UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 5, 1997
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Tiger featured in golf tourney this weekend
The Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand — Maybe they should call it Thai-gerland. Tiger Woods arrived in his mother's homeland Tuesday to a reception fit for royalty.
The 21-year-old golfer stepped out of an airplane at Bangkok International Airport into a throng of government officials, fans and relatives, and was besieged by autograph requests, asked for interviews and covered with dozens of traditional Thai floral garlands.
Kultida Woods, the golfer's Thai mother, shephered her son off the plane and into the crowd at the arrival lounge. A worker asked Woods to autograph his cap even before he left the air-bridge from the plane.
Woods declined a television reporter's request to "say a few words for the Thai people" as he left the plane. He smiled when he saw a banner in English, "Welcome home Tiger — We miss you when you are not here."
Thai television carried the arrival live, a mark of celebrity status accorded last year to Queen Elizabeth II and President Clinton.
Earl Woods, Tiger's father, was a Green Beret during the Vietnam War and met his wife in Thailand while he was stationed in Asia. Earl Woods did not make the trip, remaining home where he is scheduled to have heart bypass surgery in the near future.
Tiger Woods visited Thailand twice before, once when he was 9 and again when he was 18.
Woods, who has three victories, a second, two thirds and a fifth-place finish in only 11 tournaments as a professional, will be playing in the Honda Asian Classic, which begins Thursday.
Thai politicians cast Woods as a national hero, and both the government and the opposition tried to arrange meetings with him. Woods will receive a royal decoration when he meets with Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyud.
Parcells lea Super Bowl coach hired as consultant
The Associated Press
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Since New England was unable to strike a deal to immediately rehire Bill Parcells as head coach, the New York Jets hired him as a consultant yesterday. They will promote him to coach no later than next year.
For now, Bill Belichick, Parcels' longtime aide, will become the team's interim coach and run the team's football operations. Jets president Steve Gutman said Belichick is also likely to be the successor after Parcels coaches two or more years.
Parcells, who coached the Patriots to the Super Bowl this season, said he planned to watch as many Jets games in person as he could and will have an office at the Jets' complex. Gutman said Parcells is to work a limited number of hours.
Parcells will make no final decisions for the Jets while honoring the terms of his contract with the Patriots. That agreement, upheld by NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, stipulates that Parcells cannot hold a coaching job or other comparable position until Feb. 1, 1998 — unless the Patriots give their permission.
"Bill and I will work in concert as we always have, and I think we'll be successful," Belichick said at a news conference at the Jets' headquarters.
"A consultant consults," Gutman said. "He does not make decisions."
Patriots representative Stacey James said the team would have no comment on the Jets' moves.
Last week, Tagliabue ruled that Parcells' contract gave the Patriots the "exclusive option" on the coach's NFL services in 1997. Gutman refused to say whether the Jets received permission from the NFL before agreeing to hire Parcells as a consultant. The league did not immediately comment.
"I know the Jets would not have proceeded unless they cleared that with the commissioner," Parcells said.
Belichck, who was the Cleveland Brown's head coach for five seasons, going 36-44, spent last season as Parcells' assistant head coach with the Patriots. He was defensive coordinator when the Giants won two Super
Clearly, he is not the coach the wooful Jets sought. But with negotiations with New England to acquire Parcells going nowhere and the Jets adamant in retaining their overall No. 1 draft pick, the club turned to Bellickh as a successor to Rich Kotte, filling the last NFL coaching vacancy.
Bowls under Parcells.
Parcells agreed with that approach. Belichick, 44, inherits a team that went 3-13 and 1-15 the last two seasons under Kotite. He will be the fourth coach the team has had in five years and Parcells presumably would become the fifth in six years if he takes control the following season.
Gutman said negotiations for Parcells to begin sooner were continuing between Jets owner Leon Hess and Patriots owner Robert Kraft. But Gutman reiterated that the Jets will not give up the first pick in April's draft to secure Parcells as their coach for next season.
"I think everyone has to understand this is a program, and a program extends beyond one person." Belichck said. "I think I will have to earn their respect here, and I will do that. If a player wants to be a part of the system, he'll jump in and do it."
No matter who the coach is.
The Jets were intent on signing Parcels ever since Kotte resigned two days before the end of the season. Because the Patriots played in the Super Bowl, the Jets' pursuit of Parcels was delayed for nearly a month. Then the Jets and Patriots could not agree on compensation for Parcells.
On Monday, when the Jets first spoke to Belichick and Parcells about the proposal they accepted, both sides wondered about possible tampering.
As the Jets pursued permission to talk to and hire Parcells, the rift with the Patriots became uglier.
With free agency beginning next week and the NFL combines at the end of this week, not having a coach in place would be an unenviable situation. But not much was enviable about the Jets the last two years.
Cleveland had one winning season in Belichick's five years as head coach. In 1994, the Browns were 11-5 and lost to Pittsburgh in the second round of the playoffs. Excluding that year, the team went 6-10, 7-9, 7-9 and 5-11.
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