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page seven to meet one of the Athletic Department’s very own trainers, page eight for a breakdown of coach contracts, page 11 to find out why Long Beach State is football-less

FOR THE WIN

For the final special issue of the semester, The Daily 49er trains its eye on athletics.

Turn to page six for a look back at the legendary Long Beach State basketball team of the early ‘70s,

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and page 14 to find out why a CSULB alumni went south of the border to play basketball. Flip the paper around for an analysis of the amount of student fees funding the athletic budget.

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

49ers come up short LBSU’s championship run ends as the Cougars show why they are the No. 1 team in the country.

By Kayce Contatore Contributing Writer

The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team saw its season come to an end as top seeded BYU topped the 49ers 3-1 in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament.

LBSU head coach Alan Knipe said that his team wasn’t able to keep BYU off their game or get into a rhythm of their own to win the match.

“Ultimately, we didn’t get the result we wanted, but I’m incredibly proud of each and every one who wears the black and gold,” Knipe said.

Serving errors and a struggle to put away attacks plagued the 49ers and ended their run for a National Championship. LBSU had a staggering 19 service errors and fought against the tough serve of BYU, which totaled six service aces for the match.

The 49ers kept pace with the Cou-

P hoto courtesy of Christopher Shannon

LBSU’s senior middle blocker Taylor Gregory goes up for a kill against BYU in the 49ers’ 3-1 loss to the Cougars in the NCAA Tournament semifinals on Thursday in Rec Hall, University Park, Pennsylvania. gars the first three sets, taking set two and eliminating BYU’s hopes for a sweep. Exhaustion set in for the 49ers in set four as team kill leader T.J. DeFalco struggled to find his pace and land a kill shot. DeFalco hit .298 on

the night, picking up 23 kills with nine errors. The 49ers as a whole hit .244 on the night, compared to the Cougars’ .337 hitting percentage.

Sophomore outside hitter Brenden Sander led the Cougars with 14

kills and no errors on the night, while sophomore opposite hitter Ben Patch followed close behind with 13.

Knipe said that he is proud of his team for making it to the semifinals and that they are on the right path for

the future.

“This is exactly where we wanted to be and we like where we’re going,” Knipe said.

BYU moved on to the final, but lost to Ohio State, 3-0, on Saturday.

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Young guns in for the kill Column A young core makes the 49ers contenders in the immediate future.

By Kayce Contatore Contributing Writer

After a standout season for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team this year, the 49ers hold great promise for the years to come.

With so many freshman players taking the reins for the 49ers this season, it for LBSU to become a top team in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and in the country.

While the youth of the 49ers was one of their greatest assets to the team this season, it was also the youth that ultimately ended their conference title and National Championship hopes.

For the first time in eight years, LBSU earned a bid to the NCAA tournament, but ultimately fell to BYU in the semifinals. Exhaustion became a large factor for the younger players on the team, as they may not have been used to playing high caliber volleyball in back-to-back

matches for such a long season.

The 49ers hit at a .244 percentage, one of the lowest hitting percentages they have had on the season, and totaled 19 service errors which is the third highest amount this year.

Now that the first season is under their belts, the 49ers’ young guns know what to expect in matches and can better hold their own against some of the senior-laden squads in the league.

Coming into this season, LBSU had arguably the top recruiting class in the country, bringing the No. 1 recruit TJ DeFalco home to Long Beach. Add in setter Josh Tuaniga and hitter Kyle Ensing and the 49ers created an unstoppable trio for the years to come.

DeFalco leads the 49ers with 474 kills on the season, averaging 4.26 kills per set. Not far behind is Ensing with 333 kills for a 3.08 kills per set. Tuaniga was the one who helped direct DeFalco and Ensing to a great season, setting up a .327 hitting percentage on the year for the team.

What’s great for the 49ers is that these young players haven’t even reached their full potential yet. They have three more years with the team to learn and grow as players.

If LBSU brings in another topranked recruiting class for the 2017

P hoto courtesy of Christopher Shannon

LBSU’s freshman outside hitter T.J. DeFalco spikes the ball against the BYU block in the Cougars’ 3-1 win over the 49ers in the NCAA Tournament semifinals on Thursday in Rec Hall, University Park, Pennsylvania. season, this team could be unstoppable in the MPSF for the next few years.

The only starter that LBSU will lose next season is middle blocker Taylor Gregory, who has propelled the 49er block the last few seasons. Gregory totalled 96 blocks this year to help the 49ers average 2.43 blocks per set.

The 49ers are welcoming back middle blockers Bryce Yould and Amir Lugo-Rodriguez for their senior season. Yould averaged 1.90 kills per set at middle and chipped in 84 total blocks on the season. In Lugo-Rodriguez’s first season back after redshirting last year, he had a .400 hitting percentage, aver-

aging 1.38 kills per set.

While the 49ers didn’t have the postseason they were hoping for after losing to UCLA in the MPSF semifinals and BYU in the NCAA semifinals, the young team has great prospects for the coming years.

LBSU showed dominance in the MPSF, which is conceivably the most difficult conference in the country. The MPSF had 10 of its 12 teams ranked in the top 15 according to the NCAA coaches rankings, with four teams in the top five.

The 49ers proved that they are able to play against the best within their league, but also in the country with their non-conference matches against NCAA top 25 schools such as Ohio State University, Penn State University and Lewis University.

The best asset that the 49ers will have over the next few years is the team chemistry between the younger players and their ability to adapt to the conference teams. If that chemistry is matched with the addition of new recruits over the next few seasons, LBSU will hold a greater advantage over other teams.

