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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 20, 1991                   TAG: 9102200121
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: KANSAS CITY, MO.                                LENGTH: Short

SCHULTZ SAYS LEGISLATORS MAY HURT, NOT HELP SCHOOLS

People who ask state legislatures to protect their schools from the NCAA may wind up disqualifying those colleges for NCAA membership, executive director Dick Schultz said Tuesday.

"It might be impossible for [a] state's institutions to be a member of the NCAA because there would be no way for them to comply with the rules," said Schultz, adding that regulation could run afoul of the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in 1988 that said UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian's rights to due process hadn't been abridged by the NCAA process.

A number of states, almost all with schools recently punished, are considering or have considered legislation.

"Under a bill introduced last year by the Illinois legislature, we couldn't have enforced any kind of rule in Illinois," Schultz said. "I wrote all the [college] CEOs and pointed out very carefully that if that bill passed, they would probably not be able to be a member of the NCAA. So that bill ended up being withdrawn." - Associated Press 


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