1983_03 Insight March 1983

              Insight
SPOUTS FEATURES
March 2, Iff)
Reynolds
Raps
By Jeff teyaotos
1
A real steal
Herscbel Walker, the junior running back from Georgia who caused
an uproar last week by signing a professional football contract with tbe
New Jersey Generals of tbe newly-formed United States Football League,
said over the weekend that be had tost Ms enthusiasm for college f ootball
and that be bad no regrets about leaving Georgia before completing his
Walker signed a $9 million three-year contract with tbe New Jersey
Generals last Wednesday, marking him tbe highest-paid player in pro
football history at tbe tender age of 20. It wasn't just tbe amount of tbe
con tract that stirred the controversy, but it was the fact that Walker has
become the first collegiate football player to jump to the pro ranks before
finishing his college eligibility that caused the greatest furor.
Rumors that Walker was about to forego his final year of college to
play to the fledgling USFL first suraced two weeks ago when Walker's attorney. Jack Manton, admitted that he had approached USFL officials
about tbe possibility of playing in the new league.
Several newspapers reported that Walker had signed a contract with
the Genera's, and then changed his mind about giving up his final year of
college and exercised a 24-hour escape clause to nullify the contract.
Walker at first denied the reports, but two days later admitted he had u>
deed signed and then nullified the contract. He then inked a new pact with
the Generals, which will net him about $5 million over the next three
years — liyhidtng roughly $2 million up front
Walker's signing raised several important questions that need to be
answered In the coming months and years. The first, and most important,
Is will Walker's decision to pass up bis senior year for tbe megabucks of
i USFL prompt a rash of similar contract offerings to promising
felt that
ait to
Most experts, including USFL Commissioner Chet Simmons, i
think that Walker's case is a rarity, and that it won't cause a wh
raiding of the college ranks by tbe USFL. I would tend to agree with that
assessment, but that's not to say that the USFL, and possibly the NFL,
won't go after some of the better underclassmen.
Another question that needs to be addressed is whether or not
Walker's rich contract will cause football salaries, in both the NFL and
USFL, to reach astronomical heights.
There hasn't been much speculation on this point, but if Herscbel
Walker, who has never played a down of pro football in his life, can make
$5 miUlion for three years, then established stars like Dan Fonts and
Kellen Winslow of San Diego, Tony Dorsett of Dallas, Earl Campbell of
Houston and super rookie Marcus Allen of the LA Raiders, should be able
to command similar salaries.
Walker, who will turn 21 today, told a weekend news conference that
be didn't leave Georgia for tbe money that Generals' owner J. Walter
Duncan waved in front of him, but that he passed up his final season
because he had "lost his zest for college football and sought new
challenges among tbe professional ranks." Maybe that's true, but for $5
million, I'd lose my zest for college football and want to seek new
challenges in the pros also.
Walker, who is also a top sprinter in track, gave up any nope of competing in the 1984 Olympics for the United States when be signed his name
to that pro contract since i nternationa 1 Olympic rules prohibit any professional athlete from competing in the Olympics. That's not as great a loss,
Carl Lewis, wbo is tbe finest track and field athlete In tbe world today, said last week that Walker probably couldn't make the Olympic
team unless he devoted all his energies toward hts sprinting, arhach laat
likely now since Walker will be devoting most of Ills energy to outrunning
opposing defenders to the USFL.
ItarJpearsthattheBulMcajbaslwtballte
have been looking for. With senior Deal Barmore nursing injuries and
freshman Mark Gustin needing more experience, 6-foot-ll-lnch junior
David Mosebar has stepped Into the starting lineup with surprising
results.
Last week, Mosebar, a transfer from the University of Arizona, got
his first starting assignment in a Bulldog uniform and resrxjnded by scor-
ing eight points, all from the IMS foot range, as the 'Dogs rolled past San
Jose State. Then on Saturday, he did even better, scoring 14 points to earn
KMJ's Player of tbe Game honors, and more importantly, add some
dimension to CSUF's offense.
Early In the season, Mosebar was used Inside by Coach Boyd Grant,
but in spite of being 6-foot-ll, Mosebar did not play welL Grant recently
moved Mosebar to the outside, and the former sUr at Mt. Whitney High in
Visalia has come on strong to earn a starting role as the season winds to a
close this week.
