Show Page 8 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 30 1999 Tide the changes either He referred to the situation as “repugnant rubbish" “With these kinds of decisions the sport is heading in the wrong direction” Marsden said The Utes got sent to Oregon State where they have had problems the past three years Corn said “It would be horrible to have Utah go to Oregon State and not make it to nationals which they host” Cora said “And that could happen “I wish they would have sent Utah up here and their 4000 fans But we will welcome Georgia and Florida Our fans should be excited to see the school in the country Marsden said the original plan was to have a draw to decide if Utah went to Logan or West Virginia “What the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Committee did to manipulate the qualification process was beyond maddening" Marsden said “It was corrupt Shame on those who used their power to manipulate the system and shame on those on the committee who fell for it" Com said the fear of change probably caused te the maneuvering Region realignment has been kicked around for years and seriously talked about the past 10 years “People got scared of change” Com said “You run a risk with the realignment Heck we didn't know for sure that we were even going to be going to regionals and we are hosting one There were no guarantees we would be there We had to qualify “This new setup was supposed to make it a more even playing field for teams and an opportunity for other teams to get to nationals than just the same old teams There was a lot of excitement starting this but that has been taken away with these late decisions" The Region 2 meet will be the toughest of the six meets Joining Georgia Florida and USU will be No 13 Denver No 16 Iowa State and No 19 Minnesota Com stressed he is not upset with who is coming but how the process changed after the deadline He finished our conversation by turning his attention to the meet “I'm done with discussing this” he said “I Continued from Page 6 travel to No 6 Penn State So the only question was which pair USU and West Virginia would host Corn had been told over the weekend Alabama and Ohio State would probably be coming The NCAA was supposed to announce the pairings but as of press time Tuesday no official word had been released But like myself Corn received an interesting call Monday Georgia called wondering why top-rank- they hadn't received their regional booklet from USU An hour later Florida called HI guess we were one of the last schools to know" Corn said “I had sent the regional booklets to Alabama and Ohio State I don't know how this happened” And it doesn’t seem Corn is going to find out NCAA official Chris Pohl told Com and the Salt Lake Tribune a letter was sent to coaches on March 17 stating “circumstances may require departure from the guidelines” “From my standpoint I really don't care who comes in” Com said “My job is still to take second It will just be tougher with Florida than Ohio State” But Corn is most concerned with why the changes were made at such a late date “I just want to know why" Com said “I was hoping someone would explain to me how these decisions were made I guess that is not going to happen ‘The only thing I could get out of anyone was it was unfair for Georgia to travel three time zones Which is fine but I still don’t know how Florida got paired up with Georgia" last-minu- Corn wasn't sure if other regions saw But the three-tim- e zone explanation if Stanford gets sent to Penn State (which appears to be the case) unless the rule applies only to teams traveling west Alabama and Ohio State stayed together and are going to West Virginia Utah coach Greg Marsden is not happy with changes doesn't fly lit TtiurMtay violence at the US Embassy in Russia the Russian national women's volleyball team has canceled an exhibition tour of the United States scheduled for next week US Olympic officials and tour sponsors were notified of ld versity of Nevada's Lawlor Events Center with additional games planned in Utah Idaho and Oregon Valentin Joukov president of the Volleyball Federation of Russia notified USA National the decision Monday said Craig Barker an official for d Molten USA a nd Team Director Bob of the decision earlier Gam-bardel- Reno-base- Monday according to a statement obtained by the AP athletic equipment manufactur- er backing the trip tr " x 'i - t iffy L I Lauran 10li placa — Caaaay Kendrtck JV 771h ovar- I 1 Friday Utah State at PacMc (DHL Saturday I 299t plaoa — Braama Martinaau 2pm pm £ iREPi2EBALL JIV 706i 1661 3rd plaoa — Joa SadoakL Jill 149i t Brandon CampbaS JVL i299iomral placa — Eric Martinaau JVI 131at ovaral 22nd placa — IMDainap Jfl76i ovaral 24th ptaca — MichMi Campball Jill 51x1 1 Baar Laka 14 Pranon llh placa — Adair Haitian Jill 29lh ovaral 14i placa — Aiaina Hutaki Jill 37th overall 27i plaoa — Emily Campbal JIV 669t over- - Utah Start al Stanton! 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