| Show Zsrlitgalt akt riribunt SATURDAY September 10 1994 S BUSINESS C-- 7 Page 0 ORTS 1 After Years of Success Air Force Is Struggling E How Force match up Air BYti Page Even before hard times hit BYU regularly cruhed the Falcons' wishbone In the last C-- 2 four meetings the Cougars have limited Air Force to a combined 24 points Last year they held the Falcons to just 244 yards in a 30-ded mauling — with the fense in the nation That defense has been significantly up2 graded if last week's victory at Hawaii is any indication And because Hawaii's spread option attack is similar to the Falcons' BYU has essentially had a month to prepare for this game "The whole key to defending the option is getting the reads down" says free safety Cory Cook "Getting them down takes practice and we've had a lot of time for that" Mostly the Cougars seem amused by Campbell's victory forecast "I like a guy who's willing to stir things up" says defensive tackle Mike Ulufale "It makes things more interesting" "Bold statements" agrees halfback Jamal Willis "Well see when the game is cons win "Fisher's not old enough to realize how hard that hair is to come by" says - By Joe Baird LaVeil Edwards But the BYII coach appreciates the Falcons' seriousness They've beaten the Cougars only once in 16 tries — in 1982 in Provo They're coming off a dreadful season 7 in the WAC) which included losTrophy to ing the Commander-in-Chief- s Army Last Saturday they were drubbed by Colorado State in their season opener "I'm sure there's a sense of urgency" says Edwards "The fact that they haven't beaten us in so long compounds it" But will it make any difference? secret in the WAC is Air The worst-keForce's talent decline in recent years Because of Pentagon cutbacks the Falcons can no longer guarantee recruits a chance to fly It has cost them athletes they formerly THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Finding the Truth In a Wagonload Of Quarterbacks The issue here considered with fervor almost annually in this state is more crowded this time around the question more complicated In fact it's probably imprudent absurd and malodorous for us to attempt to solve the matter but hey that's what we're all about: seeking righteous truth before it becomes obvious to the most idiotic football fan Who is the best quarterback in college football? This is bigger than just the debate over the local favorites Let's pry open our minds consider the possibilities and if not get the thing settled at least not become more confused The candidates include: Eric Zeier Georgia Steve Stenstrom Stanford Rob Johnson USC Chad May Kansas State Steve McNair Alcorn State Dan O'Neil Oregon Maurice DeShazo Virginia Tech Dave Barr California Darrell Bevell Wisconsin Tommie Frazier Nebraska Ron Powlus Notre Dame Mike McCoy Utah John Walsh BYIJ Have you heard of all these guys? Have you heard of all these schools? Who is Steve McNair and where is Alcorn State? And this list doesn't even include talents such as Wayne Cook UCLA who set a Pac-1record last season by throwing three interceptions in 254 passes or Jake Plummer Arizona State the No freshman passer in 1993 or Maryland's Scott Milanovich who passed for 400 yards five times a year ago or Washington's Damon Huard and Arizona's Dan White both considered pro prospects Zeier a senior has thrown for 8242 d peryards as of last week's formance against South Carolina He is rated as the top college quarterback by the NFL Draft Report and the national scouting combine He has completed 60 percent of his passes and thrown for 46 touchdowns Yeah yeah yeah says Bill Walsh former coach of Joe Montana and Steve Young with the San Francisco 49ers and current coach of Stenstrom at Stanford His guy has a 62 percent completion