Thursday, November 6. 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Switzer's coaching job secure for rest of season
Cowboys coach receives support of team, owner
The Associated Press
IRVING, Texas—Barry Switzer won a vote of confidence from Dallas owner Jerry Jones, but even that probably won't end the NFL's longest-running soap opera.
"We're always under the microscope," said veteran Bill Bates. "We're pretty much used to it."
Jones shot down the latest report about Switzer, who according to "The Washington Post" likely will be replaced by director of scouting Larry Lacewell next week.
"It shows you how bad sources can be," Jones said yesterday while the Cowboys, 4-5 and off to their worst start since 1990, tried to prepare for Sunday's game against Arizona in Texas Stadium.
"Barry's job is secure," he said.
"There's no truth to that. It's not going to happen. We're going to ride through these rough times, and we're going to ride with Barry Switzer."
Asked at practice about Jones'
remarks, Switzer replied: 'I don't
know anything about that."
Switzer dismissed the latest reports about his future as the work of what he called fiction writers.
"All of this media frenzy is a distraction." he said.
The reports followed a heated dis-
The reports soil cussion on Sunday's 17-10 loss to San Francisco between Switzer and quarterback Troy Aikman, and a "New York Times" report last week that said the Dallas coach stayed up until 4 a.m. partying before a game and bragged about it.
witzer: Reports
peculated that the night be replaced.
Public relations director Rich Dalrymple said of the reports of Switzer's dismissal: "That would be taking a difficult situation, turning it upside down, and then turning it upside down again. It's not something Jerry is going to do."
Lacewell, formerly an assistant under Switzer and a head coach at Arkansas State, laughed.
"That's crazy," Lacewell said. "I'm trying to find players, not coach them. It's ridiculous. I'd be shocked if something like that happened."
Jones said that he would study the coaching situation after the season. Switzer has won one Super Bowl in his four years as head coach.
The players tried to ignore the sideshow and get ready for a team that upset them in the second game of the season.
"We feel we can win Sunday and get back in the race," said running back Emmitt Smith, who is listed as questionable with a pulled groin.
"We've got to hang in there, and we can't let the media drive a wedge between us," he said. "When Jerry sees fit to make a coaching change he will. Until that time, Barry has his job and the players need to do their job and try to win."
Switzer acknowledged that his late night out happened the Tuesday after a loss to the New York Giants, not the night before the game, as had been reported. He said that he stayed up late drinking wine worrying about the loss, then told the team about it the next day.
Switzer said it was a lie for anyone to say he had been partying the night before the game.
NFL commissioner cross-examined in lawsuit
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIIS — The NFL's star wifteness, commissioner Paul Tagliabue, completed two days of testimony yesterday, and it's down to the two-minute warning in the city's $130 million antitrust lawsuit against the league.
Each side sounded confident about its case.
Alan Popkin, lead counsel for the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission, questioned Tagliabue most of the day during cross-examination.
Popkin believed that while the NFL said it was sharing the Rams' $29 million relocation fee with lower
revenue teams, one of the country's richest men, New York Jets owner Leon Hess, was among those who benefited.
The CVC is seeking to recover money it claimed it overpaid for the Rams because the NFL discouraged other teams from competing with the city. The city paid the Rams more than $70 million to move from Anaheim, Calif., in 1995.
That total includes $20 million of a $29 million relocation fee assessed by the league.
Tagliabue also testified that the purpose of the league's relocation guidelines was to regulate competition. He said it was possible for a team that did not meet the league's nine
relocation guidelines to be allowed to move and possible for a team that met the guidelines to be voted down.
NFL lawyer Frank Rothman said Popkin covered nothing but old ground from the 5-week-old trial during his cross-examination.
"I've been listening to him say for a long time that they couldn't wait to get to the commissioner, that they were going to kill him," Rothman said.
Rothman said he thought Tagliabue, who has been vilified in St. Louis since the city lost out in the expansion process in 1993, made a good impression on the jury. On the advice of counsel, Tagliabue declined to comment about his testimony.
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