The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 26, 1994, Image 3

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By William Harrison
The Battalion
SAN ANTONIO - There he stood in
the 100 degree Texas heat, looking for
all the world like a changed man from
last season, yet also very much the
same.
If ever the “Hope Springs Eternal”
movement needed a poster boy, look no
further than Houston Oilers head
coach Jack Pardee.
Pardee, a Class of ‘56 A&M gradu
ate, smiled and joked before the media
at the Oilers’ 35th training camp. He
discussed the problems his team need
ed to face before the season’s begin
ning, as he was seemingly oblivious to
the problems the team had hopefully
put in the past. He seemed happy just
to be there.
“I can’t tell you how pleasant it is to
have players who want to work,”
Pardee said. “We’ve got a lot of young
players on our team. They all want a
chance to compete.”
“If you work you’ve got a chance, if
you don’t work you have none.”
Ridiculed last season as a detached,
hands-off coach during a horrendous
1-4 start, Pardee’s steady approach
would later be praised. Pardee
coached the Oilers through arguably
more trial and tragedy than has ever
been experienced by any other team.
Eventually the team would rise above
the critics to finish 12-4.
But, after last season’s signature
incidents - "Baby-gate,” defensive
tackle Jeff Aim’s suicide, the Buddy-
and-Kevin coordinator wars and a dis
appointing playoff loss to Kansas City
at the Astrodome — many off-season
problems would erupt as well.
With the new salary cap structure,
the top-heavy bevy of Oilers’ talent
proved impossible to sign. So out the
door went Houston six-time All-Pro
Please see Pardee/Page 4
William Harrison/THE Battalion
Houston Oilers’ head coach Jack Pardee (standing) talks with defensive end Mike
Teeter (right) during the Oilers’ training camp at Trinity University in San Anotonio.
Richardson
should be
Oilers’ No. 2
MARK SMITH
Sports Editor
O ver the past few seasons, Hous
ton Oilers fans have been treat
ed to the abilities and drive of
one of A&M’s most popular football
players.
They have fallen for the six-foot-one
product of Baton Rouge, even shouting
“Buck-y! Buck-y! Buck-y!” whenever
they think that he will come into the
game.
He is, of course, John Powell
Richardson, better known to A&M
football fans as Bucky.
William Harrison/THE Battalion
Houston Oilers’ offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride (left) talks with quarter
backs Bucky Richardson (middle) and Sean Salisbury (right) Friday.
Richardson was the 1991 South
west Conference Player of the Year in
his senior year at A&M. That year he
was one of the finalists for the Doak
Walker Award which goes to the na
tion’s top college quarterback.
More importantly, Richardson has
been impressive every time he has
stepped on the playing field. Those of
you who watched the Oilers 1993 pre
season saw some of the heroics that he
Please see Richardson/Page 4
3 4-year-old
wear Celtic
BOSTON (AP) — Teams rarely
base a long rebuilding process on a 34-
year-bld player, even if that player is
the still spectacular Dominique
Wilkins.
The Boston Celtics, winners of 16
NBA titles, are coming off their worst
season in 15 years.
“My goal ... is to win another cham
pionship. Seventeen is on its way,’’
M.L. Carr, the chief of basketball oper
ations, said Monday . “I want that to be
sooner than later. I really am driven to
put a championship quality team on
the floor.”
Last Friday, the Celtics signed
Wilkins, a free agent forward, to a
three-year contract.
Chances are slim that Wilkins, the
ninth leading scorer in NBA history,
will win a title with the Celtics in that
period.
“Who said I’m only going to play
two or three years?” he said, at a news
conference in the team’s offices. “It
Page 3
Keenan not blue
over fine, two-
month suspension
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mike Keenan,
cleared by the NHL to become coach
and general manager of the Blues, re
turned to St. Louis on Monday, sound
ing not at all like a man who had just
been fined 8500,000 and suspended
for two months without pay.
“I feel fantastic,” he said.
After eight hours of talks Sunday
in New York at the office of NHL com
missioner Gary Bettman, a settlement
was reached in the dispute involving
Keenan, his former team, the New
York Rangers, and his new one, the
St. Louis Blues.
Bettman suspended Keenan for 60
days beginning Monday, fined him
Si00,000, and ordered him to return
four-fifths of his $500,000 signing
bonus with the Rangers, whom he
coached last season to their first Stan
ley Cup title in 54 years.
The Blues were fined S250,000, the
league maximum.
The Detroit Red Wings, who tried
to hire Keenan before he agreed to
terms with the Blues, were fined
825,000.
Wilkins to
green in ‘94
might be longer than that. This is the
truth. I feel better ... than I ever felt.
“What is 34 supposed to feel like?”
he added. “I ask a lot of young guys
that and they say, ‘how can you still
run like that at 34?’ I say, T’m sup
posed to slow down because I hit a cer
tain age?’ It doesn't make any sense.”
He brings the Celtics veteran lead
ership they haven't had since Larry
Bird retired after the 1991-92 season.
He brings them a scorer who can be
counted on down the stretch that they
haven’t had since Reggie Lewis died,
after the 1992-93 season.
“I bring leadership,” Wilkins said.
“I bring a lot of attention because
teams are going to double team me so
that's going to create a lot of opportu
nities for other guys. We won’t have a
problem scoring.”
They did last year when their high
est scorer, Dee Brown, averaged only
15.5 points per game. In 12 seasons.
Wilkins’average is 26.5.
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