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Show 8 THE SIGNPOST Tuesday, August 7, 1990 1990-91 ATHLETICS lIlMlfl SHOW YOUR STUDENT I.D. AND GET IN FREE To All Football and Basketball Games 1990 HOME FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Sept. 15 - Idaho State 6:00 pm Sept 29 - Montana State 6:00 pm Oct. 13 - Montana 6:00 pm Oct. 27 - Nevada 1:00 pm (Homecoming Game) BRING A FRIEND AND THEY PAY ONLY $2.00 OR PURCHASE A STUDENT FAMILY CARD FOR $10.00 AND BRING YOUR SPOUSE AND CHILDREN TO ALL FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL GAMES FOR FREE! (AVAILABLE AT THE BOWLING ALLEY) 626-6376 m) ' 12 PRICE SEASON TICKETS Sec. C & E -- Reg. $25. You Pay $12.50 Sec. A, B, F, G -- Reg. $20. You Pay $10.00 (YOU MAY SIT IN GENERAL ADMISSION FREE) BASKETBALL CgP- Level 1 - Reg. $130. Level 2 -- Reg. $110. Level 3 - Reg. $85. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL & BASKETBALL FREE ADMISSION WITH I.D. K : BIBS ill a You Pay $65.00 You Pay $55.00 You Pay $42.50 TREND (continued from pay 7) having a great time. The kid thinks he's in heaven and that feeling never leaves you." Added Goff: "Obviously, I wanted to play at the University of Georgia and Georgia is also my ultimate goal as far as coaching. That's where I went, that's where I wanted to be, that's where I was and that's where I'll stay the rest of my life until somebody tells me different. Even then, I'll probably still be there." There are many similarities among the SEC's alumni coaching club, the most common being all were star quarterbacks in college. Spurrier was the 1966 Heisman Trophy winner at Florida, gaining the nickname "SOS" (Steven Orr Spurrier) because of his penchant for bringing the team back from improbable fourth-quarter odds. All Florida historians remember the November day in 1966 when the undefeated Gators played undefeated Auburn in the biggest SEC game of the season. Heisman Trophy ballots were due in the following week, and many voters were still undecided between Spurrier and Purdue quarterback Bob Griese. With the score tied at 27, Spurrier drove the Gators within range for a field goal. Wayne Barfield, the Gators' NCAA record-breaking kicker readied to run onto the field. But Spurrier waved off Barfield and drilled a line-drive 40-yard field goal himself. The kick cleared the cross bar by inches to give the Gators a 30-27 victory. "Steve Spurrier was everyone's hero then and he remains everyone's hero," said influential Gator booster Leonard Levy. "It was time for a Florida man to coach our team." The other SEC alumnus have similar stories. Brown, eligible for varsity competition for the first Editorial Sports fans By Alan Hinckley Asst. sports editor of The Sgnpost The Second Annual Pizza HutPepsi Hoop-It-Up contest was held Friday and Saturday on the streets of Salt Lake City. Hoop-It-Up is 3 on 3 basketball with all the intensity of a 7th game NBA Final. Weber State was represented well with many teams comprised of current and former Wildcats. Weber State greats Martin Nish, Royal Edwards, and Riley Wimberly teamed with former Ben Lomond and current New Mexico star Kurt Miller to take second place in the top division. The winning team was filled by Utah State players Darrell White, Al Gordon, Maureatta Hall, and Kendall Youngblood, They will now get the chance to travel to Dallas to play in the nationally televised Hoop-It-Up national finals. Hoop-It-Up bears little resemblance to the game that James Naismith invented in W91. It was refined on the playgrounds of Brooklyn and on the backstreets of Philadelphia. This is srretball at its best and worst. This is a no-referee, call-your-own-foul, slam-dunkin', shot-blockin', in-your- time in 1969, started the last eight games of the season. He fired a touchdown pass in the closing minutes of a game against defending national champion Alabama to lead the 0-3 Commodores to a stunning 14-10 upset. Felker was the quintessential veer quarterback who ran for 446 yards and passed for 1,147 in leading Mississippi State to a 9-3 record and a bowl victory in 1974. "I remember when I was growing up, Mississippi State was always my team," he said. "I had so many good memories of my playing days. I was always hopeful that I could come back and coach." Brewer, too, "always dreamed of playing and coaching" at Mississippi. From 1958-60, he was on three of legendary coach Johnny Vaught's best teams. He played quarterback and safety in 1959, when the Rebels went 9-1 a team later voted the SECs best of the decade. During Brewer's tenure, the Rebels went 25-4-2 and won two Sugar Bowls and a Gator Bowl. Majors