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Show r Scoreboard C3 Arts C4 The Daily Herald Hill Friday, October 6, 1995 teaches lesson in scheduling Attention college athletic directors. Particularly rookies. Take a close look at the art of scheduling, as taught by Dr. Chris Hill at the University of Utah. Here is a guy who knows how to tool a calendar to give his team the best chance of winning a championship. Saturday the Utes play San Diego State in Rice Stadium, a game that kicks off an entire month of October with home four straight. games The important aspect of this calendaring is the fact Utah is 0 in the Western Athletic Conference. With a young, rebuilt team, having a stretch of four home games provides an outstanding foundation for success. Especially in a season with seven total home games. "Playing these games at home obviously has to be a plus because wc arc comfortable with our surroundings and we have our crowd," said Utah coach Ron McBride, whose Utes could come out of October with a 0 league 3-- 6-- Bide Herman Sidlines mark if they can get by the Aztecs, then Colorado State and Air Force. Utah plays instate rival Utah State Oct. 28. Portions of the Ute schedule are dictated by the WAC office, which did send the Utes to New Mexico for two straight seasons. The home and home contract with Stanford put the Cardinal in Rice Stadium this year. But the Utes had to travel last year to Stanford and must make that trip again next year. McBride, however, is not looking at his schedule as anything k but a exercise. "We are only looking at what we need to do this week against San Diego State. We are not good enough to start looking at what it will take to win the WAC a month from now. We just want to be better against San Diego State than we were against UTEP last week. We still have some outstanding teams to play on our schedule," he said. The Utah-Sa- n Diego State matchup has some intriguing plot lines. This game will match SDSU's outside speed at receiver against the Ute secondary and pass rush. "They are a big play offense with some outstanding receivers," said McBride. "They have improved in every part of the game. I was very impressed with their offensive line and quarterback Billy Blanton." SDSU coach Ted Tollner said his team will have its hands full with Utah. "They are 0 for a reason. McBride has done an excellent job rebuilding his team after losing a lot of key players from a year ago. That is a credit to Ron and how hard he has worked to get it done. It is not easy to take away that many good players and win the way they have this past month. Our challenge is this: We have one crack at Utah, the league leader, and we have to make the most of it. With one loss, we cannot afford to let this slip by and have a chance at the WAC title." McBride says Utah has a long way to go. But October does tilt in his favor. The predictions: Air Force 38, UTEP 24. This should be no problem for the Falcons, but UTEP, with Toraino Singleton, will be able to run on AFA. Wyoming 33, Tulsa 17. Welcome to the WAC next year Tulsa. Get a taste of the Cowboys early. Colorado State 34, Utah State 10. The Aggies are hurting after that last second loss to San Jose State. But the Rains are embarrassed and mad after being week-to-wee- 3-- humiliated during homecoming by BYU. ; Fresno State 42, New Mexico 21. The Bulldogs should have no problem taking cam of the Lobos who are winlcss in the league so far. Utah 28, San Diego State 21. McBride has some kind of lucky rabbit's foot or something in his Satpocket. The string continues Stadium. in Rice urday night are net gain for Cougars Walk-on- s By DOROTHY KNOELL The Daily Herald Assistant Sports Editor Like a magiBOSTON ( AP) cian whose tricks are greeted with cries for more, Tim Wakefield will ask his acrobatic pitch to carry him through the playoffs once again. The question is, can he do it Friday night and save Boston from its 13th consecutive postseason loss and a three-gam- e sweep by the Cleveland Indians? Can the struggling knuckle-baile- r recreate his early-seasp- n success when, after Pittsburgh released him, he signed with! the Red Sox late in spring trainingnd ? started Can he revisit his stunning postseason of 1992, when his twj athletes who go to a school without a scholarship and try to make the team on their are a part of almost every own school's athletic proWalk-on- s big-na- gram. A few walk-on- s usually make e the team and most programs have been helped by those players. But probably few Top 25 proas better grams feature walk-on- s than half their starting lineup. big-tim- BYU's women's 19th-rank- volleyball team does. Four of the Cougars' current "starting seven" came to the Pro-v- o campus with an invitation to come out for the team an "invited walk-on- " but without a scholarship in hand. One started almost all of last season, but still didn't get a scholarship until this year. Another came without a scholarship, but ended up with one after she arrived. Two of the four redshirted a year without any assurance they'd get financial aid. All had other choices they could have made, but turned them down in order to come to BYU. All are contributing big time. And they all embody the Cougars' 1995 slogan of "Better Together" as they show a willingness to put the good of the team ahead of any personal goals or ego. They are among the mainstays of the Cougar team that faces a crucial WAC road trip this weekend at Fresno State (tonight) and preseason favorite San Diego State (Saturday night). "Our program is based on a couple of concepts," said BYU coach Elaine Michaelis, explainended ing how so many walk-on- s up as starters for the perennially national-ranke- d Cougars. "One concept is that there are a lot of good LDS athletes out there whose developmental opportunities are limited somewhat by their choice not to play on Sunday. We think they should get an opportunity to play college ball. "Also, we simply can't get some of the top players in the country to come to BYU because of the different lifestyle here. So we rely a lot on that first group of players, those who are willing to come and spend some time developing before we commit a scholarship to them." Over the years, the Cougars have had a number of both kinds of players. Several players have come without athletic scholarlike hitter ships Shannon Egbert Skidmore, who came to BYU on an academic scholarship and ended up starting for the Cougars. Jan Giles and Vicki Backus did the same. The likes of starting setters Cherie Sam Fong and Carla Gee and 14-1- specialist victori complete-gam- e ;s nearly' earned him the playoff MVP?