After this season, the 49ers can learn and grow together to become the top team in the conference and hold the number one spot in the country again.

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BASEBALL

Dirtbags’ series win no walk in paradise

LBSU takes two games against Hawai’i to move into third place in the Big West.

Series Leaders

Standings BASEBALL

By Matthew Simon Staff Writer

After giving up a three-run lead, the Long Beach State baseball team scored one run at the top half of the first inning to give the Dirtbags a 4-3 win and series win against Hawai’i Sunday at Les Murakami Baseball Stadium.

LBSU (28-18, 11-7) scored a run in the first, second and fifth innings to jump out to a 3-0 lead, but the Rainbow Warriors battled back in the bottom half of the sixth tying the game at 3.

At the top of the ninth inning, freshman Domenic Colacchio came in to pinch hit for freshman centerfielder Brooks Stotler. The freshman delivered with a leadoff double down the left field line.

Senior Zack Rivera pinch ran for Colacchio and scored the go-ahead run on a throwing error after senior third baseman Zack Domingues flied out to center field to give LBSU a 4-3

First Baseman Daniel Jackson

6 - 14

5 - 13

4 RBIs

4 RBIs

Double

Triple

lead.

On Friday night sophomore Chris Mathewson gave up five runs in the fourth inning as Hawai’i took a 5-0 lead. The Dirtbags cut the lead to 5-2 . The Rainbow Warriors scored an insurance run in the seventh to put the game away as the Dirtbags lost, 6-3.

LBSU bounced back on Saturday taking a 4-2 lead into the ninth inning,

Big West

OVR

1. Cal State Fullerton

12 - 3

30 - 16

2. UC Santa Barbara

9-6

31 - 12

3. Long Beach State

11 - 7

28 - 18

4. Cal Poly

7-8

26 - 20

5. UC Irvine

7-8

26 - 19

6. UC Riverside

7-8

20 - 24

7. Hawai'i

8 - 10

19 - 25

8. Cal State Northridge

7 - 11

28 - 16

9. UC Davis

4 - 11

15 - 26

Left Fielder Marcus Doi

but Hawai’i tied the game in the bottom of the ninth.

The Dirtbags scored seven runs in the first half of the 12th inning to take score 11-4 lead. That score would stand as LBSU put Hawai’i down in order to end the game.

LBSU will be back at Blair Field for a non-conference series against San Jose State starting Friday at 6 p.m.

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SOFTBALL

49ers rally to take series

Standings

LBSU comes back from a game one loss to take two games against UC Riverside.

SOFTBALL Big West

OVR

1. Cal State Fullerton

15 - 3

41 - 13

2. Cal State Northridge

11 - 7

31 - 22

3. Long Beach State

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30 - 19

4. UC Santa Barbara

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5. UC Riverside

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32 - 19

6. Cal Poly

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24 - 23

7. Hawai'i

7 - 11

23 - 28

8. UC Davis

4 - 14

15 - 32

Series Leaders

By Matthew Simon Staff Writer

Behind multiple rallies the Long Beach State softball team pulled out the series win against UC Riverside winning the rubber match Sunday, 4-3.

In the rubber match, LBSU (30-19, 10-8) rallied in the seventh inning to tie the game at 1. The Highlanders took a 3-1 lead in the first half of the eighth inning after two home runs by sophomore catcher Chelsey Holley and junior Stephanie Tickemyer.

The 49ers rallied in the bottom half of the inning to win after sophomore infielder LT Torres had the game-winning hit to score sophomore outfielder Rachel Loera as LBSU won, 4-3.

With senior third baseman Darian Tautalafua handcuffed by 13 walks in 13 plate appearances over the course of the series, LBSU had to find different ways to score runs.

UC Riverside’s plan worked in the first game of Saturday’s doublehead-

Third Baseman Darian Tataulafua

First Baseman Natalie Sanchez

0-0

4-7

1 RBI

3 RBIs

13 walks

home run

er as the Highlanders (32-19-1, 8-10) put 10 runs on the board to win, 10-2.

UCR’s strategy didn’t work in game two as the Highlanders’ plan backfired. LBSU came back from a 2-0 deficit tying the game 2-2 in the fourth.

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Loera giving LBSU the 3-2 win.

The series win moves the 49ers into third place in the Big West heading to the last series of the regular season.

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When basketball was king

Landing a ‘Shark’ Part 1

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By Greg Diaz Editor-in-chief

n a crowded Southern California landscape, the LBSU basketball program has always struggled to be counted among the “big boys” of UCLA and USC. But for a six-year stretch in the early ‘70s, LBSU was grabbing the top recruits in the country and butting heads with John Wooden, the most decorated coach in college basketball history.

This is the first in a three-part series looking at the time when talk of basketball dominated

Long Beach. The next two parts will be posted on d49erspecial.com this week. Unless otherwise noted, all quotes are from past and present Daily 49er interviews.

THE FINAL DAYS of the 1967-68 season were a letdown for what was then known as the California State College of Long Beach basketball team. A team that had been tied or in first place all season long fell to fourth place in the span of a week. That month, Randy Sandefur, who had just taken over men’s basketball that season, took a position coaching the volleyball team.

On March 9, 1968, the 49ers announced future Hall of Famer Jerry Tarkanian as the new coach of the team.

Tark “the Shark” was coming off a two-year stint coaching at Pasadena City College and was already known for unconventional recruiting tactics. Tark targeted many of the Junior College players and broke the unwritten rule that said teams needed to start at least three white players.