With borne games against UC-Irvine and Fullerton State this week,
the Bulldogs will need Mosebar's outside accuracy If they are to win
a ga inst the An tea ters and Titans. Mosebar will also be a key factor if the
Bulldogs are to win in tbe PCAA Tournament next week in Los Angeles
and qualify for tbe NCAA Tournament
With Ron Anderson and Bernard Thompson performing well Inside,
and with Mitch Arnold, Tyrone Bradley and Mosebar shooting with
greater accuracy from the outside, the Bulldogs now have five solid
players, whereas before Mosebar's coining out party last week, tbe
center position was a big question mark.
Milutinovich guides women's teams
FREDGILDNER
Insight reporter
~ THe road to equitable representation in college slhletics hss not been
smooth, but Diane Milutinovich is one
who believes persistence has paid off.
She daily toils as assistant
ahtletic director and head boncho of
Women's Athletics with an optimistic
spirit of determination to provide the
very best possible for her female
athletes. ^
Simultaneously, she doesn't view
women's athletic teams as "rivals" to
the men's or see any reason to be incensed over the greater attention and
popularity of men's athletics. The latter, she insists, is an airy.
"It's really interesting. Some people think it has to be an either/or proposition, and it doesn't'really," said
the former CSUF graaV- "We know
... that football and basketball have to be
successful because of tbe revenue
they generate for all of us to.be successful. We find the coaches of those
sports to be super-supportive of
women's sports."
The realization of male athletes to
the hard work put in by female
athletes has fostered a mutual respect
for one another's commitment to excellence.
"The men's and women's athletic
programs really complement each-
other," MUutlnovich said.^They
(male athletes) doen't look at female
athletes as people out for a lark. They
see the girls working out during the
season and in the off-season, diving
and rolling in volleyball, running the
steps to basketball and shagging flies
insoftbair."      --n
The advent of Title IX eleven
years ago was a milestone in the
growth of women's athletics. The
now-famous clause in toe Educational
Amendments of 1972 stated that an
athletic program for female athletes
must be made available to those in
terested in participation, instead of
allotting the entire athletic budget to
men's athletics. Title IX specifically
addressed the concern for equitable
opportunities for student athletes, and
was patterned after Ihe Civil Rights
Act of 1964.
Many athletic directors and
coaches of men's athletics viewed Ti-
aUaVlX as an encroachment on their
' future success in sports-particularly
in an atmosphere of tight money and
cut-throat competition (in recruiting
and scheduling). Milutinovich claims
that the initial animosity toward Title
IX came because this was decreed
when people had established a certain
level for the men's athletic budget or
somewhere else. In other words, the
government had declared Title IX to
come into existense but didn't bother
to set up funding for it.
Instead of tbe government or
the universities taking on the responsibility for funding the women's program, they took funding away from
the men's program at many schools.
Milutinovich did not think this was
fair to tbe men's program but maintains that female athletes do have the
right to an equal athletic opportunity.
"There's /no one in women's
athletics who* wants men to lose
'because if the men lose it,
—. will never achieve it," she
'Wei just believe that female
students nave as much right to par-
men. We'd like to see both
ims properly funded so both
men and women can compete in quality programs.
The women's athletic program at
CSUF includes a total of seven sports;
basketball, volleyball, softball, tennis, cross-country, and brack and
field. Since the NCAA rules stipulate
that men's and women's athletic
prgrams at the same school must be
in the same divisional rating, the
CSUF women's program enjoys the
same Division I rating as the men's.
Unlike most of the major men's
sports competing in the PCAA, the
women's teams belong to Nor Pac,
which includes the University of
Pacific, San Jose State, Santa Clara,
University of San Francisco, UC-
Berkley, Washington, Washington
State, Oregon and Oregon State.
Coupled with the men's membership
in the PCAA, CSUF gets athletic
media attention in five states.
There are, however, certain
unavoidable disadvantages the
women's program has to deal with,
particularly from a geographical
standpoint.
' "Teams from other schools can
drive by us via Interstate 5 or fly over
us to Northern or Southern California,
and for tbe cost of the trip play two or
three other Division 1 schools," she
laments. "If tbey come to Fresno,
tbey have to play us or UOP (to ,
make the trip worthwhile) and they
don't like to do that because it's expensive and they pick up only two
games. We're working on giving
(money) guarantees or hotel rooms to
draw these schools to Fresno and
defray their expenses.