-Opfailing that, can he merely pitch as well as Roger Clemens and Erjk; Boston's Hanson, i? -- fa ' ?S7 p. 4 mm. v t. MS. Daily Herald PhotosMatthew Angie Walker Tanner slams a ball past two Minnesota players. Tanner, one of four walk-on- s to start for the Cougars this year, was man of the Year last season. In the meantime, "big-time- " recruits like Dylann Duncan, Jill Sanders Plumb and current Cougars R. Smith WAC Fresh- (See Mn Gale Oborn, Amy WALK-ON- Page C2) Rain canceled Thursday's workouts but was expected e clear in time for Game 3. If Vrj; Kennedy said he will still go wjt; Wakefield instead of uting; Clemens again on three days resL 4-- i',r doubt. Then again, it might not matter. "He might be ready. It's apparently not a really bad strain," Kennedy said. "But it's going to lake a good game out of our starter, as we've gotten from Erik and Roger." Yankees-Marine- rs The Seattle. SEATTLE Manners should be demoralized after their loss in Yankee Stadium. They're not. Their playoff series switches to Seattle tonight and they've dominated the New York ; 7-- 5, best-of-- 5 Yankees in the Kingdome this season, winning six of seven games. "We play well a; home," pitcher Tim Belcher said. "It's a tough order to come back from but it's not over." The Mariners lost Games 1 and 2 in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday nights after beating the California Angels 1 Monday 2-- m Anderson came to the Cougars without financial aid and started. -- The 0 loss in Game 2 made Rick Aguilera's hamstring strain irrelevant. Aguilera's availability for the rest of the series is still in those Steele and Korie Rogers sought after by the likes of perennial powers UCLA, Stanford and others have also come to BYU. Of course, they come with scholarships in hand. But looking at team stats and status, who would believe that the likes of 1994 WAC Freshman of the Year Angie Walker Tanner, starting rightside hitter Heather Whittaker, starting setter Laci Olmstead and defensive specialist Andrea Petrilli came to BYU without financial aid? They did, even though each had the chance to go (or stay) elsewhere with financial aid included. Fortunately for BYU, all four chose to accept an invitation to bring their talents to Pro-v- o and earn a scholarship in the process. Tanner was a basketballvolleyball star at Taylorsville High in Salt Lake City. The All- sophomore was first-tea- Leslie Ja starters Games I and 2, w ho have held the potent Cleveland lineup to a 384 . . average. "He's the one guy who can. gel their batters in a little bit of-- 3 slump and make them struggle," Red Sox outfielder Mike Grecii; well said. "And not just wirtSn. 9 ballgame. I'd like to see htm shut these guys down and get tCm: searching a little bit." But if he does, can the BoStpS batters notably the hitlessMo "poD Vaughn and Jose Canseco out of their slump and get ftS Cleveland starter Chuck Nagy? Like Vaughn, Canseco is for the series. But Canseco also has just three hits in his last 33 postseason at bats. 1 All-WA- C defensive Red Sox pin hopes on Wakefield 0, 9-- Freshman Andrea Petrilli dives to save a ball Fieldhouse earlier this year. in action at the Smith in a one-gam- e playoff in Seattle (See PLAYOFFS, Page C2) Young story captured in new book sources, Harmon has pieced together a story which follows Young from his upbringing in Connecticut to his days as a Super Steve Young: Staying in the Pocket, by Dick Harmon, Black Moon Publishing, 192 pages. By ROD COLLETT The Daily Herald Bowl hero. Harmon said the evolution of the book dates back to last February. "I had been approached by three different publishers to write a book about Steve Young," said Harmon. "Up to that point I had not given it a thought. After working on this for months, this has become a reality." Harmon portrays Young as a youngster whose parents instilled a value system that despite the numbers, honors, success and money has not spoiled the 49ers Associate Sports Editor the mere name Steve Young of quick outs visions conjures up to Jerry Rice or scrambles down-fiel- d for a crucial first down. d But the enigma that is Steve Young has rarely been captured on video, let alone in print. The former BYU for the San Francisco and All-Pr- o 49ers is notably gun shy when it comes to talking about himself, his college and NFL exploits. In Dick Harmon's Steve Young, Staying in the Pocket, the Daily Herald sports editor manages to capture the flavor, intensity and character that has made Young the top NFL quarterback the past four years. The author stated in his forward that Young didn't participate in the production of the book. In fact. Young has never sanctioned a book about his career, yet Harmon has drawn on a fascinating repertoire of sources close to Young that collechas resulted in a first-clation of information. This has come off-fiel- ss O quarterback. Dick Harmon through his personal accounts while covering BYU football over period and also through magazines, newspapers and personal accounts from friends who have known the Super Bowl MVP when he was a struggling freshman player at BYU. Harmon was the first sports writer outside Greenwich, Conn., to author an article on the signing of Young to a letter of intent. several By drawing from a ar "The reason this is a great product is that in the sports world, there are so many negative role models that seem to capture all the limelight." said Nick Hales, of Black Moon Publishing." In Steve Young, we have a good, positive role model, who works with the Navajo Indians, has his own foundation "Forever Young," and for some reason doesn't get the limelight. "I think it's time people uncier-(Se- e YOl'Nd. Page C2) v5 'J is, Steve Young is the subject of a new book by Dick Harmon. The book details Young's rise from BYU backup to Super Bowl MVP. |