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Jerry Pettibone, lexas A&Ms
wide receiver coach and recruiting
coordinator, was named head foot
ball coach at Northern Illinois Uni
versity Thursday.
Pettibone, who came to A&M in
1982 and wars named assistant coach
following that season, said a head
coaching position has always been
his goal.
“I’m excited about the opportu
nity to go to Northern Illinois as
head football coach,” Pettibone said.
“This has been a goal for a long
time. I’m excited about the opportu
nity at Northern Illinois for several
reasons. Number one, the excellence
of the athletic director, Bob Brig
ham. The football program is in very
stable condition, because of the ex
cellent job that Bill Mallory and Lee -
Corso have done.”
Pettibone succeeds Corso, who de
parted NIU last month after one
season to coach the new Orlando Re
negades of the United States Foot
ball League. Pettibone is at least the
second assistant to resign from A&M
coach Jackie Sherrill’s staff since the
regular season ended.
“This is an excellent opportunity
for me to go in there and work with
some fine young men, who are ex-_
cellent athletes, and continue the
tradition that has already been estab
lished at NIU,” Pettibone said.
“I certainly will have a (contract)
commitment to stay at Northern Mi- .
nois four years. I would like the op
portunity to complete the full four-
year recruiting cycle. Hopefully, I
can stay longer than that.”
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rection with the victories in the last
two games of the season (37-12 over
Texas and 38-21 over TCU). I wish
Coach Sherrill, the staff and every
body in the program the very best
for the future.”
Sherrill said he was pleased that
Pettibone was getting an opportu
nity as a head coach.
"I’m very excited for Jerry (Petti
bone) to have an opportunity to be
come the head coach at Northern Il
linois,” Sherrill said. “I think that all
of us in the coaching profession are
excited when one of our former
coaches goes off and becomes a head
coach. 1 think that’s very indicative
of the quality of people who are on
our staff.
“Jerry has done an outstanding
job at Texas A&M. He has the qual
ities of becoming a head coach and
I’m sure that he’ll add a lot to North
ern Illinois’ program. I’d like to wish
him the best of luck and I know that
Jerry will do the things necessary to
get the job done.”
Pettibone is a veteran of 19 years
as an aide to such coaches as Colora
do’s Chuck Fairbanks, Oklahoma’s
Barry Switzer, Iowa’s Hayden Fry
and Nebraska’s Tom Osborne. Prior
to coming to A&M, Pettibone spent
three years as recruiting coordinator
and split end coach at Nebraska
from 1979-81. He spent seven years
as chief recruiter at Oklahoma, his
alma mater, and one season at
Southern Methodist University in
1971.
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trated last year as the nation’s top
college football recruiter, Pettibone
signed 20 players who became con
sensus All-America selections, in
cluding Heisman Trophy winners
Billy Sims at Oklahoma and Mike
Rozier at Nebraska.
Pettibone inherits an NIU team
that went 4-4-1 in Corso’s only sea
son. The previous year under Bill
Mallory, now head coach at Indiana,
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Texas defensive tackle Tony Degrate was awarded
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the Lombardi Award, which is given annually to college football’s best
lineman, Thursday night.
Degrate, from Snyder, had 147 tackles this season, 123 of those unas
sisted. The 6-foot-4, 278^pounder was the Longhorns’ seventh player
nominated for the award in 15 years. Texas’ Kenneth Sims won the cov
eted award in 1981 and became the No. 1 draft pick of the New England
Patriots.
Pittsburgh offensive tackle Bill Fralic, outside linebacker Jack Del Rio
of Southern Cal and noseguard William Perry of Clemson were the other
three finalists for the award, named after Vince Lombardi, who died of
cancer in 1970.
Last year’s winner was Dean Steinkuhler of Nebraska, who was the
top draft pick of the Houston Oilers and No. 2 overall in the NFL draft.
The winner was selected bv the votes of college football coaches,
sports writers and sportscasters from across the country.
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Ag sports magazine offers insighf
By JULIA HARDY
Reporter
Texas A&M Sports Hotline is a
detailed sports review magazine that
provides accurate information for
those interested in Aggie athletics.
The first copy of the magazine
was distributed on Oct. 29, after the
Rice game. Alan Jones, A&M’s assis
tant athletic director for operations,
said four more publications have
been released after every A&M foot
ball game since then.
Texas A&M Sports Hotline pro
vided readers with a detailed de
scription of the game itself, action
photographs, statistics and quotes
from various A&M players.
“It’s a great way to communicate
to your people and it gives them a
vehicle with which to answer their
questions,” Jones said.
Different features have been in
cluded in each issue. In the Dec. 3
Sports Hotline, for instance, there
was a feature story on Ray Childress,
A&M’s United Press International
All-American defensive end. The
“Chatter Box” section of Sports Hot
line answers reader’s questions and
includes other bits of little-known
Aggie sports trivia.
Sports Hotline will begin pub
lishing 20 magazines a year, starting
in January of 1985. Twelve mag
azines will be written after each foot
ball game and one wrap-up of the
enire season will be published in De
cember. From January to July,
Sports Hotline will be published
once a month. The spring editions
will inlcude men’s and women’s bas
ketball, tennis, track and golf, as well
as features on A&M baseball and
softball.
“We will try to include all recruit
ing information,” Jones said.
About 4,000 people were sent
complimentary issues of the first five
Sports Hotlines, but beginning this
January, a subscription will cost $30
a year.
“We’ve priced (Sports Hotline) so
that we won’t have to keep raising
the price each year,” Jones said.
Sports Hotline originated when
Inside Aggie Sports, a small mag
azine printed by local businessmen,
folded 18 months ago.
Athletic Director Jackie Sherrill
promised subscribers of Inside Ag
gie Sports that a similar magazine
would be published.
“We thought we could do it better
ourselves here at A&M, on campus,
where we know more of what is
going on,” Jones said. “We also have
the advantage of printing the mag
azine on campus and having it
mailed Monday right after the game.
“Inside Aggie Sports always
seemed to be late,” Jones said. “News
is not worth reading a week later.”
Ralph Carpenter, assistant athletic
director for media relations at A&M,
writes everything in Sports Hotline.
“I’m in charge of the business as
pect and the circulation,” Jones said,
“I also critique (Sports Hotline).”
The responses to Sports Hotline
from satisfied former students have
been tremendous. Jones said the
reason is simple.
“We’re prompt, full of informa
tion and current,” Jones said. “Busy
people need quick and accurate in
formation and Sports Hotline pro
vides it.”
‘ KNOW WHAT
WOULD BE A
NEAT TRICK?”
If all the Juniors, Seniors,
and Grad students
would get their class
pictures taken for the
1985 AGGIELAND.
PHOTO SESSIONS EXTENDED THROUGH
FRIDAY, DEC. 7TH
AT THE YBA STUDIO, 1700 S. KYLE.
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