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4B I The Miami News Friday October 12, 1984 Richard Rosenblatt College football Airmspatrgjeir inraay Ihiawe-inniadle tlhe nght mmr If he stayed in Miami as a defensive co-ordinator, his record would be 6-0. But Bill Arnsparger decided it was time to leave the Dolphins and accept the job as head coach at Louisiana State. So how's he doing? Well, his Tigers, who won just four games a year ago, are 3-0-1, ranked No. 7 in my Top 20 and 12th costly error in OSU's loss to Purdue last week. Iowa (minus 4,4) 28, No.

18 PURDUE 17 Iowa brings Purdue back to earth. Others: KANSAS STATE (even) 17. Kansas 14; MICHIGAN (minus 23) 37, Northwestern 10; MICHIGAN STATE (minus 14) 27, Indiana 12; Air Force (plus 10) 24. NOTRE DAME 20; WISCONSIN (minus 18)42, Minnesota 21. SOUTHWEST No.

1 Tesas (minus 2) 27. No. 2 Oklahoma 20 (at Dallas) The Longhorns defense is too tough even for the Sooners to handle. BAYLOR (plus 7J4) 25, No. 11 Southern Methodist 21 Upset Special.

Others: ARKANSAS (minus 8) 22. Texas Tech 12; Texas (plus 32) 28. HOUSTON 21; TCU (minus 21) 35? Rice 1 3 Rosenblatt last year's loss to the Orangemen. Other: Army (plus 7) 21. RUTGERS 17.

SOUTH ALABAMA (plus 1) 24, No. 12 Penn State 20 Alabama has to win sometime soon, so why not spring an upset in the process? No. 15 GEORGIA (minus 7V4) 27, Mississippi 13 Bulldogs hand Rebels their second straight loss. No. 7 LOUISIANA STATE (minus 7) 31, Vanderbilt 17 Bill Arnsparger's Tigers remain unbeaten.

No. 14 SOUTH CAROLINA (minus 6) 27, Pittsburgh 23 It's the Gamecocks' turn to push Pitt around. MISSISSIPPI STATE (plus 2) 23. No. 18 Kentucky 21 Bulldogs eager to pin Kentucky with its first defeat of the year.

Others: Indiana State (no line) 24, LOUISVILLE 20; MARYLAND (minus 8) 34, North Carolina State 24; Georgia Tech (minus 1 Vi) 28, VIRGINIA 21: North Carolina (minus 3) 30, WAKE FOREST 24. MIDWEST No. 6 NEBRASKA (minus II) 24. Missouri 21 Nebraska manages to get by although its offense has been sputtering lately. No.

9 OHIO STATE (minus 6) 28. Illinois 20 Mike Tomczak atones for his He's hit on 94-of-165 passes for 1.247 yards, eight touchdowns and five interceptions. Wickersham. 55-of-96 with three touchdowns, is trying to help LSU win its first SEC game since a 20-10 victory over Alabama on Nov. 6.

1982. Both coaches took turns complimenting each others' programs. "They're head and shoulders above anybody we've played against so far," said Arnsparger. Said Vanderbilt coach George Maclji-tyre: "They beat Southern Cal 23-3 and they shook them like a rag doll and they have beaten a very good Arizona team 27-26." Elsewhere, the annual Texas-Oklahoma showdown takes place tomorrow in Dallas. The Longhorns are rated No.

1. while the Sooners are No. 3 (AP). The game, sold out for the 39th straight time, will be nationally televised by ABC-TV (Channel 10) beginning at 3:30 p.m. This will be the first time since 1979 the two teams enter the game undefeated.

Since Fred Akers took over as coach of the Longhorns. his record against the Sooners is 5-2. "It means a lot to play a game like this it is a privilege," said Akers. "Every one in the country is curious about this game, and that's particularly so when we are both highly ranked. It is a fun game a game for competitors." Last week.

