The D3y Utah ClScVaicli . TOCay; Jmmi7 2, 1&S FORTS .? With season over, the time is ripe Vl for grid awards Now that the 1984 college football season is history, it's time for the Chronicle's college football awards: Award The This award, presented to the person who manages to stick the biggest foot in the biggest mouth, goes to Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer. His ability to alienate an entire country is surpassed only by his dexterity in being able to get not one, but both of his shoes into his gigantic trap. Switzer's tirade has managed to elicit from even the staunchest of Ute fans. sympathies self-servi- pro-BY- U ng Runnerup for this award is NBC TWjv Show host Bryant Gumbel, who unwittingly choked on his Nikes too with a slur against BYU. This isn't to say that Gumbel's comment wasn't appreciated, but his raspberry directed at the Cougar football team has created a monster of a martyr. ON SPORTS Mark Sool The t4PlayIt-Again-And-Again-And-Again-Sa- m" (Channel 11) receives this rebroadcast upon rebroadcast of BYU football games and basketball games and any other games the Cougars play. Most fans are content with watching a game once after you're familiar with the ending, what fun is there in seeing the contest again? Not so in Provo. Cougar fans love to watch their team win over and over and over even if it's the same game. And now, in the coming weeks, Cougar faithful will be able to review that sequel of sequels, "Holiday Bowl 7 The Movie." Award KBYU-T- V award every year for the same thing Ute freshman Greg Dodd goes up for a rebound in action Saturday against San Jose State. The Utes lost the championship game of their own tournament 0 when Spartan Ontario Johnson sank a 72-7- at the buzzer. 20-foo- ter Runnin' Utes finish by taking second in own Classic pre-seas- on by Mark Saal grabbed a 8 edge. The Utes tied the contest again at the 1:35 mark, but was a fitting end for a team that has made heart-stoppiand heart-breakilosses a converted at the buzzer. Ute freshman Greg Dodd rebounded an errant Spartan shot with 50 seconds left, and Utah worked the clock to 12 seconds before Dodd that missed. put up an eight-footin crowd of 10,568 may have felt some the Although Dodd shouldn't have taken the shot, Archibald defended the move. "We shot when we had the shot," he said. "To back the ball out with 12 seconds when you have the shot would be silly." The Utes had a rough time in the first half, shooting only 36 percent from the field, but the officiating didn't help much either. Utah was whisded for 16 fouls in the first half including a number of questionable calls. Utah's three starting big men Jerry Stroman, Tim McLaughlin and Greg Dodd each picked up three personals in the first half. Regarding the officiating, Archibald, who was whistled for a technical, would say only: "I thought the w difference in the game was definitely at the line. You don't have to be a fan to find that out." "I would say we're pretty lucky in getting the win," Spartan Coach Bill Berry said. "We miscued a few times, but we had the rhythm that we didn't have the 69-6- Chronicle staff It ng ng registered trademark. The Runnin' Utes finished out the schedule on Saturday night with a 0 loss to San Jose State in the championship game of the non-leag- ue 72-7- last-seco- nd Utah Classic. The Runnin' Utes had to settle for second place in their own tournament when the Spartans' Ontario from the Johnson buried a buzzer-beatin- g 20-foo- ter right side to break a 0 tie. For the Utes, who lost more than their share of close ones last season, the scene was very familliar: Utah builds a lead in the second half, only to watch it melt away in the final minutes. "I've seen that shot so many times before," Ute Coach Lynn Archibald said of Johnson's heroics. "San Jose played well and fought hard, and things went their way." After trailing by three at the half, the Utes took the lead in the second half when Kelvin Upshaw scored and was fouled at the 16:52 mark. Upshaw sank the free throw and the Utes had a 3 lead a lead that they would keep until 2:49 remained, when the Spartans 70-7- last-seco- nd 44-4- gymnasts For only the second time since the 1984 Summer Games, the entire United States Olympic gymnastics team will be reunited Feb. 4 for a performance in the Special Events Center. Gold-med- al winners Mary Lou Retton and Mitch Gaylord will head up the squads for the 7:30 p.m. exhibition. The performance was specially choreographed by the the most United States Gymnastics Federation to