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DIGEST C-2 FOOTBALL C-3 HORSES C-2 PREPS SCOREBOARD C-2 EDITOR: GREG NOBLE, 369-1917 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1985 Faust Reportedly Will Take Akron Job Today fi vv The MAC Council of Presidents said no application for admission will be considered until July 31, 1986, when Northern Illinois officially withdraws from the conference. CURRENTLY, AKRON does not meet Division I-A standards because It does not have an average home paid attendance of 17,000 and plays a predominantly I-AA schedule. Akron plays Its home games In the Rubber Bowl. Akron has played in the OVC since 1980. This year was the first time the Zips made the playoffs since 1976, when they played In Division II.

The Zips have gone 8-3, 4-7 and 8-4 the last three years. Faust was 30-26-1 in five years at Notre Dame. and Rice since resigning at Notre Dame Nov. 26. He withdrew his name from consideration for the Rice Job Tuesday.

He had interviewed at Rice Saturday and said Monday: "It's pretty whittled down at this point. I may make one more trip." Faust's father, contacted Tuesday night, could not confirm the Akron report. "What the outcome Is going to be, I don't have any knowledge," said Faust's father, Gerald. "I'm pretty sure that within the next week he will make up his mind. It's recruiting season.

You don't Just sit back." Akron, with enrollment of 27,022, wants to upgrade its program to Division I and has applied for admission to the MidAmerican Conference, which includes Miami. I-AA playoffs and lost to Rhode Island, 34-27, In the first round. The head coaching Job at Akron had not been announced as open. Coach Jim Dennison, who led the Zips to an 80-62-2 record in 13 years as head coach, reportedly will become an associate athletic director In a departmental shakeup. At least one assistant coach reportedly was told that Faust would be hired to replace Dennison.

"I have no comment at all," Akron Athletic Director David H. Adams said. "All I will say Is that we have a 1:30 p.m. press conference." Faust canceled a visit Tuesday to Youngstown State, where he had interviewed for the coaching job. FAUST, FORMER coach at Moeller High School, also Interviewed at Marshall ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES Former Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust will be named head football coach at the University of Akron at a 1:30 p.m.

news conference today, sources in Cleveland and Akron reported Tuesday. The Akron Beacon-Journal said It planned a story for today's editions saying Faust would be named. A Cleveland television station also said a shakeup In the Akron athletic department probably would Involve Faust. The Cleveland station, WEWS-TV, said during its late newscast Tuesday that It had confirmed Faust was In Akron. Faust was unavailable for comment.

AKRON, A Division I-AA school which competes in the Ohio Valley Conference, had an 8-3 record last season. It made the GERRY FAUST new Zips coach? Bearcats Put Cindy Starr 1 v. a i i i Hitman ti-m-iD' i i.f.rthiti, it, 1 Up Stiff Fight, But Bow, 69-53 BY MICHAEL BALL didn't show enough patience." The Cincinnati Enquirer The pre-game hype talked a lot BIRMINGHAM, about an all-America guard you go on the road in college bas- UAB's Steve Mitchell But UC ketblll you have to play almost Roger McClendon fhfroad 35 aTpVyoS SoVgTuC was Just great in have to be better the first nalf UAB coacn Gene The Cincinnati Bearcats Bartow said ''And I think played their best basketball of the McClendon played like an season here Tuesday night before nf, 0 9n falling to 14th-rated Alabama- Birmlneham 69-53 Polnt outing in which he missed TheScS fell to 3-3 with onlytwoshots, was sever for 10 In the loss while UAB, which has the first half for 14 points. He won eight straight games, im- didn't take a breather, proved to 9-1. UC meets Denver at fantastic shooter ILKlhRt1Verfrnt C11SeUm YateHsEsaSid''BS It's Korn cliche to say of minute I only wish I didn't the game was closer than the have to play so much He gets score indicated, but in this in- "red and shots he has made earli- Bcplayed as'well as it could in (Mease see BEARCATS, Page C-6) the early going and couldn't maintain the pace.