was one of the most remarkable athletes ever to come out of the state of Tennessee, scoring an astonishing 565 points during his high school career. During his senior season at Tennessee in 1956, he quarterbacked the Volunteers to an SEC title and finished second in the Heisman balloting to Notre Dame's Paul Hornung. Goff played for Vince Dooley at Georgia in the mid-1970s, leading the 1975 Bulldogs to the Cotton Bowl and the 1976 team to the SEC title. In '76, Goff was named the SEC Player of the Year and finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy balloting won by Pittsburgh's Tony Dorsett. Because of the emotional ties and marvelous memories evoked from their playing days, alumni coaches are traditionally welcomed by a swell of grass roots support and given an extended Hoop-It-Up face type of basketball. : There were no million dollar superstars, no giant exploding scoreboards and no ball-boys to wipe sweat off the court. There was not even a court for that matter. However, there were plenty of weekend warriors, couch potatoes, ex-jocks, future all-stars, and wannabees. They came armed with names like "Lords of the Boards", "Sultans of Slam", and "West Side Heat". For you anatomy fans there was "Davis North Scar Tissue", "Brain Damaged", and 'Team Cranium Rectal Inversion". The hands down winner for the most original team name was "Rosanne Barr's Alien Love Children". Over 750 teams ascended on Pierpont Avenue with proceeds benefiting Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Utah. The participants came in all shapes and sizes, young and old, male and female. From age 10 to 69 they strutted their stuff and did their best Michael Jordan imitations. As the final game ticked down Saturday night more than 3000 hoop enthusiasts went home with banged up bodies, scraped knees and sunburns. They went home to their ice packs and E-Z chairs to rest up for next years Hoop-It-Up. honeymoon. "Whenever you hire one of your own, h becomes a tremendous rallying point," Felker said. Majors coached Pittsburgh to a 12-0 national title season in 1976 and immediately accepted a job at Tennessee. He only won 21 games his first four years, and it wasn't until 1985 that he led the Vols to their first SEC title. Along the way, he has survived 4-7, 5-5-1 and two 5-6 seasons. "When you coach at your alma mater, you are given ample opportunity to prove yourself," Majors said. Brewer went 8-3-1 last year, but survived before that despite having four losing seasons in the last five years. Felker is 16-28 in four years, including a disastrous 1-10 record two seasons ago. Brown is still in rather good graces with Vanderbilt's fans despite a four-year mark of 9-35. "I haven't gotten two nasty letters the whole time I've been at Vandy," he said. "It's amazing how supportive these fans are. In fact, they'll see me on the street and say, 'Coach, get your head up. We're still behind you.' " Critics contend that in many cases school officials rely on their hearts, not their heads when hiring former players to coach. Felker was the youngest Division I coach in the country when he was hired fouryears ago at the age of 34. There was a tremendous amount of controversy when Georgia passed over more qualified candidates to hire the 33-year-old Goff, who had never been a head coach or a coordinator at any level. Certainly, schools are more willing to take a chance with one of their own. But the risk is often far greater for the coaches themselves. "You always hear people say you can never go home," Goff said. "In some ways that could be true. If you ever go home and get fired then you never have a place to go back to. That would be difficult to accept." Copyright 1990, USA TODAY Apple College Information Network Sports Briefs USA WOMEN WIN BASKETSALL GOLD: The U.S. Women's basketball team gave the USA its first gold medal in a team sport at the Goodwill Games, beating the Soviet Union 82-70 Sunday. Also Sunday: The Soviet Union won the gold in hockey, beating the USA 3-2 on a shootout goal after an overtime period; U.S. boxers completed a strong showing by winning two more gold medals, bringing their medal total to 16 for the games. FOUR ATHLETES TEST POSITIVE: Four Goodwill Games athletes tested positive for banned substances, a U.S. -Soviet commission announced Sunday. Two of the positive tests were for over-the-counter drugs, said Baaron Pittenger, co-chair of the Soviet-American Joint Commission Against Doping in Sport. Pittenger would not disclose the names, sports or countries involved in the positive tests. Copyright 1990, USA TODAY Apple College Information Network |