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Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 4, 1988
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DALLAS (AP) — With the Dallas Cowboys’
owner looking for somebody to buy the team,
thousands of fans threw more than their two
cents’ worth in, saying they would spend $100
apiece to keep the club under local ownership.
But buying a piece of the Cowboys’ action
could be harder than they think; the total
“pledged” amounts to only a fraction of the
team’s reported $150 million asking price.
Dallas Times Herald readers decided if people
can send $20 to a radio station without knowing
where it’s going, a little more could be well spent
preserving local ownership of America’s Team.
After columnist Skip Bayless asked Monday
how many readers would cough up $100, 6,396
responded “yes” to a call-in poll.
Cowboys owner H.R. “Bum” Bright has been
looking for an buyer because of financial losses
from last October’s stock market plunge and
Texas’ soft economy. But team officials deny that
any deal for the team’s sale is imminent.
Walker considers, decides against
making offer to purchase Cowboys
The total amount the newspaper poll
“pledged” — about $639,600 — would only come
to slightly more than four-tenths of 1 percent of
the reported asking price for the team and its
home, Texas Stadium in suburban Irving.
The newspaper quoted sources as saying that
Bright has lowered his sale price for the team
and Texas Stadium Corp. from $160 million to
$150 million.
A few weeks ago, a disc jockey for Dallas radio
station KVIL asked listeners to mail in a $20
check for no reason at all. Ron Chapman, two
weeks later, had collected $243,120 from 12,126
people.
“If people can send in $20 to KVIL for no
good reason, $100 for the Cowboys wouldn’t be
that bad,” Andy Brown of Denton wrote the
IRVING (AP) — Dallas Cowboys’ millionaire
running back Herschel Walker said Tuesday he
had considered and abandoned an idea to try to
buy the team for which he plays.
“I thought about getting me a couple of guys
together and putting in a bid,” Walker said. “I
thought how much fun it would be to be the first
owner-player in the NFL.”
However, Walker said he decided not to do it
after negotiations between owner H.R. “Bum”
Bright and billionaire Marvin Davis began to
heat up.
Walker said he even talked to billionaire Don
ald Trump about the idea. Trump was the owner
of the now-defunct New Jersey Generals of the
USFL.
“Mr. Trump and 1 talk all the time and he’s al
ways wanted to own a team in the NFL,” Walker
said. “He has too many other things going right
now, though.
“I think he would love to own the Cowboys.
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Walker said he had never met Davis,
he likes what he has heard about him.
“Davis reminds me a lot of Trump," lij
said. “He’s a mover and a shaker andlovesi)
ner. I think it would be great to see anow
practice.
“I’m not saying a new owner should
volved in day-to-day practice butheshoul
about his players.”
Bright was refusing to return telephon
after a San Antonio television reported M l
that he had sold the team to Davis for$l: |
lion, given approval by the NFL owners.
Club President Tex Schramm said mi
nouncement was imminent. The nextNFh
ing is May 24-25 in Miami.
Walker said the Cowboys weren’t btiri;|
traded by the sale talk.
“There’s a lot of interest, of course,''
“We do want to know who the owner is[
be when we go out there and put our life;
line.”
newspaper. “In fact, it would be a better invest
ment.”
Other media organizations expressed interest
in finding out what fans thought about buying
the team. Reasons for wanting to buy a piece of
the Cowboys ranged from wanting to ensure
beer sales at Texas Stadium to wishing to correct
team management inadequacies.
Several callers claimed they would be willing to
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lionaire Marvin Davis.
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team was sold to Davis.
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of Grand Prairie. “I want (the Cowboys)
by Texans, not Yankees.”
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port them last year for $24.85 a ticket.
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Tony Dorsett, who has demanded to
be traded because he became a
bench-sitter in 1987, said Tuesday
that the odds favor him wearing a
Dallas Cowboys uniform this season.
“I’d say the odds of my being
traded are 50-50, but it’s stronger
that I will be here,” Dorsett said at
the Cowboys’ three-day mini-camp.
“If the Cowboys don’t trade me, I
certainly wouldn’t ask to be released.
There’s no way on God’s green
Earth I’d ask to be released.”
Dorsett pledged to give the Cow
boys his all even in a backup role to
Herschel Walker.
“I always go 100 percent,” said
Dorsett, who still has two years left
on his contract. “However, I don’t
see how valuable I can be to the
Cowboys sitting on the bench.”
Dorsett, 34, said he gave Dallas
credit for trying to trade him.
“Nobody wants to take a shot at
my salary,” Dorsett said. “It’s not tal
ent — it’s economics.”
