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February 4, 1983
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to host Texas
by Tracey Taylor
Battalion Staff
rhe Texas A&M men’s
swimming team has been
warming up this week to
meet the University of I exas
Longhorns, who were rank
ed first nationally in the pre
season polls.
And although I exas is a
disappointing 1-2 in dual
meets this season, its com
petition has been pretty
tough. The Horns beat F lor
ida 68-45 but lost two dose
duals to Auburn and Stan
ford by identical scores of
58-55.
Many might say the
Aggies can only hope to beat
the Longhorns, but the
swimmers are optimistic.
"Naturally, they’re (the
Longhorns) favored,” coach
Mel Nash said. “But we’re
looking for some real nice
races."
And look he should.
While on a team-to-team
basis, the University of
Texas may outmatch the
Aggies, but head-to-head,
the outcomes may be diffe-
tionally-ranked distance
swimmer, Rick Walker. Wal
ker has done consistently
well this season, and the
Aggies will need a good meet
from him to compete.
The Longhorns are also
led by Rick Caray, who
swims the 200-yard butterfly
and the 200-yard back-
stroke. Caray posted the fas
test time in the nation in the
200-yard butterfly Sunday
against Stanford. Diver Matt
Scoggin also performed well
against Stanford, sweeping
both the one and three-
rent.
Consider the 100-yard
butterfly. William Paulis, the
world record holder for the
100-yard butterfly, com
petes for UT, as does Chris
Rives, another nationally-
ranked butterflyer. But the
Aggies have a few flyers' of
their own.
According to Nash, fresh
man Chris O’Neil, A&M’s
top butterflyer, has times
faster than both of these
men. Nash wants junior
John Heldenfels to give
them a race as well.
The Aggies are also
counting on their own na-
meter competition.
Despite the odds, Nash
said that the team did no
thing special to prepare for
the Longhorns.
“We’ve been practicing
just like we were going to
swim against anyone in the
country,” he said. “We’re
looking for some good indi
vidual swims.”
The men’s team record is
7-3, and the loses have been
to Indiana, Southern Illinois
and SMU, all top 20 teams.
The meet is scheduled to be
televised on cable by the
Houston Sports Entertain
ment Channel and will begin
at 7 p.m. tonight in Downs
Natatorium.
Next Saturday the Aggies
swim against the University
of Houston — one of those
Top 20 teams they hope to
surpass.
The women’s swim team
is off this weekend, but they
have a busy schedule next
week. On Friday the women,
currently 4-3 on the season,
will swim against the Univer
sity of Texas, and on Satur
day they too will go against
the University of Houston.
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Mackovic hired as KC head coach
Dallas assistant is new Chiefs’ boss
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First
the city of Dallas gave Kansas
City a professional football team
and now it has given that foot
ball team its new head coach.
The Kansas City Chiefs, who
as the Dallas Texans of the old
American Football League were
run out of town by the National
Football League Cowboys back
in 1963, dipped into the
coaching staff of Tom Landry
Thursday to hire John Mackovic
as the Fifth head coach in franch
ise history.
Mackovic, 39, had served the
past two seasons as quarterback
coach of the Cowboys and was
given a Five-year contract by the
Chiefs as the replacement for
Marv Levy, who was Fired two
days after the completion of the
1982 regular season following a
3-6 Finish by the Chiefs.
Levy had coached Kansas
City for Five seasons without de
livering a playoff berth. The
Chiefs have now gone 11 con
secutive seasons without making
the playoffs — the longest
drought of any AFC team and
the second longest in the NFL
behind the New Orleans Saints,
who have never played a post
season game in their 16-year ex
istence.
the AFC in defense last season
and sent three defenders to the
Pro Bowl (Gary Barbaro, Gary
Green and Art Still) while their
offense ranked 25th in the 28-
team NFL in yardage and 27th
in scoring.
to passed for 2,600 yards the fol
lowing year and Kenny Duckett
ranked among the national lead
ers in receiving with 50 catches,
but the Demon Deacons were
able to manage only a 5-6 re
cord.
“The Chiefs have had a great
reputation, both in the old AFL
and in the early years after the
merger, as being one of the out-
standing teams,” said Mackovic
in a conference call from Hawaii
where he and the Dallas staff
were preparing the NFC team
for Sunday’s Pro Bowl. “Their
overall history and tradition
helped me to feel that it could be
done again and should be done
again.”
The Chiefs announced the
day they dismissed Levy that
their next coach would have to
be offensive-minded — some
one who could devise a passing
attack that could make Kansas
City as competitive on of fense as
it has been on defense.
The Chiefs ranked fourth in
The Chiefs felt Mackovic,
who developed a passing attack
from scratch at Wake Forest and
spent the last two seasons serv
ing as the caretaker of the Dallas
passing game, could answer
their needs.
Mackovic posted a 1-10 re
cord in his First season at Wake
Forest in 1978, but was named
the Atlantic Coast Conference’s
Coach of the Year in 1979 when
his Demon Deacons rode the
passing of Jay Venuto to an 8-3
record and a Tangerine Bowl
berth.
Mackovic moved from his
alma mater to Dallas in 1981 and
the Cowboys went on to rank
second in the NFC in passing
behind the eventual Super Bowl
champion San Francisco 49ers.
The Cowboys slipped to No. 6 in
the NFC in passing in 1982 but
scored the most points of any
team in the conference with the
overwhelming majority of those
— 16 touchdowns worth — com
ing through the air.
Venuto threw for 2,400 yards
that season and Wake Forest
had two of the nation’s top 15
receivers in Wayne Baumgard
ner (55 catches, 1,000 yards) and
Albert Kirby (48 catches). Verm
in two seasons under the dire
ction of Mackovic, Dallas quar
terback Danny White completed
59 percent of his passes for
5,17 V yards and 38 touchdowns.
“John Mackovic is the man we
wanted and the man we got,”
Chiefs’ President Jack Steadman
said. “As the quarterback coach
of the Dallas Cowboys, John has
had the benefit of working for
and learning from one of the
NFL’s most successful coaches
and organizations.
“He’ll bring good ideas from
the Dallas Cowboys. He’ll bring
a lot of positives to our organiza
tion. He’s amazingly competent
and confident for his age. He’s
the right guy for our future —
beginning now.”
Mackovic had also served on
the collegiate level as an assistant
coach at Army, San Jose State,
Arizona and Purdue and be
comes the third offensive assis
tant to leave the Cowboys for an
NFL head coaching position in
the last three years. Dan Reeves
went to Denver in 1981 and
Mike Ditka to Chicago in 1982.
“I enjoy being a head coach,”
Mackovic said, “and I felt this
was the best opportunity for me.
I feel my two years with the Cow
boys gave me the proper found
ation for becoming a head coach
in this league.”
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