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...Villanuava 31 1247 58 40.2 Rob Grabemann 1 32 32 32.0 Total Offense Leaders Player G Aff Yds TDR Don Allard 5 132 841 11 Jack Riordan 3 61 330 1 Scott McCabe 5 65 206 2 Tim McGugan 5 34 126 2 Pass Receiving Player G CT Yds Lo TD Mike Granger 5 15 157 27 0 John O'Brian 5 13 172 26 2 Jim Garvey 6 12 192 62 2 Pater Quartararo 5 11 254 71 0 Tackling Leaders Player Tackles Assists Total Joe Azelby 36 17 36 Andy Noian 30 7 37 Joe Margolis...
...shutting down the program? It was unheard of. USF is the first high-powered NCAA member to voluntarily drop a sport under such circumstances. Lo Schiavo's move was heretofore unthinkable in the context of today's big-business intercollegiate athletics. As the combative basketball coach of the University of Indians, Bobby Knight, commented: "I was shocked that a university president would be willing to do that," Lo Schiavo described USF's dilemma elegantly: "How can we contribute to the building of a decent, law-abiding society in this county if educational institutions are willing to suffer their principles...
...Francisco's offenses were only the latest in a series of recent events giving intercollegiate sports and higher education a black mark. In the year preceeding Lo Schiavo's decision, perhaps the most abuse-studded 12 months in the annals of collegiate sports, the following events occurred...
...only way middle-ground approaches will work is if more John Lo Schiavos assert themselves. What was so refreshing about the San Francisco decision was that it came from outside the chummy, clubby atmosphere pervading college sports--beyond the tightly knit coterie of coaches, athletic directors, alumni, and sports writers and broadcasters. The will to roll back the abuses of the system can only come from those above the fray--from college presidents, boards of trustees, and perhaps even from the state legislatures who control the purse strings of the major state schools and their football factories...
Voices of reason are few and far between today in intercollegiate sports. The question for the coming days is whether Lo Schiavo's voice of reason will prove a watershed in the fight to bring sanity to the crazy, wacky world of big-time college sports. The likely danger is that it will be merely a muffled to the stifling, droning, hollowed voiced emanating from the television on cool, fall afternoons...