That's what J- jjwfrmt happens when a team comes Into HugtwsZIIII 35 3 5 4 4 Alabama-Jefferson Coliseum 6 33 35 where the Blazers have won bet- 34 1 15 0 0 1 1 ter than 80 of their games. fw 0 0 "The first half was Just out- Hces .10 1000000 standing," said UC coach Tony 0 Yates. "We didn't turn the ball jKkson .51 2003002 over and we were pretty well in it 2 2 2 2 2 21 COntrOl." Touts 20023 51712 21122353 Team Rebounds- 5. INDEED, in the half, the Bear- uab fc fo ft fta a pf tp cats shot better than 60 and had 5 6 0 4 10 only five turnovers. They led for Johnson 20 2 31 3 0 2 5 most of the half before trailing by JJS? 71 fs I iS 2 i I 3 0ne.

Foster 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 But after UAB took the lead In 0 i 0 0 0 the second half they went to a Turner 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 zone and the Bearcats shot only X4 23135 28 from the field. And the Blaz- ev. 20 01 21001 ers' bruising inside game began to Bakef 11 111 take Its toll on UC. 15 a "We allowed them to get sec- TnR.bKKh-4. ond and third shots at the bas- ket," Yates said.

"Offensively, we Attendance- 5471 For 22 Years, Shrider Directs Miami Success OXFORD, Ohlo-The commissioners of the major athletic conferences don't tell Dick Shrider about job openings any more. They know Miami University's athletic director isn't going anywhere, not for love or money or a Sugar Bowl bid. Dick Shrider could easily move on. But he never could move up. He has found his Utopia.

Or perhaps he has created one. Either way, he is permanently wedded to Miami, where education and athletic success strike a perfect harmony. "I still believe In the American dream and everything that goes with It," Shrider said Tuesday. And well he should. He is in the midst of it.

Shrider, Miami's athletic director for 22 years, is, more than anyone else, responsible for the current renaissance In Miami sports. The Redskins are headed this year for their fifth successive Reese trophy, awarded to the Mid-American Conference school with the greatest success in men's sports, and their 13th in 14 years. During the fall, the football team went 8-2-1, posting the best record among Division I teams not Invited to a bowl game. The cross country team finished 5-1, and the soccer team 14-2-2. In women's sports, the volleyball team went 28-5, the field hockey team 10-5-2 and the cross country team 9-0.

The men's basketball team, meanwhile, has picked up where the football team left off, racing to a 5-1 record. (Please see STARR, Page C-6) The Associated Press UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA at Birmingham's James Roger McClendon during the first quarter of their Ponder drives toward the basket past Cincinnati's game Tuesday night in Birmingham. UAB won, 69-53. Bengals Must Hit Long Odds If Year Is To Be Prolonged Wyche Supports Rimington's Call On The Inside Steelers, Bengals both will be trying, Page C-3. Dolphins' victory just about sews up AFC East, Page C-3.

nriiiwiiiii imiii miiii ituii tensibly at Rimington. "I was mad at the situation, and Dave was the situation," he said. What did Rimington see that brought about the time out? "The defensive front," Wyche said, "the alignment of the defensive linemen and the linebackers. He didn't count up the protection scheme as evening out. We didn't have enough players to take care of business." Was Rimington correct In what he did? "Yeah," Wyche said.

"Anytime a player can explain to me why he did something, fine. We go with that Judgment every time. You have to. Those players are making instantaneous decisions." Would the play have worked? "I think it would," Wyche said, "had our line been able to adjust. Dave was concerned that might not happen.

Dave did the right thing from his perspective. From my perspec- BY JIM MONTGOMERY The Cincinnati Enquirer Most of the nation's legal and Illegal businessmen will give you 5-1 odds against hitting a three-team parlay. This, for the uninitiated-lf any-ln-volves picking the winner In three separate games. Get all of them right and you hit. Miss even one of the three and forget it.

Essentially, a three-team parlay Is what the Cincinnati Bengals face this weekend. The Bengals have to beat the New England Patriots, the New York Jets have to beat the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers have to beat the New York Giants. If all that happens, the Bengals are in the playoffs, courtesy of the National Football League's tie-breaker system. One misfire anywhere and they can forget it In three respects, the 5-1 odds seem a little short. The Bengals and Steelers are both rated underdogs by the businessmen.