Fred Miller former LBSU athletic director

We don’t want an uncontroversial coach. Winning revolves around controversy.

Randy Sandefur men’s basketball coach, 196768 season

He goes to the limits of the rules, but what’s wrong with that?

Jerry Tarkanian head basketball coach, 196873

They [the NCAA] tried to prove undue influence in recruiting our athletes, but they didn’t have anything at all. The more games you win, the more problems you are going to have.

Randy Sandefur

Ed Ratleff Long Beach State player, 1970-73

Here’s a guy who can win it all for Long Beach in a span of a very few years. I might have won an occasional championship, but it would have taken luck and the right players. I don’t have the experience, the contacts or the resources that Tarkanian has.

Long Beach State was not a big name school, so you just can’t go out and get these players that everybody heard about. They just don’t come to Long Beach, they go to UCLA and USC.

Dan Olsen CSULB technology coordinator, journalism and lifelong LBSU fan

[Tarkanian] was able to bring in the best available players that might not have fit in other places.

Sam Robinson LBSU transfer player, 196870

I came to Long Beach because of Coach Tarkanian. He cares about us on and off the court; we can always talk to him.

Fred Miller

We’re entering a new era at CSLB.

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49er guard Shawn Johnson makes a quick stop and sets to pass down the lane. Johnson played for LBSU from 1968-70.

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IN HIS FIRST year as the Cal State Long Beach coach, Jerry Tarkanian coached the team to a 9-1 conference record to win the CCAA championship. Overall the team finished with a 23-3 record, missing out on a bid to the NCAA tournament, not deemed worthy to the selection committee.

Jerry Tarkanian

I worked those kids really hard. Harder than I worked any team before.

Ed Ratleff

Practice was very tough, but as a player you think it was fair. If you made a mistake, you did your running. He punished you that way.

Jerry Tarkanian

Shawn Johnson LBSU player 1968-70

We won the league championship, and generally played good ball, so I’ve got to say that I’m satisfied. We felt the pressure even before the season began. Everyone expected us to be a great team from the start.

We were all new to each other. Twelve out of the 14 of us were JC transfers. We had a lot of problems, but we learned to work together.

Lonnie Teper Tarkanian’s Cagers compiled a 23-3 record former Forty-niner columnist on the year and reversed two of the defeats.

They easily handled a majority of their opponents … When Seattle was picked over the 49ers for an NCAA berth, it was figured that at least an NIT [National Invitation Tournament] berth would materialize.

Fred Miller

There’s never a West Coast representative in the NIT.

Jerry Tarkanian

I don’t think it’s that bad a deal — we’re not that well known yet.

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TARK RETURNED THE next year with one of the top recruits in the country, All-American Ed Ratleff out of Ohio. He started the season on the Long Beach State freshman team, but registered 71 points in his debut. Ratleff, who averaged an astonishing 39.7 points and 25.4 rebounds, would join a program on the rise in all areas, with the team selling out games and moving eight home games to the Long Beach Arena.

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Long Beach State basketball player George Trapp goes up for a lay in. Trapp was a member of the LBSU team from 1969-71 adn played under Hall-of-Famer Jerry Tarkanian.

Ed Ratleff

When I got there out of high school in ‘69, Tark was already there and they had a pretty good team.

Lonnie Teper

Every coach in the country would give his right arm for this “problem” – having so much talent that the starters on a championship team will have to struggle to keep their starting assignments.

Jerry Tarkanian

I’ve told the kids that we’re comparable to 30-40 other teams and, if everyone plays to his capability, we’ll be the one to advance and be the most successful.

Ed Ratleff

We played at the Gold Mine gym on campus. And it would be sold out and rocking.

It got to where we had to play down at the [Long Beach] Arena, because too many people were coming to the games.

Dan Olsen

I remember the [Gold Mine] gym being a wild place where, I think it probably held close to 2,000 people. And they would put close to 2,000 people in there every night.

Ray Gritton LBSU player, 1968-70

No doubt about it, the crowd gets going and things start to happen.

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GOLDEN AGE

continued from page 6 Ed Ratleff

Dan Olsen

Fred Miller

If the game started at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and I walked in there at about 11 o’clock to go get taped so I could shoot around, the gymnasium was packed at that time. It was packed.

Things started to become great, and everybody recognized that the team was going places. So the team moved downtown to the Long Beach Arena, which was about a 12,000 seat arena. It became quite a big production.

THE 1969-70 SEASON saw the 49ers finish with a 24-5 record. LBSU got its first ever bid to the NCAA tournament and dispatched of Weber State 92-73 to set up a showdown with UCLA and legendary coach John Wooden.

LBSU entered the game with a 19 game winning streak.

LBSU would go on to lose 84-65.

George Trapp LBSU player, 1969-71

It’s a simple fact of pride. We’ve got a good team, so why shouldn’t we be a winner?

Jerry Tarkanian

The kids were listless during warmups so I decided to speed up the tempo with a fullcourt press. It worked, except we couldn’t take advantage of our shots.

Ray Gritton

UCLA’s guards would be the best I’d play against.

Sam Robinson

We’ve been thinking about UCLA ever since we thought we might have a chance to play them.

Jerry Tarkanian

In a game like this, you only get one chance.

You do it or you don’t. We didn’t. Sometimes a good team just has a bad night. I guess this is an indication of how far this program still has to go.

