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UCLA coach makes most of opportunity Cabot Rnntimifiil frnm nanp 5 By Hannah Gordon Daily Bruin LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) — The clock is moving. Seconds silently slip away as the digital numbers change seamlessly on the big board overlooking the Rose Bowl. It is November but in sea sonless Pasadena, the air is only cool, crisp. The breeze clears the sky for a soft view of the lavender mountains in the sunset. The kind of weather football was made for. But while the mountains stand oblivious to time, the clock is still moving. UCLA offensive co ordinator Kelly Skipper has deci sions to make. 0:43 is ticking away on 4th-and 5. 0:02. The kicker takes the field. A collective breath as the ball flies. Wide and short. Exhale. The disbelief remains even as the silence disintegrates. The whole bowl seems to growl like an upset stomach as the fans file out. Can Skipper hear it up there in the box? The board stares back indifferently. 0:00. Oregon 21, UCLA 20. Tomorrow his team will be skewered in the papers. Colum nists will derail him and his col leagues for poor clock manage ment. Monday morning quarterbacks will say they would have called the plays differently. For a perfectionist like Skipper, this is hard to take. Of course, had the 50-yarder flown through the uprights, this would be a different story. “That’s how small the margin of error is,” Skipper says sitting in his office six months later. Knowing the margin of error both in the game and in a foot ball career is slim. “Pro football is so stereo typed,” his father, Jim Skipper, running backs coach with the Carolina Panthers, said in refer ence to Kelly’s size. “You’ve got to fit certain dimen sions and if you’re not in that measurement, they don’t want you,” the elder Skipper says. As the only African-American of fensive coordinator in the Pac-10, Kelly Skipper does not exactly “fit the measurements” now either. “You don’t like to put a racial thing on it,” his father says. “But there is also a reality. Race is al TONIGHT! SEMI-FINALS 9pm Wednesday, May 15th 9pmWedn Sign-ups still welcome. Top 15 move on to Finals!! ☆ OVER $6,000 CASH PRIZES ☆ HOT BODY MODELING ASSIGNMENTS & GIFT BASKETS ☆ OVER $2,000 FOR FIRST PLACE!!! (541) 683-6021 • Divas Gentlemen’s Club • 2165 W. 11th flve ways going to be a politically touchy issue.” With the departure of Tyrone Willingham for Notre Dame, there are currently no African-Ameri can head coaches in the Pac-10 and only three among the 117 Di vision I football programs. So while head coaches are always under scrutiny, the margin of error for African-American coaches is as small as the Oregon game. Despite the type of scrutiny that follows games like the one against Oregon, Skipper wants to be a head coach. “I didn’t look at it that way,” he laughs. “But as you bring it up there is (a hierarchy). I was very grateful to coach (Bob) Toledo for giving me this opportunity. He had faith in me and that’s all I needed — an opportunity.” attitude in check and his mouth shut, he may be considered one of baseball’s greats—up there with Ty Cobb and Ted Williams. But baseball fans look for a combina tion of incredible talent (which Henderson has), a little flair and personality (which he loves to show) and a friendly disposition (which the combined efforts of Cal Ripken and all the Lady Byngs in NHL history could not teach him). Although in the end Rickey will be headed to the Hall of Fame, don’t expect the streets of Cooperstown to be flooded with Rickey fans who have stuck with him every day through his 23 year career. E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com. 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