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Tuesday, March 27 7:00 p.m.
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Thursday, March 29, 1990
Rudder Auditorium
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Page 12
The Battalion
Louisiana Tech
ousts Lady
Homs again
AUSTIN (AP) — There is no
doubt now — especially to Texas —
that Louisiana Tech’s basketball
team is more than just Venus Lacy.
Texas’ strategy of trying to deny
6-4 Lacy the basketball worked, but
the other Lady Techsters showed
they are capable of taking over.
Louisiana Tech dumped the Lady
Longhorns 71-57 on Saturday to roll
into the NCAA women’s Final Four.
“I thought Texas did an excellent
job of keeping the ball from Venus,”
said Louisiana Tech Coach Leon
Barmore.
Lacy didn’t even touch the basket
ball the first nine times Louisiana
Tech came down the floor, and fin
ished with 16 points.
Shantel Hardison’s 19 points from
the outside carried Louisiana Tech
and helped her win the Most Valu
able Player vote.
Barmore said the victory under
scored his belief that his team is a
women’s basketball power although
it hasn’t gotten quite its fair share of
attention in the past.
“I don’t want to rub it in,” he said,
“but when I pick up a paper and
read that Texas, Iowa and Tennes
see are the only basketball programs
in the country, I think Louisiana
Tech has a pretty good program.”
It was the third time in four years
that Louisiana Tech has ended the
Lady Longhorns’ season on Texas’
home court — twice in NCAA re
gional action.
Wesley Sinor, a senior mechanical engineering major, makes a
hit while warming up for a polo match with other members of
the Polo Club Sunday afternoon at the Polo Fields.
Cowboys chaotic while Rangers
enter 1990s as bastion of stability
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas
Rangers and Cowboys seem to have
swapped roles in their first year of
new management.
The lordly Cowboys, the team of
four Super Bowls and one coach for
29 seasons, became much like the
chaotic Rangers of the past. Jerry
Jones purchased the Cowboys in
January 1989 and promised to be in
volved in everything, including
“jocks and socks.”
Jones dumped upper-level man
agement — club president Tex
Schramm, player development di
rector Gil Brandt and coach Tom
Landry — and changed the system.
The Cowboys eliminated familiar
faces, made risky personnel deci
sions and endured a 1-15 season.
The ragamuffin Rangers, the
team of 13 managers and six win
ning seasons since moving to Arling
ton in 1972, took on the former ap
pearance of the Cowboys: bastion of
stability.
Managing general partner
George W. Bush and general part
ner Rusty Rose, leaders of a 17-
member partnership, purchased 83
percent of the Rangers from Eddie
Chiles for about $56 million in
March 1989. Ownership kept the in
herited management group — presi
dent Mike Stone, general manager
Tom Grieve, assistant general man
ager Sandy Johnson and minor
league director Marty Scott — and
was rewarded with first-year success.
The major league team lingered
in the American League West race
until late July. The minor league sys
tem was named organization of the
year by Baseball America.
66
The Cowboys hadn’t
had any change, but I don’t
know whether radical
surgery was needed.”
— George W. Bush Jr.,
Rangers’ owner.
changes, Rangers ownership group
stayed the course. Bush and Rose
used early months in power to study
the situation and decided there was
no need for massive change.
“The Cowboys hadn’t had any
change,” Bush said. “They were
dealing with an institution. I don’t
know whether radical surgery was
needed, but it certainly didn’t help
Jerry from a public-relations per
spective.
“I think we have done a good job
of enhancing organizational stability
... If the organization had needed to
be torn asunder, we would have
done that. It didn’t need to be.”
What Bush and Rose have done is
no small feat. Teams have been rav
aged when new ownership decided it
knew the game and made arbitrary
changes.
A group headed by Bill Giles, ex
perienced in the promotional aspect
The Rangers had a team-record
attendance (2,043,993) in 1989 and
set a team record by selling about
7,600 season tickets for 1990. They
converted the increased interest into
contracts worth $9 million annually
for local broadcast rights, a three
fold increase. The franchise is “sta
ble, healthy,” Bush said.
The difference is where Cowboys
ownership made wrenching
penencea in tne promotional aspec
of the game, purchased the Philadel
phia Phillies in 1981. Ownership ei
ther chased away or diminished the
importance of the team’s principal
builders: Paul Owens, Dallas Green
and Hugh Alexander.
Reaping the benefits of the pre
vious administration, the Phillies
reached the World Series in 1983.
The Phillies have only one winning
record in the last six seasons.
In December 1984, Marge Schott
took control of the Cincinnati Reds.
An auto dealer, Schott changed the
organizational philosophy.
Schott, on her fourth general
manager, particularly challenged
spending in scouting and player de
velopment. Primarily because of
Schott’s budget cuts, the Reds have
had two scouting directors and
scouting supervisors resign sinu
1985. The once-deep minor
system went dry last year, and tli
Reds were 75-8/ for their worstrt
cord since 1984.
“There’s always some apprehet
sion when there’s a change,” stf
Grieve, whose contract was extendet
through 1992. “But (Bush and Rost
let us know they were impress#
with our organization and belies#
in what we were doing.
“A lot of the credit has to go
Eddie Chiles. He was having nnait
cial trouble, but he still let us put»
the system even though he knesvl'
wouldn’t be around when it got
the ground.”
Stone and Grieve regularly met 1
with Bush to discuss baseball 1#
ters. Bush and Rose have the fP
word on decisions, but they have not
gone against their baseball peo
When other AL West teams adi
players during the winter, Grieve rt
ceived no pressure to make a de»
just for ticket-selling purposes
The ownership group will spend||
The major league payroll will i r f
crease by about $3.1 million toabot F
$13.8 million this season. TheplaytE
development budget will be amoni|
the highest in the game at about!'
million this year.
“They could have come in awf
said, ‘Forget all this,’ ” Stone said
“It’s fortune for us that (Bush anil
Rose) understood what we weff
doing and told us to go full spe^ 1
ahead. I’m super happy about that
Stone has emerged as the Rang
ers’ stabilizer. He pushed the plav £l
development plan during Chib
frenetic tenure and held the plants
gether during the ownership
change.
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Just like the old Cowboys. Theft
is one difference between the for
mer Cowboys and the current Rang
ers. The former Cowboys wof
championships. In their first year
under Bush and Rose, the Ranger 1
missed the playoffs for the 18th con
secutive year. Some things taft
longer to change.