WHILE THE 1969-70 team lost big to UCLA, the returning players would go on to face Wooden’s Bruins in the next two NCAA tournaments. On Wednesday, d49erspecial.com will cover Ratleff’s introduction into this budding rivalry and LBSU’s climb up the Associated Press rankings.

This is the biggest thing that’s happened here in a long time.

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Parts two and three of “When basketball was king” will be released on

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Top 5 Head Coach Salaries

Daniel Monson

Brian Gimmillaro

Jody Wynn

Alan Knipe

Troy Buckley

$15,698

$14,585

$13,324

$11,667

$11,091

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n the court, the field or the track — nothing is guaranteed.

However, the exception is in the guaranteed games inked at the bargaining table.

Casually referred to as “buy games,” these matches are scheduled in advance of the conference season. The buying home team negotiates with the opposing travel team to go head-to-head, exchanging thousands of dollars in hopes of an RPI boost.

For state schools with modest budgets, Long Beach State University’s athletics director Vic Cegles said that guaranteed game clauses provide a gateway to keep major coaches like Dan Monson around for mid-major teams like LBSU. Cegles

Women’s volleyball Monthly salary-

followed this unconventional route, including a guaranteed games clause in Monson’s contract that entitled his client to additional compensation through preseason matches.

“It’s a really creative way to invest in Dan,” Cegles said, referencing his unconventional strategy to pay the head coach for men’s basketball at LBSU. ”If we’re ever going to advance this program, it’s because we beat Kansas. We beat North Carolina. And we get into the top 20. And we go to the Final Four. And we win two games in the NCAA tournament … he’s the right guy to help us get to that.”

Out-of-state buy games rivaling teams at Duke University or Oregon State University retail at an estimated $90,000, Cegles said. A non-conference match against the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins on in-state turf runs for

Women’s basketball Monthly Salary-

about $40,000.

The 49ers visited five campuses for buy games this past season, four out-of-state and one in-state, roughly estimating a $400,000 sum split between Monson and the school.

Monson’s base salary since his second year has been $358,640, making him the highest-paid coach in the Big West Conference, according to LBSU coach contracts requested by the Daily 49er.

His contract provides a retention bonus of $100,000 among other incentives, such as an additional $5,000 for snagging a regular-season Big West championship title and $15,000 for winning the Big West Basketball Tournament, and automatically receiving an NCAA bid.

The compensation cap was negotiated at $800,000.

To compare, the base salary of UCLA’s

Men’s volleyball Monthly Salary-

men’s basketball head coach, Steve Alford is set at $300,000. It is complimented by a sum of $2.4 million under “other pay” as well as benefits of $50,000, according to Transparent California, a database of government employee compensation.

Guaranteed games are common practice within a rich marketplace that can absorb the costs, namely college football and basketball leagues, Cegles said. They also afford mid-major teams time on the national stage.

“These schools have $150 million budgets. It’s all from TV money,” Cegles said.

“If [LBSU] had a football team, and we wanted to play Michigan, they’d probably give us $1.5 million for a game.”

Cegles recalled the “unbelievable

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Touchdown catches like this no longer happen at LBSU. It has been 25 years since the university eliminated the football program.

Assistant Sports Editor

With 1:47 remaining in the fourth quarter, Cal State Fullerton trailed its archrival Long Beach State, 36-31, at Long Beach City College’s Veterans Memorial Stadium on Nov. 23, 1991.

The Titans quarterback, Chad May, drove Fullerton down the field and finished the series off with a 13-yard go-ahead touchdown pass to wide receiver Frank Davis. Fullerton, which was then known as Fullerton State, handed the 49ers a gut-wrenching one point defeat.

Sixteen days later, on Dec. 9, members of the LBSU football team were blindsided when the university announced it was officially dropping the sport.

“When you go through something like that, it is devastating to you because [I] had hopes and dreams of being a head football coach, somewhere,” said Willie Brown, NFL Hall of Fame cornerback and the final LBSU head football coach. “And then they take it away from you like that without even giving you a fair chance to do something.”

A year before Brown took the job, the 49ers finished the season with a 6-5 record under NFL HOF coach George Allen. But, on New Year’s Eve 1990, Allen passed away and since Brown was already an assistant coach, he inherited Allen’s position.

Allen, according to an Los Angeles Times article in 2012, was doused with a Gatorade shower by the players after the 49ers beat the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 29-20 on Nov. 17 1990, which captured the team’s first winning season in three years.

Drenched in Gatorade, Allen stuck around for post game interviews and boarded the bus back to

campus in the soaked clothes. Although he caught a chance to be there all day and go to the game in pneumonia several days later, he actually died the afternoon.” from ventricular fibrillation, a variation of a carAlthough the team, according to Brown, drew diac arrest. an average of 10,000 fans per home game in 1991, When his irregular heartbeat started to convulse it still comes short of the NCAA home attendance in late December, it led to his death. requirements of 15,000.

