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11 The BepubWc. Countou. Sutxtoy, August 3, 1986 Jera tnum wate eager et 'in. first kicks' tog Big because I dont want to be at Notre Dame in, two On the serious side, which again is where 43-year-old Pennsylvania native spends most of his time, Gutekunst doesnt want the Big Ten to laugh not at his team anyway. "WHEN WE CAME here two years we were me laughing stock of the Big Ten at that time," he said.

"We've made some progress with a great group of young men, and we intend to go further." Offensively, Gutekunst plans a few subtle changes using the option instead of the wishbone and throwing short passes a little more instead of having quarterback Ricky Foggie pick up those four to six yards via the run. The defense, he simply needs to improve. Even with the same basic philosophy, the transition from Holtz to Gutekunst wasnt easy for anyone. "WE DID HAVE to go through a transition period with the players and the coaches, but it snuck up on us because of the fact that we had a game to play;" he said. For myself, it wasnt until the end of February, when I was done with recruiting and got into the speaking, preparing for spring practice and making some long-term decisions.

That's when you learn to become aheadcoaclH "And let me say this No. 1, 1 dont care how much that you prepare for it it's Hot the same until you sit on that side of the desk. And No. 2, I'm enjoying every minute of it" opportunity, with national recruiting, to have repeated success. "Whereas, there's an enormous talent base right here in Chicago and it's right here in our own back yard.

There were 141 -athletes from Chicago, who signed Division I grants-in-aid throughout the country. With that in mind, we are a Big Ten school with excellent credentials and right here in Chicago. The opportunity to recruit those players is certainly there." PEAY ADDED emphatically that he did not see Northwestern's high academic standards as a deterrent to recruiting in any way. "However, as we look toward the upcoming season, we obviously have to show some improvement there or we wont have the opportunity to recruit the student-athlete necessary for the competition necessary in the Big Ten," he said. Peay, who had Just three days from the time be was announced as the interim head coach until the start of spring practice, is making many strategic changes as well, the most dramatic of which is ditching Green's pro passing offense in favor of a more diversified attack which includes the quarterback option.

"HAVING BEEN an assistant coach here for five years, I've had the opportunity to develop my own philosophies and to delve deeply into the problems that existed at the Big Ten school that has been the least successful of any of the football programs," he said. "I have reached the conclusion that we have some problems, but they're certainly solvable problems." Unlike Peay, Jim Hilles, interim head coach at the University of Wisconsin, plans no wholesale changes after succeeding the late Dave McClain. McClain, who coached at Ball State before beading to Madison in 1978, collapsed, and died in April, after working out on a stationary bike. Early on in his eight-year stint, McClain was able to turn the Badger program in the right direction. HILLES, 41, hopes to keep the Wisconsin program heading that direction and to it even farther to the top of the Big Ten standings.

"We came in and won a little bit," ne said. "And winning a little bit after losing for so many years was good. That's what our squad was being told by the community, the students, everyone. "Then we came up with a season like we had in 1981, where we beat Ohio State, Michigan and Purdue, but lost to some lesser teams. We lost to Iowa' 17-14 and they went to the Rose Bowl.

We were looking at that year as a fantastic achievement, but what would have been a fantastic achievement would have been to have beaten Iowa and to have gone to the Rose BowL "I WANT TO motivate our team to greater heights. I dont know if I can do that, but I believe that I can." Hilles, a long-time friend and associate of McClain, had plenty of practice this spring and summer after the. coach's tragic death. By ERIC HANSEN CHICAGO Francis Peay had an Interesting observation regarding the date Northwestern University Athletic Director Doug Single decided to elevate Peay from his Job as the defensive coordinator of the Northwestern football team to his present position. "I took over as Interim football coach at Northwestern University April 1," Peay began.

"That may be significant one way or the other." THOUGH HIS appointment came on April Fool's Day and Peay kids himself about it, the successor to former Coach Dennis Green does not fool around on the field, nor when it comes to upgrading the Wildcat football program. "He played for Vince Lombardi for awhile," points out Wildcat quarterback Mike Greenfield. "The guys really respect that And obviously, he's a disciplinarian. I like his attitude and his philosophy." Peay is one of three new coaches in the Big Ten this year, all of whom were defensive coordinators prior to their hiring and all came from in-house. PEAT BELIEVES the long-term solution to the Wildcats' seemingly terminal woes in large part will come from a change in emphasis in recruiting.

