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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Coach
Brewer says Mississippi is be-
in its preparations for the Inde-
dence Bowl because the football
i has had to deal with the dis-
tion of recently imposed NCAA
tions, several player injuries,
weather and final exams,
e’ve had a difficult time in
ing preparations for the Texas
h Red Raiders,” Brewer said at a
»ws conference in Oxford Monday,
pe weather has been a factor; it’s
raining here since Sunday af-
Tnoon.
"Also, we’re in exams right now,
mg to work around that. We’re
Iking at noon in order for them
have lunch and prepare for the
exams.
Tailbacks Willie Goodloe, Shawn
Sykes, Reid Hines and Johnny Boat
man are all ailing, with Brewer call
ing Hines “extremely doubtful” with
a shoulder problem. Linebacker Jeff
Herrod is still slowed with a groin in
jury, and defensive end Ben Morris
was banged up in a recent auto
mobile accident.
“No question it’s distracting, but
we’ve had two workouts since the an
nouncement, and they have been
very good,” Brewer said.
Boatman and flanker J.R. Am
brose, declared ineligible pending a
hearing by the NCAA Eligibility
Committee, are practicing. A hear
ing has been scheduled for Dec. 16.
Patriots’ Berry declines SMU offer
of becoming athletic director
BOSTON (AP) — Coach Ray
mond Berry of the New England
Patriots of the NFL on Tuesday
rejected an offer to return to
Southern Methodist University,
his alma mater, to direct the
school’s embattled sports pro
gram.
A source at the Patriots, who
refused to allow himself to be
identified, said representatives of
SMU contacted Berry on Tues
day by telephone and he rejected
their offer to become athletic di
rector.
Berry issued a one-line
statement saying, “It is a compli
ment to be considered by SMU,
but I have no indication what
soever that I am to take such a
step.”
Mary Jane Johnson, a
spokeswoman for acting SMU
President William B. Stallcup,
said Tuesday that Stallcup was
not aware of any such offer being
made.
“He’s never heard of this man
(Berry),” Johnson said.
SMU’s football program is in
the midst of an NCAA probe of
allegations of payoffs to its play
ers. The Mustangs face the possi
bility of being banned from play
ing football for two years, which
would make it the first school to
receive the “death penalty.”
The school is already serving
three years’ probation, mandated
in 1985, because of illegal cash
payments to players by boosters,
and other NCAA violations.
Berry has maintained contact
with his old school. Last spring,
Raymond Berry
for example, he coached the
SMU alumni team in the annual
game against the varsity.
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lut-of-hand alumni eventually
jught down both him and Athletic
ctor Bob Hitch.
itch had warned Collins “in Dal-
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NCAA probation a record five
times.
“I can’t watch every one of those
guys (alumni),” Collins said once. “I
can’t legislate integrity around here.
All I can tell’em is just don’t violate
the rules.”
However, in the end, Collins and
Hitch were felled by the premise
“How can the coach and athletic di
rector not know?” A new allegation
by former player David Stanley that
he was paid cash after SMU’s last
probation was just too strong.
For SMU’s program to survive,
some heads had to roll. In this case,
SMU President L. Donald Shields,
Hitch and Collins resigned before an
NCAA investigation got under way
that could have abolished the Mus
tangs’ football program.
SMU went on probation in Au
gust 1985 and could receive the
“death penalty” and lose the sport of
football for two years if found guilty.
Hitch said he was hired with the
purpose of bringing national cham
pionships to SMU.
The Mustangs wanted to be a pri
vate school national power like
Southern California.
Hitch and Collins did accomplish
that goal.
Collins was no rube from the cot
ton fields. He could X and O with
any coach in the country and he
quickly proved it much to the dismay
of his fellow coaching sharks in the
SWC.
Inheriting some solid talent from
Ron Meyer, Collins masterminded
an unbeaten season for SMU in
1982. Only a tie with Arkansas
marred the Mustangs’ perfect re
cord and they finished second in the
nation in the Associated Press poll
behind Penn State after defeating
Pittsburgh 7-3 in the Cotton Bowl.
SMU and Hitch and Collins were
the toast of the nation. SMU stu
dents, alumni, professors and the
Board of Governors were proud.
SMU’s program was the envy of the
nation.
SMU was 10-2 the next season,
losing to Alabama in the Sun Bowl.
The Mustangs were 10-2 again in
1984, tying Houston for the SWC ti
tle. Collins was hailed for his coach
ing genius in a 27-20 Aloha Bowl vic
tory over Notre Dame. The
Mustangs finished eighth in the AP
poll.
Then the probation bomb struck
with SMU losing all of its
scholalrships. Collins and the dis
heartened Mustangs struggled
through back-to-back 6-5 seasons.
“I’m determined to work through
this,” Collins said. “SMU is too great
a school to have this happen.”
Collins refused to look for jobs
elsewhere.
“I feel an obligation to this
school,” Collins said. “I’m sticking
this thing out.”
Collins never seemed more deter
mined even after Notre Dame gave
the Mustangs their second worst
whipping in school history.
“We’ll just do a better job of work
ing with what we’ve got,” Collins
said.
Then came Stanley’s revelations
and an investigation into tight end
Albert Reese’s apartment payments,
allegedly paid for by an alumnus.
Collins and Mitch couldn’t survive
the fallout. History will judge them
once the full facts are known.
National championships are a far
away dream now at SMU.
The sports program at the school
is just trying to survive.
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