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Brandt is latest Cowboy to be fired
The Associated Press
IRVING, Texas — Dallas scout Gil Brandt, the last member of the original group that built the Cowboys from their front row, now a new jersey Jerry Jones yesterday.
"He 'Jones' told me finance was the reason, that he's losing $29,000 a day." Brand said. "He'll probably offer or five scouts including Bob Griffin.
"I told him I know I did as a good job as a possible. I feel good about the 29 years I had with the Cowboys. But it's a hard job. He did. He didn't make my hand."
Brandt was a photographer who dabbed in evaluating professional football players and President Test Schramm as the Cowboys chief talent scout.
Schramm, Brandt, Agent Clint Murchison, and Coach Tom Landry built the team in 1960 starting with an office in an Automobile Club build-
Murchison died several years ago after he had sold the team to Bum Bright
Jones, who bought the team from Bright on Bion. 25 for $140 million, fired Laney, and Schram resigned as coach of the International Football League.
Brandt's brainstorms included drafting track and basketball stars and using computers to analyze talent.
Dallas scout let go after 29 years
Jones said he did not fire Brandt because of the unproductive decade of Dallas drafts.
"No, that was not the case. I just felt like the way we wanted to go in the scouting department without Gil," Jones said during a hastily called news conference. "This could look pretty calculated and insensible, but it doesn't change needs to be made. This wasn't done as a fleeting thought."
Jones, indicating that finances were part of the reason, said; "We are trying to be prudent in our financial aspects. But I don't want to implicate things are going to be done in a cheap way."
New coach Jimmy Johnson had a major input in the decision, Jones said.
Brandt and Johnson are close, personal friends, and Brandt helped the Cowboys coach land the job at the University of Miami.
Jones added that he would make a decision on who would replace
Brandt but emphasized that Johnson would be responsible for drafting players, as he was last month.
Brandt, who did not attend the news conference, said leaving the team would be like going from "a mansion to a pup tent. But anything worse, their torture of the last few days. You'd dump every time the telephone rang."
Brandt said he had no immediate plans.
"I have no plans to join another NFL team," he said. "I have had an offer to write a book."
Brandt evaluated the talent for Landry, who made the calls. In the 1970s, the Cowboys were considered among the most organized in the NPL at judging talent.
In recent years, the formula didn't work. Of the last 15 players drafted in the first three rounds by Brandt, only four are starters.
The Cowboys haven't had a winning season since 1985 and finished 31 last year — second worst in their history.
Only one player remained on the roster from the 1983 draft.
Only one player the Cowboys
drafted in the 1980s, Herschel Walker, has appeared in a Pro Bowl.
Jones also has fired public relations director Doug Todd, a member of the front office staff since 1971; Don Wilson, club treasurer for 18 years; Ann Lloyd, assistant ticket manager for 20 years; and Bob Friedman, director of photographic work who had been with the club 28 years.
Jo Bailey, Schramm's assistant since 1977, joined Schramm in the IFL, as did Suzanne Mitchell, director of the Cowboys cheerleaders.
Jones justified his employee-cutting binge by saying, "I have to make the best decisions I can. We will turn off the lights. Sometimes you have to put the toys on. You just have to put together the toys you want to go forward with."
Brandt served as a part-time scout for the Los Angeles Rams under Schramm in the 1950s. When Schramm took command of the expansion Cowboys, he immediately hired Brandt.
Brandt, a native of Milwaukee and a graduate of Wisconsin, also was a super sleuth at finding free agent talent such as wide receiver Drew Pearson and defensive backs Cliff Harris and Everson Walls.
sports Briefs
STERIOID USE RUMORED: Washburn University President Robert Burns said Monday that a committee he appointed had turned up evidence of overuse of antibiotics and corrupted substances in the school's athletic programs.
At a news conference Monday afternoon, the president of the municipal university said he had received a preliminary report from the mayor of the city last month after rumors surfaced about the school's football program.
Burns said from information he'd received so far, the rumors appeared to be "based in fact."
"I am convinced that earlier efforts as to drug education have been woefully inadequate and ineffective," he said. "Some student athletes have been allowed to avoid the (school's drug) education program, while others who coach have been uniformly informed as to the requirement."
Burns said he would discuss the
He said some coaches appeared to have a win-at-all costs approach, which he termed "missjudged."
problems with the school's governing Board of Regents and that he has already asked for improved drug education for both students and staff and some mandatory drug testing for athletes.
Washburn is a member of the NA1A
EVERY WITHDRAWS: Five-time champion Chris Evert has withdrawn from next week's Italian Open tennis tournament. The Tennis Association said yesterday.
"I played six of the last eight weeks and feel physically exhausted." Evert said. "I am finding it increasingly difficult to get motivated for all my matches week in and week out when I play this much need and to make some adjustments in my schedule."
Evert won the Italian Open in 1974-75 and 1980.82
HOLLAND CONSIDERS KENTUCKY: Virginia basketball coach Terry Holland, who is negotiating a new contract, said yesterday that he interested in pursuing a coaching job, including one at Kentucky.
"I've been under contract here since 1976 and I haven't investigated any other job opportunities, but before I make a commitment to another long-term contract I think I should take my head up out of the bed and be ready for him said. "I should at least determine if his is where I want to be."
Holland, 47, is entering the final year of a five-year coaching contract, which also includes a series of five, one-year rollover extensions.
Holland said he has had informal discussions with Kentucky athletic director C.M. Newton about the possibility of a transfer from Newton in more than a week.
Kentucky has been searching for a coach since Eddie Sutton resigned in March in the wake of an NCAZ situation into illegal recruiting practices.
"I'm not looking to move, but I can't even seriously look at Kentucky until I see where they stand with the NCAA, Holland told The Daily News that the state's day's editions. "Kentucky is such an unknown quantity because of the
pending NCAA sanctions. At this time I don't consider it (Kentucky) a serious possibility."
Holland has not been officially interviewed for the job and has not visited the Kentucky campus.
ROSE LEFT OFF POSTER: There's Wade Boggs, Jim Rice, Maury Wills and Warren Spahn — all famous alumni adorning posters to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the New York Penn League.
Missing, however, is perhaps the most famous face of all — baseball's all-time hit leader Pete Rose.
And it's no oversight.
"The sponsor didn't want him on there," league president Leo Pinckney told USA Today.
A spokeswoman for Marine-Midland Bank, which sponsored the poster, said she didn't know why Rose was left after Judith Nolan said that she had been offered allied gambling may have been a factor, but "I really can't say."
Charles Lynch, the league's lawyer, also declined to say why the Cincinnati Reds manager wasn't on the poster.
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