Tuesday, January 20, 1987/The Battalion/Page 15
Reeves, Parcells could have taken
ifferent teams to Super Bowl berths
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A
[ear ago, Bill Parcells was watching a
nebacker named Pepper Johnson
ork out at the NFL’s evaluation
mp for college seniors when he
rned around and saw Dan Reeves
anding behind him.
“You’ve got a pretty good eye for
ilent. I just want to watch who
you’re watching,” Reeves told him.
I The coaches in next Sunday’s Su-
■er Bowl aren’t exactly strangers to
ijach other. In fact, were it not for a
kind of toss-of-the-coin twist of fate.
Reeves might be coaching the New
York Giants in next Sunday’s Super
Bowl and Parcells might he coaching
■ . linebackers at New England?
I Parcells’ Giants, who arrived Sun
day, began their workouts for the
■FL championship game at the Los
Angeles Rams’ training complex in
lullerton on Monday.
I Reeves’ Broncos arrived later in
the afternoon from Denver, after a
celebration and pep rally at Mile
High Stadium on Sunday.
But Reeves also could have ar
rived from New York.
It goes back to 1979, when the Gi
ants were undergoing a complete
housecleaning and George Young
had just taken over as general man
ager. He narrowed down the search
for a coach to two young offensive
coordinators — Ray Perkins of San
Diego and Dan Reeves of Dallas.
Young chose Perkins and Reeves,
who had undergone nearly eight
hours of interviews in New York
went back to Dallas, worried that he
might never get the call. “Don’t
worry, you will,” Young told him
and he did — two years later, when
he replaced Red Miller as the Bron
cos coach.
Parcells, meanwhile, was the line
backers coach with the New England
Patriots and joined the Giants as de
fensive coordinator in 1981. When
Perkins quit at the end of the 1982
season to take the head coaching job
at Alabama, Parcells was promoted
to head coach.
Meanwhile, Parcells and Reeves
have become friends who chat on
the phone about once a week. Last
spring, they agreed to have their as
sistant coaches meet in Denver to
discuss and share scouting reports
common opponents from the AFC
West and NFC East, a practice that
some of those opponents thought
was a bit too chummy.
“It was just an exchange of infor
mation to facilitate both of our
schedules,” Parcells said. “We hadn’t
played those teams in three years
and we were unfamiliar with some of
the players so we exchanged some
information on them. We didn’t talk
about each other in any way, shape
or form.”
Their relationship may also help
Denver against the Giants Sunday.
Parcells had the first laugh when the
Giants drafted Johnson, the line
backer both were ogling, but Reeves
may have the last.
Midway through the season, the
Broncos had been through two
punters and Reeves was discussing
his problem on the telephone with
the Giants coach.
“Why don’t you look at this Horan
guy,” Parcells told him, meaning
Mike Horan, the former Philadel
phia punter who had been cut by the
Eagles in training camp.
So when Reeves brought a group
of punters in for a workout, he in
cluded Horan, who was signed the
next day and averaged 41.2 yards on
21 kicks — almost two yards better
than either of his predecessors. Jack
Weil and Chris Norman.
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I AUSTIN (AP) — New head coach
David McWilliams of the Texas
Highorns said Monday that just be
ing competitive is not enough, he
■ants to compete for the No. 1 spot
in college football.
I McWilliams, a former player and
ilssistant coach at Texas, returned as
head coach for the 1987 season after
(Sue year at Texas Tech, where he
■as selected Southwest Conference
coach of the year.
I McWilliams, 44, replaced Fred
Akers, who was fired after 10 years
and later became coach at Purdue.
■ McWilliams said simply being
competitive would not be enough
for him next season.
I “That’s not quite strong enough
for me just to say I want to be com-
jx titive,” he said. “I want to win, win
as much as I can, or all of it right
now.
I McWilliams’ first test at Texas
comes on national signing day Feb.
11, and he said that despite getting a
laie start because of the coaching
Hogs' coach
to miss week
change, “We’re getting a very good
response. We’re back in on a lot of
the real top players that are in the
state.”
He also said he felt Texas, 5-6 last
season, has “a good nucleus coming
back both offensively and defensi
vely,”
Asked if bad publicity about SWC
recruiting violations was chasing
good recruits out of state, McWil
liams said, “Last year that was true a
good bit. This year, I haven’t noticed
it being quite as strong.”
One plus for Texas, he said, is the
addition of 1977 Heisman Trophy
winner Earl Campbell to the Univer
sity of Texas administrative staff.
“I think recruiting is something
that you use every type of strength
that you have for your university,
and I think Earl Campbell is a
strength for this university.”
Williams said Campbell will prob
ably be used as an on-campus re
cruiter.