So are the Browns, but that's OK, because the Bengals need Cleveland to lose, remember. All three AFC Central teams are on the road, where Pittsburgh and the Bengals each have lost five out of seven, and are facing teams which need to win for their own playoff sakes. Finally, in a normal three-teamer, the Investor has the point spread to help his selections. The There was Boomer Esiason off by himself, near the sidelines, waving both arms. There was Dave Rimington, calling time out.

There was Sam Wyche, spiking his telephone headset. What happened-or what didn't happen, actually was an Impending trick play which aborted in the second period of last Sunday's 27-24 Bengal loss to Washington. "We had a couple of special plays, as we always do," Wyche explained. "This one involved Boomer going out as a wide receiver and Eddie Brown lining up In the old single wing. I felt we had a play.

Dave didn't, so he did what he ought to do in that situation that Is, if he thinks there's a chance of a turnover he makes sure we don't make a crucial mistake. "Because of what he saw defensively, he decided to call time out." The headset routine made It seem Wyche was angered, os Bengals have no such luxury. Everything has to be a stralght-up win. Rather than 5-1, the odds against all hands following a precise script under these circumstances probably should be more like 8-1 or 10-1, except 10-1 Is the payoff on four-team parlays. Anyway, they are long odds, but you wouldn't have known It Tuesday at Spinney Field, where determined optimism reigned.

"IN MY own heart," head coach Sam Wyche said, "I think we're still going to win this thing." A few moments later, Wyche announced next week's practice schedule. Unless the three-team parlay comes through, there won't be a next week for the Bengals. You wouldn't have known that, either. (Please see BENGALS, Page C-6) DAVE RIMINGTON he called a halt tive over there (sidelines) I could see an uncovered man. "He did the absolute, correct thing.

I did the absolute, natural response. Then both of us did the professional thing-we got ourselves back together and played the rest of the game." (Please see CALL, Page C-6) Court Upholds High School Ban Against Non-Ohio Athletes miles of a state border. cation for any type of ruling like this." Michael Tralnor, principal at St. Xavier, said the ruling "could cut down on our Kentucky enrollment." Back In the 1950s, as much as a third of the school's students came from northern Kentucky, he said. sons, David, Douglas and Gregory Moellering, and Dennis Alerding all of whom were students at St.

Xavier High School In Flnneytown. Since then, David has graduated and taken up pre-law study at Washington University in St. Louis. Dennis Is a Xavier senior who regularly practiced with the wrestling team but was never allowed to compete in Douglas Moellering is a senior; his brother Gregory is a junior. "He's not really bitter," Jean Moellering said of son David.

"He's still very much Interested In the suit He's just questioning the fairness and the justifi "I THINK the suit showed the athletic association the folly of this pursuit and I'm sure most of the Judges showed them that, too," the senior Alerding said. "I believe the court thought that kind of rule wasn't necessary, but It was a rule they (the athletic association) could have legally. "We are hopeful there might be some legislation In Columbus to change this Inequity." Alerding said an unidentified legislator from Columbus is considering a proposal that would exempt from the asso unfair to public schools. The association's rule, challenged In court two years ago, will stand at least for now-and David Moellerlng's younger brothers, Douglas and Gregory, may face the same fate. Ohio legally can bar out-of-state students from lnterscholastlc sports, the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled Tuesday in Cincinnati. DENNIS ALERDING a Fort Thomas, lawyer, said the decision might mean the end of the case. Alerding and Roger H. Moellering, David's father and a resident of Lakeside Park, filed the suit on behalf of their BY MIKE PULFER and BEN L. KAUFMAN The Cincinnati Enquirer Time ran out for David Moellering.

He never did get to play baseball or basketball for St. Xavier High School. The same goes for Dennis Alerding a senior who never got to wrestle or swim competitively. They lived in Kentucky, and they just weren't allowed. In 1979, the Ohio High.

School Athletic Association barred non-Ohio residents from playing for Ohio schools, arguing that private schools were pulling too much athletic talent from neighboring states and that It was ALTHOUGH THE Bluegrass influence has lessened, Tralnor said "there are still many people from Kentucky with strong ties to St. alumni who want their children to go to school here but they do so knowing they can't play athletics." (Please see RULING, Page C-6) ciation rule families that live within 15.