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8 • I he Ked and black • inursday, September 20, 1990
Goff, Stallings in hot seats; pressure mounts
The morning of the LSU game I was sitting
in Baton Rouge eating breakfast with some of
my friends, when a man dressed in red and
black from head to toe walked toward me.
“Son, what do you think about tonight’s
game?” the Georgia alum said.
1 replied that I thought that the game would
be tough but we could possibly pull it out.
The gentleman stared into my eyes and said
with conviction that “Georgia had better win
ten games this year and they better not lose to
Auburn and they better not lose to Georgia
Tech.”
Well, I nearly choked on the eggs 1 was
eating when I heard that. I told him that he
was a bit too optimistic. He said that he was
tired of losing and he wanted to see some re
sults from the stellar recruiting classes.
Coaching football at big-time college institu
tions has grown from much more than a way for
young men to spend their Saturdays. There is
extreme pressure placed on coaches, by the fans
and the media, to win at all costs.
For example:
• Ken Hatfield - first year head coach at
Clemson. Soon after the Tigers lost to a pow
erful Virginia Cavalier football team on the
road for the first time in the school’s history,
some angry fan left a U-Haul moving trailer on
Hatfield’s front lawn.
Clemson lost a starting quarterback (Chris
Morocco) and starting tailback (Terry Allen)
from last year’s 10-2 squad which won the
Gator Bowl over Major Harris and West Vir
ginia. Clemson is ranked 17th in the nation and
may not lose another this season.
• Gene Stallings - first year head coach at Al
abama. Stallings has caught a lot of heat from
Tide fans this season. Last season, the Crimson
Gene
Williams
Tide finished 10-2 and lost 33-25 to eventual
national champion Miami in the Sugar Bowl.
Tide fans expected nothing short of a perfect
season for 1990.
Aside from the adjustments a coach has to
make from coming from the pros to the college
ranks, Stallings has had to cope with the knee
injury of Sirhan Stacy, the best returning run
ning back in the SEC.
Angry 'Bama boosters once threw a brick
through ex-Alabama coach Bill Curry’s
window. If the Tide loses to Georgia, their fans
may uproot Stone Mountain and hurl it at Still-
lings.
Curry, now the head coach at the University
of Kentucky, sympathizes with what Stallings
is going through.
“Stallings still has the entire Alabama family
behind him and that’s the most important
thing. He doesn’t need my advice on how to
handle his situation, but once he pulls all of
those people (players and fans) in the same di
rection, he will have an awesome force,” Curry
said.
Stallings though, has maintained a good out
look despite the heat.
"No one wants to win more than the players.
The fans at Alabama have high expectations for
their football team just like the folks at Georgia
and Tennessee and with the wav we have been
playing, our fans have every right to be upset,”
Stallings said.
Upset, but not fanatical. Folks, this isn’t the
pros and the world will not change regardless of
who wins the SEC. Coach Ray Goff says the
fans may want too much too fast.
“Over the past ten years, the media has
gotten very sophisticated and report every
thing,” Goff said. ‘The alumni read the
material and they expect instant results. I told
people last year that we needed some time to
build a base of players and right now our fans
our being patient with us.”
Former ’Bama coach Bill Curry
had bricks thrown through his
office windows. If the Crimson
Tide loses to Georgia, their fans
may uproot Stone Mountain
and hurl it at Stallings.
Currently, there has not been an upswell of
Bulldog boosters calling for Ray GofPs pink slip,
but considering the times in college athletics,
the fans may not keep quiet if the losing con
tinues.
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Golf Dogs to use pitching wedges,
not pitchforks, at The Farm in Dalton
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Editor
Georgia’s men’s golf team is
going down to the farm this
weekend in Dalton, Ga.
Not to pitch hay, milk cows or
feed chickens, but to compete on
The Farm, Dalton’s 6,896-yard,
par 72 golf course, the site of this
weekend’s Carpet Capital Colle
giate Classic.
Georgia, playing in its first
event of the fall season, is among
15 teams participating in the
prestigious event.
“It’s a good field, with the top
five or six teams in the country,”
Georgia coach Dick Copas said.
“We’ll get a good impression of
how we stand and how good or
bad we’ll be.”
The Bulldogs return four
players from last year’s squad
that finished fourth in the SEC
and 15th in the NCAAs.
Among the players scheduled
to compete this weekend are pre-
season All-American Paul
Claxton, Greg Kennedy, Franklin
Georgia is playing in
its first event of the
fall season.
Langham, Bill Brown, and Neal
Hendee.
“We feel pretty good. We feel
we have a talented bunch,” Copas
said. ‘The season will depend on
how hard we work and how hard
we practice. I think we’ll do fairly
well.”
Georgia, ranked No. 10 in Golf-
week's pre-season poll finished
sixth in last year’s tournament.
Defending national champ Ari
zona, defending Capital Classic
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John Kasay
"KICK-FOR-KICK"
YEAR
PAT
FG
LG
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1987
8X8
1X2
35
11
1988
39X40
7X 15
47
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1989
22X23
19X24
53
79
1990
1X1
4X4
40
13
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31X45
53
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JUST A JOB
From page 10
the Chicago Bears). I wish we had
that kind of consistency in a lot of
our other positions.”
As the ice begins to turn Kasay’s
left leg a rosey red, he pauses his
speech, stares a moment, and at
tempts to puts his job in perspec
tive.
‘Everybody has got to pull his
own weight on this team,” Kasay
said. ‘The key is to draw the line
between blatantly supporting your
team morally and just doing your
job. A lot of times, I don’t jump up
and down on the sidelines in sup
port of our offense during games.
Instead, I make it a point to not get
excited and maintain my concen
tration.”
In three years at Georgia,
Kasay, a 1990 pre-season All-
America candidate, has hit on 31 of
45 field goal tries and missed only
two of 72 extra-point attempts.
“He’s such a team leader,”
Haffner said. “I’m not saying he
can’t improve, but he’s a profes
sional in all aspects of life. He’s
tough.”
But not that tough. During the
off-season, Kasay said he doesn’t
kick much because an entire
season of pounding the ball does
his leg significant damage.
“Sometimes I wonder if a leg can
handle this,” he said. ‘The joints
get really sore after kicking a while
so I usually lay off kicking in the
winter.”
As a freshman, Kasay put his
name in the Georgia history books
when he kicked a 39-yard field goal
with no time left to give the Dogs a
20-17 Liberty Bowl victory against
Arkansas.
Last Saturday, Kasay’s coun
terpart, Southern Mississippi
kicker Jim Taylor, barely missed a
41-yard field goal late in the fourth
quarter that would have given the
Golden Eagles a 20-18 win. When
asked if he felt a little emotion for
his counterpart that game, Kasay
laughed.
“I don’t know about that,” he
said. “That’s just one of the job haz
ards of the position. I bet you if I
was in the same position, he would
have been ecstatic and probably
wouldn’t feel too sorry for me.”
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