1979_11 The Daily Collegian November 1979

              'ilcox hopes new stadium will prove contagious
gy Tossy Sseveass
Deify Ceategian Staff Reperter
For years, die facility svhere CSUF
I toother rnaeor
•t was below par
with the opening of CSUF s
stadium sometime next fall, dw
i will at last have a rsome com-
t toother Division I schools
For CSUF's other sports, hosvever,
the same cannot be said According to
other coaches CSUF's facilities am
below those deserving of a Division I
school One went so far as to say some
facilities were almost below high school
standards
The problem of less than superb
facilities has been with CSUF for quae
a while, as Interim Athletic Director
lack Wilcox readily admits But after
having suffered with that problem for
so long, Wilcox teets the situation is
due to irnprove Wilcox said he hopes
the school's sports, on the whole, will
have a set-up cornparabte to other maaor
college» within five years
But Wilcox said, as dad marry coaches,
that the rnoney needed for many of the
needed improvements won t come easy
Since state funds are usually spent on
facilities which benefit the most stu
such as ecfocattonal or recree-
ttortei facilities, a university s sports
s facilities am low on the
list because of the rolativefy
tew students who make use of them
According to Wilcox, the rnoney will
have to come from outside sources -
namely local contributions He points
out that all the funds toward the stadium
were from ccxrtnbuttons. many of which
were local, and none were supplied by
That type of community
is what Wilcox  savs will be
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needed in order to improve the other
That is why Wilcox and CSUF are
beginning a drive toward that support,
basing the rriovement on the stadium
and its backers Using the stadium as the
foundation. Wilcox eneiscons the movement much tike that of a contagious
disease *When we get the total athletic
program going here,' he saad, *l think
we're going to have a cancerous-type
of effect '
By basing the drive on the football
team and their new stadium, Wilcox is
depending on the stadium s backers
to coritrsbute tn a simitar fashion to the
Wilcox alluded to head
i Bob Padilla s termination
as a step in the direction toward that
support
With football generally rated a* the
number one sport in college, a team's
inability to excite a community through
the football team hinders the commu
mt> s support of the other sports on
campus On the othtfr rsand, if success
tul in football, other sports seem to be
accepted easier The release of Padilla,
Wilcox said, was not so much a reflection
of Padilla s abilities as a coach, but
rather on his ability to stimulate the
community "Bob is a professional.' he
said, "but he isn t the type that can
excite t
As Red Estes, CSUF track coach,
points out, without cornrnunity support
the rnoney could take 10-20 years to
raise Estes sasd the track team's fund
drive, similar to other sports, brings in
an average of S 10,000 to 12,000 a year
"At dwt rate, it would take nearly 20
years," he said for dw Pack's much
iseeded new seating and lighting and
P A system
Other new seating rweded is in baseball s Betden Field But white dw
facilities for those sports are rnore
than aajaopate as far as the athletes are
eortccrrwd ("You are not going to find a
batter track surface artvvmore on the
West Coast." Estes says), sports such as
tennis and swimming have problems for
both athletes and spectators
"The courts here are poor to terrible *
CSUF tennis coach Duane Ballard says
'They am not rwarfy adeopate for a urn
versify this sue ' Ballard has numerous
complaints about the tennis situation at
CSUF. many of which concern the poor
planning he says went into the construction of the 12 courts currently available
He points out the many safety Isajtords
the courts fsotd, such as drinking fountains within the courts, gates swinging
into the courts instead of away from and
support poles protrudwtg onto dw courts
instead of outside 'ft was poor planning." he says, "All rt takes is cornmon
sense "
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courts' ccescrittons that he says at
doesn't sfsow a recruit the facility *t
don't go anyvrhere near the temp
courts,'he said "I'm ernbarrassed gal
we have to play here "
Another sport with stsejra
is swimming, although Bittee I
women s coach, didn't go as far as P
say ska was embarrassed But she aha
Mts the inadeojuactes Sing-
out the pool's wrsdth as too narrow
and deep end as too shallow, she says
that every other university in CSUF's.
conference has two poors and "Ours
doesn't even come close to either d
theirs '
So, while Ballard has proposed a rem
12 court cornpfex north of the mea'f
gym, and Poston. as weft as the men's
swimming coach, Don Laster. desep
a new pool, Wilcox and CSUF are car-
rentty coping with the StOpation by to-
proving the already ejtaaliihed raca-
tws Complaints by Ballard about tte
courts' poor playing surfaces apt
brought about the resurfacing of eejk
of the courts, with the remaining ten*
scfseduled to be redone neat surrasw
And this past summer, the pool s dak
was retited for safety purposes
As for complaints by some of the otter
sports, such as gymnastics where coot*
Melva Ervin says the praasssx* of tie
weight room within the gymnastk s cot
room clutters up and corduse* the srtas-
tton for her girls, the srtuataon may ttte
But Wilcox reiterates that   with i
community' s support, and a little I
from the state the picture at (
be a lot brighter frve years from now
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