Both Allen and Brown promised the athletic After the 49ers finished the 1991 season with department that they would turn the football proa 2-9 record, the athletic department had more gram around; in turn, the team would generate ammunition to argue dropping football. On top more revenue support for the financially declining of that, it was going to have to cut $465,000 out athletic department facing severe budget cuts. of its budget for the following season., according When Brown asked the to a 1992 Los Angeles Times university why it was droparticle. The athletic director ping football, the adminisat the time, Dave O’Brien, trators said that football was told the Times that football not affordable anymore. would account for $300,000 I think what hurt this However, Brown told and for that reason, dropinstitution back in 1992 is them, “if George Allen was ping the sport was logical. that it didn’t have a place alive I don’t think you would With the university coming drop football.” closer to making the anto play. You don’t have With little support comnouncement, Brown heaved resources and the Cal ing from the state and ticket a last-second hail mary to State system isn’t built to sales on top of a losing resave the team. provide those resources. cord in six of the last eight “I had a couple friends seasons, the school was in a down in Southern California stranglehold, financially and that wanted to donate a cou-Vic Cegles, competitively. On top of that, ple million dollars once they LBSU athletic director the team had no stadium on heard that the school wantcampus to play at Since the ed to drop football,” Brown team and hosted games at Long Beach City Colsaid. “But [the school] didn’t believe it so they did lege. away with it.”

“George Allen had proposed that we put a staBrown said he was so devastated because when dium on campus, because most schools that have he was originally promoted, he got the notion a football team have it on campus,” Brown said. “A from then-university president Curtis L. McCray majority of students that go to Long Beach commit and O’Brien that he would have time to turn the to school every day, and when school is out they go program around. home. But if we had a football stadium, they have However, both McCray and O’Brien weren’t

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“You’re butting your head against the wall when you’re going against the President and Athletic Director,” he said.

Once Brown got word of the news, he set up a closed-door meeting with all of the players and recommended his players to transfer if the opportunity presented itself and assured the players which stayed that their “[NCAA scholarships] would be honored.”

The following day, about 30 different football coaches from across the country went to campus to recruit and sign new players for their program.

A total of 24 former players from the 49ers roster transferred out to play at a different university. One of those players is HOF running back Terrell Davis who transferred to the University of Georgia and was drafted in 1995 by the Denver Broncos.

Since 1991, LBSU has yet to play a single snap, and that doesn’t appear to change anytime soon.

Twenty-five years later, the issue remains the same: no stadium, no money. No money, no football.

Considering how far college football has grown in popularity since 1991, it might be out of LBSU’s range. According to ESPN, it’s the third most popular sport in the nation behind the NFL and MLB. “I think what hurt this institution back in 1992 is that it didn’t have a place to play,” said LBSU’s athletic director Vic Cegles. “You don’t have resources and the Cal State system isn’t built to provide those resources. You also have to raise a lot of money and that’s a challenge because we don’t have the professionals that schools like [University of California Los Angeles] and Berkeley do.”

Cegles spent time at several universities — Arizona State, Rutgers University and Temple University — that are members of one of the Power 5 conferences — ACC, Big-10, Big-12, PAC-12 and SEC — and he said they have a major advantage over the mid-majors.

“The bigger schools have all the resources, they have all the TV money,” Cegles said. “[They] all have the big TV packages. Every school got $25 million dollars, just for TV before they sell a ticket, before they did anything.”

When ESPN agreed with the Big Ten conference to launch a conference based network in 2006, it set off a chain of events that other Power-Five conferences would follow. In the next year, the Big 12 conference paired up with ESPN and in 2013 the network added the SEC. Every year, ESPN spends billions of dollars to these conferences for television rights.

UCLA, a member of the PAC-12, put up almost $27 million in expenses for football last season but reeled in $44 million in revenue. Unfortunately for LBSU, it does not belong to any of those Power 5 conferences. The Big West, the conference that LBSU is a member of, has only two schools which have football programs: Cal Poly and UC Davis.

Those teams are in the Football Championship Subdivision, which was formerly known as Division I-AA. In the FCS, schools only have 63 NCAA scholarships and have the option to split a scholarship between players. However, Cegles said “you can’t do that at the major college level.”

For FBS schools, each football team must have 85 players on scholarships. Additionally, more student-athletes means the athletic department needs to hire more staff members such as tutors, academic advisors and trainers to deliver the proper support, Cegles said.

LBSU has 473 student athletes making up its 19 Division I sports teams. If football were to be implemented, it would probably result in student athletes from other sports losing their scholarship or some sports being discontinued. That’s why, according to Cegles, the idea of bringing football back to LBSU has never really been discussed among university administrators.

“Plus, if you add 85 men’s scholarships, you better add 85 women’s scholarships and how are you going to do that?” Cegles said. “You’re either going to cut women’s sports or men’s sports.”

Still, the nostalgia persists.

Cegles says he misses game day. While he was at ASU, the 49ers made it all the way to the National Championship game at the Rose Bowl in 1997.

When he was at Temple from 2003-2006 he hired Al Golden, who later went on to be a successful coach at the University of Miami.

But in the end, Cegles admits he realizes that there is no realistic point of return for football at LBSU. “Would it be great for the university? No question about it.” Cegles said. “But can it be sustainable? No.”

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sport?

By Lisa Williston Staff Writer

Sports have been known to bring people together, and though coed sports can certainly unify men and women on a field, it may be dividing them using guidelines that rank the sexes’ athleticism on separate scales.

Coed sports often have rules giving advantages to women and restricting men in order to make the competition fair, but for the ladies that dominate, this could undermine their athletic ability.

For example, in most Orange County coed soccer leagues, women’s points count for double and men cannot touch the ball more than three times before they either pass or shoot. Generally in these leagues, men also cannot kick the ball past the goal line; they have to dribble it to the goal. “[It] makes me feel relieved,” said coed soccer participant JeniRose Morales about the rules.

Although Morales feels that she

can compete on the same level as the boys, she says that the restrictions on men are used for women’s safety on the field. And she speaks from experience. After being hit in the head by a soccer ball kicked by a man on an opposing team, Morales suffered damage to one of her corneas.