"Our philosophy has been more national in the past," he explained. "For many reasons, I don't want to criticize that approach. However, I don't feel you have an "It was a devastating filing in the beginning," Hilles said. "But we brought the players back to the stadium, to the scene, for team meetings. There were 15 players, who had witnessed the attempts of revival.

"A number of our players stayed on campus this summer, 55 to be exact, to go to summer school, work out, and be with one another. There came a time when we had to circle the wagons. Adversity brought out the best in us and we've come out of it with an positive feeling." MINNESOTA'S COACH John Gutekunst, the only one of the three mat doesn't carry the almost redundant interim tag, plans few strategic changes at Minnesota either. And Gutekunst has at least a little bit of a record to stand on. He's 1-0 after leading the Gophers to a 20-13 Independence Bowl win over Clemson last-November.

The charismatic Lou Holtz, who had coached the Gophers the past two years, had already departed for his new Job at Notre Dame. Personality-wise, Holtz and Gutekunst are worlds apart Holtz as fluid and entertaining speaker as there is in sports, while Gutekunst is more, of a no-frills, no-nonsense type. GUTEKUNST SHOWED he has a sense of humor too, however, during his speech at the Big Ten kickoff Luncheon Friday. "The first time I spoke in the Twin Cities area, I remember an older gentleman came up to me and said, 'So you're the gentleman who's going to follow Lou explained Gutekunst "And I said 'I sure hope not Joyner turns it on, snaps world record 1J ii piml ill X- 1 i0' 1 1,11 i VT i am 111 ji'i" 'i day night, Joyner won gold medals in the 100-meter hurdles, the high jump, the shot put and the 200 meters. Dan Hayden, Amherst, N.Y., second to Scott Johnson in' the all-around Thursday, won three gold medals and John Sweeney, Phoenix, celebrated his 23rd birthday with two golds in the men's individual gymnastics competition.

Hayden finished first in the pommel horse, the still rings and the parallel bars. Sweeney captured the floor exercise and the vault and Johnson, Colorado Springs, won the horizontal bar to give him eight medals in this year's Festival and a record total of 22 in his Festival career. GREG LOUGANIS and Michele Mitchell completed another double sweep of diving gold medals by winning the 10-meter platform competition and earning berths for the U.S. Diving Team in the Aug. 15-24 World Championships at Madrid.

Only one American boxer, 178-pound Adam Garland, Piscataway, N.J., managed a victory in an eight-bout invitational against fighters from the Soviet Union. Garland won a 1-1 decision against Manvel Aveusian. "The attitude of our team is positive," said Garland. "They're (USSR) the best and we're the best. For me, there wasn't any HOUSTON (UPI) Overcoming heat, exhaustion and her own accomplishments, Jackie Joyner roared down the backstretch of the 800 meters Saturday night at the VS.

Olympic Festival to set a world heptathlon record for the second time within a month. The 1984 Olympic silver medalist had 7,148 points at the Goodwill Games in Moscow July 6-7 to break the world heptathlon mark. Joyner topped that figure here while running in temperatures approaching 90 degrees at steamy Robertson Stadium. By overtaking Lana Zimmerman, Harvey, with 50 meters remaining and finishing the 800 in 2:09.69, Joyner pushed her total to 7,161 points. "AT ONE POINT, I got a little tired, but I decided to go for it" said Joyner, who won all seven events in the heptathlon and set meet records each time.

"The people here were really behind me. In Moscow, I knew the top Eastern-bloc athletes were competing and it was a little easier to get motivated. Last year at the Festival, I won six events and tied for first in the 800 this year I decided not to give up at the end. I told myself not to let the heat bother me and not listen to what people say about the weather." Joyner won the long jump with a leap of 23 feet 3-4 inches, and she won the gold medal in javelin with a throw of 164 feet, 5 inches. On Fri Prtu Intcnwtioral 14-year-old Phillips is considered by most to be the country's top female gymnast.

Kristie Phillips, of Baton Rouge, shows her winning form on the balance beam at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Houston. The Optimistic Wyche likes what tie sees in Bengals practice last season when he told him he was the new No. 1 quarterback. "He told the offensive line to bring a bag lunch in for practice that week," recalled Wyche.

