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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
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"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.
"Perhaps a little naively we
assumed cooler heads would
prevail." he said.
/.oumboukos said ho be
lieved the reduction of an assis
tant coach showed how little
coaches mattered compared to
the bigger, financial picture
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