Robert Souders, who plays forward and goalie on a coed indoor soccer team in the city of Orange, believes the rules are in place to keep women interested in playing.

“It’s almost an incentive to keep them in the game,” Souders said.

“If they feel they’re not doing well and they score, because their points count for double, it gives them that endurance to keep playing.”

Souders said his friend plays in a coed soccer league without those rules, but it has very few female players. Souders thinks it is because the games aren’t as fun for the women.

He feels that because the men aren’t required to involve the women by passing the ball after three touches, they are left ignored and unable to participate.

Laura Fauvor has played on coed basketball, hockey and baseball teams and does not think women should be given advantages.

“There are plenty of men who are bad at sports who wouldn’t get that advantage either,” Fauvor said.

Joining a public, coed team does not require any try-outs. A player just needs to pay the fee to join a team or gather a group together to

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pay a collective price for the whole alistic goals,” Ambas said. team. This makes for a variety of skill Jamie Perez, a former coed baslevels. ketball player, said that these rules Souders said that given a scenario reinforce the stigma that all men are where a man was not good at a sport more athletic than women. and smaller in size, compared to him, “Coed teams are beneficial to both he would have no problem shoving women and men players because him around, but said it would be difthey get to push themselves and ferent if that person were a girl. learn new ways of playing the game,” “If you do Perez said. play hard on In softball, a girl, in my if a woman experience, pitching walks Although I consider they usually go a man, he is myself an athletic woman straight to the allotted two ground,” Soudbases instead and would like to believe ers said. “And of one. This that women can be just as then everyone assumes the good as men in sports, the looks at you woman on reality is that the majority funny.” the mound of men are taller, stronger Coed sports walked him should be based because she and faster than women. on skill level was afraid so that either that the man side does not would hit a -Bree Petrilla, a former Costa get any specific homerun, said Mesa coed softball player advantages or Bree Petrilla, disadvantaga former Coses, said Jeffrey ta Mesa coed Ambas, a former Marina high school softball player. wrestler.

“This rule pretty much assumes all Ambas has had to wrestle women men are great hitters, which is kind and said that their abilities were just of ridiculous,” Petrilla said. as good as his, if not better.

Petrilla now plays in a traditional“I feel like [coed rules] hinder the ly all-men’s league in Irvine because playing field because the people who she feels that she plays just as well as, are restricted in playing don’t get if not better, than the men. However, better and the ones who are getting she understands why some of those the help aren’t helping themselves rules are in place for coed leagues. because they are not playing with re“Although I consider myself an

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athletic woman and would like to believe that women can be just as good as men in sports, the reality is that the majority of men are taller, stronger and faster than women,” Petrilla said.

According to Petrilla, the rules are set up in order for women to have a chance to play because there are a lot of “jerks” on the field that assume females are not good players.

Petrilla played on a coed volleyball team at Cal State Long Beach when she was in college about four years ago and said that her experience was not that fun, considering she had to play with a men’s height net.

She said that particular coed league did not have any special rules for women and men, which caused the males to take over games and not allow the females to hit the ball.

The fact that she was unable to compete with the men was frustrating for Petrilla and so she quit the league.

“That is not to say I can’t kick certain guys’ butts on the tennis court or on the softball field, but in general, men have a biological advantage over women,” Petrilla said. “These rules allow women the chance to be involved even if their skills are not as good as men.”

And even though Morales also believes the coed rules even out the playing field, she still thinks women are the tougher sex.

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No train, no gain Arbhie Guce looks out for athletes’ physical and mental well-being.

By Lauren Torres Staff Writer

The athletic trainer for the men’s water polo and volleyball teams is on campus seven days a week. While most students are sleeping in on a Saturday morning, Arbhie Guce, 27, is on the Cal State Long Beach campus, dressed for work and ready for duty.

“If I have to be here for an hour on a weekend to take care of an injury, I’ll do it,” Guce said.

Originally from the Philippines, Guce moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 12 years old. While his family pressured him to pursue a nursing degree, Guce wasn’t as enthusiastic about the idea.

It wasn’t until a friend introduced him to athletic training that he grew a fondness for it and ultimately graduated with a B.A. in athletic training from CSULB in 2012.

Guce is currently working on completing a master’s degree in sports and injuries and balancing that with his job, but one thing he most certainly isn’t is a personal trainer.

“When I tell [people] I’m an athletic trainer they ask what gym I work at,” Guce said. “They hear ‘athletic training’ and they assume weight loss, personal training at a 24 Hour Fitness, or any other gym.”

Unlike personal training, athletic training requires a bachelor’s degree and successfully passing a board certification exam.

After a career that has included working at both Millikan and Lakewood high schools and a stint in physical therapy, Guce says he enjoys his current position, despite the low wage.

Guce partially blames the low pay on the fact that California does not currently regulate athletic training, despite the efforts of athletic trainers to establish a licensure process.

“You could take an ‘Introduction to Athletic Training’ class and then go to a high school and say you’re an athlet-

ic trainer, and you won’t get in trouble for it,” Guce said. “We don’t have anything that would regulate that.”

The hot topic of concussions makes Guce worried for students who are improperly cared for by uncertified trainers. To make a point of how dangerous this can be, Guce uses the example of a company he knows of that regularly sends non-certified athletic trainers to work at youth camps.

“It’s mishandled by people who are not qualified to be an athletic trainer because they don’t have the proper credentials,” he said.

