The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, Octouer 7, 1998 15 Vomen's golf readies or Big Ten tourney NCAA attempts to reach settlement By Jeff Druchnink For the Daily Last weekend's showing at the verine Invitational wasn't exactly the high point of the season for the Michigan women's golf team. But at the very least, the Wolverines now have two weeks to regroup and fine-tune their games for the Big Ten Championships in West Lafayette. This will be the final tournament of the reg- Alar season. Saturday and Sunday, despite host- ng the Wverine Invitational on their X course, the Wolverines finished in the tournament. That, howev- er, turned out to be fourth out of four Big Ten teams in the 13-team field. The Wolverines shot 75 over par at 659 - 33 shots off the blistering pace of 626, ;et by first-place Michigan State. Michigan also finished behind Purdue md Northwestern, and was not helped by the heavy Saturday rains, which :aused 18 of the tournament's 54 ,duled holes to be canceled. A bigger roadblock for Michigan, however, may have been the lack of >ractice during the week leading up to he tournament. Portions of the team's ;chedule were taken up by team pic- ures and other previously scheduled vents, leaving just one day of full prac- ice before Friday. That's "the day before the tourna- nent, and nobody really wants to prac- ice too hard," said Wolverine freshman *a Lemanski. Lemanski expects the eam to get a great deal more practice ime in upcoming days, before the Big Fen Championships begin at Purdue on Monday, Oct. 19. "That leaves us two full weeks and weekends for preparation, Michigan coach Kathy Teichert said. Michigan did shoot an impressive 312 over 18 holes of qualifying play last Tuesday before the tournament. Schedule disruptions may have caused the players to lose their edge by the time the tournament started, though. "We need to work especially on our putting and our short game;' Teichert said, echoing the sentiments of Lemanski and teammate Tera Hamo. "We've lost a lot of confidence in those areas, and we will work on our mental aspects to remedy that," Teichert said. Teichert predicted that Michigan's putting and up-and-down percentage would be keys to the team's perfor- mance at the Big Ten Championships. She also said the individual members of the team would have to spend time working on the weaker parts of their games during the next two weeks. Michigan senior captain Sharon Park, the Wolverines' standout per- former and sole senior, will have to come up big for the team to make a good showing in West Lafayette. Park threatened to take the tournament lead after 18 holes this weekend, posting a 3 over 76, but had to settle for second place behind Michigan State's Kasey Gant. Park finished second despite shooting an 80 on Sunday. "It'll be a great opportunity (for us) to beat some of the other Big Ten teams that will be at the tournament," Teichert said. "We're going to work hard at clos- ing the gap." KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The NCAA, which can no longer argue it did not break the law, is try- ing to reach a settlement with its coaches and reduce an $80 million obligation. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear the NCAA's appeal, letting stand a ruling that the NCAA acted unlawfully in capping salaries of entry-level coaches at $16,000 annually. But even before Monday, the NCAA and lawyers for the coaches had begun settlement talks, with the NCAA offering $44 million and the coaches' lawyers coming back with a demand for $58.5 million. Before the three-week jury trial in May, which set damages at $67 million, the NCAA suggested it might settle for as much as $18 mil- lion. "The NCAA has moved a lot;" said Wally Renfro, spokesperson for the collegiate sports organization. "We feel that is a very fair figure. Plaintiffs could do with that what they wish. If they want to attach a time value to that money (in an annu- ity), they can do so. If they want to take it all in cash, they could." Coaches' lawyer Dennis Cross said his offer to settle for $58.5 mil- lion will now go "into the 60's" "We're not moving toward them anymore," he said. "I'm going to make an offer that's going to be a lit- tle more and see if (the Supreme Court decision) has changed their mind." In seeking to get the Supreme Court to overturn the finding of lia- bility, the NCAA said the lower court ruling "places in grave doubt the future of competitive intercollegiate athletics." The coaches' lawyers argued the salary cap was "only garden-variety price fixing," and that college sports thrived for years without such pay restrictions. Last May, the U.S. District Court jury in Kansas City, Kan., awarded damages that when trebled under antitrust law amount to around $67 million for about 1,900 entry-level "restricted-earnings coaches." The total figure of around $80 million, when lawyers' fees are included, has alarmed NCAA schools and angered athletic officials whose annual budgets could be hit hard. How the award will be spread among NCAA schools is also a touchy political issue within college athletics. Small schools want big schools to pay the biggest share while most big schools believe the cost should be shared equally, since the restricted-earnings rule was agreed upon by nearly all 300 Division I schools. The NCAA still has several post- trial motions pending. Once those motions are ruled on, the NCAA could appeal them to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Barring a settlement, the case could drag on another year or two. "Way back when the case began, they couid have settled cheaply" Cross said. AP PHOTO Although Joe Paterno's financial worries are few, yesterday the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA's imposed limit on the salaries of entry-level coaches. Bo honored by coaches FromStffReports Former 'Michigan football coach Bo Schembe&Wlerhas been selected as the 1999 reipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award presented by the American Football Coaches Association. The award, which honors those "whose services have been outstand- ing in the advancement of the best interests of'fbotball," will be present- ed to Scfiembechler at the 1999 AFCA Convention, held Jan. 10-13 in Nashville, Tenn. Schembechler, the winningest coach in Michigan football history, finished his career with a record of 234-65-8 (.775), and had the ninth- most wins in Division I-Afootball history. oily In his 20 years as a Michigan coach, Schembechler's Big Ten record was 143-23-3 (.850) with an overall record of 194-48-5 (.796). In that time, 13 of his teams won or tied for the Big Ten championship, and never in his 27-year career as a head coach did one of his teams have a losing record. In his 21 seasons as a Michigan coach, Schembechler made it to 17 bowl games. His teams won 10 or more games in a season 11 tumes, and his regular season record of 96- 10-3 (.894) gave him the best winning percentage in the nation in the 1970s. Schembechler's career as a head coach began in 1963 when he left the tutelage of mentor Woody Hayes, at Ohio State, to take the job at his alma mater, Miami (Ohio). In his six sea- sons there as coach, he posted a record of 40-17-3(.692), twice sharing the -Mid-American Conference title. All six of his Miami teams finished either third or better in the MAC during his tenure. Where you work should be a place that inspires the mind. Imagine that. 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