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Page 8
Jenkins, Erickson ignoring
results from last season
MIAMI (AP) — Both coaches
deny what last year's scores sug
gest — that high-flying Houston
might be in over its head Thurs
day night against the Miami Hur
ricanes.
The scores are these: Miami
trounced Texas 46-3 in the Cotton
Bowl. Houston, unstoppable in
most games, suffered its only loss
to that same Texas team, 45-24.
"Comparative scores mean
nothing, particularly when you
overlap into another season,"
Houston coach John Jenkins said.
"The complexion of this team is
much different from a year ago ...
"And many times, certain op
ponents just match up better
against certain people. You can't
put a finger on it, but that's the
run part of it."
Miami coach Dennis Erickson
agrees.
"Seventeen guys that played
on our team in the Cotton Bowl
are gone," Erickson said, "and 17
pretty good players, I might add."
Erickson and Jenkins say Houston
quarterback David Klingler is
even better than a year ago, when
he threw an NCAA record 54
touchdown passes. Klingler threw
for nine touchdowns as the 10th-
ranked Cougars beat Louisiana
Tech 73-3 in their opener.
The Hurricanes, also 1-0, are
ranked No. 2. But some observers
say they're not as good as last
year, when they finished 10-2.
Still, in the past nine years the
Hurricanes have thumped South
west Conference opponents with
regularity. Including this year's
31-3 victory at Arkansas, Miami
has won 10 in a row against SWC
teams by an average score of 40-9.
The Cotton Bowl victory
Bergeron
tire, with pompon in hand, hours
before a televised game would
come on and just sit on the couch
and anxiously wait. He even
drove an hour one time because
our local stations were not broad
casting the game but they were 60
miles away.
So, you understand, this is a
vicious match, not only between
the schools but also between the
two of us.
I attribute his undying Tiger
spirit to my Baton Rouge relatives,
mainly my uncle who began
grooming him at a very early age
showering him with Tiger cloth
ing, posters, bumper stickers and
even a Tiger mirror with a clock. I
amazingly never caught this
fever—thank god —because my
mother and father are alumni of
the University of Southwestern
Louisiana, and furthermore my fa
ther played for Southwestern
Louisiana when USL and
Louisiana State were rivals. This
has also made for fun in my fami
ly since A&M began playing the
Ragin' Cajuns. But they don't
quite pose a challenge like LSU-
sorry Dad.
The funny thing is that my
made an impression on
Jenkins.
"Miami might have been the
best team in the country last year
at that point," he said.
Klingler didn't see the game; he
was fishing. But he wasn't
shocked by the score.
"I know if you get ahead of
Texas quickly and force them into
throwing the ball, they're not as
good a team," he said. "If you let
Texas stay in the game, you're go
ing to get beat."
The Longhorns did more than
stay in the game against Houston;
they had a 42-10 lead in the fourth
quarter. Texas controlled the ball
for 38 minutes and intercepted
four of Klingler's passes.
"They were able to get to him
with their pass rush, plus Texas
controlled the ball," Erickson said.
Those are the secrets to beating
Houston, he said.
Texas played man-to-man cov
erage against the Cougars. Miami
will play mostly zone but plans to
mix things up, using six defensive
backs on one play and a seven-
man blitz on another, defensive
coordinator Sonny Lubick said.
Such strategy doesn't matter,
Jenkins said. The mastermind of
the run-and-shoot is confident that
his offense can adjust to any de
fense.
"There's nothing on paper that
concerns me," he said, "because
we've got answers for all that."
Jenkins believes the loss to Texas
cost Klingler the Heisman Trophy.
If the Cougars win Thursday's na
tionally televised game, Klingler
may take a commanding lead in
this year's Heisman race.
"Just give it to him," Erickson
said. "Really, that's what I think."
continued from page 7
brother does not even attend LSU,
but It's only because he received a
golf scholarship to another univer
sity. He claims he is a Tiger in
spirit though, and it's also quite
ironic that purple is part of his
school's colors.
