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Thursday, February 23, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Sooners coach gets some comfort Fans, former players back up harried Switzer
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — Beleaguered Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer finally got some good news yesterday as fans and former players
Switzer
called for Switzer's resignation or ouster because of problems in the football program.
In recent weeks, the state's three largest papers and the 1940s ball team have team ball.
But at an afternoon news conference, at least 35 of his former players, including Heisman Trophy win-
nurses Billy Sims and Steve Owens, turned out to praise Swiss, the winningest active college football team and Athletic Director Donnie Duncan.
"We were recruited, coached and counseled by these men and are confident and convinced that no better or more qualified individuals exist to lead us out of our current situation, the players said in a prepared statement.
Switzer has been under fire since the NCAA put the football program on probation in December. Since then, scandal has mounted as five Sooner players have been arrested on criminal charges.
One player is accused of shooting and wounding a teammate in the athletic dormitory, three are charged in an alleged gang rape in
the same dormitory, and quarterback Charles Thompson faces a federal cocaine-selling charge.
"If it meant giving up the Heisman to get this program back on the right track. 'I do that," Sims said.
Switzer said he was touched by the show of support.
Duncan served from 1973 through 1978 as an assistant coach at Oklahoma.
"Maybe he is a little too hearted," Sims said of苏特. "But if it wasn't for him and Donnie Duncan, I never have stayed at this university, so I believe in giving people a second chance."
"Coach Duncan and I appreciate more than they'll ever know the support they've shown," he said. "I'll be indebted, and I love them."
Former quarterback J. C. Watts said, "We're not here to oppose or be a contrast to the 1949 group. We're here to say we support the current leadership and want to get this program back on a positive track."
Spencer Tillman, another former Sooner, said things had changed since the days when the players of the NHL commended Switzer were at the university.
"We're talking four decades here," Tillman said. "Things have changed dramatically, and the peer pressures have changed." He added that he was "be solved by firing Coach Switzerland."
Watts said, "If your child does something your wife doesn't like, do you think she should divorce you and kick you out of the house? That's the situation we have here with Coach Switzer."
SI compares troubled Colorado to OU
The Associated Press
BOULDER, Colo. — Two Colorado football players were arrested and another appeared in court for a hearing yesterday as the new issue of Sports illustrated called the Colorado player an "Oklahoma waiting to happen."
In a statement issued yesterday, Colorado President E. Gordon Gee expressed confidence in the program and in Coach Bill McCartney and assailed the national magazine's story as unfair.
Running back O.C. Oliver was arrested early yesterday for failing to appear in court on a traffic violation and taken to the Boulder County Jail.
Defensive tackle Stephen Cole Hayes was arrested Tuesday for investigation of shoplifting. Authorities said Hayes was found in a building at the investment management office allegedly concealing a number of items in a backpack.
Hayes also was found to have an outstanding warrant for failing to appear on a traffic violation.
Meanwhile, freshman running back Marcus Reilford was back in court yesterday after pleading not guilty last week to charges of sexual assault and trespassing. He is accused of raping an 18-year-old woman after entering her dormitory room through a window.
seek a change of venue in the case. Another hearing was scheduled for March 8.
The latest problems came one day before the new issue of Sports Illustrated was to appear, featuring a package of stories dealing with disciplinary problems at Big Eight Conference schools.
Reliford's attorney said he might
One of the stories recaps the problems Colorado players have had with the law.
"My thesis is CU is perhaps a mini-OU, an OU waiting to happen," said Rick Reilly, who wrote the book. "I had to recruit some of the same kids who are at OU now and in big trouble. If he could have gotten them, they'd be
here now.
"My point is that McCartney is straight. But he's got this program, and the kind of kids he wants are out of control. If you have 30 arrests in almost three years, that's out of control."
But Gee called the Sports Illustrated article "a flagrant example of adversarial reporting and selective use of the facts."
"This university has built an athletic program of the highest integrity," he said.
Gee expressed "great pride in McCartney's record of graduating over 80 percent of the football players he has recruited."
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