Dorsett will make $800,000 with
the Cowboys in 1988, and Dallas also
will be funding his annuity.
“I thought something could be
worked out with Denver during the
draft but it just didn’t happen,” Dor
sett said. “I’m disappointed, but I
have to be realistic. You have to look
at the total picture, and I certainly
would if I was the owner of a fran
chise. I was hoping something would
happen during the draft but it just
didn’t. I wasn’t surprised.”
Dorsett said he showed up at
training camp because “it’s business
as usual. I’m ready to rip and tear in
1988 no matter where I am. 1 hope I
get to rip and tear for another team.
But I’ll be ready in August.”
Dorsett’s apparent change in atti
tude was welcomed by Cowboys offi
cials, who say they are still trying to
trade him but are finding no takers.
“We want to do what’s best for
Tony and the Dallas Cowboys,” said
Club President Tex Schramm.
All the Cowboys’ free-ageni
ers showed up for the
Tuesday, including free safe
chael Downs, who missed wor!
month ago.
“It was a gesture of good
my part,” Downs said.
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Friend and LeUnes are trying to determine
if there is a set of tests that can help determine
how well baseball players are going to per
form and apply it to the decision-making
process of major league organizations across
the board.
“It can be used in a fine-tuning process.
Without a doubt, coaches and scouts at the
professional level of baseball do a pretty good
job. They can weed out who’s got the physical
skills or not. The psychological things will
really be a fine-tuning process where you can
pick up, perhaps, who might have a tendency
toward drug use or abuse or who might have
problems under pressure,” Friend says.
The research could be useful to someone
working as a consultant to a general manager
on the professional level, to a national govern
ing body for a sport on the Olympic level, and
to a coach on the college or high school levels,
Friend says.
“We’re looking at defining and measuring
what is always referred to as intangibles.
We’re tapping into those intangibles. It’s not
so much that we’re trying to predict perfor
mance on a given day, but more on a cumula
tive basis. Over an entire season or over a
greater length of time,” Friend says.
Although any team sport could benefit
from the research, baseball is the only sport
Friend and LeUnes are focusing on at the pre
sent. Baseball coaches are easier to approach
because they are not as visible as football
coaches at colleges and larger numbers of
people are needed for the research, Friend
says.
The study focused on baseball teams from
A&M, the University of Houston, the Univer
sity of Georgia, Sam Houston State, Stephen
F. Austin State, Texas Christian, Baylor,
Brenham Junior College and Bryan High
School participated in last year’s study.
“We wanted to do some cross-sectional
comparisons between the different levels and
see what differences there might be,” he says.
Differences between players included
higher personality scores for the university
players in areas like vigor, which may be re
lated to motivation. Friend added there were
also differences in areas such as locus of con
trol.
“Someone with an external locus of control
believes a lot in fate or chance. Someone who
has a very high internal locus of control feels
they are in control and they call the shots. We
found the university players had a higher in
ternal locus of control,” Friend says.
He says his interest in the subject of person
nel management psychology stems form his
work on the subject for a doctoral study here
at A&M. Friend’s background is in manage
ment consulting for industries and he says he
would like to move in to sports management
consulting.
To explain the possible effects of this new
approach, Friend says the studies should help
management make better decisions about 10
percent of the time based on the psychological
data. The other 90 percent of the time deci
sions based on ability and performance will
suffice in the selection process.
“This (personnel management psycholog'
is an additional increment that would be ust
ful to a general manager or president of ope:
ations or a scouting director. It’s not a tremer
dous amount, but that 10 percent might!* ;
the difference (between winning a divisiontfll
tie and second place). Over the course of or,si
season we might effectively be able to changtj
seven or eight games from losses to wins jus
by using this information,” Friend says.
A&M sports teams, other than the baseba
team, have not had experience with thisne
approach to performance prediction and rel i|:
on the traditional methods of sports psychcll
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A&M Women’s Basketball Coach Lyiui
Hickey says the team uses counselors on car
pus to help players cope with life on ando:
the court.
“We use a counseling service here oncanif-
us,” Hickey says. “They do things with uscoal
cerning motivation, how to set goals ar:
learning how to communicate. Things thaU)
a coaching staff we want to handle, but can’
There are some things that the kids need:
handle alone with somebody else.”
Hickey says the approach has helped hej
team become more cohesive as a unit and
given the team members an outlet for an'|
problems or frustrations they may not fo
able to talk about with the coaching staff.
Friend says he would like to use the r(
search he has done with LeUnes to become;
consultant to major league baseball organize
tions on a full-time basis.
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