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Texas rejects
coach’s request
to payroll son
AUSTIN (AP) — The Univer
sity of Texas Men’s Athletics
Council has rejected a request by
baseball coach Cliff Gustafson to
add his son Deron to the school’s
payroll. The vote was 6-0.
Chairman James Vick said the
council felt hiring Deron Gustaf
son, 29, would violate a regents’
nepotism rule that a UT em
ployee cannot employ a relative
or make recommendations on a
relative’s salary.
Deron has served as a volun
teer assistant for seven years.
Cliff Gustafson currently pays
him $18,000 to $20,000 a year
out of his own pocket, according
to the Austin American-States-
man.
Cliff Gustafson, who has the
best winning percentage among
college baseball coaches, has a
base salary of $87,800 a year, with
a total financial package esti
mated at $ 115,000.
“I kind of expected it,” Cliff
Gustafson said of Thursday’s
council decision. “I’m disap
pointed. I think the council
talked to the UT lawyers and felt
like the rule was pretty explicit
and they didn’t want to take ex
ception to the rule.
“It’s something I’ll just have to
live with,” he said.
Deron Gustafson said, “Rules
are rules. ... The three things I
lose out on are the courtesy car,
the country club membership and
insurance. Those three are the
toughest parts.”
Because Deron Gustafson is
not on the school’s payroll, he
cannot receive a credit card for
baseball-related expenses, such as
a recent recruiting trip to Alaska
that he said cost $1,200. “I can’t
even borrow my dad’s (card), be
cause that’s against university
rules,” he said.
SEC, Hogs decide future
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Ar
kansas will be invited by Wednesday
to join the Southeastern Conference,
and university trustees will be asked
to accept the invitation, the Arkansas
president said Monday.
The move, if completed, would
end a 76-year alliance between Ar
kansas and the Southwest Confer
ence.
President B. Alan Sugg said the
board will meet Wednesday in Fayet
teville to discuss the proposal. Sugg
said both he and Fayetteville campus
chancellor Dan Ferritor would rec
ommend then that the Razorbacks
move to the SEC.
Roy Kramer, SEC commissioner,
declined to confirm that an invita
tion would be extended to Arkansas.
“They have the prerogative to make
those statements. We’ll have no com
ment,” he said in a telephone inter
view from his Birmingham, Ala., of
fice.
Ferritor flew to Little Rock from
Fayetteville on Monday to meet with
Sugg. The pair met for about an
hour at the state Higher Education
Department and then again over
lunch. They said the SEC was not
discussed at the first meeting.
“I met with President Sugg today
and gave him on behalf of the Fayet
teville campus a strong, positive rec
ommendation that the University of
Arkansas enter the Southeastern
Conference,” Ferritor said in a tele
phone interview before leaving
Little Rock by plane.
Arkansas is a charter member of
the SWC.
Ferritor declined to say why he fa
vored the move. Sugg said Ferritor
gave him three reasons.
“His comments to me — and I’m
trying to remember exactly what the
comments were — were that he feels
the overall competition level will be
stronger, that there will be a greater
fan interest in the program if we
participate in the Southeastern Con
ference as we look to the future, and
he feels that while the television rev
enues are really a small part of the
budget of the University of Arkan
sas, that there’s a better chance for
television revenue to remain the
same if not be enhanced with the
SEC as compared to the Southwest
Conference,” Sugg said.
“He feels that the future of the
athletic program is more assured
with the Southeastern Conference
then it would be with the Southwest
Conference,” Sugg said of Ferritor.
Ferritor said he would reserve
further comment until the board
meeting.
Trevino may pass Shoal Creek’s PGA
Championship because of controversy
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) —Former champion Lee
Trevino says he may skip this year’s PGA
Championship because of the controversy over the
membership policies at the host club.
Disclosures about the all-white Shoal Creek Country
Club have prompted protests from civil rights leaders
and led several major companies to withdraw ads from
the telecast of next month’s tournament.
“The fact that Toyota, which is my sponsor, and IBM
have announced they’ve decided to drop their commer
cials from the telecasts has me thinking,” Trevino told
the Providence Journal.
“Hey, I’m a member of the PGA and I hate to see my
organization shoot itself in the foot like this.”
Trevino, who won the 1984 PGA Championship at
Shoal Creek, made the remarks while competing at the
Newport Cup seniors tournament in Rhode Island.
The NAACP has put its protest plans on hold for the
PGA Championship, but the Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference is still teed off about the tournament
being held at an all-white country club.
The Rev. Abraham Woods, president of the Bir
mingham SCLC, said Saturday the organization still
plans to have pickets at the city’s airport when golfers
and PGA officials arrive for the tournament.
“Discussions are still going on,” Woods said. “I don’t
know what will come out of those discussions. But our
position remains the same.”
Benjamin Hooks, national president of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
said Friday that the organization’s protests will be “put
on hold, pending further developments.”
