Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 14, 1993 TAG: 9301140034
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
DOOLEY'S ASSISTANTS AT WAKE FOREST LEFT OUT IN COLD
Nobody would be more pleased to see Bill Dooley return to coaching than the Wake Forest assistant coaches who were left without jobs when Dooley announced his retirement.Wake Forest has announced the first five additions to new coach Jim Caldwell's staff, none of them holdovers from the former regime.
Two Dooley assistants known to have accepted new jobs are Eddie Williamson, new offensive line coach at North Carolina, and Cliff Yoshida, who reportedly will be the defensive coordinator at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.
Williamson, once the head coach at VMI, spent two years at South Carolina before joining the Wake staff as offensive coordinator. Yoshida was one of four ex-Virginia Tech coaches on the Wake Forest staff; the others were John Gutekunst, Bob Brush and 26-year Dooley aide Sandy Kinney.
They could have been fired and their job prospects wouldn't have been any less promising.
"That's exactly the way it is," Brush said Wednesday. "No matter what you say, basically we were let go. The problem is, you've got a lull right now. There was a big rush for jobs in December, but we were preparing for the [Independence] bowl."
The ex-Wake Forest assistants will be paid through March, as detailed in their contracts. Brush said it is reminiscent of Dooley's departure from Virginia Tech after a 10-1-1 season in 1986, except that the Tech assistants were to be paid until June.
"I was fortunate," said Brush, noting that Dooley did not go to Wake until mid-January. "Within a week of the [Peach Bowl], I was hired at Tulsa. There will be some jobs filled at the end of recruiting, but if you don't have anything by the end of March, then what? There won't be 10 jobs come open after that."
It appears unlikely that Caldwell will keep any of Dooley's assistants. His five appointments, all on offense, are headed by coordinator Alex Wood, who was the running backs coach at Miami.
\ HE'S B-A-A-C-K: Tennessee now is listed among the finalists with running back Antonio Procise from Sussex Central and defensive back Tory Edge from Phoebus in Hampton. Neither was listed among the Volunteers' top choices before Christmas.
Tennessee's emergence with both players coincides with the hiring of assistant coach Steve Marshall, formerly of Virginia Tech. Marshall said Wednesday that he does not have a specific recruiting area for Tennessee but has asked to fill in where needed.
"My agreement with Coach [Frank] Beamer when I left Tech was that I would not recruit any players who I was actively recruiting for Tech," Marshall said. "Also, I would limit myself to those players Tennessee was recruiting previously, as far as mailing lists and the like."
Marshall was responsible for the Hampton area when he was at Tech; however, he pointed out that the need for defensive backs changed when the Hokies dropped the wide-tackle six in favor of a four-deep scheme.
\ FOOTBALL RECRUITING: Virginia has received oral commitments from 6-foot-3, 263-pound center Ray McKenzie from Huguenot High in Richmond and Pete Karczewski, a 6-5, 250-pound offensive tackle from DeMatha High in Hyattsville, Md.
Karczewski had trips to Maryland and Syracuse. He reportedly canceled visits to Texas and Boston College. McKenzie was selected to the Roanoke Times & World-News list of the second 25 prospects in the state.
\ IN THE ACC: North Carolina State is down to eight healthy basketball players after an injury to junior Migjen Bakalli, who hurt a knee Monday in a 63-58 victory over Davidson. Coach Les Robinson, who had 15 players on his preseason roster, said he might activate 6-foot-9 freshman Bill Kretzer, targeted for a redshirt year.
One team rivaling N.C. State in the injury department is Clemson. Corey Wallace, who started three games at forward, is expected to have shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the season. Junior-college transfer Jeff Brown, one of the team's top 3-point threats, broke his jaw while diving for a loose ball Friday in practice.
Florida State, which dropped a game with Morgan State last week in order to meet NCAA requirements, has agreed to play a game next year at Morgan State, which probably will rent the 14,000-seat Baltimore Arena.
\ REBUILDING: Tennessee State already has won more games in Frankie Allen's second year as head coach than it did in his debut, when the Tigers were 4-24 in 1991-92. Tennessee State is 5-6 overall and 2-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference after an 80-76 victory Monday night over reigning OVC regular-season and tournament champion Murray State.
\ STRUGGLING: Ex-VMI basketball coach Marty Fletcher has the reputation of a giant-killer at Southwestern Louisiana, where he is 6-2 against the Southeastern Conference and 4-0 against the Big Eight. However, no sooner did the Ragin' Cajuns beat No. 20 Nebraska in the Rainbow Classic than they lost four games in a row, three at home.
\ WOMEN'S HOOPS: Campbell University forward Lisa Allison, a senior from Roanoke, leads the Big South Conference in scoring (19.2) and field-goal percentage (53.0) and stands second in free-throw percentage. She has scored in double figures in 25 consecutive games.
\ Ex-Radford High star Paige Martin, who now lists her home as Charleston, S.C., is averaging 13.8 points at Central Connecticut State and has the unusual distinction of leading the team in rebounding and assists. Sophomore Yolanda Ervin from Blacksburg has started four games for the team.
\ Roanoke College, down to nine able-bodied players, has added 5-foot-6 senior forward Kim Perdue. Perdue, president of the student government at Roanoke, has not played competitively since her senior year at Blacksburg High in 1988.