"Also, for our travel, we have a
pretty good-sized travel budget. But
in the Bay Area or the Los Angeles
basin they can run across town and
pick up five or six games a year when
we can't do that."
Along with the broadening of the
scope of women's sports is the
number of women moving up in tbe
athletic administration. No less than
three schools on the West Coast have
female athletic directors: Linda
Dempsey at UC-Irvine, Judy Sweet at
UC-San Diego and Irene Shea at
Sacramento State. There are no
female A.D.s at football-playing Division I-A institutions, but that could
change in the next month or so. In
CSUF's search for a new athletic
director, one of the candidates is
Mary Alice Hill, wbo is currently the
Assistant A.D. at San Diego State.
Coincidentally, she presently serves
under former CSUF and current San
Diego State athletic director Gene
Bourdct. From what she knows of
Hill, Milutinovich holds her in high
esteem.
"I think those in charge aren't
concerned whether the new A.D. is a
man or a woman— they want a good
job done," she insisted.
"From a feminist standpoint, I
think it's fantastic that we don't have
a token woman who's been included. I
think she's a very viable candidate
who would be good for athletics and
women in general. In fact, she had
been acting A.D. at San Diego State
while Gene Bourdet was recuperating
from his heart attack."
-nln the wake of Russ Sloan's departure, much criticism was heaped upon
the former, athletic director by
various people in the university.
Milutinovich, however, saw a side of
Sloan that many others didn't.
"Russ Sloan was very fair to tbe
women's athletic program," she said.
"It all started when Russ was executive director of the Bulldog Foundation and Jack Wilcox was interim
A.D. Jack took a real interest and
was probably tbe first athletic director here that came to women's
athletic events. Pat Ogle (the present
Bulldog Foundation chief) has been
very good to us, as Russ bad been.
"There are a lot of things you like
and you always want more, but we
were treated fairly and made a a lot of
progress during this time."
The progress of women's athletics
at CSUF in the Last 13 years has been
marked by a near doubling of
women's scholarships from 2s" to 45,
the expansion of women's sports from
three to seven and the adequate funding for each of these. Milutinovich
said tbe biggest funding they need
right now is to provide full-time
salaries to assistant coaches. Current
ly they work on a part-time basis.
She also hopes to acquire the
funds necessary to upgrade the
women's facilities and keep pace with
the competitive women's teams' CSU*
is fielding.
"We have the reputation as being
one of tbe up and coming premier
women's athletic programs, certainly
in California," she said. "We're gaining recognition for the class of our
program and the professionalism we
operate with."
One of the biggest benefits the
women's program has enjoyed from
tbe men's program is" the spill-over of
Red Wave enthusiasm into women's
sports. Women's basketball coach
Bob Spencer claims that attendance
at the women's basketball games is
double that of last year's attendance.
Milutinovich adds  that the media
the CSUF men's program is beginning
to shine the spotlight on the feats of
tbe women's program.
"Once people recognize the success that our football, basketball,
baseball, gob" and soccer programs
have had, tbey say 'Oh yeah. I've
heard of Fresno State, they're ranked
to these men's sports. I'll bet their
women's sports are pretty good," she
said.
"There Is definitely a team spirit
in the whole athletic program-we're
all a part of one team and that's
Fresno State's team."
Women's swim team endures season
SHELL! ANDRANIGIAN
Insight reporter
1:27 a.m. A light shines from the
series of square windows on the
poolside of tbe men's gym. Inside, the
scent of chlorine pervades the air.
Two girls are swimming laps In
lanes one and three. Freestyler
Valerie Hagopian approaches the
pool, shivering. She turns to Women's
Swim Coach Billie Poston and asks:
"Billle, can I throw my goggle In
there and get out?"
" We ha ve a whole long weekend,''
Poston answers. (The next practice is
not until Monday night.)
Hagopian throws to tbe goggles
and stays perched on tbe short white
storting block.
A slim girl in gray sweats and a
blue ski jacket wanders in. Her
brownish—blonde hair is
chlorine—streaked from the pool. She
is Tracy Gearhart,  the team's
"That's a disgusting workout,"
co—captain Vicki Downturn says.
"Don't ever give it "to one of your
swimmers."
"Look at all those 500s," Hagopian groans to Vickie. "Three 500s!"
And so goes a morning workout
for the now-concluded women's swim
season.
The final event was in Santo Clara
last weekend where tbe team ended
its season by placing sixth in the Nor-
Pac Swimming Championships.