Conner leads U.S. boat
to America's Cup finals
FREMANTLE, Australia (AP)
— A ripped sail couldn’t stop
Dennis Conner from sewing up
another trip to the America’s Cup
finals as he steered Stars &
Stripes to a one-minute, 29-sec
ond victory Monday over once
unbeatable New Zealand.
The Kiwis had won 37 of their
first 38 races and 28 straight be
fore they ran up against Conner,
the world’s most experienced 12-
meter skipper. In the best-of-
seven Challenger finals that
ended Monday, the U.S. boat
whipped them 4-1.
“Thirteen years beat 13
months experience,” said New
Zealand’s 25-year-old skipper,
Chris Dickson, who was in his
first America’s Cup campaign.
New Zealand foulups — a poor
spinnaker change on the fifth leg
and contact with a buoy at the
end of the seventh leg of the
eight-leg course — were damag
ing.
That last problem cost Dickson
30 seconds as the rules required
him to reround the buoy. Con
ner’s lead, down to nine seconds
before New Zealand hit the buoy,
was up to 39 seconds after it went
around it again.
Stars & Stripes, strong going
into the wind, pulled away on the
final leg, a windward beat, as the
breeze packed a powerful 28-
knot wallop.
Now Conner, the only Ameri
can helmsman to lose yachting’s
top prize since competition began
in 1851, must wait until an Aus
tralian defender is chosen.
It probably won’t be a long
wait.
Kookaburra III notched its
fourth consecutive easy victory
over Australia IV, winning by
1:13 Monday and taking a 4-0
lead in their best-of-nine series.
fAYfelTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) —
University of Arkansas basketball
■oach Nolan Richardson will not be
with the team this week because of
^■te condition of his 15-year-old
^laughter, UA Athletic Director
; Frank Broyles said Monday.
S i Richardson’s daughter, Yvonne,
has leukemia and is hospitalized in
■■ulsa, Okla. A spokesman at St.
^ Francis Hospital told a reporter for
the Tulsa World that Yvonne began
hemorrhaging and that the family
Had requested that her condition not
padafl bt ’ released.
reattoH The Razorbacks play Baylor in
icen! j Waco on Thursday night and Texas
A&M in Fayetteville on Sunday.
ionVlP Assistant coach Andy Stoglin, who
are sf h '>" filled in for Richardson at two
Anl(*H ames this year, will serve as head
; d>ach this week.
S Richardson has the full support of
id a" ’’ | lc athletic department, Broyles
)()U |! Said. “Our thoughts are with him.”
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Giants’ McConkey relishes role
as self-promoter, media darling
COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Phil
McConkey is not letting Super Bowl
XXI pass him by, especially not all
the hoopla.
“McConkey has moved up to the
No. 1 self-promoter on the team,”
New York Giants Coach Bill Parcells
said. “He’s passed (Jim) Burt, (Leon
ard) Marshall and, of course, (Sean)
Landeta.”
In Parcells’ mind, McConkey is
getting more attention than even
punter Dave Jennings got in the late
1970s and early 1980s.
“You have to take advantage of
what’s put before you,” said McCon
key, who for $ 1,500 is writing a first-
person column on his Super Bowl
experience for a New York newspa
per, has appeared on numerous ra
dio interviews and is always available
for talks with the media.
“You have to have fun doing it,
and you have to keep it in perspec
tive,” the 29-year-old said.
McConkey’s presence here for
next week’s NFL championship in
Pasadena against the Denver Bron
cos tends to defy all odds. A grad
uate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mc
Conkey flew helicopters for four
years before being allowed to leave
the service because he suffered from
seasickness.
In 1983, he tried out with the Gi
ants, but the Navy called him back to
complete his five-year commitment,
and the team put him on a military
reserve list. The 5-foot-10, 170-
pound wide receiver and kick re
turner was back again in 1984 — this
time making the team with an aver
age amount of talent and a lot of
hustle.
“I have wanted to play football
since I was a 6-year-old,” said Mc
Conkey, who set several football re
cords at Navy and was the most valu
able player in the 1978 Holiday
Bowl.
After catching 33 passes in his
first two seasons with the Giants, Mc
Conkey was released on the final cut
this season and signed by the Green
Bay Packers. However, when Lionel
Manuel went down with an injury
and New York’s punt return game
floundered early on, the Giants ac
quired McConkey from the Packers
for an undisclosed draft pick.
Benson said jokingly that McCon
key has been difficult to be around.
“We went to the city (New York)
the other night for an interview,”
said Benson. “Now McConkey is a
helicopter pilot. He has defended
our country flying for the Navy and
he can’t sit backwards in a limousine
because he’s going to get sick. He’s
got to have the back seat. You tell
me.”
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