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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle 8, 2003 Wednesday, January 3 B rioer, Tu lasosoDo Mired By Presenting the First Utes M eyer, One pot Left Ever Doobie Awards has been in charge of the defensive line at Nevada. This season, Tuiasosopo coached the Western Athletic Conference's sack leader, Jorge Cordova. Tuiasosopo, born in American Samoa, played for Pacific Lutheran (Wash.), helping the team to a NAIA-I- I national championship in RORY BRUNNER Chronicle Sports Editor football coach Urban Meyer added two more defensive assistant coaches to his staff, naming Nevada assistant Mike Tuiasosopo the new defensive tackles coach and Kent State assistant Kurt Barber the new defensive ends U 1987. will Tuiasosopo recruit from the Los Angeles area and in the Pacific Islands, which was something Meyer wanted to address. "It was a big priori. ty to keep recruit the Islands. There's been so ing much success here recruiting in that area and there is such a strong Polynesian community in Utah," Meyer said. Barber comes to the U with a wealth of collegiate and professional experience. Barber spent six years in the NFL with the New York Jets and Denver He was Broncos from 1992-9drafted in the second round (No. 42 overall) of the 1992 NFL Draft. Prior to his NFL career, Barber played for the USC Trojans from coach. With the hirings, Meyer has one opening left before he has a full staff, and he said he isn't sure if the last assistant will be filled on offense, defense or special teams. Whatever way he chooses to go, Meyer said he is in no hurry to hire his final assistant, as mi.".. the Utes "are at full strength for recruiting, which was our main purpose." Tuiasosopo, the nephew of Oakland Raiders back-u- p quarterback to the returns Marques Tuiasosopo, Beehive State, where he coached at In 1997, Utah State from 1996-9Tuiasosopo coached the Big West's Defensive Player of the Year, the Aggies' Ben Crosland. The past three years, Tuiasosopo ' J 7. 9. 1988-9- 1. He was a second-tea- m all- - player in his senior season. Barber has coached the defensive line the past two seasons at Kent State. Prior to that, Barber spent two years at Tenncsscc-Marti- n after a similar stint for one season at Riverside (Calif.) Community College. Barber said he received a call from coach Meyer to ask if he was interested in the position. Barber replied, "Definitely." "This is a much sought after position and Meyer does an excellent job," Barber said. The two knew of each other from word of mouth while playing in the same conference. "I'd watch his offense putting up big numbers and he'd see our defense do good things," Barber Pac-1- 0 but it wasn't a fight for too long, as Tyson soon became a punch dummy and his face turned to mush. I usually don't have much CHRIS BELLAMY JI iA s I I 1 Sports -- Columnist k i Chronicle It was one of the strangest years in recent memory. From the Cinderella seasons of the Pats and Angels, to Terrell Owens and his scandalous Sharpie, to the surprising "and touching cameo performance of Jimmy Smits in Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones (by far the watershed moment of my movie-goin- g career) 2002 certainly wasmaterial n't lacking on front-pag- e And, like any good movie, 2002 was characterized by just the right s, amount of sex and drugs (see in that With Portland). mind, I give you the First Annual said. Meyer and Barber had connections through Meyer's assistant Billy Gonzales at Bowling Green, as Gonzales had previously coached at Kent State with Barber. The additions shore up a staff of defensive assistants that include Kyle Whittingham, Bill Busch and graduate assistant Jay Hill. On the offensive side of the ball, Meyer has hired Mike Sanford, Gonzales, Dan Mullen and John Hevesy. rbrunnerchronicle.utah. edu Trail-blazer- Doobie Awards, We'll have to go back to last spring to hand out the first Doobie, the 'His Ass Was a Wad of Cookie Dough' Award. It's only befitting the Fight Club reference that this award was earned in a boxing ring in Memphis by the one and only Mike Tyson. His bout with Lennox Lewis was plenty-hype- sympathy for convicted rapists, but come on after seeing his face that distorted and swollen, I felt like I had just been beaten up. And now, our least favorite story of the past year the Cry Me a River Award was an easy choice, going to good ol' Martha Burk, Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations who won't stop bitching about the male-onl- y policy of Augusta National. The spotlight fell squarely on Augusta and its chairman, Hootie Johnsoa Ms. Burk is ignoring not only the fact that, as a private club, Augusta's membership policy is completely legal and protected by the Constitution, but also the numerous women-onl- y golf clubs America. that spot North Hiding behind terms like "moral obligation," Burk and her NCWO cohorts have shamelessly used the media to gain support for a weightless argument, in doing so putting politically correct pressure on the club in an attempt to force John- see BELLAMY, page 12 d, This Week's Winner: Allison Jennings n "tt The Week's Games Florida Georgia Forest Oklahoma Okla. St. Iowa Michigan St. Stanford Oregon St. John's UCLA Manhattan Niagara 76ers Magic Luciano Morton Bellamy Florida Georgia Florida Florida Georgia Georgia Georgia Arizona. 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