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Sport TI h E ClAckAMAS P rínt _______ 7 Wednesday, January 13, 1999 Basketball: The Cougars host Mt. Hood tonight!! Women play at 6 p.m., men at 8 p.m. Top-ranked Lane visits Clackamas this Saturday night!! Women play at 6 p.m., men at 8 p.m. Wrestling: Clackamas hosts a triangular meet this Saturday in Randall Gymnasium. First match starts at noon! Support Cougar Wrestling!! Khosravi: Erickson best Thorburn: Outside situation with loss of Riley pressure caused “I knew I missed something dismissal of Lambo-ball Continued from page 5 about college football, and that’s ter teams in the AFC after a few sea it right there,” said Erickson. sons under Holmgren’s Control. He has always been more com This was an A+ hiring. fortable at the college level, and Oregon State it’s obvious he is more comfort Former Seahawks coach Dennis able at OSU than he has in Se Erickson was hired on Tuesday as attle. the Beavers' new head coach. He has Erickson has always been a said his goal is to make the program winner in college coaching, and a winner again after OSU’s infa there’s no reason he can’t help mous losing streak of 28 seasons. make OSU a winner as well. “We want to win football games. San Diego Chargers We want to get to bowl games. We This is a very puzzling hiring want to win the Pac-10. Let’s don’t to me. Mike Riley appeared to settle with little things,” said have Oregon State headed in the Erickson. right direction [he lead them to This was the best possible hiring there best record since 1971 [5- OSU could have made. 6] this past year] after only to Erickson led University of Mi years on the job at Oregon State, ami to 2 national titles when he though I’m not sure he’s ready for coached there [one in 1989 and the NFL. one in 1991], He has complied a There is some merit to this hir record of 113-40-1 [113 wins, 40 ing, don’t get me wrong, Riley is losses, 1 tie] on the college level, a good coach. However, I do feel Including 63-9 at Miami, were he that this hiring was based more on won 87.5% of his games. His politics than it was on just merit. Record at the other colleges Chargers General Manger Bobby [Washington State, Wyoming, and Beathard admits he wanted to hire Idaho] was 50-31-1, with a win someone he was familiar with to ning percentage of 60.9%. coach the Chargers. Riley has Although he only complied a 31- coached some of Beathard’s kids 33 record at the NFL level in Se in the past, and has been very attle, his Talent as a college coach close friends with him for a num is without question. He has been a ber of years. winner at every college he has Riley is a good coach, and it coached. He seems to be the type of seems he is the type of coach that coach who is better suited for the could be successful in the NFL. college level. “This is my man. I think he Erickson himself seems to enjoy is a good coach, very cre the college level more. ative,” said New York Jets' When Erickson entered the con Wide Receiver KeyShawn ference room through a giant inflat Johnson. “He helped me be able Beavers helmet to the sound of come the No. 1 pick (in the a nine-piece band, the crowd began NFL draft). He recognizes tal to chant the Beavers fight song. ent, I do know that.” Think You’re Pregnant? W e can help you work THROUGH YOUR CHOICES. Crisis Pregnancy Centers Milwaukie ........... 659-3336 Lloyd Center Area.........284-1977 Gresham ........... .666-6527 Lake Grove .....................968-6780 Beaverton.......................643-4503 F ree P regnancy T ests Confidential Counseling Continued from page 5 . inn_ ---------------------------------- ———----- in 1993. a Super Bowl. No matter the "University" de Holmgren, as a general man manded a "new direction,” as Ath ager, combined with the deep letic Director Barbara Hedges pockets of Allen makes the for stated. After all, this was Washing mula that brings in marquee quar ton football. The Huskies, not the terbacks—The Randall Cougars. God, not the Cougars. Cunninghams, the Kordell Lambright out, Neuheisel in. Stewarts, and the Steve Youngs. In four years as a head coach at It could work, but unless some the University af C.Ql.Qcado. Rick thing is changed to fill a quarter Neuheisel compiled a 33-14 back position that has been a record—never beating Kansas swinging door since the Jim Zorn State, Nebraska or even Missouri. era, the Hawks will be shut down Neuheisel's been to three bowl in the first round year after year. games all against Pac-10 teams. What's the solution? Mike Two of those games were against Holmgren has the respect of every Oregon. Neuheisel's Buffaloes Seahawk on the roster. It is enticing won both matchups. for ftee-agents to stay. What about Looking at the numbers, the quarterback? The two best pos Neuheisel brings nothing more to sible scenarios are either simply the Washington Huskies than trading up for a draft pick to grab an Lambright already gave the Akili Smith or a Donovan McNabb school. It's the intangibles that or to go after Brad Johnson of the made the difference. Minnesota Vikings. Lambright was always seen as All season long, Johnson has old school, brash and even a little been secured by the Vikings' front cold towards the public. Neuheisel office. Holmgren must simply make is young and blond. He likes to an offer the Vikings can't refuse. smile and he'll shake your hand. Next to the Vikings, no other team The players are already excited has a receiving corps like the for the 1999 season. Seahawks. They simply have the Neuheisel has made one change worst group of quarterbacks. since arriving in Seattle. Holmgren + top quarterback = He reinstituted the gold helmets Super Bowl, baby. that adorned Huskies during the With Erickson having recently Don James era which saw a 1991 accepted the head coaching posi National Championship. The tion at Oregon State University, his alone boosted player morale. credibility as a coach will be put Another key element Neuheisel to the test almost immediately. brings is recruiting. Was/rington Huskies Kennedy High School's Paul It's blatantly obvious what tran Arnold, in Seattle, is one the most spired in the process of the firing sought-after recruits in the nation. of Jim Lambright. He has taken visits to Notre Dame, I have never heard of a worse Michigan, Colorado, UCLA and scenario where an athletic direc USC. Most feel Arnold's addition to tor lets outside money and booster the Huskies' lineup will restore a pressure determine the "direction needed running attack and have the of the football program." Dawg Bowl rocking. I feel he'll Jim Lambright was a coach who choose the purple and gold on sign endured the hardest times Wash ing day, February 18. ington football has faced because It's interesting. of 1992 NCAA sanctions. Still, he National championships. Bowl managed not one losing season— games. Boosters. making three bowl appearances ad Coaching doesn't seem to be what winning a share of the Pac-10 title it used to be. The Box: It's a money problem Continued from page 6 The rival Saints, along with Blue Mountain Community College and Treasure Valley Community Col lege, were four schools, including Clackamas, that competed in NWAACC football from Oregon. Today, one team in both Wash- ington andOregonremains. Walla Walla Community Col lege, a pioneer in Northwest com munity college football, competes with schools from Idaho. Whatever happened to the senti ment that sports promote good sel- esteem, discipline in life and a high success rate in both the job com munity community as well as in graduation? Oh yeah, the economics didn't allow it Oh yeah, there wasn't enough money for football players. That's right. Granted, football by far is the most expensive sport With its 60- man roster and insurance coverage, the price is high. Now, anyone who knows me, knows that I am a huge supporter of women's sports. I wonder though, would a sport that fielded 60-plus female athletes be canceled because of something like money? Would parents allow it? More importantly, would state officials allow it? It's simple to say, "Well, with foot ball, the balance between men's and women's sports would be offset" It's simple to say, "Football is just a sport about boys beating up boys." It's simple to say, "The sport costs too much money and taxpayers don't want to pay for it" This isn't an effort to reinstate the . sport of football at Clackamas or at any other community college. I wonder, though, how long would it take a bunch of govern ment officials to support the idea of 60 college female athletes? You figure it out
