COACHES RETAIN 9TH ASSISTANT

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, January 9, 1992                   TAG: 9201090366
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From Associated Press and staff reports
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COACHES RETAIN 9TH ASSISTANT
College presidents will not leave the NCAA Convention undefeated.
After hearing from coaching heavyweights Joe Paterno, Tom Osborne and now-retired Vince Dooley, delegates Wednesday permitted Division I-A coaches to retain their ninth assistants.
By a narrow margin in a paddle vote, the voters in Anaheim, Calif., agreed I-A schools could have nine assistant coaches and two graduate assistants, rather than eight assistants and four restricted-earnings coaches.
The chairman of the Presidents Commission, Gerald Turner of Mississippi, had called for the elimination of a full-time coach "as a matter of principle." It was adopted during the 1991 "cost-containment" convention.
James McComas, president at Virginia Tech and a commission member, supported the proposal. "My main concern was other sports will want their coaches back," he said.
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FOOTBALL

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