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WJCAC is recruiting hotbed
ODESSA (AP) — He was the only
junior college player invited to the
Olympic trials, picked as last year’s
top college freshman and leads the
nation’s No. 1 juco team with an av
erage 32 points a game.
So you’d think Odessa College
coach Dennis Helms wouldn’t have
to bench his sophomore star, Larry
Johnson, for passing off too often.
But it’s happened before.
“He’s sometime too unselfish,”
said Helms, “and we have to get af
ter him to do something more in
some situations.”
Seems like Johnson, 6-foot-7 and
235 piounds, could hardly do more
than what he’s done already: score
more than 40 points in four games
this season and lead the nation’s juco
players in scoring.
“He may be the best player we’ve
ever recruited,” said Nevada-Las Ve
gas coach Jerry Tarkanian, who
signed Johnson in November.
With so much talent, is the phe
nomenal Johnson a Ferrari among
Toyotas while in the junior college
ranks? Not in his eyes.
“I thought coming to a junior col
lege meant the talent wouldn’t be
that great,” he said. “But that wasn’t
the case. Every time you get on the
floor you’re against a guy that can
play. That really surprised me.”
As a standout at Dallas’ Skyline
High School, he hadn’t intended to
go the juco route at all.
Johnson wanted to stay close to
home and signed with Southern
Methodist. But the school asked him
to retake the Scholastic Aptitude
Test, although his score qualified
him for enrollment, because his
score had improved so dramatically
from an early administering of the
test.
Johnson declined rather than risk
getting a lower score and becoming a-
Proposition 48 casualty.
“I didn’t want to sit out, so I start
ing looking at junior colleges,” said-
Johnson. “I think it turned out for
the better because I’ve been working
on my academics.”
Johnson’s dominance, says Helms,
stems from superb physical traits
and an attitude that allows him to
capitalize on those traits.
“He’s probably got the greatest
hands (of anyone) 5-foot-10 to 7-
foot-6,” he said. “He has more in
stinct than anyone on the floor. He
knows what’s going on in every situa
tion out there.”
His only weakness may be that
Johnson, the Wranglers’ team cqp-
tain, is too nice a guy, too willing to
give credit to others and too reluc
tant to criticize his teammates.
Odessa’s coaching staff recently
decided they would name a co-cap
tain, in addition to Johnson, to pro
vide stronger leadership for the
Wranglers, 23-0 overall and 8-0 in
the Western Junior College Athletic
Conference.
Johnson, who last season helped
Odessa to a 30-5 record, wants his
parting gift to Helms to be a national
junior college championship.
And until then, Johnson says he
won’t stop working.
“If you’re doing something that
you love, you want to be the best at it
and play hard night in and night
out,” he said.
TANK MCNAMARA
ODESSA (AP) — Oni on du-
windswept plains of West 1 e\as and
eastern New Mexico, there's not
much to do hut plav basketball and
hit the books.
But that's just the idea behind the
Western Junior College Athletn
Conference, which lias become a te-
cruiting hotbed lot Division I
coaches who just recenllv discov ered
•junior colleges.
T he nine schools which make up
the WJCAC are located in isolated
towns — Snvder, Eevelland. Biv;
Spring, Hobbs — where oil rigs dot
the flat horizon and the wind blows
incessantly.
But that hasn’t stopped some <>l
the nation's top placets from start
ing their college careers at W|( AC
schools such as Midland College —
whose most f amous placer was Spud
Webb — Western Texas and New
Mexico Junior College in hopes of
landing at a top Div ision 1 program.
The WJCAC’. has joined such tra
dition-rich junior colleges as San |a-
cinto College among the juco elite.
“I feel that without a doubt this
year the junior college basketball in
T exas is by far the best in the coun
try," said Oklahoma assistant coach
Jim Kervv in, a former juco coach at
Seminole J unior College.
Through Kerwin's recruiting el-
forts, Oklahoma has taken so mam
players from Midland College the
school's almost considered a bratu h
by the folks in Norman.
Former Chaparrals Ri< kv (.rate
and Mookie Blavlock helped iTt
the Sooners to the Final FouiTm
year.
Othei Chaps are playing til Kan
sas State, Seton Hall. Wvominjfam!
Idaho State.
And Midland was onlv a third
place ton Terence finisher last veat.
In the past two years, that schooh
dominance has been challenged la
other league members. . '
"1 think Midland has had oneol
the premier junior college prog mill'
for the last 10-15 years.” said Kn-
win. “The league is much morebal
anted now.”
One of those is Odessa College
which alter posting its best season
ever last year at 30-5 is undefeated
and sitting atop the N |CAA poll.
Odessa's program got a lilt Ixitli
from Helms, in his third vear wilt
the Wranglers, and NJCAA plavei
of the year Larrv Johnson, who'
headed to TNEV next season.
South Plains College in Levelland
is stuck out in the cotton fields,bin
its reputation is rit/v enough Ionite
13th-ranked I exans to don tuxe
does for tlieii media guide photos.
WJCAC coaches sav the NCAA'
Proposition T<8. which set stricter eli
gibility requirements on athletes en
tering four-y ear schools, Inis given
juco programs a boost. Anolltei
boost is likely to come from the,pro
posed Proposition 12. winch tvottld
deny athletic sc holarships to plavei'
who don't meet the standards.
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