’s) sports requirement
would be a fair number,” Papik said.
Some universities sponsor only 12
men’s and women’s sports, yet they
get the same treatment and voting
power as schools like Nebraska that
sponsor 20 sports, Papik said.
“Based on that philosophy,” he
said, “wc favor a fewer number of
schools in Division I.”
Bob Devaney, Nebraska athletic
director, said the rule changes shouldn't
affect Nebraska’s competition.
“I see no drastic effects,” Devaney
said, “but it will be tougher for smaller
Division I schools” to maintain that
ranking.
Papik said each Division I sport
has a minimum number of contests a
team must play for the university to
count it as a sport.
“Currently, not all of those con
tests have to be played against Divi
sion 1 teams,” he said.
Tow said the proposal would re
quire Division I schools to play the
minimum number of mandatory con
tests against Division I schools.
Also, half the games played above
the minimum number would have to
be played against Division I teams.
Tow said.
As an example, Tow said, “The
current minimum contests to count
baseball a sport is 27 contests. They
would have to play all 27 against
Division I teams to meet the proposed
requirement.”
If the school played 20 more con
tests over the minimum of27,hesaid,
it would have to play 10 of those 20
games against Division I teams.
Another part of the proposal would
require Division 1 universities to give
at least 50 percent of the maximum
number of grants and scholarships the
NCAA allows, Tow said.
For example, Tow said, schools
now can give a maximum of 13 full
grants to baseball players.
Under the proposed changes, all
Division I schools would be required
to give baseball athletes at least 6.5
grants, Tow said.
The proposed rule changes are not
attempting to “kick” any schools out
of Division I, Tow said.
“The restructuring plan is just trying
to set some requirements to make
them (Division I teams) more equal,”
he said.
He said he didn’t know how many
schools the changes could affect, but
i t would hurt smal ler sports program s.
“Some schools sponsor football
and basketball, and give little or none
to other sports,” Tow said.
Most major sports programs give
scholarships to all sports and would
not be affected by the proposed rule
changes, Tow said.
Papik said the NCAA is giving
universities enough lead time to plan
ahead.
Tow agreed, saying the proposed
rule changes shouldn’t take the smaller
schools by surprise.
“The schools who don’t meet the
requirements now would have three
years to meet the criteria,” he said.
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Gosch suggests search revisions
By Tabitha Hiner
Senior Reporter
(JNL Student Regent Phi! Gosch
on Saturday urged the NU Board of
Regents to learn from the presidential
search when it seeks a chancellor for
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“I think we would all agree that
there were some things that in hind
sight maybe we would have done
differently in the presidential search,”
said Gosch, the president of the Asso
ciation of Students of the University
of Nebraska.
Gosch said the interim chancellor
should either agree not to take the
position of chancellor or make it known
from the beginning that he or she is
interested in the position.
“I think that if a vice chancellor or
dean intends on seeking a permanent
appointment, the students, the fac
ulty, the Board of Regents and this
entire state deserves to know that
from point one,’: he said.
Gosch also asked the board to
“aggressively seek out minority and
women candidates.”
“It is disappointing to me and to
many students to know that at UNL,
our chancellors’ cabinet is comprised
entirely of white males,” Gosch said
He said students and faculty
members should have the “majority
of representation on the search group"
If suggestions such as his arc used,
Gosch said, “wc can make this search
better than our search for president
and I think wc can turn around, dispel
some of the perceptions of our Board
of Regents.”
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