rate and 7709 yards "We have the best quarterback in college football" Walsh says "He is further along than two out of three NFL quarterbacks in technique mechanics and decision making" "What does Bill Walsh know about quarterbacks?" says USC coach John Robinson who favors Johnson The Trojan has completed 64 percent of his passes for 6102 yards 44 touchdowns 23 interceptions "He's a leading candidate for the Heiman" Robinson says "His accuracy is phenomenal His interception d — The is empcase Trophy ty Recruiting has fallen off The team is coming off its first losing season since 1988 and the only conference foe it has beaten in the last 11 tries is LITEP Yes these are desperate times at the Air Force Academy But the Falcons are trying like crazy to turn it around And they're pointing to today's game here against Brigham Young as the start of the comeback "This program is at a crossroads" says Air Force halfback Jake Campbell The Falcon senior has guaranteed a victory over the Cougars Even Air Force coach Fisher De Berry has gotten into the act promising to shave his head if the Fal COLORADO Commander-in-Chief- SPRINGS Colo s 4-- 8 34-2- 1 pt ' t-- ' - ' - - -- 'iv - i- ‘ -' k - '"'-kp- " r"R" ' " - - i ii - : 't- : j - ' 44"!)-- :4r ai - ' '' 1 - 0: 1tsp 1 V t '- - - 1 - I ( ' k t A i 'Lkr 1c—) j r (1:1 1 i Illi-'"a-- 01044MatbN 1 '''''16'"I'1"444 i - - ) ' I'I''' 1°4- ay:31 - '' :'' i:21''''''' ' 7:' gl- I - - '''N 4 - I t- ''"'7itik -' 'q ? ''' By As if stomping them by about 30 points every October isn't enough now the Idaho Vandals have found a new way to make life difficult for their Idaho State rivals They beat the Utes loss last September The to the Division Vandals in front of Utah's home fans still stings coach Ron McBride It also vaporizes any chance the Bengals might have had of sneaking up on the Utes who make their 1994 Rice Stadium debut against ISU tonight at 7 pm team beats a "Anytime a Division I team it's a tough pill to swallow" commiserated third-yea- r ISU coach Brian McNeely "I know that game will be fresh in their minds They won't overlook 28-1- 7 To McBride that's the one positive to come from the Idaho disaster: it demonstrates more powerfully than anything he can say the importance of respecting an let3e - II See - --- I "cn ' ---- '‘ - S i e : i 0'' :' 4 - - ' r - '! fit- - - r -' ' ! ''''N 1 - ' A' - 4) - - - ' '- - Rest of Baseball Season Monday - 485-yar- rate is amazing" Don't leave out McNair says Carden Jones coach of Alcorn (Miss) State The senior is probably the only quarterback on the list with a shot at surpassing Ty Detmer's career yardage mark He needs 3008 yards over the next 10 games Had McNair gone to say Notre Dame Jones told USA Today "He'd probably have won the Heisman his first year I'm serious about that He probably could have won two or three" O'Neil broke all of Dan Fouts' son passing marks at Oregon last year Of May one NFL scout says: "He's the second coming of Jim McMahon The sea- scouts have him rated as the quarterback in the country" behind Zeier and Walsh Dave Barr's numbers compare favorably with Stenstrom's and Johnson's Many coaches say DeShazo is the best option quarterback And if you don't 'know about Powlus watch a little TV this fall You know Walsh you know McCoy Who's the best? You figure it out I'll pass on the righteous truth and wait with the idiots this time around third-be- st ! '' - wz '' o0o1074 4 : -- ie z:- q : - 4 "::-'-'- - : : '' 1 4 14 " or:: :7''"'" 7'72 '3'- - ' - ' -- ''' - '' - - ' ''-- r ' ''' - :: - 4— ' '- ' "' :' :4e : 40' r - ' - 1 --- 0 : ' -- it: k 7'''': ::-- 0 : - -- ' - — - ""A ''' - :1 - '1-- 1 - -- -i- " -e z -- - - "' - '''' c ri--- t ie - - '''''''rA 8 ' 4 : 2 — )- '" - 1' "'"1":V" ' "!14 " "tdo tt- - - 