Page 10 Portland Observer, December 24, 1981
Sports Talk
by Ron Sykes. Sports Editor
PAC-10 update
1. Oregon State
2. U CLA
3. Arizona State
4. USC
5. Oregon
6. Cal
7. Stanford
8. Arizona
9. Washington
10. Washington State
I know some will cry foul! But a
lot of things have happened that we
feel justify our making an update.
For years this conference was the
private domain o f the Bruins of
U C LA but that Finally changed last
season when Ralph M iller’s OSU
team swept through the Pac-10 like
Grant marched through Richmond.
We decided on the update solely be-
caue the NCA A in all their splendid
wisdom decided to place our pre
vious choice as the Pac-10 cham
pion, U C LA , on the disabled list for
1981-82. And who besides yours
truly really expected the Beavers to
perform so admirably during the
early campaign. The thought was
that it would take the young Beavers
until the second half o f the Pac-10
race to finally gel, especially after
losing such stars as Mark Radford,
Ray Blume and Steve Johnson to
the pros. But Lester Conner has
emerged as the leader and A .C .
Green has just been phenomenal in
his brief career,
OSU will take a Far West Classic
10-game winning streak and two
championships in a row to this
year’s tourney. The Beavers have
defeated five clubs expected to chal
lenge for the championship of their
respective leagues. OSU defeated
strong Bradley, ranked in the top 20
of several pre-season publications;
BYU, defending champion o f the
W AC and ranked in the top 20 when
the Beavers and Cougars played;
Pepperding, defending champion of
the WCACO Penn, Ivey Leauge run-
nerup last year and N C A A playoff
team that in 1979 was in the N C A A
final four; and the latest power to
bite the dust, Louisville, 1980
N C A A champion and defending
Metro
Conference champion.
Louisville was ranked No. 3 by both
wire services before losing to OSU.
Oregon State impressed everyone as
they captured the title at the Japan
ese Suntory Ball Tourney. Oregon
State under Coach Ralph M iller is
rapidly becoming a national power.
Junior guard W illiam Brew was
named the Most Valuable Player
and was joined by teammate Charlie
Sitton on the Suntory Ball All-Star
team.
It ’s still baffling how all-every-
thing guard Lester Conner could
have been overlooked as an all tour
ney selection. Lester led the team in
scoring, steals and assists. W iltjer
was the rebounding leader followed
closely by Conner and I ’m still won
dering what Charlie did.
Can Black Football
survive?
When Alabama, Mississippi and
the rest of the South started recruit
ing the Black ballplayers in the early
sixties, many observers feared that
this would lead to a decline in the
programs o f major Black univer
sities. But so far this has not hap
pened. The good Black schools such
as Grambling, Texas Southern,
Florida A & M etc., continue to pack
them in. A crowd of 30,000 showed
up to watch the annual Bayou Clas
sic between Grambling and South
ern two weeks ago and officials re
port that this was the smallest crowd
ever to watch the annual game.
This annual classic, which was
won by Coach Otis Washington’s
souped up Southern University Jag
uars 30-20, picked up the Bayou
Classic name in 1974 when 76,733
packed the Tulane Stadium, which
has since been razed. After that they
moved the classic into the spacious
Superdome in the mid-’70s drawing
73,188, but the present Superdome
record o f 76,188 was established in
1976. Now, anyone knowing any
thing about publicity will tell you
that these figures are not too
shabby.
Bennie Thomas, S ID , o f South
ern reports that the 1980 Bayou
Classic drew 73,000.
In the ’70s, Coach Eddie Robin
son’s Grambling State University
Tigers established the longest win
ning streak in the series, by winning
nine from 1970 through 1978.
Southern snapped the string with a
14-7 victory before 72,000 in 1979.
According to these lively attendance
figures one can hardly say that the
Black colleges are through. They
Bayou Classic is a biggie, in fact it’s
rapidly become the lifeline o f the
major Black universities, just as the
Rose Bowl is to the PAC-10 and
arch-rival Big-10. W ithout its rev
enue the football program would be
in bad shape.
Much like the other M ajor Bowls
the Bayou classic draws immense
media coverage but not if you hap
pen to live North o f the Mason-
Dixon line. Southern’s 39-0 win
over Gram bling in 1939 is the largest
win margin in the series.
There has never been a tie in this
series, which dates back to 1932. So
if any of you are unable to obtain a
Rose Bowl ducat and want to wit
ness a spectacular event with all the
festivities, then perhaps the Bayou
classic is not a bad idea. The half
time show alone would be worth the
price of admission.
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