I was 14-16 against the point spread and 26-8-2 overall. For the year, my record is 66-67 against the points and 125-48-5 overall. Here are the picks, with my rankings and home teams in upper case. No. 10 MIAMI (minus 24) 42, Cincinnati 7 Is this trip really necessary? No.

17 Auburn (plus 3) 27, No. 8 FLORIDA STATE 26 Tigers are on the rebound, while Seminoles are still reeling from last week's tie. No. 20 Florida (minus 7) 27. TENNESSEE 21 On the field, the Gators are nothing to laugh about.

Others: ALABAMA STATE (no line) 27, Bethune-Cookman 13; FLORIDA (no line) 31, Morris Brown 14; EASTERN KENTUCKY (no line) 22, Central Florida 18. EAST No. 4 BOSTON COLLEGE (minus 14) 35, Temple 20 After three weeks off, BC's Doug Flutie picks up where he left off throwing touchdown passes. No. 19 WEST VIRGINIA (minus 7) 24, Syracuse 14 WVU makes amends for by The Associated Press.

LSU, a winner over Wichita State, Arizona and Southern Cal following a tie against Florida, jumps back into the Southeastern Conference schedule tomorrow night when they host Vanderbilt. The game will be telvised by ESPN beginning at 7:45 p.m. The Commodores, meanwhile, bolted to a 4-0 record, including a victory over Alabama, before being stung by fulane. 27-23, last week. The game figures to hinge on the performances of the two quarterbacks, LSU's Jeff Wickersham and Vanderbilt's Kurt Page.

Page ranks fifth among NCAA leaders in total offense 247.6 yards per game. WfcM No. 5 BRIGHAM YOUNG (no line) 42, Wyoming 24 Boring. No. 3 Washington (minus 8) 31.

STANFORD 21 Huskies keep marching along. Others: Southern Cal (minus 3V4) 24. OREGON 14; California (minus 4) 31, OREGON STATE 17; UCLA (minus 8) 24. Washington State 17. College football '1t, Texas to mix it up with the Sooners 2 7 1 a dif ''fcwWBj' JT -i Iowa at No.

14 Purdue; Mississippi at No. 15 Georgia; Pitt at No. 17 South Carolina; No. 18 Florida at Tennessee; No. 19 Kentucky at Mississippi State, and No.

20 Georgia Tech at Virginia. The Longhorns and Sooners go into tomorrow's game ranked close offensively. Oklahoma Is averaging 378.8 yards a game, Texas 371.3; Texas has averaged 33.7 points, Oklahoma 29.7. But, where last year Texas was the nation's top defensive club, this time the Longhorns are only 43rd, yielding 326.7 yards a game, while Oklahoma ranks second at 229.7. And while the Sooners are second in rushing defense at 64.0, Texas is 38th at 138.3.

"I've been involved In these for 19 years now and it really and truly is what a football classic is all about," says Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer. Alabama coach Ray Perkins, fresh from an expression of confidence from the school's president despite the team's 1-4 record, said the game with Penn State will be special for his players because of the way their contest ended last season. In that game, Penn State jumped to a 34-7 lead before Alabama rallied for 21 points in the final quarter to lose 34-28. Walter Lewis hit Preston Gothard for what would have been another touchdown for the Crimson Tide, but he was ruled out of bounds, a decision that rankled the Alabama players. From the start of the season.

Texas football coach Fred Akers has been talking about "balance" in his offense, and the Longhorns have lived up to his word. The top-ranked Longhorns. who meet No. 3 Oklahoma in one of the top college games tomorrow, have mixed the run and the pass almost to perfection in defeating Auburn, Penn State and Rice. "Our scheme is to take advantage of what the defense is giving us," said Akers of an offense that has averaged 181 yards rushing and 190 passing a game.

"You've got to be pretty balanced and have confidence in your running and passing game to do that. There are times when all the defense will give up is the pass and other times when it invites you to run." The Longhorns will be tested by one of the nation's toughest defenses in Oklahoma. The Sooners are ranked second in the nation in rushing defense and have allowed only 38 points en route to a 4-0 record. In other action tomorrow, it's No. 2 Washington at Stanford; Temple at No.