7 A 0 ' : '"" 1 CHICAGO TRIBUNE I ' "'"3111e- '' - A i -- By Jerome Holtzman - ii- toio- - '4" -- 4) i ' - 44 Mr4k Ar'-- 4 -- 1114 a ' 100:: :-" : 1 : " ' - : -- - - - ' ' - r 1 Salt Lake Tribune Paul Fraughtonlbe HEY GET BACK HERE Jordan's Matt Greenwood makes a gallant effort to reach Olympus running back Paul Peterson but comes up just short It was costly because Peterson scampered for a long gain in the Titans' victory on Friday Complete prep report 5 C-4- Tie Game Top of Ninth Buzz Batting And Whole Thing on Hold Until Today VANCOUVER British Columbia — The Salt Lake Buzz and Vancouver Canadians played a wild and wet 312 hours Friday and settled nothing lead in The Buzz blew a three-ruthe eighth as Luis Raven tagged Dave Stevens for a grand slam but came up with two runs in the ninth to tie the before the rain finally halted game the game at Nat Bailey Stadium The contest was finally suspended until today at 12:30 am Utah time The teams will resume the game at 8 pm and play Game 3 immediately following Channel 4 will televise all of tonight's action The Canadians went into Friday's e lead in the game with a series Salt Lake jumped out to a edge thanks to Denny Hocking's RBI ground out in the second and Bern homer in the nardo Brito's third The homer was Brito's first in 11 games The Canadians cut the deficit to with a run in the third but Salt Lake CHICAGO TRIBUNE NEW YORK — The demons began whispering to Jana Novotna before most observers of her US Open semifinal loss to Steffi Graf could have possibly sensed it Friday afternoon's match was after all still up in the for grabs with Novotna leading Graf But more second set after dropping the first than that it was a good match A great match in fact with Novotna picking up steam and giving no reason whatsoever to think the bottom would drop out Again But a netted second service return off the forehand a long forehand and a long lob — unforced errors all — erased three set points for Novotna signaling the beginning of the end and bringing back a nightmare that won't go away with three game points in Novotna led Graf the third set of the 1993 Wimbledon final when a gag of colossal proportions allowed Graf to win 6-- 6-- 6 2 3 1-- C-- Column 3 sortment of dunks drives and jumpers delighting a sellout final crowd of 18671 in the basketball game at Chicago Stadium where he'd led the Bulls to three straight NBA titles Jordan made 24 of 46 shots as his team won 187-15- 0 As the final minutes ticked off the crowd stood and screamed "Michael! Michael!" Pippen and Jordan hugged as the game came to a close Jordan knelt and planted a kiss on the red Bulls insignia painted on the floor best-of-fiv- 0 3-- 0 two-ru- 4-- 1 See PCL PLAYOFFS Bun vs Canadians n By Melissa Issacson 5-- 3-- 1 (Best-of-Fiv- — Vancouver II Soft Lake 2 Friday — Sott take 6 Vancouver 6 susp 9tt) W Tonight — Soft Lake at Vancouver 8 pm II Wednesday — Salt Lake Mt 'Monday it Ider At lines MOT - 4-- back-to-bac- M - - r rm f4A ' -- ' - 'z-- '1 T -- ' : a tt t:itv '‘ 3 Salt Lake 6 Vane 6 susp 9th Albuquerque 8 Colo Springs 7 Action Tonight In 8 N : C ''- k rt 7 or - NU Ch 4 C-- 2 Column 4 Florida State at Maryland 10:30 am — College Football Stanford at Northwestern (2) 11:30 am — Beach Volleyball AVP Tournament of cum c2D 1230 pm Open: women's final: Graf vs SanchezVicario: men's semifinals: Stich vs Novacek and Agassi vs Martin 10 am — College Football MC — College Foot- ball Michigan at Notre Dame 1 pm — College Football Utah State at Colorado State 1:30 pm — College Football BYU at Air Force 1tiW) 2 pm — Golf Bell Canadian Open CUSPIT) 5 pm — College Foot WM Sports CC a am — Tennis US t44: - - pm TV -- - ' Scottie Pippen and 4 '' - rip fi 'L '' : '- t ii1 See half-doze- a See t ' 'r