“We do, however, reserve the option of implement
ing demonstrations at Shoal Creek if any evidence
emerges that our good faith intentions are being
abused,” Hooks said.
Hooks’ statement came one day after Birmingham’s
mayor, Richard Arrington, asked that demonstrations
be called off.
The Shoal Creek controversy began six weeks ago
when the country club’s founder, businessman Hall
Thompson, told a reporter that Shoal Creek would not
be pressured into accepting black members. Thompson
later apologized and said his remarks had been taken
out of context.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) — Billy
Joe Tolliver was raised in a working-
class Texas town by a working-class
family, and he had to grow up fast.
The San Diego Chargers are asking
him to do the same thing.
“My parents raised me to be an in
dependent person. I was paying
room and board when I was a fresh
man in high school,” Tolliver said.
The second-year quarterback be
came the Chargers undisputed
starter when Jim McMahon was cast
aside in late April.
Personality differences, to say
nothing of his money demands,
played a part in McMahon being
shown the door, but the promise dis
played by Tolliver in his rookie sea
son also was a factor.
“He’s electric,” quarterback coach
Ted Tollner said. “He has a big-
league arm. He’s a tremendous com
petitor and he really loves to play the
game. He’s young, and there’s a cer
tain amount of risk but looking at
the alternative, we felt this was the
best way to go.”
The only quarterback controversy
is over the competition between
Mark Vlasic and David Archer for
the backup job and whether sixth-
round draft choice John Fries/ wins
a roster spot.
Tolliver, 24, started five games
last season, returning from a disas
trous midseason debut against
Seattle (6-of-17 for 41 yards, 1 inter
ception) to twice surpass 300 yards
passing in the final four games.
In a 26-21 loss at Washington Dec.
10, Tolliver threw for 350 yards and
two touchdowns, the fourth highest
yardage total by a rookie. But over
all, he had more interceptions (8)
than touchdowns (5) and finished
with a 48 percent completion aver
age (89-185 for 1,097 yards).
“What we’ve got to do is increase
his consistency so his ability comes
through and his young mistakes are
diminished,” Tollner said. “We have
to make him grow up fast. That’s al
ways a concern. Some young players,
you have to bring them along slowly
Battalion file photo
Tolliver felt the heat from A&M defenses in his years with Texas
Tech. Now he is the starting quarterback for the Chargers.
because they don’t have the ability to
deal with the negatives.
“He has that ability to deal with
the negatives and still have the fight
in his eye, the clear head and not
lose his composure. We did see that
in ballgames last year. When he did
play poorly and threw interceptions
he shouldn’t have, it doesn’t destroy
him. That probably more than any
thing else was the quality that gave us
the confidence ... to make the com
mitment to him now.”
The Chargers are counting on
Tolliver to bring a struggling of
fense to life.
Once the envy of the league for its
productivity under retired quar
terback Dan Fouls, the Chargers of
fense has struggled in recent years.
In 1989, the Chargers ranked 21st in
offense, 22nd in passing and 23rd in
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Tolliver, a second-round draft
choice out of Texas Tech, said he
feels no pressure about being thrust
into the starter’s role.
“You don’t get nervous over
things you’re good at,” he said. “If I
had to shoot free throws in front of
40,000 people, then yeah, I’d proba
bly be a little nervous. But throwing
passes in front of 60,000 people,
that’s no big deal.
If he has a drawback, it’s that his
physique doesn’t fit the mold of an
NFL quarterback.
“I’m a throwback to 20 years ago
when the guys were short and fat,”
said the 6-foot-l, 225-pound
Tolliver. “I’m not the 6-4, 225-
pound guy like a (Dan) Marino or
(John) Elway. But that height deal is
overrated. Well, I don’t know. I’ve
never been that tall but either you’re
a football player or you’re not.”
The son of a truck driver and a
homemaker who cleaned office
buildings in her spare time, Tolliver
has been working since he was in
fourth grade.
He went to work for an oil com
pany in his native Boyd, Texas,
when he entered high school. That’s
when he started paying his parents,
Sharon and Charles Tolliver, $125 a
week for room and board.
“My dad believed in that. But
there’s advantages to paying room
and board because then you have a
say in what you get to eat. The first
check I gave him, I told him right
then — ‘No more goulash. Get that
out of here.’
“We were poor. We never had any
money. But we survived. We never
starved. It wasn’t that bad,” said
Tolliver, who has two sisters and a
younger brother. “My father was the
hardest working guy I know. He
taught me a lot.”
But not about football. The
younger Tolliver learned that on his
own.
“My dad knows nothing about the
game. He doesn’t know what a first
down is,” Tolliver said. “I used to sit
and watch a couple of Cowboys
games with him and the only thing
he’d ever say is, ‘Sack that quar
terback!’ I’m going, ‘Hold on, pop.
I’m one of those guys.”’
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