4 Boston College; Wyoming at No. 5 Brigham Young; Missouri at No. 6 Nebraska; No. 7 Southern Methodist at Baylor; Illinois at No. 8 Ohio State; No.

16 Auburn at No. 9 Florida State and No. 10 Miami at Cincinnati. Also, No. 1 1 Penn State at Alabama; Vanderbilt at No.

12 LSU; r-i I f- I i 4 fH 4 4mmpk I I It st i 4 1 4 I Tht Allocated Preu Wide receiver Bill Boy Bryant (80) is a big part of coach Fred Akers' balanced Texas offense Local colleges Despite loss, Dade South volleyball team's in good shape have to win state first, then concentrate on nationals. Of course, it would be nice to win it all right here at home." AL QUINTANA Miami ww StH Cookie Stevens will never use the word "tired" to offer excuses for her Miami-Dade South volleyball team. Stevens, the Jaguars' fourth-year coach, just doesn't believe in it and won't stand for it usual game, the Jaguars have a good chance of doing just that. Through nine games. Brown had 116 kills in 263 attempts for a 44 percent efficiency rate.

She's already considered one of the best hitters in Jaguars volleyball history, and she proved why last week, collecting 39 kills in 88 attempts to lead her team to victories over Indian River and Dade North. While the Jaguars have had plenty of success throughout the years, they've always come short of their goal, which is to win a national championship. They've finished as high as second five times, and Stevens, who played for Dade South in 1977, hopes this will finally be the year the program clears that hurdle. Especially this year, since the national tournament will be at Dade South. "The girls know it would be pretty embarrassing for us to host the tournament and then not be there," Stevens said.

"I think they're all working toward that. We match," Stevens said "I think that's been the main difference the last several years." That was the case last week when the Jaguars, ranked fifth in the nation, came back from a 2-1 game deficit to beat Indian River in five sets. The marathon match lasted over two hours Two days later, the Jaguars defeated rival Dade North, at the Falcons' gym after getting a rare day off. "If it were anybody else. I think our girls may have not been emotionally ready to play after such a draining game," she said.

"1 purposely gave them the day off so that they could come back strong against North, but 1 think they would have played tough anyway because they always get up for North." The Jaguars' first loss this year came against Valencia Community College of Orlando in a non-conference match. They'll get a chance to avenge that loss tomorrow in Orlando. If 5-foot-9 Valerie Brown plays her Miami-Dade New World Center, doesn't usually tolerate players skipping practice. But he will this time because Jorge Ro-bles, Lino Rivera and Jorge Del Toro will be at the World Series in Detroit. They and the rest of the Puerto Rican legion team won the trip after defeating Brook-lawn (N.J.) for the national title in August When Paul Mainieri's St.

Thomas baseball team opens its season next spring it will have a brand new set of concrete dugouts, an upper-level press box and a concession stand. All that would have cost the program over $60,000, but architect Jose Rodriguez, brother of Bobcats player Eddie, donated the plans and convinced the construction company working on the school's law building to pay its workers overtime to complete the project on weekends. "It was extremely gratifying to have someone like Jose donate his services for our program," Mainieri said. "It's really been a tremendous psychological boost for all the players." On the Nov. 9 episode of "Miami Vice," those two familiar faces in the party scene will be former U-M baseball players Bill Wrona and Frank Russo.

"We've been filming for 12 hours and the scene is going to actually take one minute," Wrona said. "We met a few girls but that's about it." U-M basketball coach Bill Foster will unveil his first three recruits during the Hurricanes' first practice next Monday at the Campus Patio. University students who win a three-on-three tournament will play Foster's trio Tim Harvey, Kevin Presto and Dennis Burns. "I think we have an advantage over a lot of teams in that we're in a lot better condition," Stevens said. "We work hard in practice so that fatigue won't work against us." So far almost nothing has seemed to penetrate the Jaguars' victory bubble They've lost only two of 10 games and have a 7-1 record in the state's Southern Conference.

