SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 9, 1992
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Coaches say playing smaller schools is a part of football
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Do not be too quick to criticize Nebraska for having a I-AA team on its schedule.
If things had gone according to plan, the Huskers would be hosting Arkansas Saturday instead of Middle Tennessee.
But Arkansas asked several years ago to get out of its commitment with Nebraska. So Temple was found to take its place. Then last year, Temple canceled and the Huskers had to scramble.
Nebraska destroyed Utah 49-22 in its opening and would be a wildly lopsided favorite if odd-makers posted numbers on games involving I-AA schools. But Osborne said pro scouts had been paying a lot more attention to Middle Tennessee than odd-makers.
"We contacted 70, 89 schools," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said. "We needed somebody who would come in and play here and not expect a return engagement because our schedule was already set. It was hard to find someone."
"Some tell you five, others tell you they have seven, eight prospects with ability," he said. "And I don't know that we have any more than that ourselves. We expect they'll come in here and play
If by some gridron miracle Middle Tennessee should upset Nebraska, then Colorado coach Bill McCartney would hope the fate that befell his friend and former Arkansas coach Jack Crowe would not befall Osborne.
well. I doubt they'll be the worst team we play this year. When you play a 1-AA team, you always fight an image problem. We hope our players pay attention and play well."
Crowe was fired just one game into a new five-year contract with Arkansas after losing to Division I-AA The Citadel on Saturday.
"I sat down yesterday morning and wrote to him and tried to express my heartache at what's happened to him." McCartney said. "It saddens me that college football has reached the point where much like the professional ranks, a coach can be dismissed after a devastating loss. I think you reach that point, you've really got to re-think this thing."
McCartney said Arkansas should have rallied around Crowe and given him support.
"The very fact that opportunity was not extended is an indictment of what can happen and is happening today in football," McCartney said.
"If I'd been in control there, I'd have said, 'You're not going to quit and you're going to coach hard than you ever coached in your life.' Walden said. "I hate to see anybody walk away from players. I don't think that leaves a good message."
But it was the Cowbys first victory of any kind over anybody in more than a year.
The Arkansas incident did not sit well with Iowa State coach Jim Walden等.
"What these kids have been through of late, you'd have thought we won the Super Bowl," Jones said "Nobody's under any false illusion but it was certainly good for them to have some success."
But while Osborne defends playing a Division I-AA opponent and Crowe gets fired over losing to one, Pat Jones has to soft-pedal his joy at beating one. Sure, it was just I-AA Indiana State that Oklahoma State belted 35-3 Saturday.
Blg Eight players of the week
Kordell Stewart, who set Colorado records in passing and total offense Saturday in his first start, was named Big Eight offensive player of the week in a split vote over Oklahoma quarterback Cale Gundy, who broke his own Oklahoma passing mark against Texas Tech. Named defensive player of the week was Oklahoma defensive end Aubrey Beavers.
State to probe bar where 'Bama star celebrated
The Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The state liquor board plans to investigate a popular nightclub where Alabama football star David Palmer celebrated before his second arrest on drunken driving charges, an official said yesterday.
The Birmingham Post-Herald said Palmer, 19, and several players were at the Citizens Club on the outskirts of the city after Alabama's 25-8 victory against Vanderbilt in the season opener Saturday.
The night spot has a private club license, which allows it to admit people under the legal drinking age of 21. But they cannot be served alcoholic beverages, officials said.
"We plan to check into it," said Charles McKinney, district supervisor for the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. "We're going to go talk to some people and see what we can do with it. I don't know if we're going to be able to make any kind of case against the Citizens Club or not." Senior receiver Kevin Lee said Palmer was at
the club Saturday night with his teammates and the mother of his two children, who had come from Birmingham to see him.
"We were all out," Lee said. "I saw him having fun and dancing. I left before everyone else did, so I don't know the whole story."
No one seems to know the whole story, except that Palmer got into a car sometime after 2 a.m. Sunday and headed back toward Tuscaloosa. State troopers said they pulled him over at 2:30 a.m. for speeding and charged him with drunken driving when he refused a blood-alcohol test.
Palmer, a receiver and kick returner who starred last season as a freshman, was suspended indefinitely on Monday by coach Gene Stallings.
The Citizens Club is where former Alabama football player Bobby Humphrey's jaw was broken with a tire iron, and where a number of players have gotten into altercations through the years.
James Coleman, president of the company that owns the club, could not be reached for comment.
McKinney said he recalled at least one other occasion when the club was cited for serving alcohol to a minor. It could be fined up to $1,000 and have its license revoked if investigators determine that Palmer was served liquor there, he said.
But police Lt. Larry Wood, who works with the ABC Board, said it would be difficult to build a case. Serving alcohol to a minor is a misdemeanor, which means officers cannot sign a warrant unless they actually witness the crime.
"There's nothing we can do unless we actually catch them drinking," Wood said.
on the floor running, Woodsaid.
Palmer's teammates thought he had learned his lesson after he was charged with DUI in June following a wreck in Shelby County. He was benched for Saturday's game against Vanderbilt as punishment for the first incident.
"Everybody thought David could handle himself," team captain Prince Wimbledy said. "We felt like with the incident that happened before—no one thought that we needed to baby-sit him."
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