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years. Brooks says the closest was m 1938 before quarterback Bill Musgrave broke his collarbone
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who in that situation '
I find it increasingly difficult
to figure out what my joh is or
what I'm supposed to answer
to. I'm supposed to win all of
my games, I'm supposed to
graduate every one of my play
ers, and I'm not supposed to
have uny one of them got in
trouble off the field I'm sup
posed to have this wonderful
environment that everybody s
going to he sut oessful in
If the player doesn't graduate,
does that mean I’ve done a ter
rible job? The bottom line is I’ll
certainly accept the responsi
bility for that, but I'm certainly
not going to apologize for my
efforts in trying to get players to
graduate We do everything
that we possibly can do. and I
think we do more than some
other programs.
DDK Do vou feel quite a bit
of pressure on that from the
public?
Brooks No, I don't 1 think
that the public display and the
publicity on all this stuff now
is kind of hypocritical
Why don't the professors
have the same pressures as the
football coach to graduate the
general student body? Mv fool
ball players, most every year,
are graduating at a higher rate
than the regular student body at
the University of Oregon So,
Pin not going to apologize for
it
I'm not going to ever bo hop
py unless they all graduate, but
I'm never going to be bappy tie
cause they all aren't going to al
ways graduate. There's a few
years thut I’ve had almost a 100
percent, and then there's a few
years when it's been about .15
percent. It just drives me nuts
— nothing infuriates me more
or gets me more upset in my
job if somebody doesn't go to
class
ODE: Do you think that OSU
was hasty in getting rid of Dave
Kragthorpe?
Brooks: Ho won a lot more
games than they had won with
two previous coaches. The year
before he wus named Pac-10
Coach of the Year, but 1 think it
boiled down to fans in the seats
again. That's how most coach
ing changes arc made I think if
the attendance had dropped
dramatically here In the early
eighties, if It had really fallen
off dramatically, I would have
been fired here as well
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