Increased requirements
could hurt UNL athletes
Osborne: proposal
may shut out some
By Mitch Sherman
Staff Reporter__
A revision to Proposition 48 passed
at last year’s NCAA Convention and
reviewed again this year will have a
major effect on Comhusker athletics,
football coach Tom Osborne said.
. The new rule, which requires ath
letes to have a 2.5 high school grade
point average, 13 core courses and
score a 21 on the ACT or 900 on the
SAT, goes into effect Aug. 1, 1995.
If the revised standards would have
been applied to current Comhusker
athletes, up to 40 percent of the Ne
braska football and basketball team
members could have been found aca
demically ineligible, Osborne said.
“It’s going to hurt the kids who
were not as focused early in high
school,” Osborne said. “And that’s
not their fault, depending on their
upbringing. We see several players
every year who realize they can get a
scholarship by their junior year, so
they focus.
“But an athlete who has a 1.8 (GPA)
and only one or one-and-a-half years
to get it up to 2.5 is going to be
eliminated. They pretty much have to
know what they’re doing from their
freshman year.”
currently, rrop -45 requires incom
ing freshmen to have a 2.0 high school
GPA, score a 17 on the ACT or 700 on
the SAT and carry 11 core courses.
Assistant Athletic Director A1 Papik
said student-athletes who did not have
the required 2.5 GPA could still meet
the requirements. This is because a
scaling system was created at last
year’s convention and reviewed again
this year.
I f student-athletes have lower than
a 2.5 GPA but higher than a 2.0 GPA,
they can meet the requirements by
scoring better than a 21 on the ACT or
900 on the SAT. The test-score re
quirements go up as the GPA goes
down.
“Research and data shows us that
Prop 48 has been good since it went
into effect in 1986,” Papik said. “But,
of course, the new developments
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I think some (athletes)
will miss everything.
They won’t even go to
college because they
can’t afford it.
— Osborne
Nebraska football coach
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haven’t been tested yet.”
Osborne said he understood the
purpose of Prop 48, but was worried
that some athletes may miss out on
college because of the raised require
ments.
“1 think some will miss everything,”
Osborne said. “They won’t even go to
college because they can’t afford it.
That’s unfortunate because there is a
direct correlation between a family’s
socioeconomic status and the chil
dren’s education.”
Corncrback Barron Miles and de
fensive tackle Kevin Ramackers are
among the Huskcrs who attended col
lege for a year before they qualified
and joined the team the next season.
Both Miles and Ramaekcrs have said
the experience helped them, but
Osborne said not all Prop 48 stories
had such a happy ending.
“There are a couple, three players
each year that come because they can
get by on a Pell Grant or a loan, but at
some schools they can’t do that,” he
said. “The Big Eight is one of the few
conferences in the country that allows
Prop 48ers to enroll.
i ncy couia go 10 a junior college
and get two years at a major college if
everything goes okay, but that doesn’t
always work out.”
The problem, Osborne said, may
lie in the eyes of the policy-makers. He
said many of the voters at the conven
tions were not familiar with the ath
lete’s backgrounds.
“A lot of the people who make
these rules assume other families are
like their families,” he said. “For the
most part,(the policy-makers) are very
stable, well-offpeople who push their
kids toward college from a young age.
“That just is not the situation for a
lot of the kids that come here on
football and basketball scholarships.”
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Nebraska guard Tanya Upthearove puts the pressure on Oklahoma State’s Yogi York in tne
first half of the Comnuskers’ 81-75 loss Sunday.
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with 10:48 remaining when Ne
braska looked to be putting togeth
er a comeback. The Huskcrs went
on a 10-2 run to cut the lead to 65
55 with 8:21 left.
The Cowgirls once again denied
Nebraska’s comeback when Yogi
York finished off a 3-point play at
the free-throw line to put Oklaho
ma State’s lead back up to 13.
Nebraska didn’t put a scare into
the Cowgirls until a big run cut the
lead down to single digits with just
over a minute remaining.
Brown led Nebraska with 25
points and 11 rebounds, while Lis
Brenden added 10. Stacy Coffey led
14-6 Oklahoma State with 24.
The loss drops Nebraska to 13
10 and 4-5 in the conference. Ne
braska now trails Oklahoma State,
5-4 in the conference,, for third
place in the Big Eight. More impor
tant, the Huskers’ NCAA-touma
ment hopes are dwindling, Beck
said.
“We needed this game,” Beck
said. “This was a big game for a
chance at the NCA As. This was big
for a lot of things. We kind of dug
ourselves a hole.”
