0 Page 6 - The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - March 26, 1990 PENN STATE Continued from page 1 then, to protect himself and the pro- cess, issued the press release which, in essence, made this thing sound like a fait accompli - a done deal." Harrison said, "I pick up the paper (on Dec. 15)... and there's [Illinois President] Ikenberry saying, 'Oh yeah, we've agreed,' and I thought, 'Christ, what's he doing?' Ikenberry clearly has a different view than Jim Duderstadt." Nevertheless, it was this "invita- tion" Penn State President Bryce Jor- dan accepted with the deal's major proponent Ikenberry and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany present Dec. 19 in University Park. Ikenberry formerly served as a senior vice president at Penn State. Most at Penn State and Illinois look at the invitation as binding. But officials at.the other nine Big Ten schools say the "invitation" will not be finalized until certain condi- tions are met or problems resolved. "As of this late date... we have not drawn up any contractual agree- ments and there are no memoranda of understanding at all," Purdue Univer- sity President Steven Beering said. "Nothing has happened and that's the honest to God truth." However, Penn State's Williams sees the situation differently. "I think the perception at Penn State is we've been invited by the presidents as articulated by Ikenberry to join the Big Ten," Williams said. "Now, it's a matter of trying to op- erationalize the details related to all of that." In fact, Penn State is so confident of its Big Ten membership it has informed the Atlantic 10, its current conference for all sports but football, of its future intentions. "Penn State has told us they are interested in leaving," Atlantic 10 Commissioner Ron Bertovich said. "The transition process is still being discussed privately but we are going on the assumption they want to join the Big Ten." Further discussion is the only ac- tion everyone in the Big Ten seems to agree upon. A large transition committee with three subcommittees - TV/Revenue Sharing, Competi- tive Format/Budgetary Impact, and Governance/Academics - has been organized by Commissioner Delany, but as with the other aspects of this situation, the purpose of its work is debatable. Some, like Illinois Assistant Di- rector of University Public Affairs Alexis Tate, believe further talks are for the sole purpose of working out the details of a "done deal." "The statement issued by the Council of Ten stated a wish to 'bring Penn State in' and now the work has been passed to the logistics committees," Tate said. "My expec- tation is that this situation can be made to work... I have compared it to a courting or a marriage. We have gone through the engagement and marriage process and now we're try- ing to make the marriage work." The marriage comparison is a frequently-used one, but Tate's char- acterization of the Penn State-Big Ten relationship is disputable. Du- derstadt views the committees as forums for deciding whether Penn State's inclusion is feasible or even warranted. "I described it akin to a marriage in which a proposal for marriage had been made and accepted and we're now engaged but a lot of things can happen," Duderstadt said. "The com- mittees are supposed to report back to the Council of Ten, the Big Ten presidents, in June and at that point, we'll be faced with making a go-no go decision." Purdue's president shares Duder- stadt's feelings. "That is, believe it or not, all that has happened," Beer- ing said. While committee members are discussing ways to incorporate Penn Committees Examining the Penn State Deal TV/Revenue Sharing Subcommittee Chair: Rick Bay (Minnesota) Bump Elliott (Iowa) Kathy Lindahl (Michigan State) Marianne Mitchell (Indiana) Jack Weidenbach (MICHIGAN) Mark Rudner (Big Ten staff) Bay Competitive Format/ Budgetary Inpact Subcommittee t-Chair: James Jones (Ohio State) Phyllis Bailey (Ohio State) Christine Grant (Iowa) Doug Kahn (Michigan) Mike Kasavana (Michigan State) Bruce Corrie (Northwestern) Kevin Weiberg (Big Ten staff) Phyllis Howlett (Big Ten staff) Jones Governance/Academics Subcommittee Chair: Phil Nelson (Purdue) Mildred Griggs (Illinois) John Mackovic (Illinois) Haydn Murray (Indiana) Cyrena Pondrom (Wisconsin) Chris Voelz (Minnesota) Clarence Underwood (Big Ten staff) Nelson State, none are sure how their rec- ommendations will be taken by the presidents, even if they are negative. "I think we're better served to really examine the situation," said Minnesota AD Bay, who is Chair of the TV/Revenue Sharing Commit- tee. "If the evidence we're compiling now supports the idea of Penn State coming aboard we go ahead with it, but if it appears there isn't much wisdom or much advantage for the existing conference schools to in- clude Penn State, (I hope) we have the courage to say we made a mistake or we should reconsider." But another committee chair is going about his work with the atti- tude that Penn State's inclusion is a matter of semantics. "We've made committees to study it so as far as I know it's going to happen," said James Jones, Ohio State Athletic Director and Competitive Format/Budgetary Im- pact Committee Chair. "We will be able to fit Penn State into the con- ference somehow. It may not be done to any of our satisfaction, in- cluding Penn State's, but if need be it will be done." The committees are studying con- cerns ranging from financial issues to scheduling problems to academic ramifications, with a report expected back to the Council of Ten at their next meeting in June, according to Beering. Solving those problems weighs heavily with certain presidents. "If the outstanding issues are not re- solved satisfactorily," Duderstadt said at the January, 1990 meeting of the University's Board of Regents, "Penn State will not be added to the conference." Discussing these concerns after the "invitation" to Penn State had been made has added much confusion to the situation. For example, many would consider Michigan State Me- dia Relations Director Terry Den- bow's statement - "I consider it an agreement in principle with further exploration required" - totally con- tradictory. But in this case, that contradic- tion may best exemplify the reality of the situation. Jim Delany Chair, Transition and Expansion Committee All subcommittee members, except for Big Ten staffers, also serve on the Transition and Expansion Committee. Source: Big Ten BENSON Continued from page 5 The Penn State athletic depart- ment based their decision on atten- dance. Over the season, the men's team drew over 5,000 fans to Recreation Hall, while the women's team only drew around 2,000. There- fore, the men gained permission to greet the Marquette Warriors on the Lions home court, while the women were sent to Tallahassee, Florida to meet Florida State. Interested students felt this was unfair criteria used to make this de- cision. "(The administration) kept harp- ing on average attendance," Althouse said. "We pointed out the the athletic department promotes the men's team more. The ticket offices for men's ticket are open for longer hours, they get more radio and TV coverage, all encouraged by the athletic depart- ment." As one person said, "They did everything possible to bring more people to the men's game, and then you condemn the women for not having the same attendance." Yet the student-led boycott of the men's NIT game spoiled the admini- stration's plans. Only 3,400 people came to watch the men's team beat Marquette. The Saturday before, the women's team had drawn 3,700 to watch the Lady Lions win their fifth Atlantic 10 conference champion- ship. Many students who might have attended the men's game were out- side protesting. "We felt it was important that the athletic department, since they based the decision on average attendance, to show them the very solid Lady Lions support that has been there all along," Althouse said. "We want to symbolically show the lockout that they gave to the Lady Lions, but we also to show the strength of support for the women's basketball pro- gram. The women's team defeated Florida State, 83-73, and then lost to Virginia, 85-64. The men have won two close games, both at Recreation Hall, to advance in the NIT. The men might have needed the home court advantage more than the women and they might have been able to go further in the respective tournament. Some people have said that since the women won the first game, the whole thing really didn't matter much anyway. Althouse disagrees and she will not let the matter drop very quickly. "We have a commission for~ women and the commission willb looking into it," Althouse said. "A petition has been sent to University President (Dr. Bryce) Jordan saying that an investigation studying the treatment of male and female athletes should be underway." Feel like a fish | Read Gotta Love It Daily Sports I IL i out of water? FRUSTRATED? Call us to find a home for Fall 1990! 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