Page 16 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1978 Bears move toward SWC upper class United Press International This is the first in a series of arti cles profiling Texas Air M’s 1979 Southwest Conference basketball opponents. WACO — This might be the sea son the Baylor Bears make a move to join the upper class in the Southwest Conference basketball picture. At least their coach is extra op timistic. And so are their fans — who have purchased 4,000 season tickets. a gain of 1,500 from last season. “We have a chance to be better because we have much more depth, ’ said Baylor coach Jim Haller. “Many times last year we had only five or six players we could go with and when we played one of those stretches where you have eight games in four days we just got too tired. “Our fans wanted to know how we could beat teams like North Texas and Oklahoma early in the year and then get beat by some teams that perhaps should not have beaten us. “Depth was the answer. You look at the nights we beat Texas and Houston last year and you will find we were well rested on those occa sions. Baylor finished fifth last season and much of the year depended on one player — flashy guard Vinnie Johnson. Johnson led the SWC in scoring and finished second in assists, but still reacted more as a schoolyard player. Haller thinks that will change this year. And with the moving of 6-9 senior Wendell Mays to the backcourt, along with the recruiting of two highly sought after freshmen, Haller is almost bubbling. “We moved Mays to the outside (with 6-9 freshman Jimmy Carter moving in) and he is not getting the heck beat out of him any more,” said Haller. “And when you put him out there with Vinnie you have a pretty good combination. “I hate to put pressure on freshmen, but Terry Teagle (from Broaddus, Texas) is a good freshman. I don’t mind saying that. “He is a great leaper (at 6-5) and with him in there along with some of our other youngsters we are going to be able to do more things than we were able to do last year. “We are going to press more, we will press a lot. Last year we couldn’t do that because we were too tired to do it.” Whenever Baylor is discussed, however, the talk always gets around to Johnson, the junior-college trans fer from Brooklyn who was recruited by schools throughout the country. “Don’t get me wrong,” Haller said. “Vinnie is the greatest basket ball player I’ve ever been around. “But he has changed his attitude a little this year. He is setting the ball club up and he is running it. He’s accepted our philosophy well. He didn t do all the things we wanted him to do last year. “But this year he came back 10 or 12 pounds lighter. He is quicker. He is motivated. “Vinnie is from a hood in New York and^ major college life has bee, him. 1 expect another J from Vinnie.” And a great year|U 72 could mean a verygooj*- Baylor. The Bears are 1-1 so ^ son, having defeatedAusti, 121-55 and lost to 0k]4 5 Baylor will be Texas AY S WC opponent of the se; the Aggies host the Bears Page Playoffs calculated for winner United Press International DALLAS — Having worn out a lot of pencils and paper and burned out a few calculators, the Dallas Cow boys management made the follow ing announcement Tuesday: “The winner of Sunday’s game be tween Dallas and New England will clinch a playoff spot. ” So the Dallas-New England game has a prize dangling at the end of it and there are those who think that it might be a preview of the Super Bowl as well. “There is a lot of water that has go to under the dam before the Super Bowl is played,” said New England coach Chuck Fairbanks. “All we are trying to do right now is make the playoffs. ” “I think Chuck has it right,” echoed Dallas coach Tom Landry. "There is too much left to be thinking about that.” But it’s certainly not too early to be thinking about playoffs, which both teams figure to make. The Patriots have a two-game lead over Miami in the AFC East and if New England should win Sunday and Miami should lose to Washing ton, then the Patriots would clinch their division title. But even if both New England and Miami win Sunday the Patriots would be assurred of no worse than a wild card playoff spot. In the NFC, meanwhile, a Dallas win and losses by Philadelphia to Minnesota and Washington to Miami would give the Cowboys the NFC East crown. But, again, if Dal las, Philadelphia and Washington all win, the Cowboys will still cinch a wild card berth. “If we make the playoffs we will have accomplished what we want,” said Landry. "Our objective is to make the playoffs, even if it is the fifth team.” Landry is in a more relaxed frame of mind these days. His club has won its last three games with relative ease and with the Los Angeles Rams hav ing problems both on and off the field lately the Cowboys coach was asked Tuesday whether his team was the best in the NFC. “Oh, it’s hard to say,” Landry be gan. “I think we are much improved over what we were, say, four or five weeks ago. Just from our better men tal attitude. “We have worked hard and come back to be in the position where it is in our hands and that’s what we want. It’s been encouraging. When you go through a period like we went through, you have some reser vations. “But we have been playing well over the last three games. I think teams like Los Angeles who have their thing pretty well cinched any way, its hard keep your mind on your business each week. 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