Nebraska had extended its win
ning streak to four games Friday
night with a 82-76 win over Okla
homa. Brown led the Huskers with
21 points and nine rebounds.
Duval vaults Husker gymnasts to title
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s gymnas
tics team improved to 6-0 overall by
winning a quadrangular meet Sunday
in Norman, Okla.
The Comhuskers’ score of 192.05
outdistanced second-place Oklahoma,
which finished with a score of 189.90.
Texas came in third at 186.025 and
Air Force finished fourth, scoring a
177.05.
Nebraska was paced by Nicole
Duval, whose score of38.95 in the all
around tied a personal-best set last
season against Iowa State.
In addition to winning the all
around, the junior from Lincoln won
the balance beam (9.85), while plac
ing second in the vault (9.725) and
third in the floor exercise (9.65).
“Duval hit two awesome routines
for our team today," Husker coach
Dan Kendig said. “She won the beam
with an awesome routine and then she
hit another awesome routine on the
floor exercise.”
Juniors Martha Jenkins, Kristi
Camp and Jennifer Hawkinson also
performed well for the Huskers.
Jenkins won the vault with a 9.775
and Hawkinson finished third in the
same event, scoring a 9.725. Camp
finished second behind Duval in the
beam with a 9.8.
Kendig said he was pleased with
the overall performance of the team.
“We competed well,” he said. “We
started out strong on the bars. Then we
hit three out of six routines on the
balance beam. We struggled a bit on
the floor exercise but then we hit five
solid routines on the vault.
“We’re getting stronger and we’re
getting better. The key for Nebraska is
to stay healthy and keep up the pace.’’
In addition to the strong showings
of the juniors, sophomore Joy Taylor
and freshman Kim DeHaan tied for
first place in the uneven bars with a
9.825. DeHaan also finished third in
the all-around (38.10). Freshman
Shelley Bartlett tied for third in the
balance beam by scoring a 9.775.
The Huskers’ next match is Friday
against Iowa State in the Bob Devaney
Sports Center.
Two Cyclone pins deny win for Nebraska
From Staff Reports
Tenth-ranked Iowa State used two
crucial pins to help secure a 21-19
victory over No. 6 Nebraska Sunday
night at Ames, Iowa.
The Cyclones’ Derek Mountsier
(134 pounds) and Dan Troupe (190
pounds) recorded pins, giving the
Cyclones’ crucial bonus points.
The teams each won five matches,
but Nebraska scored just one pin by
142-pounder Justin Ware. Iowa State’s
two pins accounted for the difference.
Nebraska wrestling coach Tim
Neumann said the loss to the Cyclones
was frustrating, especially after the
Comhuskers beat them 32-11 two
weeks ago.
“It was a real disappointing loss,”
he said. “We had a couple different
opportunities to win the dual, just by
doing things we have done against
them in the past.”
The loss dropped Nebraska to 9-6
in dual competition. Iowa State im
proved to 7-5.
“We have to get our guys healthy
and get ready for Big Eights,”
Neumann said.
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The Huskers weren’t dead yet as
they battled to within one at 86-85 on
a three-pointer by Erick Strickland
and a layup by Boone.
But Woodbcrry, who led Kansas
with 25 points, put the nail in the
coffin with the three-pointer.
“He’s their go-to man, and he came
through when he had to,” Strickland
said. “We were right there and then he
hit the three-pointer.”
Nee said winning was well within
the Huskers’ grasp, but Kansas de
serves credit for coming back.
“I felt we answered a lot of their
charges, but we could never get over
the hump,” he said. “It was a really
good effort, but you have to have a
little luck.”
Nebraska. ...40 47 — 87
at Kansas... 44 SO —94
Nebraska — Johnson 3-8 2-2 9, Boone
5-90-011, Piatkowski 8-209-926, Badgoti
1 -6 2-2 4, Chubick 4-9 6-7 14, Brooks 1 -
5 0-0 2, Strickland 5-14 1-215, Moore 2
2 2 2 6 Totals 29-73 22-24 87.
KANSAS—Richey 4-7 3-412, Scott 1 -3
0-0 2, Ostertag 6-113-715, Vaughn 5-7
2-313, Woodberry 7-158-925, Pollard 0
1 3-4 3, Pearson 5-10 2-313, Gurley 1-3
0-0 3, Rayford 0-1 0 0 0. Williams 3-5 2
2 8. Totals 32-63 23-32 94