THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1979
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Sommerville quits at TCU
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L T VVORTH - Tim Sommer-
W whose teams have managed
two Southwest Conference
ir ies in two years, resigned as
etball coach at Texas Christian
Lrsity Monday as the 1979
Lest Conference regular sea-
jtnmerville said he would coach
3 mecl Frogs in the final two
■s of the regular season and in
J\VC tournament.
Jdon’t feel I ever had the time to
Lit the type of kids I wanted for
Irogram in the short time I’ve
I here,” said Sommerville. T
I. the athletic director was as-
L the situation and was going
Le some decision at the end of
year contract and I did not want to
work under a one-year contract.”
Sommerville, 33, was the
youngest coach in the Southwest
Conference and he was thrown into
the TCU head coaching position less
than a week before the start of the
1977-78 season.
He had been hired by former
TCU coach Johnny Swaim to head
the Horned Frogs recruiting pro
gram.
But when Swaim quit in
November, 1977 — saying he just
did not find pleasure in coaching
anymore — Sommerville was left
with an inexperienced squad and lit
tle chance to go on the recruiting
trail himself.
TCU went 3-23 last season and
the Horned Frogs are 6-18 this year
with two regular season games to
play —Tuesday night against Baylor
and Wednesday night against SMU.
The lone conference victories for
TCU over that stretch were over
Rice last season and over Houston
this year. Only two of this year’s
victories have been against colleges
that award scholarships.
Despite the problems associated
with this year’s team, Sommerville’s
resignation came as a surprise. Ear
lier in the day at a media luncheon
Sommerville had given no hint he
was thinking about quitting.
Midway through the conference
season a group of TCU players ex
pressed displeasure with the type of
coaching job Sommerville was do
ing. Some said they felt one set of
discipline guidelines had been laid
down for white players and another
for black players.
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
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Several of the players Sommer
ville recruited last year said they
would not return to play for TCU***
next season.
Somerville said his program was
unfairly singled out by newspaper
reporters, saying grumblings could
be heard from any losing team. The
day after the players were quoted in
area newspapers, TCU played one
of its best games of the season in
losing a close one to league leading
Texas.
“If that’s how kids play when they
are mad at their coach,” said Texas
coach Abe Lemons, “I wish my kids
would get mad at me.
TCU athletic director Frank
Windegger said a search for a new
coach would begin immediately.
Conference play continues im
mediately as tonight is the last big
night of regular season league ac
tion. SMU and TCU will play a
makeup game Wednesday night in
Fort Worth to officially close out the
campaign.
Coach Shelby Metcalf s Texas Ag
gies host the Rice Owls tonight in
the final regular season game for the
two teams.
The Aggies, 10-5 in SWC play,
need only a victory over Rice to se
cure a bye in the quarterfinals of the
post-season tournament.
In their earlier meeting this year,
the Aggies soundly defeated the
Owls 81-62. In that contest, Texas
A&M’s starting five, Vernon Smith,
Rynn Wright, Rudy Woods, Dave
Goff and Tyrone Ladson, each
scored in double figures. Woods and
Ladson led the Aggies with 18
points a piece.
The Aggies and the Owls will tip
off at 7:30 p. m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
The Texas Longhorns go after that
half of the Southwest Conference
championship they do not already
own tonight.
Texas needs only to knock oft the
SMU Mustangs, which almost every
other team in the league has been
doing lately, to win the SWC title
outright.
A Texas loss, however, combined
with a win by Arkansas over Texas
Tech in Lubbock, would leave the
regular season championship of the
SWC divided just the way it was last
year — between the Longhorns and
Razorbacks.
But win or lose, Texas and Arkan-
the Rice Owls in the final regular season game
for both teams. The game will tip off at 7:30
p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
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sanitan ie, which began play this year.
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jES MOINES — The Women’s
issional Basketball League will
ipanding from eight to at least
iams next year, an official said
She said on Feb. 27 or March 1
new franchises are expected to be
granted by the league s board of di
rectors to San Francisco and St.
Louis for teams to begin play next
year. „
Also looking “very strong right
now are potential franchises in Bos
ton, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and
Phoenix, McEnroe said.
“There also are applications from
San Diego and New Orleans and
possibly Seattle and Portland,” she
said. “A good sign of a solid league is
expansion and we have a good pro
gram under way.
In connection with the expansion
plans, she said, is a requirement
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sas will go into hibernation after to
night’s games until the semifinals of
the league’s post-season tournament
March 2.
Tonight’s and Wednesday night’s
games will determine which teams
will be playing where on Saturday.
Last-place TCU (1-13), eighth-
place Rice (4-11) and probably
seventh-place SMU (4-10) will be
the road teams in the opening round
Saturday with the host teams, in all
liklihood, being Texas Tech, Baylor
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that each team be prepared to oper
ate for at least three years.
“This is something that many
people don’t realize,” she said. “The
teams have to show good faith and
be in a position to run for three
years before they can get in the
league.
“We are probably going to limit
our expansion to six because we
want to make certain we don’t grow
too far too fast.
McEnroe said the league’s man
agement was not concerned by the
small intial crowds in some loca
tions.
She said the owners were pre
pared to lose money initially.
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