"At lunch time, he wanted to meet with the offensive line and look at end zone film and study the running game with them. "THERE AREN'T a lot of Quar W. 13-24 'SJamXr WILMINGTON, Ohio (UPI) It's put up or shut up time for third-year Cincinnati Bengals' head coach Sam Wyche. After two mediocre seasons and a couple of legitimate excuses for the mediocrity, there are no excuses left for 1986. If the club is ever going to perform under Wyche, this is the season it should happen.

IN 1984, the Bengals were 8-8. But Wyche was a rookie head coach that year, learning his way, so it was tough to criticize a .500 season. Last year, the Bengals slipped to 7-9, but again there was an excuse. An early season change was made at the most important position when Wyche awarded second-year pro Boomer Esiason the quarterbacking job over 15-year veteran Ken Anderson. But the excuses have run out and even Wyche admits he sees no reason why 1986 shouldn't be a winning "IN THE LAST two years, we've been missing a little bit of leadership, a little bit of speed, a little of -bit of -experience and a little bit of togetherness coaches and players being together," he said.

"All those things are coming together now, so 1986 ought to be a good year. optimistic. We're positive about what we're doing. Our players want to win. They're willing to pay a price to win.

They're willing to work extra hard. Of course, all 28 teams think they're going to win it and we're one of those, 28. But, we happen to believe we have a legitimate reason for optimism." Soviets slug U.S. boxers HOUSTON (UPI) An -overmatched young American boxing team managed to win only one of eight bouts Saturday against an elite Soviet squad in a USA-USSR boxing exhibition. U.S.

Olympic boxing coach Roosevelt Sanders was not displeased with the American performance, though. SANDERS NOTED the youth of the American squad as a weakness, but said, "This is going to build the depth and experience of our team. Each of them did the best they could, and they displayed the best boxing skill they had. We have to keep going." Adam Garland, 21, fighting for the first time in the light-heavyweight division, beat Manvel Avetisian on a 2-1 decision for the only U.S. victory.

"For me there is no intimidation with the Soviets. I like to run up against the best because it makes me look so much better," said Garland, of Piscataway, N.J. IN THE super heavyweight division, 'Goodwill Games champion Viacheslav Yakolev, 26, had little trouble in defeating Alex Garcia, of San Fernando, winning a 3-0 decision. Last weekend at Sacramento, Yakolev beat Garcia, the No. 2-ranked amatuer heavy-wieght in the world, on a 5-0 decision.

In other matches, heavy-w eight Alexander Microshnichenko beat Troy Bauuoin of Los Angeles. The fight was stopped with 1:48 remaining in the -second round when Baudoin, who has been boxing only one year, was sent to the canvas twice. Vladimir Balay, also a Goodwill Games heavyweight finalist, beat Detroit's Huland Copeland on a 34 decision. The first match, a 147-pound matchup went to Soviet Michael Shirin, 24, who beat U.S. Marine Arthur Martinez.

terbacks, especially young ones, who want to learn the running game. They want to build those passing stats. Here's a guy who wanted to be a quarterback, not just a passer." Wyche also figures be will be a better head coach this year because of two years experience, "You can hear about things, be advised about things and be warned about things, but until you experience them, -you don't really know how to handle them," he said. "Experience is the great teacher. I've experienced more things now, so things should be better.

I shouldn't make the same mistakes." WYCHE WAS heavily criticized last year after the -Bengals were shredded 44-27 by the lowly Houston Oilers and their record fell to 2-5. "There was a lot of conversation after the Houston game, but shortly thereafter we beat Dallas 50-24 and suddenly we were heroes again," he said. "You're evaluated every outing. You re-prove yourself every time you go out there. You're either good or no good, depending on your last performance." But it takes more than a coach with' experience and a quarterback with leadership to win in the NFL.

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When Boomer stepped in last year, he really took over. From day one this year, that will be the situation, and that will be a plus for Wyche was pleasantly surprised with what he saw Esiason do in "OUR DEFENDERS are sharp people," said Wyche. "They know they did not have a good year. They had some good Sundays and they didn't play all bad all the time, but they know they have a lot-of improving to do. "The nature of this business, is, if -you dont improve, you lose, and someone else will be happy to take your place.

If there's a player not ready to improve, he's going to be replaced." I CHARGE-BY-PHONE 1-800-647-4343 OR (317) 297-6161 OR (317) 927-1482 1.