TEiursday,'September 18, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY rage Nine T hur day Se te m b r 1 , 1 75 H E M C HI A N AIL i Baltimore burns Bosox 20-20 Hindsight By JEFF SCHILLER-- Order Your The recruiters cheat . . . . .. and the innocent suffer We enforce the law strangely in America. Our efforts to control crime center around stiffening penalties and ballyhooing new detection techniques as opposed to eliminating loopholes in the law. It's designed to petrify potential criminals. So it should come as no great surprise that the NCAA, hard- ly an advertisement for innovative bureaucracy should espouse similar tactics. Illegal recruiting is dealt with by strict proba- tionary status for the school involved and a lot of self-righteous publicity. The problem is that it doesn't work. There's as much illegal- ity now as ever before - in fact the NCAA has publicly admitted to receiving more complaints than ever. And the confessed sins of University of Minnesota basketball program make clear that the current violations are even more flagrant. What incentive is there to stop, when you think about it, though? The rules are structured so that the guilty parties are virtually unpunishable. The institutions, other members of the squads in violation, and the fans are the ones who suf- fer for the cheaters' sins. Take poor Jim Dutcher for example. The former Michigan assistant inherits a Minnesota basketball program which faces severe penalties as a result of the recruiting "techniques" em- ployed by former Coach Bill Musselman. The squad has been wiped clean of violators, yet the remaining innocents will bear the punishment. Musselman and some of his chief recruits, meanwhile are enjoying lucrative financial rewards in pro basketball. On the other side, one can envy Bill Foster. The Duke head coach cleared out of Utah just as the curious case of Tom Ber- gen was beginning to unfold (Bergen, now at Michigan, was found to have had his transcript tampered without his knowledge). No discipline to Foster - in fact, the only one hurt was Bergen who ran into the Big Ten's "sit-out" rule for transfers and was ineligible last year. And if the coaches don't cheat blatantly, they can often put pressure on the alumni to do so. The Michigan State investigation was brought out in the open by purchases made by a prospective athlete on an alumnus' credit card. Ob- viously, the NCAA can't touch the alumns. Part of the problem might be rectified by extending the law so that it covers at least the athletes involved. As it stands now, an athlete can often maintain his eligibility despite having taken' illegal gifts. The law can be extended to coaches too. While it is difficult to see how a case like Musselman can be dealt with in the ab. sence of a radical structural change, certainly Foster and others could be prevented from both flouting the rules and plying their trade. Or perhaps a radical structural change is necessary to involve the alumni as well. One could place college athetics under the control of a federal agency and make illegal induce- ments subject to bribery charges. This plan would have the additional advantage of eliminating some of the squabbling be- tween organizations that has characterized amateur sports in the1 past. Actually, there is a simpler solution. Cut down the number of people to whom winning is all-important. Give the coaches some sort of job security (perhaps a tenure type arrange- ment) -- to those who claim it stagnates a program, the rec- ord of Michigan teams who have never in recent memory fired a coach is sufficient counter. Cut the costs of running a program to appeal to the athletic directors. Probably one-third of those now on football scholar. ship will never crack the Wolverine depth chart. Don't tell me about the need for scout team players, look at the turnout for JV basketball every year. And eliminate the equation that winning equals big crowds. The early Mets were terrible, but they always drew large audi- ences. Fans like entertainment - they're bored by games that are over early. Watch the people around you at the North- western game and judge for yourself. Oh well, it's probably just a dream. Almost nobody believes that you can survive without winning or win without surviving. So, illegal recruiting will most likely continue until it becomes a violation of federal law. After all, what's to stop it? Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 77 75 .507 10% East Chicago 73 80 .477 15 V L Pet. GB Montreal 66 85 .437 21 nn From Wire Service Reportsf:..._...... BOSTON--Mike Tor- rez posted his 19th victory andD * Tommy Davis contributed a home run and two singles asp o the Baltimore Orioles raised 'ter m i a L g e s their American League East title hopes by defeating the NIGHT EDITORS: Boston Red Sox 5-2 Wednesday DURANCEAU & LANGE night for a split of their crucial two-gam e series.". ..::::......... :.:::..... The Orioles backed Torrez, Horton drove in his 90th run of 19-8, with a 13-hit attack as the the season and Rookie Billy Orioles climbed back to within Baldwin hit his fourth homer to 4% games of the Red Sox. Bos- help Joe Coleman to his first ton's magic number remained shutout of the year Wednesday at seven. Any combination of night and give the Detroit Boston victories and Baltimore Tigers a 4-0 victory over the losses totaling seven will give Cleveland Indians. the Red Sox the division title. Coleman, enduring his worst Davis, Baltimore's designated season, raised his record to 10- hitter, belted his sixth homer 17 with a seven - hitter. He and added two singles while struck out four and walked one. Brooks Robinson contributed Horton doubled home Ben Og- three singles to the Orioles' as- livie in the third and scored sault. with one out when Tom Very- Following Davis' homer in the zer singled off loser Roric third, Baltimore went ahead to Harrison, 7-7. Singles by Gary stay in the fourth when Don Sutherland and Oglivie plus a Baylor singled, stole second and ground-out by Aurelio Rodri- continued to third on catcher guez got Detroit a run in the Carlton Fisk's throwing error first inning as the Tigers snap- and scored on Ellie Hendrick's ped a five-game losing streak. single. * * * Baldwin just barely got his homer over the left field fence Tigers triumph with two out in the seventh D E T R O I T - Willie inning. AP Photo, Fred Lynn, star rookie center-fielder of the Boston Red Sox, is nailed at second on a throw from Oriole catcher Elrod Hendricks to second-baseman Bobby Grich during an attempted steal in the first inning of last night's game in Boston. The Birds prevailed, 5-2, narrowing the Bosox lead in the Eastern Division of the American League to 4% games. FRANKLIN TO START Lion:). By LARRY ENGLE Preparing for this Sunday's opener against the Green Bay Packers in Milwaukee, the De- troit Lions are oozing the confi- dence felt in the training camps of all professional sports. Featuring a defensive unit which depends heavily upon co- hesive team play, the Lions be- lieve they will improve on last year's 7-7 mark. Out of the pre- season juggling, Coach Rick Forzano has settled on a defen- sive alignment which includes Billy Howard and Ken Sanders at end with Larry Hand to pair with Herb Orvis at tackle. The remainder of the defend- ers, led by a revitalized Lem Barney at cornerback, are in- tact from last year's squad. The offensive unit will be much less experienced than its defensive counterpart. Due set to the losses of outstanding wide receiver Ron Jessie, who played out his option and went to the Los Angeles Rams, and a severe knee injury which has sidelined flanker Larry Walton, the Lions find them- selves with a shortage of prov- en veterans at the wide re- ceiver positions. However, the brightest star in the otherwise rather dismal 2-4 pre-season, has been Dennis Franklin. Originally drafted as a possible wide receiver, defen- sive back or running back, the former Michigan quarterback and sixth round draft pick has worked his way into the start- ing lineup. Denny snared 10 passes in the pre-season, one good for a touch- down, and, according to Lion Publicity Manager, E 11 i o t t Trumbull, "has looked very I SPORTS OF THE DAILY Knee sidelines King Michigan lost veteran quick' tackle Steve King yesterday and Head Coach Bo Schem- bechler said that split end Rick White will probably watch the home opener with Stanford this Saturday from the sidelines. King, a 6-5, 245 pound all-Big Ten selection, reinjured a sore knee that was aggravated in last Saturday's 23-6 victory over Wisconsin and could be out for four weeks. The fifth year tac- kle underwent surgery to the same knee last year and missed spring drills. Mike Kenn, a 6-6 245 pound sophomore will move from the strong tackle to fill the vacan- cy. White, the Wolverines start- ing split end, also suffered a sore knee in last week's con- test, and will only play in an emergency. Keith Johnson, who was switched to defensive back this fall, will return to split end for the Stanford game. Bear thwarted NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court has blocked an Alabama judge's ruling that college football traveling teams may have 60 players instead of being limited to 48. The fifth U. S. Circuit Court of appeals order suspended the temporary injunction granted to Alabama Coach Bear Bryant after a hearing before U. S. Dist. Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. in Tuscaloosa Sept. 8. The NCAA said in Kansas City that the rule would not be applicable to games this week- end but would be in effect for games of Sept. 27. -API f Big George's .. 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