thrilling moments from the Olympics. Each of the gymnasts will perform in the events which re-en- act catapulted them into instant stardom during the recently-complet- ed Games. Highlights from the women's contingent include Retton, who will work on the balance beam, vault and floor exercise, Julianne McNamara, who will duplicate her winning routine on the uneven bars and Kathy Johnson on the beam. Among the members of the men's team, Gaylord will execute his now famous horizontal bar routine, Peter Vidmar and Tim Daggett will demonstrate their style on the pommel horse, and Bart Conner will show his perfect "10" form on the parallel bars. Also performing will be members of the U.S. rhythmic gold-med- al neither team would score again until Johnson er free-thro- continued on page sixteen The Fix-It-A- way' Award ny University of Utah fans and financial supporters of the athletic department are the proud recipients of this honor. First they screamed for Or jck Stobart's head. Then they wanted Arnie Ferrin to take a hike. Now the bloodthirsty Ute "supporters" are beginning to get impatient with basketball coach Lynn Archibald. At the Utah Classic, a number of fans booed coach following the tournament. Is there the second-yethis ruthless no end to inquisition? ar The Award-- La Veil Edwards cops this one. Speculation continues as to the whereabouts of the BYU coach. It is believed that Edwards hasn't been on the sidelines all year, but that the stone-face- d, stern figure with arms crossed who stands motionless among the players is actually just an inflatable La Veil doll, carried onto the field prior to each game. The exact whereabouts of Edwards are unknown, but it is believed that the Cougar coach has spent the past season as the color commentator for Oklahoma Sooner football games. The Award This award goes to former Ute Coach Chuck Stobart, who has to feel like he chose the wrong profession after his brief stint at Utah. What was the reason for his dismissal? A poor winloss record? Inability to recruit? No, none of these. The man simply couldn't "excite" the Utah fans. If Stobart was supposed to excite people, rather than win ball games, he did select the wrong profession. He should have become an exotic dancer, not a football coach. The gymnastics team. Retton, 16, won the gold in the category at the Los Angeles Games and a silver medal on the vault and bronze awards on the bars and floor, in addition to the team silver medal. The Fairmont, W. Va. native totalled three perfect "10" marks during the competition. McNamara, 19, from Flushing, N.Y., tied for the gold medal in the uneven parallel bars competition at the Olympics and picked up a silver in the floor exercise. Johnson, 25, from Ridge, Tenn., won a bronze on the balance beam at the Summer Games. Gaylord, 23, of Los Angeles, took home one silver and two bronze medals from the L. A. Games in addition to the team gold. He placed second on the vault, and third in the rings and parallel bars competitions. Vidmar, 23, from Los Angeles, won the gold on the pommel horse and finished second in the men's competition. Daggett, 22, of West Springfield, Mass., placed third on the pommel horse. Conner, 26, from Chicago, won the gold medal on the parallel bars at Los Angeles. Tickets for the exhibition, available at the SEC, are priced at $15, $12.50, and $10. all-arou- nd all-arou- nd Award This coveted award goes to none other than BYU receiver Glen Kozlowski. While undoubtedly one of the best in the conference, his and for in the this "Koz" one. tantrums running temper put nyah-nya- h However, it was his finger-pointicelebrations after each score that cemented this award. hot-headedn- ess shoot-'em-dow- n, ng The Award This one is bestowed upon the Western Athletic Conference champs, the BYU Cougars. Totally unaccustomed to losing, BYU doesn't seem ready to play second fiddle to anybody especially those n$a!&Sn! Sooners. Heedless of the polls, a Provo radio station has already crowned the Cougs as the premier team in the country, and the city recently celebrated a National Champions Day in honor of their boys in blue. No matter what the result of the polls (which are due out Wednesday), some people aren't going to be happy. Despite cries of favoritism on both sides, Deseret News SjfJrts Editor Lee Benson seems to have hit the happy medium. Prior to the Holiday Bowl, he wrote that the point spread over Michigan would need only to be 10. fn order to ensure a national championship. But it looks like BYU came up a field goal short.