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
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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. I think that ac
counts tor some of their problems, ”
In New England, Landry sees a
team that has looked as steady as any
team has all year in the NFL.
“This team (the Patriots) has per
formed as well as any team has over
the long stretch,” Landry said. “The
games they have lost have been a
result of something happening late in
the game, a fumble that got loose or
something.
“Not too many teams can say that’s
the only way they have lost.”
Sparky fired
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back-to-back World Championships
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Diego Padres.
McNamara, a coach with the
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his Thousand Oaks, Calif., home to
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Anderson will be paid for the final
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