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Associated Press
HOUSTON — Rice Head Foot
ball Coach Watson Brown kept tell
ing the media and super zealous
alumni last season that he was not a
miracle worker. He said it would
take time to end Rice’s string of 20
straight losing seasons.
Now they believe him.
After talk about Brown’s lucrative
and highly publicized six-year con
tract subsided, Brown’s Owls went
out and got themselves a 1-10 record
and now it’s 21 straight losing sea
sons.
The Owls had moments of sparkle
with an offense Brown called “Con
trolled Chaos.”
“We got the chaos part down fine,
now we need to learn the control,”
Brown said.
“We moved the ball last year but it
was on big plays too much. We’d
punt, punt and then we’d score. But
we didn’t have enough control to
keep our defense off the field the
way I’d like.”
The Owl offense was most potent
with freshman quarterback Mark
Comalander. After missing much of
the season with an injury, he closed
out the season with a freshman-re-‘
cord 357 yards passing against
Southwest Conference champion
Houston.
Now a sophomore with more
savvy following spring drills, Co
malander hopes for an injury-free
season.
“In the spring, I started to under
stand the offense better,” Co
malander said. “We showed we
could put a lot of points on the
board (66 in their final two games),
but the key will be consistency.
“Any team in the conference can
ring up a lot of points on a given
day-”
The Owls return seven offensive
and eight defensive starters, but
Brown says that won’t necessarily be
an advantage.
“It seems everybody had seven of
fensive and eight defensive starters
back,” he said. “It’s a senior league
this year.”
The defense will be headed by de
fensive tackle Dwain Turner and
strong safety Ernest Evans.
Turner says the Owls will be bet
ter this season because they are
much stronger.
“With the new equipment and the
new program, I think all of us have
benefitted,” Turner said, “Overall,
we were a weak team. Now, I think
we are if not the strongest, one of
the strongest teams in the confer
ence and I’ll put my money where
my mouth is on that.”
Brown says a priority will be stiff
ening the defense that yielded 432
yards and 34.7 points per game last
season.
“We weren’t last, we were dead
last,” Brown said. “There was no one
close to us. We were the worst. I said
when I came here that you can’t win
consistently without a good defense.
We proved that last year.”
Brown said the most crucial
coaching decision came in the Texas
A&rM game "when the coaching staff
decided to go with young players.
“We started playing a lot of
younger people in the A&M game
and there was a lot of confustion,”
Brown said. “But now that it’s done,
that was the critical decision we
made as coaches because we’re a lot
more experienced team right now
for doing that than we would have
been.”
Brown said the Owls played better
in losses to Arkansas and Southern
Methodist and closed out the season
with a 46-40 loss to Baylor and a 38-
26 loss to Houston.
“It kept getting a little better near
the end and I guess that’s the high
point,” he said. “Our kids left the
season losing yet with their heads up
because they got better and learned
that they can compete in this
league.”
The Owls, who face five 1984
bowl teams this season, have lost a
record 25 consecutive Southwest
Conference games.
Before trying to snap that string,
the Owls start the season with non
conference games against Miami,
Air Force and Lamar, who rep
resented Rice’s only victory last sea
son .
NBA star Hayes returns to UH
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Elvin Hayes, 12-
time National Basketball Association
All-Star who led the University of
Houston to the Final Four, has re
turned to his alma mater as special
assistant to the athletic director,
school officials announced Monday.
Hayes will consult with coaches of
both men’s and women’s sports and
will provide counciling assistance to
student athletes, officials said. In ad
dition, he will have administrative
and public relations duties.
“This job is tailor-made for some
one with the attributes Elvin Hayes
possesses,” said UH Athletic Direc
tor Tom Ford. “He will play a very
significant role in the future devel
opment of recruiting students, aca
demic achievements and fund
raising.
Hayes starred for 16 seasons in
the NBA with the San Diego-Hous-
ton Rockets and Washington Bullets.
He holds the NBA record for min
utes played — 50,000.
The NBA All-Star averaged 21
points and 13 rebounds in 1,303 reg
ular-season games.
He led UH to the Final Four in
1.967 and 1968, earning consensus
All-America honors both seasons.
“My main goal is to see student-
athletes graduate,” Hayes said. “I
want to see all the freshmen athletes
that enter UH this year graduate.
“Very seldom can one return and
make a contribution that is now
more significant than when I was a
player,” he said. “I look forward to
the challenge.”
DALLAS — An attorney for
Southern Methodist University has
denied news reports that school offi
cials intend to “bargain” for lenien-
cey with the NCAA Council this
week over imposed football sanc
tions.
John McElhaney also said SMU
would try to avoid a lawsuit.
“Those stories were inaccurate —
they were just fiat wrong,” SMU at
torney John McElhaney said. “What
we will do up there is bring forward
a presentation of our case. It’s an ap
peal, bargaining has nothing to clo
with it.”
SMU officials confirmed last week
that they would journey to Boston
Wednesday to meet with the NCAA
over penalties related to alleged re
cruitment violations.
In news reports last week, uniden
tified sources were quoted as saying
the sanctions included a two-year
moratorium on bowl appearances
and a ban on football scholarships
next year, among other penalties.
Wednesday’s hour-long meeting
will determine the fate of SMU’s ap
peal — which seeks to overturn or
mitigate a judgment handed down
by the NCAA Infractions Commit
tee last spring after a 26-month in
vestigation into recruiting violations.
If that judgment stands, it is ex
pected to be one of the most severe
in NCAA history.
Reports last week said the school
would not be allowed to offer foot
ball scholarships for recruitment in
1986 and would be allowed only 15
the next year,
SMU coach Bobby Collins said
such a ban on scholarships would be
“devastating.”
“This is an appeal, and the term
‘bargain’ suggests something entirely
different,” McElhaney said. “This is
not a labor dispute or a situation
where someone charged with mur
der is attempting to bargain with the
court. It is the same type of appeal
that exists in our legal system where
the accused has recourse to having
the facts judged by a higher author
ity. We will have 30 minutes in which
to present our case, and the NCAA
will then take 30 minutes for its re
ply.”
McElhaney also said school offi
cials hoped to avoid filing a lawsuit,
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram re
ported today.
“Hopefully, the results (of
Wednesday’s meeting) will be such
that school officials will not find it
necessary to pursue that course,” he
said. “SMU does not want to file a
lawsuit.”
McElhaney also said he did not
expect the results to be made public
until the end of the week.
The SMU football team, consid
ered one of the strongest in the
country, will begin its fall workouts
while the Boston meetings are in
S ress. If the school loses its ap-
the team stands to be stripped
of a possible conference title and
bowl appearance.
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