My freshman year in 1988 we
lost to LSU in Baton Rouge, and
although he was just a sophomore
in high school, for weeks after the
game he would call me in the
middle of the night chanting G-E-
U-X TIGERS and hang up. Since
that year we have won here in
College Station, and lost last year
in Baton Rouge. I think that says
something about each team's fans.
He always likes to tell me that
there is no way we can win in
Tiger Stadium with all the Tiger
fans. Well, he is coming this
weekend and I know he will leave
understanding that there is no
way the Tigers can win in Kyle
Field with the fighting Texas Ag
gie fans.
There's no doubt in my mind
that I will own the bragging rights
after this weekend, and I will rel
ish calling him in the middle of
the night blaring HULLABALOO
CANEK CANEK!!
Strait, Johnson
grab AP honor!
DALLAS (AP) - Rok
Strait never had to block.
Cuero High School.
He didn't think he w.
ever going to be saddled wi
the distasteful chore at Bay!.-
University. Not with hist;
dentials as perhaps theh
running back to come out
Texas three years ago.
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touchdowns from thefullfe
position before the otherte-
knows you have the ball.
Strait dashed 30 and-'I
yards for touchdowns Sate
day during Baylor's 27-7vie:;
ry over Texas-El Paso toea:
The Associated Press Offer
sive Player of the Week await
for the first time.
On the defensive side;
the ball, end Ray Lee Johns;
of the Arkansas Razorbao
won AP Defensive Playertii
the Week laurels for WsM
yard touchdown on an inte
ception return that gave;: :
Hogs a 17-6 league victor 's
over Southern Methodist.
It was the first time iff
Arkansas player had wonail
AP honor in two years.
"It was a very big ment: I
step for Robert to play fu, I
back," said Baylor coach Gra-
Teaff. "He had a hard tin;
with the word 'fullback,
the fullbacks he had ev
known blocked for him. Itwj
a big step for him, a touy
transition. He had to gettoth
point where he put the tea:
above himself."
Strait has tremendor
speed and quickness for a 21:
pounder and Teaff said h:
tough short yardage runnt
may be realizing that fullbao
could be his ticket to profe;
sional football.
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of great running backs in tf
NFL but not very many gre:
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new job that he carries a foot
ball with him even to class
"He's also supposed it
take it on dates but I haven
checked with his girlfriend,
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Strait admits "I didn't lib
the idea of fullback at first but
it's coming to me now. It's*
way I can contribute. It's im
portant to the team."
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tian's Leon Clay who had fom
touchdown passes againsi
New Mexico.
Texas Tech's Tracey Saul
became the SWC's all-time
leading interception yardage
returner with a 40-yard return
against California-Fullerton
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impact of Johnson's critical re
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Fired referees
complain
to NCAA
DALLAS (AP) An MCA!
committee has ordered all Divi
sion I schools to provide the age!
cy with a list of dismissed orrt
tired officials, a list of assignmen:
and copies of evaluations.
The NCAA's Division I men
basketball committee recently®
vestigated alleged "scratch" pff
cedures in the Southwest and Bii
East conferences. But the commi-
tee said Monday it was reco®
mending that no action betake:
against the two leagues.
Several officials fired byth'
SWC last spring claimed that con
ference coaches had used a scratc 1
list, allowing each coach to pie
vent certain officials from workin;
his team's game. The SWC denied
the allegation. A scratch list wouli
be a violation of NCAA rules.
SWC commissioner Fred Jace
by defended the conference in:
four-page letter to the NCAA.H'
denied a scratch list was in plaff
As a member of the NCAA baskd
ball officiating committee, Jacob)
said, "I am well aware of then®
scratch procedures."
"We have always followed th:
NCAA guidelines," Jacoby said
"And in our response (to tht
NCAA), we tried to point outou 1
rationale for adjusting our staff."
Jacoby has said the conferenci
will need fewer officials this sen
son because of Arkansas' depat'
ture to the Southeastern Confer
ence. Jacoby said the loss ofth<
Razorbacks means 60 fewer offici
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