Aside from this, Guce loves what he does and describes his relationship with his athletes as that of a big brother.

“They’re close to me,” Guce said.

“But at the same time if I ask them to do something, they’ll do it.”

For Guce, taking care of his athletes goes beyond the physical aspects of the job.

“Not only do I have to know their injury, I have to know them psychologically,” Guce said. “So, the more they open up to me with their personal life or anything like that, the better off I will get to know my athletes.

Stress can cause injuries.”

Overall, Guce likes to have fun with his athletes and maintain a relaxed environment, using methods such as playing music while they work. Hip-hop is a favorite of theirs.

His relationship is just as agreeable with the two head coaches Guce works with on campus, men’s volleyball coach Alan Knipe and men’s water polo coach Gavin Arroyo.

“They give me the freedom to do my job and [don’t] overstep boundaries, and value my opinions,” Guce said, ”I can’t ask for better coaches than what I have now. That’s important. If you don’t have that, it’s going to be a lot of this.”

When Guce isn’t busy with work he’s able to focus on his other passion, horse racing. His family grew up around horse racing, his dad is a jockey, and Guce himself can ride.

“If I [wasn’t] doing anything, I would always be at a racetrack,” he said.

For now Guce is focused on finishing his master’s degree so he can get a fulltime job at a Division I university, the highest division in athletics. He hopes to find himself at USC, UCLA or Stanford.

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s one of the top Mexican talents on a basketball court over the past two years, Edgar Garibay has gone on to represent his country in international play.

He played for Mexico in the 2015 Pan American Games last summer and on May 15, he will join Mexico’s national basketball team once again to prepare for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

He is also one of the Mexican National Professional Basketball league’s best players, winning the 2016 All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.

But two and a half years ago, Garibay sat on a tiny bench in Cal State Long Beach’s upper campus, filled with uncertainty about his future. His nearly 7-foot frame looked uncomfortable, but remained still for half an hour as he talked about his injury plagued college career.

“I was debating whether I should give up [basketball] completely or still give it a try, leaning more towards an early retirement,” Garibay admits now. “I started graduate school and decided to focus on my academics.”

In December 2013, Garibay was 23 years old and recovering from the second ACL tear in his young basketball career.

At the time, the power forward/center was supposed to be in the middle of his senior season with the Long Beach State men’s basketball team, a likely starter because of his versatility as a big man.

Instead, Garibay found himself dressed in a suit and tie on game days as he encouraged his fellow teammates from the

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Mexico’s Edgar Garibay blocks Canada’s Anthony Bennett during a game in the 2015 Pan American Games on July 23 in Toronto, Canada. bench. He tried to remain positive and said he was determined to make his way back onto a basketball court. The trouble with furthering his basketball career was that Garibay would have to find a professional team willing to take him and his bad knee in.

Today, at 26 years old, early retirement is a distant thought for Garibay. Soon after his final season at LBSU in 2014, teams from his native country came calling.

“Most teams I spoke with knew my injury history, but were still willing to give me a chance,” Garibay said. “Especially since I am able to play in Mexico as a local and not an import.”

Garibay was born in Ocotlan, Jalisco, Mexico, a small city an hour outside of Guadalajara. He came to the United States at an early age, grew up in Compton

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Garibay holds up his most valuable player award after the 2016 Mexican Professional League All-Star Game on Feb. 29, 2016 in Monterrey, Mexico.

and played basketball for Compton High School.

“All I needed was my Mexican passport and the support of teams looking to add me to their roster,” Garibay said. “I was a lot more sought after than expected, which encouraged me and gave me that little light of hope that I needed to push through and continue this journey.”

During LBSU’s 2013-14 season, men’s basketball head coach Dan Monson said he had the “utmost respect” for Garibay.

He predicted that his sidelined power forward/ center would find success in life because of his perseverance, whether it was on a court or off of it.

“He has fought through adversity his whole life and has never used it as an excuse. Basketball, injuries, academics, personal or other setbacks do not define Ed-

gar,” Monson said. “How he handles those bumps and bruises,” Garibay said. “They adversities has.” don’t tell you that once you get home sick Now a star in his own right, Garibay after a few months, you aren’t able to just is enjoying the success Monson foresaw. get up and leave and come home when Sure, the Mexican league pales in comparyou want. You are stuck there until the job ison with a league like the NBA, but Gariyou signed up to do is finished.” bay said the basketball scene in Mexico is The uncertainty that plagued Garibay growing and professional players do live two and a half years ago is gone. comfortably.

He knows what his goals are and what “I personally have been lucky enough he has to do to accomplish them. Garibay to play for good teams with good upper wants to better his game to become the management in really nice cities like Cangreatest Mexican power forward/center cun, Mazatlan and Mexico City,” Garibay when he hits his prime in a year or two, a said. “The cost of living also doesn’t comtitle that former NBA player and current pare to the United States, so that helps me Real Madrid star Gustavo Ayon holds. live a very comfortable life.”

