Those One-Liners, Don't You Love em?
Switzer May Have Been Too Confident
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"Reducing basketball scholarships to 13 is ridiculous. They give 15 scholarships for volleyball and you could take all the revenue that's generated by volleyball for an entire season and maybe buy lunch. It's not going to save money. What it is going to do is knock 20 kids in this conference alone out of the opportunity to go to school on a basketball scholarship and get a free education."
Wimp Sanderson, basketball coach at Alabama.
"If I was going to resign again this would certainly be the week
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to do it. I don't know if I've ever faced a more challenging schedule."
Auburn basketball coach Sonny Smith, before sending his team against LSU, Florida and UNLV within a five-day period.
"What I want more than anything is for LSU to get the right man. someone who can bring together all these factions. I told Jim Wharton (LSU's chancellor) that if I'm not the right man I'd help find the guy that everyone can support and I'd support him."
Joe Dean, prior to being named athletics director at LSU.
"Some of them (college recruiters) I'm scared to be in the same room with them. I think they're going to offer me money so I tell
coach Hank (his high school coach). 'Why don't you come and sit in here with us? This guy is not going to say anything you can't hear.' "
Mickey Joseph from New Orleans (La.) Shaw HS, rated the country's No. 1 prep quarterback prospect.
"Let me say this. We're going to be at least 10-1, contend for the national championship and play in the Orange Bowl if you come to the University of Oklahoma. And we're going to be 10-1, contend for the national championship and play in the Orange Bowl if you don't come to the University of Oklahoma."
Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer to Mickey Joseph while trying to convince him to come toOU.
"Coach (Tom) Osborne (Nebraska's head coach) was the only one (recruiter) who did not lie to us."
Joseph's father after his son signed to play with Nebraska.
" 'We've had two more cases of gonorrhea,' Forzano told the team. 'About time,' said running back Lawrence Gaines, 'I'm tired of Gatorade.' "
New Orleans Saints kicker Benny Ricardo remembering his days with the Detroit Lions and a lecture by then coach Rick Forzano about off the field conduct.
"Penalties for any violations of NCAA rules are just starting to have an impact and that impact will grow over time. I believe over the next decade you will see the cleaning up of intercollegiate athletics,"
Eamon Kelly, President of Tulane University. "Damn, I'm good!!"
Necklace worn by Butler guard Darrin Fitzgerald, who leads the nation in three-pointers with an average of five per game.
"If there was a bright side it was improved free throw shooting by UK."
Kentucky press release after 35-point loss to LSU.
"I'd like to be the referee in a game that (Billy) Packer and (Dick) Vitale were coaching. Then write the story and talk about how dumb they are as coaches."
Abe Lemons, basketball coach at Oklahoma City.
"I've never had a team like this. We couldn't throw the ball from
one person to another."
Louisville coach Denny Crum on this year's team.
"You've got to be a different kind of person. Like I've said so often, you've got to have good judgementbut that's stupid because if you had good judgement you wouldn't be a referee."
Lafayette coach Butch Van Breda Kolff, about referees.
"Generally they're booing shirts, not people."
Hank Nichols, the nation's leading basketball referee commenting on the attitude of cage crowds toward the officials.
"I'm not adverse to getting out and asking for money,"
LSU's new athletics director Joe Dean about the Tigers' financial problems.
"Traditionally Vegas players have been known to talk better than they play. But today they backed up every word."
Auburn's coach Sonny Smith after his coaching strategy was criticized by UNLV players following the Running Rebels' 104-85 win over the Tigers.
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The Sporting News published a story about the Las Vegas-Auburn game which said, "The Rebels attended a reception with the Auburn players at a motel. 'We saw 'em there,' (Freddie) Banks (who scored 36 points for Vegas) said. 'We said, 'They're all drunk. We'll take 'em out tomorrow.' Said Auburn's (Mike) Jones: 'That's Banks' problem. Our whole team wasn't even there. A couple of us were (drinking) but it was nothing major.' Said Auburn's Frank Ford: 'No. no. no. There was no drinking going on." " At this point who really knows what happened, if anything!. . Tennessee is expected to be paid between $500,000 and $600,000 for playing Iowa in this fall's season-opening Chase Kickoff Classic at Shea Stadium Aug. 31. . .The Miami Herald reports that Vinny Testaverde, despite five years at the University of Miami, is at least 30 hours, or two full semesters, short of graduation. He also is no longer at-
Frank Ford Says Tigers Did Nothing Wrong
tending any classes. . .Tickets may be in short supply for the Southeastern Conference Tournament. Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee and Vanderbilt sold out early and by now Auburn, Alabama and Florida have probably sold their allotments. These schools have turned to LSU, Mississippi State and Ole Miss to buy any unsold tickets from their allotments. . The dropoff in basketball interest at LSU remains a mystery to me. Certainly times are hard in Louisiana, but that still doesn't explain the dramatic decrease in attendance at the Assembly Center and the failure of LSU fans to follow their team to Atlanta. . .If any school has a classier program in any sport than Kentucky has in basketball we've never seen it. . .How good is this year's Florida team? Here's what LSU coach Dale Brown had to say about them: "Once a year no matter how good, average or poor your team, you can look forward to getting beat alongside the head. This is the best Florida
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UK Now Has 25 Recruits
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During the '87 recruiting campaign UK has signed three tight endsDarrington, Shawn Evans (Richmond) and Daniel Lee (Cotton-dale, Fla.).
Kentucky also had hoped to sign two of the nation's top tight end prospects, which just happend to live in the Wildcats' backyard. But Frank Jacobs (Newport) chose Notre Dame and Jeff Ellis (Louisville) picked Ohio State.
Hallum hopes that Darrington can come in next season and contribute right away.
"He's two years older," Hallum told TCP, in comparing Darrington to the incoming freshman group. "He runs a 40 (-yard dash) in 4.7, has good hands and is also a good blocker."
According to Hallum, Darrington recently signed with Tulsa. However, his mother hadn't signed the letter-of-intent, making the letter non-binding with the Golden Hurricane. Darington then changed his mind and decided he wanted to attend UK.
Hallum noted that he watched Darrington play last season for NE Oklahoma.
It was last year when Darrington caught a touchdown pass in the Mid-American Bowl, helping his team capture the National Junior College championship.
Only hours after the Southern Methodist football program was given the "death penalty," UK assistant Chip Garber was headed to Dallas.
You see, Garber, a former SMU assistant, ventured to the Big "D" to try and recruit "eight to 10" Mustang players. Garber wasn't alone, however. According to a story in a Lexington newspaper, about 80 schools asked the NCAA last Wednesday to see if they
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could recruit SMU gridiron players. This is due to SMU's program being terminated for the entire 1987 season.
Kentucky has only one remaining scholarship to offer.
SMU is allowed to play an abbreviated seven-game slate in 1988. All games, though, are to be on the road. The most recent infraction marks the schools seventh in the last 28 seasons and fifth in 12 years.
Overall, 125 coaches were on the SMU campus trying to lure a player or players to their respective institutions. Under NCAA guidelines, in this instance if a player decides to transfer he will be allowed to participate during the upcoming season.
Things were expected to be less chaotic following Saturday (Feb. 28) because that's when off-campus recruiting ends. Supposedly, Garber had a couple of SMU defensive backs on his shopping list.
Besides Kentucky, some of the other schools invading SMU were all the Southwest Conference representatives, Ohio State, Alabama, JJCI^j^vthe^^nd, LSU.