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Show Sunday, September 23, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 1990 - Page F5 Lugin ill: Detmer made the plays, none were gimmees By DOROTHY KNOELL Herald Sports Writer With a scoreboard reading of 4 for the BYU Cougars over San Diego State, it might appear the Aztecs didn't show up for the game. Not so, according to SDSU coach Al Luginbill, who found some positives among the big negative of the loss. "Oh, it hurts to lose. It's like ripping your heart out," said Luginbill of the game. "But our kids competed like heck. "Ty (Detmer) had to make those plays. He had to execute to beat us. We didn't give it to him. He and his receivers just made the 62-3- plays." Luginbill said the Aztecs' game plan was good, but the execution BYU broke down. One plan was to keep Detmer off the field, which the Aztecs accomplished, limiting BYU to just 21:12 possession time. But the plan for defense when Detmer didn't quite work. "I thought we made the adjustments that we needed to make in order to take away the the people they wanted to throw to. We had people there to cover. We just didn't make the plays especially in the third and fourth quarters. That was the most disappointing aspect of this game to me. We were And we put Detmer on the field too much in the first quarter." Defensive end Jason Swancy concurred. "We were trying to get pressure on Detmer without blitzing. We d third-and-lon- second-and-lon- catches By ROD COLLETT Associate Sports Editor It may be a bit early, but BYU has already caught the attention of the Holiday Bowl committee. Two members of that selection committee were in Provo Saturday to watch the Cougars destroy San Diego State John Kuhn and Noel Mickelson can't officially scout any teams for the Holiday Bowl until Oct. 17, but they can attend play. What they saw Saturday was impressive. "We saw one heck of game," said Kuhn. When asked if BYU goes undefeated he thought the upcoming Holiday Bowl has national championship potential, he said: "We've had several comments and thoughts along that line." Kuhn said the television contract for Dec. 29th's game is solid with ESPN, but acknowledged there has been rumors of a network buyout. "There is a remote possibility, but I don't think under the circumstances ESPN would allow that to happen. I don't think they'd be bought. As you know we have a sellout already, which is the earliest in the history of the bowl. "We are in conversations with ESPN about the possibility of adding to the pot (payout) in the event we had a game like you mentioned." The current payout for the winning school is $1.2 million. "We haven't finished our final budgeting but we'll be ready in another days on a guarantee. But it will be at least be a $1.2 million." After the game, Kuhn and Mickelson traveled to Salt ii Lake City to view the matchup. "Right now this is just a goodwill tour. When we get into scouting, we don't have enough time to visit our own WAC teams because we are out on the road trying to find an opponent. "When we are looking for a team, we are looking for one with some excitement because the WAC always puts someone on the field that's exciting." Kuhn said besides looking for obvious explosive opponent for the WAC host, some members of the selection committee also look at school spirit, the number of ticket opposing schools may purchase and even the quality of the college's marching band. "A band is very big thing. We have some people on the selection committee who believe if a school doesn't bring a band they don't want them. Because we have to set aside 10,000 tickets for each of the participating teams, we want schools that will bring bodies to the bowl, too." Besides its WAC obligation, Kuhn said the selection committee is not locked into a particular Western, East or Midwest school. Mickelson said the Super Bowl was held at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium and the seating capacity expanded by 10,000 to Dan McGwire. "I thought Dan played as well as he ever has. The offense was running, passing, moving the ball. I don't think Dan threw a bad ball." McGwire shrugged off the asses-- , ment, pointing to the bottom line of the final score. "I don't rate my performances. All I can see is we didn't put the ball in the end zone enough times to win. We scored two or three times in a row there t in the second quarter), then we got close to the end zone a few times and couldn't get it in. It was frustrating. Just a lack of execution. "But," he added, "I think we earned some respect from them." The execution problems came with dropped balls and penalties, Luginbill said. w wilful 1Z D attention of committee better than our redshirt freshmen? Right now, yes, they are. They made some great plays. But we'll get better." The only way to get better, Luginbill said, is to play against good players. "You start learning by playing against damn good football players like Ty Detmer. We have one more chance at him. next year and I'm looking forward to it. People talk about whether we want to get rid of him (have him go to the NFL after his junior year) and I say no. I don't want him gone. You learn by playing against the best. And he's the best I've ever seen at making something good out of something bad." The Aztec coach was also full of praise for his own quarterback, 8 Detmer would pull some rabbit play out of his pocket. It gets discouraging. But we're not the only ones he's done that to. He's a great player." Part of the breakdown in execution came from inexperience. Luginbill pointed out that many of the Aztecs' players are redshirt freshmen and it showed on occasion. "Right now, some of our best players are young. They'll make mistakes and we'll just have to live with that. They had a couple of big g g and calls that worked, sometimes because we made a mistake, sometimes because they just made a great play even though we had the people there. "Does that mean that a senior like Chris Smith or Matt Bellini is didn't get a lot of pressure, but we got some. But it seemed like when we got pressure on him, the coverage broke down, and when the coverage was good, we didn't get pressure. We just didn't execute senior well," the said. "And they just made some great plays, great catches. "Of course, we're not happy giving up 62 points, but I really think that offense could score 40 or so points on anybody." Luginbill thought so, too. "At times, you wonder what you have to do (to stop them). We had trouble making a big play of defense. Then, when we did once (sack Detmer), Chris Smith went up and took the ball away from two guys for 35 yards. 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