nocessaly pushed it back to 1 when Hocking plated another with a ground out in the fifth Then it got wild Starter Eddie Guardado who alinlowed just two runs in seven-plu- s nings walked Marquis Riley to start the eighth Stevens took over but k promptly gave up singles to PJ Forbes and Garret Anderson to score Riley PCL Pbyolls: Buzz at Vancouver ''' ' at Vancouver 230 pm at Vancouver 8 pm around a recommendation by the players that the owners adopt a n plan that would help the or so clubs in financial distress They didn't merely kick it around They stomped on it The proposal wasn't what the owners wanted to hear They were hoping the union for the first time would reply directly to their demand for a salary cap or reveal what percentage of the major leagues' annual $18 billion revenue should be applied to player salaries The tmion's proposal called for teams to split 25 percent of their gate receipts instead of the current 20 percent in the American League and 4 percent in the National League It called for the teams with the 16 highest payrolls to pay a I percent payroll -- tax" and the 16 teams with the highest revenue to pay a 112 percent revenue "tax" That money would be distributed to the other 12 clubs but no club would be on the receiving end for more than two consecutive years Management negotiator Richard Ravitch said the tmion's plan would redistribute only $50 rail 1 t' 1— — Sot? Lake loreght's game oil be televised on Channel 4 PCL Playoffs ''7!1 'r114NN NEW YORK — Major League Baseball club owners said no Friday to the Players Associations latest proposal and acting Commissioner Bud Selig will say no Monday to the 1994 season Selig will make the formal announcement from his Milwaukee office: no resumption of play no playoffs and for the first time in 90 years no World Series Selig refused to acknowledge publicly when he would reveal this decision other than saying "It will be made early next week" With the exception of White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf who remained in his hotel room a full squad of negotiators from both sides met for 45 minutes late Friday afternoon and kicked Novotna's Demons Have Field Day in Grafs Open Win Jordan's 52 Proves There Is No Place Like Home Michael Jordan came back to basketball Friday night Did he ever! It wasn't a real game only an exhibition for charity sponsored by former Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen And there wasn't much defense played all night But Jordan in his first public basketball appearance in 15 months showed he's lost none of his incomparable moves in the II months since he retired and took up baseball He scored 52 points on an as t ‘ ' "'''' -- Column 2 Selig to Cancel - ' P t 2 4 lc - C-- e t ' Phil Miller THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Luther Elliss - ' 00014--1:- - - I 0 ' 4 Bengals May Have to Pay For Last Year's Idaho Win No kidding "Remember the Vandals" is as big a Ute mantra this week as "Beat BYU" is the rest of the year "We have plenty of motivation- said Utah defensive tackle 7 ‘ p : - - Idaho State Won't Sneak Up on Utes us" I'r 1 4 ) Topt ?k441irlooe400 '"Ltitc— - "°'1t4-- ''I' 51 P ' ' ‘ -- 0 A 0:- - - - - i - - t ' ' t $ - - - - - 4 7'" kt "Tr'-- rt over" - - ‘ 13-1- (1-- C-1- 104th-ranke- 3 ld all-fire- WEATIIER t esperate Falcons Focusing on IYU GORDON MONSON 0 SECTION C w q 2 Column 6 ball Tennessee at Georgia (TBS) 5:30 pm — Auto Racing NASCAR Miller Genuine Draft 400 8 pm — PCL Playoffs Buzz at Vancouver ( ES PN ) 8 pm — College Foot- - ball Miami at Arizona State CSFICT) 8 pm — Boxing Berm vs Gimenez (taped) D 05S-N-9 pm — College Football Vanderbilt at Alabama (taped) 0 :- RAD 1 am — College Thlane at Rice (taped) e - C-- A-4- 4 Football' i ! |