They need just one more conference victory to clinch a 16th consecutive trip to the state playoffs. The Jaguars could have clinched Tuesday night, but lost to Broward Community College. 15-10. 16-14. 11-15.

"We don't usually get tired during a Rob Hertler, head baseball coach at HURRICANES, from 1 RICAA administrator says improprieties widespread IMew York Times computer ranking Computer ranking based on gama through Oct 12 Opp Avg Opp Avg Victory Avg Victory Sank Team RecordMargm Rating Record Margin Taiaa SMU Florida Stata LSU Washington Brrgham Voung Oklahoma S. Carolina Nafcraaka Miami Auburn Oklahoma Stata Florida Taaaa Chrat. Purtfua Penn Stata Ohm Stata West Va Boaton Col. 6 8 64 6 3 44 -3 5 -66 -7 5 4 7 2 8 90 6 9 13.4 3.9 -2 1 40 7.1 0 1 -OS 6 6 48 B-3-O 6 6 0 14-9-0 10 6 0 8- 12 0 7-12 C-94 7-7-0 14-7 19-8-2 12 5 2 12-8-0 14- 7-0 66 1 15- 7-0 13 6 0 10 10O 9- 10-1 8 6 0 11-7-0 1 2 3 4 6 7 a 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 IS 17 IS 19 20 1.000 .978 .939 .864 .862 .837 838 .823 .809 .769 .765 .764 .760 .752 .740 .739 .737 .735 .734 .729 19 3 20 3 21 15.3 242 222 20 3 16 22 2 60 7 2 14 4 12 2 170 4 6 40 15 16 19? 17 2 3- 0-0 3 0 0 4- 0 1 3 0 1 5 0-0 6 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4-1 -O 5 2 0 3 2-0 4-1 -O 3-1-1 3- 1-0 4 l-O 4- 1 -O 4-1-0 4-l-O 300 3 2-0 to participate on all four special teams, has five tackles and three assists, while Blades has six tackles and two assists. All three would rather be playing their normal positions but understand they must go through a learning process.

It also gives the coaches an opportunity to watch their freshmen in action. "Being freshmen, Staffier and Ham need a little longer time to adjust to our offense and this gives them a chance to play while they're learning," said Mod-dox. "Also, without those three (Staffier, Ham and Blades) where would our special teams be? They're the leading tack-lers." Now if only they can come up with a slobberknocker or two against Cincinnati. U-M notes: Middle guard Willie Lee Broughtos, who has started every game for the Hurricanes this year, has a pinched nerve and has not practiced all week. Coach Jimmy Johnson said yesterday that Victor Morris will start in Broughton's place Freshman J.C.

Penny averages 20.8 yards on 10 kickoff returns Brett Perriman. another freshman, averages 9.3 yards on eight returns Tuten, a sophomore, has a 40.3-yard average on 22 punts. His net average is 36.3 yards Ian Sinclair, who returned to center in U-M's third series against Notre Dame, will make his first start at center in three weeks Defensive end Dallas Cameron (ankle) guard Juan Comendeiro (ankleX tailback Warren Williams (thumb) and strong safety Ken Calhoun (eye) are out for tomorrow night's game Dairy! Oliver, who lost his starting job to Williams before the Notre Dame game, will start in Williams' place Greg Jones is scheduled to start in place of Calhoun, with Selwyn Brown. Willie Martinez and Lu-cious Delegal also playing. turned for an average of 16.8 yards.

Both are better than average figures, but the punting team, especially the punter and snapper, have been guilty of several mistakes. Rick Tuten, who handles most of the punting, has had one punt blocked and was forced to take two safeties. On another occasion, he failed to get off a punt and wound up running for his life as Florida took over with excellent field position. Overall, however, Maatrox is pleased with the play of the four units Miami lists as special teams kickoff returns, punt returns, kickoffs and punts. "I felt they've done great." said Mad-dox.