Hagopian was tbe highest finisher
for the women with a fifth in the SO
freestyle. She tied a school record to
the 100 freestyle and swam a leg on
the record-setting 800 freestyle relay
team. Gearhart set two school
records, one in the SO backstroke and
the other in the 100 individual medley.
In addition to two other broken school
records, 25 lifetime bests were set
The team is a collection of distinct
ming some of tbe same events.
Hagopian said that it works out
although there was.a sense of competition at first because neither one
were sure about what to expect from
tbe other.
"If she (Coach Poston) doesn't
put us in the same thing, it kinda
helps," Hagopian said.
Poston said that both swimmers
"seem to handle whatever competition they have very well.
"We compete to everything so it
swimming because only 4.5 scholarships are allotted for tbe sport.
Osterkamp said that Poston
divides these up based on need.
Downum was a walk-on her
freshman year and said she received
scholarship money tbe next season
because many of her teammates had
graduated.
"I would estimate that nine-
tenths of them (swimmers) get their
i, maybe more," Poston said.
Downum, wbo is taking 20 units of
only because of their common interest
'Billie says she's kind of
proud of us since we get up
in the morning and swim, go
to school and come back in
the afternoon to swim
again.'
training schedule is in accordance
with her events.
"Someone wbo swims 1650 will
train differently than someone who
swims sprint or 50-yard events,"
Poston said.
Sprinters do more weightlifting.
"This it a defending sport,"
Gearhart said. "It takes a tot of time.
"Billie says she's kind of proud of
us since we get up in the morning and
swim, go to school and come back to
the afternoon to swim again."
Newland, wbo swims sprints, said
that she usually doesn't have to go to
"I'm bare, I'm getting ready,"
reassures tha coach. Tbe other
swimmers burst into laughter. Five
"    'a later Gearhart is In the pool.
tha
for
Downum is tbe only one who is
married. Gearhart became a
beckstroker this season because there
people must swim varied sets of
500—yard swims. Each 500—yard
swim Is equivalent to 20 laps of swimming, and 76 laps make a mile.
to her specialty, the breast stroke.
Hagopian is a computer science major wbo got straight 'A's in high
school. Patricia ("Trish") Newland
used to play on a men's high school
water polo team. Kris Osterkamp Is a
resident advisor In the dorms.
Hagopian and Newland both live
In the same house in addition to swim-
really doesn't matter," Newland said.
"Friendly rivalry I guess you'd say."    "will hopefully graduate" in May with
Newland also said that Hagopian   a   degree  In  physical   education,
is a different type of swimmer than
her. 	
"She's a mental swimmer, I'm a
physical swimmer," Newland said. "The interesting thing about this
"She's  really  strong  mentally,    sport is the amount of time you spend
at it," Poston said. "You need time in
the water to improve."
Tbe intensity of each
"I just have to lift weights," she
said.
"It's real hard if you don't have
your schedule worked out just right,"
Downum said, and admitted that she
has a harder time adjusting because
of breaks between classes and swim-
"I either go to the library and pretend I'm studying or else I go eat,"
she said.
•This semester I bad an eight o'
clock class that I waa always 20
minutes late to," Hagopian aald.
"The things I really gave up were
going to tbe movies with friends and
being on tbe floor," Osterkamp said.
that the season is over.
Despite tbe rigors of tbe tong
season, most of tbe swimmers interviewed said that they would try to
keep in shape after the season is over.
"As soon as the season is over, I'll
do almost as much," Newland said.
She plans to run three days a
week and swim three days to a Monday through Saturday work schedule.
"If you reach goals It's real
rewarding," she said.
Osterkamp, however, said that it
is bard for her to get self-motivated
once the season is over since all she
wants to do is sleep.
Swimmers do admit to missing
e here for something else besides
Gearhart and Hagopian complain
of not being able to go skiing during
the season because of ma '
tices held during the seme
Tbey said that several of the swimmers plan to go skiing this Friday now
"You miss certain aspects of it
but you know it's going to come
around again," Newland said.
Newland, Hagopian and Gearhart
all have two aeaaons ofelibibUity left,
but for those wbo win graduate it's
another story.
"I really wonder what I'm going
to do now that I don't have any years
of ehgiblUty left," Osterkamp said.
"I'm not going to miss tt this
season," aha aald. "I have all that
homework   to  catch   up  on."