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1 -i 4 i .11 DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, ROCHESTER, i i i i a FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2." NY. ii 1983 AREA COLLEGES 29D St. Lawrence doesn't want to absorb 'playoff mentality1 Eighteen starters back from record-setting team "We think Rod's the best in the country," said Talley. On defense, senior linebacker Steve Kowalski (Greece-Olympia), second on the team with 116 tackles in '82, is expected to lead the Saints this year. "Steve's the heart of our defense.

He's a hard-nosed kid who will knock you out," Talley said. The Saints, who operated under the bend-but-don't-break philosophy in the past, are going to get more aggressive this season. "We were unbeaten and the best in the East, so the only thing we can do is repeat," Talley said. "It's going to be tremendously difficult. Everybody we meet is going to play their best games against us." game.

The Saints will begin against Ithaca College with 18 starters back from a team that went to the Division III semifinals while setting one NCAA and 10 school records. The major loss on offense, where eight starters return, is quarterback Mark Fer-rante, the ECAC Player of the Year and a second-team All-American. His place will be taken by Bill Stone, a 6-foot-5, 205-pound senior. "Mark was more of an option kind of a quarterback, while Bill is more of a passer," said Talley, last year's Division III coach of the year in the East St. Lawrence will increase its passing, but Talley will seek the same balanced attack that gave the Saints the nation's No.

2 offense last year. In '82 they averaged 223 yards rushing and 220 passing. First-team All-America Keith Henry, who set a single-season rushing mark in '82 (1,342 yards), and Lelan Rogers, whose 14 touchdowns tied a school record, return to the backfield. The pair will run behind a veteran offensive line that returns all but one starter, first-team All-America Jim Smith. The line, anchored by another first-teamer, Ed Szott, will average 6-3, pounds.

Junior Rod Vesling (Pittsford Mendon) will handle the kicking and punting. Vesl-ing's 52-yard field goal in the quarterfinals of the playoffs last year against Wagner College set an NCAA mark. By Mitch Lawrence Democrat and Chronicle The word is out at St. Lawrence: The Saints aren't saying anything about de- fending their Lambert Bowl championship. "We haven't talked about any goals in terms of making the playoffs or winning the Lambert Bowl or anything," said Coach Andy.Talley, "Once you start talking playoffs, you can get into a playoff mentality and you can lose it all if you lose your first game.

We're not talking about anything but our first BUFFALO mmmm Moody brings mood to change Brockport FROM PAGE 27D Moody. The Generals coach not only loaned Moody films to take back to Brock-port for teaching plays, he also made Keith his defensive captain. "I think he knew that I was going to be a coach, so he gave me more responsibility than I ever had before," Mwdy said. "I really appreciated that. It was tremendous because it prepared me for this job even more.

As defensive captain I was responsible for getting our signals from the sidelines and calling our plays. It taught me a lot more about the game." Moody detected that some people in Brockport thought he only had insights into about half the game, the half he used to play. "I KNEW SOME of the people had to be asking, 'How's this pro defensive back going to coach the "Well the thing people sometimes don't always realize is that as a pro defensive back, I spent hours and hours and hours watching films of offenses in preparation for games. I watched more offense than I did defense. That's why I'll be coaching the offense here," he said.

"Working with quarterbacks is an irony in itself because as a free safety, I was constantly trying to confuse quarterbacks about our coverage. Now I'm on the other side of the tracks, teaching our quarterbacks how to know when a free safety is camouflaging his entire defense. It's quite a change." Moody has changed Brockport's offense from a modified Wing-T to a pro set. "We have 57 offensive formations we can go to," said Moody. "I'm not saying we can use them all.

But we can go to them. On the other hand, we'll have only 10 defenses, that's all." Brockport will operate out of a 3-4 de fense. Moody will continue to operate out of Orchard Park. "Commuting every day, that'll give me plenty of time to think up new offensive plays and work them around while I'm going back and forth. Who knows? Maybe I'll come up with a new play as I pull into the parking lot one day." New formations aren't the only changes at Brockport.

There's been a shift to a more upbeat, positive approach. You hear it everywhere you go. "KEITH IS ONE of the positive steps we're taking," said Stier. "Everything is positive around here with Keith. Everything is a plus," said Frank Sacheli, a member of Brockport's booster club.

