Hatchell resignation likely
DALLAS (AP) - Big 12
Commissioner Steve Hatchell
plans to leave the 3-year-old con
Hatched
terence he
helped form
shortly after the
league’s spring
meetings.
A source
close to the sit
uation told The
Associated
Press that
Hatchell was
being pressured
to leave Decause oi management
and staff problems at Big 12
headquarters.
“I don’t know that I’m a par
ticularly easy person to work for,”
Hatchell said, adding that some
employees in the Dallas office are
probably justified in believing he
was tough on them.
Big 12 Chairman Ray Bowen
denied Hatchell is being forced
out.
“It is certainly not a fact that
this board is trying to push him
r~
out,” Bowen said. “He is the com
missioner and he, of his own free
will, has decided to look at other
opportunities.”
Hatchell said he is being con
sidered for a job with the Sait
Lake City Olympic Organizing
Committee, but would not discuss
other possibilities.
Among those being mentioned
as possible replacements at the
Big 12 are two athletic directors:
Joe Castiglione at Missouri and
Bob Frederick at Kansas.
Frederick, a former chairman
of the NCAA basketball tourna
ment selection committee, fin
ished runner-up to Hatchell when
Big 12 presidents chose him as
the league’s first commissioner.
Hatchell was the Southwestern
Conference commissioner at the
time.
Hatchell told radio station
KLIF-AM the likely target date
for his departure would be at the
beginning of June or July.
Bowen, the Texas A&M presi
dent, said no one in the league
office had specifically com
plained to him about Hatchell’s
conduct.
“It’s a high-stress, high-pres
sure job,” Bowen said during a
conference call. “I don’t hear
anybody whining about that, but
they’ll tell you they are working
themselves to death.”
Other than Nebraska’s success
in football, the Big 12 has not had
great success on the field.
However, the league - formed by
a merger of the Big Eight and four
Southwest Conference schools -
has been a hit financially, signing
television contracts valued at
more than $150 million.
Bowen said Hatchell told the
league last month he was looking
for other jobs. Hatchell said he
wants the transition to a new com
missioner tO go as smoothly as
possible.
“The Big 12 doesn’t want to
miss a step, and I know that the
presidents and the powers that be
want to get a good person in
here.”
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NU looks for 1st spring win
By Darren Ivy
Assignment Reporter
On paper, the Nebraska
women’s soccer team’s 7 p.m. game
with Creighton Saturday at the
Abbott Sports Complex may not
look like a big game.
NU, 1-3-1 this spring, has faced
the Under 20 national team and the
three top-ranked NCAA teams for
its past four games.
Creighton isn’t even ranked.
They finished the fall season 9-7-2.
But the Cornhuskers £§fi’t
underestimate them, said NU
sophomore Jenny Benson.
“Just because they aren’t a top
one or two team doesn’t mean they
won’t give us a good game,” Benson
said. “We definitely don’t want to
lose to a team in the same state.”
NU Coach John Walker said he
is not familiar with Creighton’s cur
rent team because the two teams
haven’t met in three years.
But NU Assistant Coach Megan
Bechtold is familiar with the Blue
Jays. When Bechtold played at
Creighton from 1991-94,
Creighton’s current head coach
played on the men’s team.
Her senior year was the first
year NU had a soccer program.
During that season, the two teams
met twice with Creighton, coming
but victorious in each game:
But the gam^yere battles,
Bechtold said.
“You could tell they were going
to be a great team,” Bechtold said.
“I loved my four years of playing at
Creighton. Now all I want is
Nebraska to win.”
During Bechtold’s first year at
NU in 1995, Creighton defeated the
Huskers 1-0.
Since then, Nebraska has
emerged as one of the top programs
in the country.
However, Bechtold still remem
bers the 1995 game, and so do some
of the older NU players.
“There is a bit of an in-state
rivalry,” Bechtold said. “It’s good
for the state.”
Benson wasn’t here for the last
game, but she said Nebraska will be
ready to play.
“Knowing it’s our last gape, we
are going to come out really fired
up,” she said.
Bechtold agreed that both teams
will come out with a lot of adrena
line.
“I think we are ready to play,”
Bechtold said. “We want to wrap up
the spring with a good home game.”
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