Garibay also wants to be a champion Garibay said the real sacrifice isn’t a in Mexico and continue representing his monetary one; instead it is living away homeland for years to come. from his mother, brothers and niece, all of Off the court, the CSULB graduate whom remained in the United States. wants to continue his master’s degree; “Having to experience certain things something he put on hold when his basthrough social media instead of live and ketball career took off. He said he is “flirtin person [is tough]. Things like graduaing” with the idea of attending law school tions, birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgivand plans on starting a project that will foing,” Garibay said. “Not being to watch cus on giving back to impoverished youth my little niece grow up. There [are] a lot in both Mexico and the United States. of things you don’t realize you’re going to “I’m working on a nonprofit that’s going have to sacrifice when you sign up for this to be dealing with underprivileged kids type of career. from urban neighborhoods like the one “When I talk to people back home they I grew up [in],” Garibay said. “I want to don’t understand, they don’t put everypartner up with different high schools and thing into perspeccollegiate sports tive. They think programs and asI’m out here living sign mentors and a great life with no big brothers and Not being to watch my cares or worries sisters to kids and little niece grow up. There in the world. They athletes of similar [are] a lot of things you just see the posts backgrounds.

I don’t realize you’re going on social media of want to show these the different cities kids that anything to have to sacrifice when I get to travel to, or is possible regardyou sign up for this type of an occasional selfless of the circumcareer. ie [with] my dinstances or lack of ner by the beach.” resources available -Edgar Garibay, Garibay conto them.” former LBSU basketball player ceded that there Support for are perks to being his ideas is slower a professional athlete and said he considthan Garibay would like at the moment, ered himself in a privileged position. but believes he’ll receive aid soon. He “Don’t get me wrong, these are all great plans on working with city officials diexperiences and memories that I considrectly. er priceless, but social media also doesn’t Like his basketball career, he won’t give show the grind, the struggle, the sweat, the up on his projects.

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Former Long Beach State basketball player Edgar Garibay is making a name for himself in his native Mexico.

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Edgar Garibay goes up for a dunk during the 2016 Mexican Professional League All-Star Game on Feb. 29, 2016 in Monterrey, Mexico.

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continued from page 9 amount of exposure” for the men’s basketball team with 16 nationwide telecasts since Monson settled in the Pyramid in 2007.

Monson made a name for himself in his second-year wearing a head-coach hat in Washington, raising Gonzaga University’s status to the Elite Eight in 1999.

In the wake of nationwide attention, Monson accepted an offer to be a head coach at the University of Minnesota.

Eight years later, he resigned mid-season after the Gophers experienced their longest losing streak in 40 years.

“I went to Minnesota for the wrong reasons – I went for the money,” Monson said. “You can’t buy happiness, and I learned that the hard way in life.”

The Beach has been Monson’s latest project nine years in the making.

Junior point guard Anson Moye commented on the buy games, saying that facing teams in major Division I programs not only translates to heightened exposure, but also helps ripen a fresh line-up with pre-conference court time.

“If we pull off a couple of upsets, it could be big for us in the long run,” Moye said, noting the importance of a solid RPI record. “With that intense travel schedule, we’re able to get that cohesiveness going into our actual Big West Conference play and, a lot of the time, [buy games] reveal our weaknesses and give us a chance to patch those up early.”

Though wins are seldom for LBSU in preseason, by no means are they impossible.

Outside of the Pyramid, the 49ers defeated Villanova, Xavier University, North Carolina and Seton Hall University. Last December, only one point separated the Big West wildcards from UCLA Division I elites before the buzzer.

“We’re competitive in those games, but you don’t play this game to be competitive – you play it to win,” Monson said, noting the 66 percent odds standing against any team on the road. “We believe next year’s team has the ability to get over that hurdle.”

Even without any W’s from this year’s preseason, the toughness of schedule increased the team’s RPI, and ranked LBSU No. 1 in non-conference competition. For the past six years, LBSU has ranked consistently in the top five.

“What I’ve noticed is that the losses don’t really affect us,” Moye said. “Our motto is ‘On to the next,’ win or lose, we take it one game at a time.”

The 49ers began the season strong with three wins and rounded out with 12-4 in conference and 20-15 overall.

They also claim four Big West Tournament championship games and three postseason berths.

Next year’s preseason anticipates matches against University of Kansas, University of North Carolina, University of Texas, UCLA and Washington University, Cegles said.

“When they gave me this contract, I turned down a seven-year, $2 million per year contract from another school; that’s a guaranteed $14 million contract,” Monson said. “I turned that down because I believe that this could be the next Gonzaga.”

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FEE-DING THE BEAST Student fees are increasingly propping up the athletic department budget.

By Kevin Flores Special Issues Editor

Student Fees 2011-12: $768 2012-13: $768 2013-14: $847 2014-15: $980

In the past five years, student fees have nearly tripled while the share of student fees going toward the Long Beach State Athletic Department has gone up by 153 percent.

Most of the student fees that go to the athletic department come from the Student Excellence Fee and help fund student-athlete scholarships. Of the $173 paid per student for the Student Excellence Fee, $34 goes to the athletic department.

“The most important thing for us to compete at this level is to have scholarships,” Director of Athletics Vic Cegles said. He also noted that expenses, such as paying for officials and uniforms, goes up every year.

According to the most recent NCAA revenue and expense reports filed by Cal State Long Beach, that burden has increasingly been put on students.

During the same period that the student fee subsidies for the athletic department have gone up, the amount of subsidies from the university — apart from student fees — has remained virtually the same.

This has left student fees as the the source of revenue for the athletic department that has most drastically risen since 2011, and which now comprises more than a fifth of the department’s total budget.

Total Student Fee Subsidies Total Athletic Funding for Athletic Department 2015

$3,881,090

2015

2014

$3,875,779

2014

2013

$3,831 ,897 2012

2013

$17,934,654 $16,703,611 $15,689,629 2014

$2,636,444

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2011

$1,534,022

2011

$16,357,018 $15,515,280 Source: NCAA Revenue and Expense Reports