Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 9, 1993 TAG: 9309090052
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Doug Doughty
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Nightline host Ted Koppel addressed the book, "Under the Tarnished Dome: How Notre Dame Betrayed Its Ideals for Football Glory," in which Holtz is portrayed as dictatorial and abusive. Bowden said he has not - and probably will not - read the book.
"After watching Ted Koppel, I came in and told the coaches, `You know, men, that could be us,' " Bowden said during the ACC coaches' weekly telephone news conference. "We've all been guilty of slapping a son upside the rear. We've all been guilty of talking bad to kids, driving them.
"What we are trying to do is make them better, [but] this is an era of tattletales. I tell my coaches you had better not touch a kid. As coaches, we don't think anything of it. Maybe we were wrong and we are going to change."
\ IN THE ACC: Four conference quarterbacks made their first start Sept. 4, and Georgia Tech's Donnie Davis will become the fifth Saturday against Furman. Of the others - Virginia's Symmion Willis, Duke's Joe Pickens, Wake Forest's Rusty LaRue and Maryland's Scott Milanovich - only Willis was a winner.
Scott Bentley, considered the answer to Florida State's kicking woes when he signed a letter of intent with the Seminoles last year, missed three extra-point attempts Saturday night in Florida State's 45-7 victory over Duke. Bentley's first field-goal attempt was wide to the right from 33 yards, reviving memories of similar misses by his predecessors in Florida State's losses to Miami the last two years.
One of Duke's top players, injury-plagued defensive lineman Scott Youmans, hurt a knee Friday in practice and will be out three to five weeks while he recovers from arthroscopic surgery. Youmans missed most of the 1991 season with a broken ankle, then tore an anterior cruciate ligament in one of his knees in the seventh game last year.
\ FREAK FRACTURE: West Virginia running back Jon Jones, who carried 16 times for 93 yards and two touchdowns Saturday in the Mountaineers' 48-6 rout of Eastern Michigan, will be sidelined indefinitely by a fracture in his lower left leg. Sophomores Robert Walker and Jimmy Gary will fill in for Jones, whose injury will not require surgery.
"Nobody knew he was hurt," coach Don Nehlen said. "[Assistant coach] Larry [Holton] talked to him about going in to get 100 yards, and he said, `Coach, my ankle hurts a little bit. I'd rather not go back in. Just let somebody else get some yards.' "
\ MORE INJURIES: Derek Fitzgerald, the leading rusher for William and Mary last season, underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Aug. 31 and is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks. . . . Former James River running back Jack Baker elected not to play for VMI this year when problems developed in his rehabilitation from a 1992 knee injury.
\ LOCAL UPDATE: Tuan Reynolds, a redshirt freshman from Patrick Henry in Roanoke, started at cornerback for reigning NCAA Division I-AA champion Marshall when it opened the season Saturday against Morehead State.. . . Aaron Lange from North Cross in Roanoke is a freshman linebacker at Lenoir-Rhyne in Hickory, N.C.
\ GENERALLY SPEAKING: Sophomore Matt Reedy will start at quarterback for Washington and Lee against Emory & Henry on Saturday, with freshman Brooks Fischer in reserve. Fischer, a two-time all-city selection in Atlanta, is the younger brother of Duke quarterback Spence Fischer.
The Generals received some good news - for a change - when senior running back Tom Mason was given medical clearance to play with his broken left hand in a cast Saturday. When Mason suffered the injury Sept. 4, it was feared he would be sidelined for three to four weeks.
\ IMMEDIATE DIVIDENDS: Sam Daniels, a regular on special teams while at Virginia Tech, had a blocked punt that led to one of VMI's touchdowns Saturday in a 38-14 loss to Richmond. Daniels, who benefited from a new NCAA rule that gives immediate eligibility to a player transferring from Division I-A to I-AA, started at linebacker and also intercepted a pass for the Keydets.
\ METRO MOVES: Eugene Kissourine, who started the last 23 basketball games at center for Virginia Commonwealth last season, has signed a professional contract with a team in Europe. Kissourine, from St. Petersburg, Russia, would have been a junior.
Metro Conference champion Louisville is down to five returning scholarship players after the departure of senior center Brian Hopgood, a top frontcourt reserve last season, who has transferred to Oklahoma City.
Hopgood will have two years of eligibility at Oklahoma City, an NAIA school that does not recognize the Proposition 48 guidelines under which Hopgood was ineligible as a freshman at Louisville.
Earlier, the Cardinals lost starting point guard Keith LeGree, whose planned transfer to Florida State is in question because some of his credit hours may not be accepted. LeGree signed a professional baseball contract in high school and is an infielder in the Minnesota Twins' organization.
\ MORE HOOPS: Virginia Commonwealth will entertain Oklahoma on Jan. 20 at the Richmond Coliseum. Other Rams non-conference opponents include Xavier, Evansville and Iowa State - all men's NCAA Tournament participants in 1993. . . . Richmond has announced its basketball schedule, including a visit from Villanova on Jan. 11.
\ CHURCH BULLETIN: Former Northside High School standout Aaron Church made James Madison University's men's tennis team as a walk-on by winning a 16-man tournament of non-scholarship players. Church is one of two walk-ons who made the team.
\ GENERALS RECOGNIZED: Washington and Lee has received 10 citations for its sports publications from the College Sports Information Directors of America. That was more than any other NCAA Division III institution.
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