"The other staff drilled it into you to work, work, Not Keith. We're having fun 'cause he knows what it's all about. Nobody's on scholarship here. We play cause we love the game." "Attitude is a big part of the game," Moody said. "You have to believe and be in the right frame of mind." Brockport's mental condition was unstable all last season.

"There's very obviously an attitude change," said Mike Kemp, one of three assistants from Sims' staff retained by Moody. "It's been 100 percent different with Coach Moody." Players were expected to come to camp in shape. In the past they used camp for conditioning. "That alone indicated to me that there's going to be big changes around here on the football field, too," Kinsella said. Stier expects those changes to carry over into the victory column.

"We want to build up all our sports to the championship-caliber level of our wrestling program. We want some signs up for football, too," he said. Just what Keith Moody has in mind. Bulls will need better defense for total team By Mitch Lawrence Democrat and Chronicle It's a bull market around the University of Buffalo football office. Just how high the Bulls' stock rises could rest with the defense.

"We have to be a little tougher defensively and hold some teams down," said Coach Bill Dando. The Bulls averaged a school-record 29.1 points a game in 1982, but still finished with only a 5-5 record. The Bulls lost five games by a total of just 19 points. Dando, who might have as many as a dozen freshmen playing regularly, has set a goal for his defense. "We told the kids from day one, our aim is to hold teams to fewer than two touchdowns a game," he said.

That might be difficult for his 4-4 defense to achieve. Dando lost all four starters on his line, including Gary Brown, an ECAC Upstate tackle who had 83 tackles in 82. Linebacker Gary Quinlivan, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound junior, should be recovered from a broken wrist suffered last year to lead a strong linebacking corps. The secondary is just as polished with safety John Bernard (Batavia) returning. Bernard, who made a team-high five interceptions in '82, will be joined by newcomer Andy Hurley.

Hurley sat on the bench at Syracuse for three seasons, never living up to expectations placed on him because he's the brother of former Orange star quarterback Bill Hurley. TURN TO PAGE 30D Keith Moody wants the game to be fun. Textbooks first, touchdowns second for Cornell's Maxie Baughan er. He has three sons, Maxie III, a 21-year-old junior who kicks for Auburn University; Mark, an 18-year-old in prep school, and Matthew, 13. "I've been around young men all my life," said Baughan.

"I know their problems and what they think their problems are. They shouldn't be in awe of me. Sometimes knowing a former pro will get you a cup of coffee. We should have a good relationship." Baughan started to establish a rapport in the first weeks after he was hired last Jan. 10.

He had Blackman's last group of seniors lead the returning players in intramural basketball. The purpose was to help ease the transition, keep the players in shape and thinking "team." "He's brief, very brief," said Mark An-nunziata, a former Eastridge High linebacker who will be a senior this fall. "It's a hundred times different than when Coach Blackman was here. It's like a complete 180-degree turn. Coach Baughan will be able to handle the players better.

He's more up to date with us. I can remember watching him on TV with the Redskins." At 45, Baughan is almost 20 years younger than Blackman, who retired at age 64. "I think the biggest difference will be how he relates to us," Annunziata added. "Coach Blackman was aloof. He was very difficult to approach and talk to." PLAYERS SHOULD HAVE no trouble talking to Baughan, a Boy Scout lead FROM PAGE 25P is going to be more fun in six months with Baughan than in the last six years with Blackman.

"Everybody's excited," said Kennedy. "Maxie's been a boost for everyone's morale." In Blackman 's meetings, he was the chairman of the board and his assistants were the "go-fers." "Coach Blackman put himself up here," said Prendergast, putting his hand at eye level. Then he lowered it. "The rest of us were down here." Players have noticed the same dramatic difference since Baughan took over. They aren't falling asleep in Prof.

Blackman's two-hour lectures. Baughan 's typical meeting lasts 30 minutes. Then on May 1, the only day the Ivy League permits spring practice, Baughan worked out his team, then held a chicken barbecue with a Country and Western band for the players and their families in Lynah Rink. "That brought everybody together like one big family," said Annunziata. That '8 just the way Baughan wants it.

He'll make the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates look like Divorce Court. "We're going to let the families share in the good times. They deserve to. They sacrifice a lot," he said. He's going to have parents wear buttons that say, "My son is number He's dreaming up other ways of making Cornell football one big happy family.

"I'm working at it," he said..