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SPORTS Ducks to lose full-time assistant football coach By Ashley Conklin Emerald Sports Editor Division l-A football pro grams will have one less full time assistant coach for the 1992 season. The decision, reached at the NCAA Convention in Nash ville. Tenn. Monday, means colleges and universities will be allowed to have only eight full-time coaches instead of nine. That includes Oregon, where Coach Rich Brooks will be forced to decide what to do to trim his staff by August 1992. the date set at the convention. While Brooks and Athletic Director Bill Byrne were at the convention and unavailable for comment, offensive coordinator Mike Bellotti said the reduction of assistant coaches would hurt the Oregon program in two ways. “One. recruiting is the major problem." he said, “and two, in the last two years we’ve had a lot of success with our coach ing alignment as far as delega tion of responsibility." \\ ith one less coach. Bellotti said, “we’d be spreading our selves thin. I'm not saying it can’t be done, but it would be a lot harder." College football programs across the country were re stricted with eight assistants before 1983 when colleges were allowed to add one full-time as sistant. Brooks currently has five of fensive assistants and four de fensive assistants. Besides Bel lot t i. the other offensive coaches are John Kamsdell (wide receivers). Cary (’amp bell (running backs). Steve Creatwood (tackles and tight ends) and Neal Zoumboukos (centers and guards). The Ducks' defensive coaches in clude coordinator Denny Schuler, line c o a c h ) o e Schaffeld, inside linebackers coach Bill Tarrow and outside linebackers coach Nick Aliotti. The biggest concern will l>e recruiting where Oregon al ready is it at a disadvantage considering that it isn't as able as UCLA or USC to cover a ma jor metropolitan area. The Ducks currently recruit in Ore gon. Washington. Alaska. Ha waii, Colorado. California, some parts of Arizona and the the junior colleges. Zoumboukos. also the team's assistant head coach, said that if it hadn't been for the expan sion to a ninth assistant coach, the Ducks might have not been able to turn the program Mr health insurance, check with State Farm. Call: Don Wossom 1020 Green Acres Rd, Suite 2B 345-7071 next to Gl Joe's Kece »jrm Mutu# MIO»T»oOrfe mwr jr*e around and appear in back-to back bowl games the past two seasons. "Hack in '81-'82 we had a very limited recruiting base all up-and-down the West Coast.” he said. "When we expanded we were able to get people like Hill Musgrave "That caliber of player can have a major impact on a pro gram like Oregon and it has to. because we don't have 12 mil lion or it) million people in our state, so we have to get out to the place like Post Kails. Idaho or John Day. Ore. or Grand (unction. Colo," Zoumboukos said. "If we lose a coach, we lose a coverage area,” Hellotti said. explaining that a coach "from USC or from Cal could see more athletes than we could." Zouinboukos said that anoth er problem a school like Ore gon faces is the power a bigger school like a USC, a Notre Dame, a Miami, or a Michigan has throughout the college ath letic world, and the power that can be exerted by one of these schools. "The Michigans and USOs have an awful lot of power at these things.” he said in refer ence to the NUAA Convention. With the new-found parity in college athletics, particularly football, /.oumboukos said that the powers of college football prefer tin* reduction in assistant coaches. "With the parity, some of these schools have lost their ad vantage." he said, "but now it’s been given I Nick " Although Bellotti said he had no idea how Brooks would make a decision regarding the coaching staff, he did say that he didn't think Brooks would eliminate a defensive coaching position since the Ducks have one more offensive assistant than defensive "With five coaches on one side and four on the other, I don’t think there would lie a situation where you would have five on one side and three on the other." he said. "It's something that I hate to think that someone will be fired or just let go." With the promise of sweep ing reforms at this year's con vention. Hellotti said that a re duction in football coaches was sonVething the coaching staff was 1 warned about, but hoped wouldn't happen. 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