"The longest kickoff return against us was for 27 yards and on all kickoffs (by Mark Seelig) the opponent hasn't started past its own 32-yard line." On the punting side. Maddox is well aware of several problems. "Rick and Steve (Minie) both have mental lapses," he said. "The punter is under a lot of pressure. There's the crowd, catching the snap, putting the laces of the ball in place and kicking it.

All in about two seconds. It's a timing thing between the center and punter and there have been some lapses." Tuten. though, says he isn't disappointed. "A few weeks ago, my average was up there with the guy who set the school record," said Tuten. "Then I had the misfortune at Notre Dame (a blocked punt) and that dropped me.

I'm not down on myself. Of course there's plenty of room to get better. Heck. I'd like to average 70 yards a punt." Kick coverage has been consistently good, thanks to Staffier, who runs the 40 in 4.3 seconds, and two fellow freshmen running back Eric Ham and defensive back Bennie Blades. Ham, the only player PETER ALFANO Mwm Vr1l Timet Nwi irvc Walter Byers, the executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, says that improprieties in college sports are so widespread and out of control that some athletes are receiving more than $20,000 a year in payments that are illegal under NCAA rules To combat the problem.

Byers said he would like to see stiffer penalties against violators, including more routine dismissals of coaching staffs and suspensions of team schedules for a year or more. In an interview at "the NCAA offices in Mission. Byers said he believed that athletes received these payments in addition to the aid provided by their athletic scholarships. These payments, he said, can come from a variety of sources: sale of an athlete's allotment of season tickets at inflated prices, purchasing an automobile for an athlete and outright cash handouts. Thus, he said, he is calling for a constitutional convention of university presidents to revise the rules and reaffirm the NCAA's role in enforcing them.

"I have the belief that an overwhelming number of people the presidents, athletic directors, faculty and coaches want a better world in intercollegiate athletics," he said. "I think they will embrace a new order." Byers would not identify schools or athletes involved in receiving the large payments. According to David Berst, the NCAA director of enforcement, "Mr. Byers is bound by the written policies and procedures that require us to keep that information confidential." He added that Byers does inform the internal committees of the NCAA and the schools under investigation of all the specifics in a given case. Byers said the violators are using "sophisticated techniques" to get the payments to the athletes.

These techniques, he said, are extremely difficult to detect. He also said that most violations occur in football and basketball, but are not limited to those sports. Berst said that an average of If of every 12 investigations a yeai by his office involve allegations ot the payments in the $20,000 range Berst refused to say whether any of them was guilty of making large payments to athletes. From January 1981 to the present, 39 schools with varying sizes of athletic programs have been on NCAA probation for numerous rules infractions. Eight of those schools reached for comment denied that their penalties stemmed from abuses regarding the Urge payments Byers described.

"Of the things we were accused of and which were proven, none pertains to dollars or things of value like cars or that kind of money." said Bob Hitch, the SMU athletic director. The New York Tana computer football ranking based on an analysis of each team's scores with emphasis on three factors: who won a game, by what margin and against what quality of opposition Drstmctions are atso made as lo the success of the oftansni and defensive units. The quakty of a team is determined by ennmng its performance aganst each opponent, and by then esamawig these opponents' other foes. The Tunes' computer model cofapset runaway scores to reduce the effect of any one game on the tote) ranlung. Each week performance af games played by a teams are re-evakiated to take eito consideration the most recent week's results, which count more than earker games.

The top-ranked team assigned a rewig of 1 000 the ratings of all other teams are percentage reflecting thee- strength relet to the top team Thus the ratings tdcete now dose Mm is to those ranked above it or below it. NOTE: The cumulatrva record and margin of victory of a ranked teams' opponent do not mdud game against the ranked team..