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NCAA picking on him and his pro
gram, and Brown interjected his
thoughts throughout the hearing!
At one point, Brown held up the
477-page NCAA manual and said:
“We’ve got to bum that big heavy
book.”
Now college coaches are burning
books. I guess that ensures that they
don’t have to be troubled with the
prospect of reading them.
The AP story reported that Brown
cited one case in which an LSU ath
lete dying of cancer asked that his
three closest friends from the team
come to see him at a dinner in his
honor.
The NCAA, Brown said, lold him
that paying for the players to visit
their friend would be a violation. Brown
ignored the advice.
“I fell like a thief in the night,”
said Brown, who explained that he
handed the three players brown enve
lopes containing air fare.
According to the NCAA’s extra
benefit rule, no student athlete is to
have access to things, like free airline
tickets, that the general student body
doesn’t have access to.
Hopefully, Brown bought tickets
for LSU’s other 32,(XX) students.
Not to be outdone, Tarkanian told
a story of a young assistant coach who
was fired because he drove an athlete
to night classes so the player could
get his grades up.
“He should have been applauded,”
Tarkanian said.
It’s hard to imagine why a student
athlete signs up for a class ifheorshc
has no way of getting there, then has
to call a coach at the last second to
bum a ride.
And “trying to get his grades up?’
That kind of suggests the athlete had
to be forced to go to class by his
assistant coach escort, doesn’t it?
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to have Jennings with her.
“I think it’s an advantage to have
Karen with me, because we have played
together before. It will make that
adjustment a little bit easier,” she
said.
That adjustment—playing with a
group of players who have never played
together—is complicated by the fact
that they will play for a new coach.
Jennings said she is excited about
getting another coach’s perspective.
The coach for the North squad is
University of Georgia head coach Andy
Landers.
“Getting coached by someone dif
ferent, you can fix things that may not
get noticed, or you just didn’t have
enough time to work on during the
season,” she said.
Both players agreed the experi
ence will help them improve as indi
vidual players and will help the Husk
crs.
“The more experience you have
playing with these type of players the
better,” Jennings said. “Meggan and 1
want Nebraska to be a top-10 team,
and this can give us a better idea of
what we need to do.”
Ycdsena said she also is excited
I about the festival.
“It will definitely help to improve
my game,” she said. “And it will
allow for Karen and I to see just
where we stand outside the Big Eight.”
The festival also doubles as a step
ping stone to the Olympic games. A
Tarkanian and Brown, in ihcir
deceitful, belligerent attitudes and
behavior illustrate clearly one point:
NCAA investigators wouldn’t have
to be the storm troopers they often arc
if the world wasn’t filled with Tar
kanians and Browns.
If coaches would stop working
against the NCAA and start working
with it, by conducting their own thor
ough in-house investigations — not
bogus ones in which a few token
violations are disclosed to cover up
the biggies — and actually requiring
their athletes to attend class, the rules
might be relaxed.
Every year,college administrators
and coaches travel to the annual NCAA
convention and bicker about rules.
They then pass bylaws that will serve
for days of debate the next year, wasting
millions of dollars in the process.
It could all be solved by hiring
coaches who give a damn about their
athletes, on and off the court or field.
Tarkanian and Brown arc two
coaches who don’t give a damn. If
they did, the schools wouldn’t be in
trouble.
And Tark wouldn’t be leaving.
Green is a senior news-editorial major
and a Daily Nebraskan columnist.
selection committee will take the 12
best players to compete for the Junior
National Team in a tournament in
Mexico.
Last season, Jennings was an al
ternate on the team, and she said she
hopes to play well enough to secure a
spot on this year’s team. Ycdsena
said she also hopes to have a position
on the team.
“If I play with confidence and don’t
get intimidated, then I have a chance,”
Yedscna said.
Practice for the games begins on
July 9th and continues with two prac
tices a day until competition begins.
Sports
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committed two errors all season.
The Huskers signed four junior
college players from the West Coast,
including pitcher Jason Beauchamp,
a right-handed pitcher from Ameri
can River Junior College in Califor
nia. Beauchamp was drafted by the
Texas Rangers two years ago out of
high school, and posted a 1.39 earned
run average last season in 117 innings
pitched.
Two of last year’s seniors, Brian
McAm and Brian Amty.cn, also played
for two years at American River be
fore transferring to Nebraska.
Troy Brohawn, an outfielder from
Dorchester High School in Woolford,
Md., hit .487 last season and struck
out just twice all season. Brohawn
played outfield for the Olympic Fes
tival East Team last summer, and
helped lead the Cuban Junior Na
tional Olympic Team to the bronze
medal in the summer of 1990.
Other 1991 spring signers include
Chris Bailey, a third baseman from
Edmonds Community College in
Washington; James Garcia, a junior
outfielder from San Bemadino Val
ley College in California and Mark
Sagmoen, an outfielder from Yakima
Valley College in Seattle.
Besides Benjamin, four other play
ers signed with Nebraska in the fall,
making it 12 recruits in all for the
Huskers this season. Last year, Ne
braska finished sixth in the Big Eight
with an 11-13 conference mark and
posted a 39-22 record overall.
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