Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 12, 1994 TAG: 9401120159
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
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Throckmorton would not confirm Tuesday that he had been offered the position, but said he would be in Lexington today to meet with Stewart and other VMI officials.
"I'll go up there [today] and maybe we can work out some of the details," Throckmorton said from his home in Saluda in Middlesex County. "That's really all I can say."
Stewart would not say Tuesday who he was considering for the job, but confirmed that he had five candidates in mind.
"I'm finished if they say yes," Stewart said. " . . . There were some people that wanted to come to VMI and I'm thrilled to death that they do. I talked to some people and had some people contact me. I can't say who because they're not under contract yet."
Mike Clark, the Keydets' defensive coordinator in 1993, is expected to be the only coach Stewart retains from the staff of Jim Shuck, who was dismissed in December.
"We've put our heads together to get the right people in that understand the institute," said Stewart, who came to VMI after serving as an assistant at the Air Force Academy. "We're going to have a staff here that's going to make it possible to win; I guarantee that. I'm fired up."
Throckmorton coached the defensive ends and linebackers at VMI from 1980-82 under Bob Thalman and also has been an assistant at Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Randolph-Macon, Richmond and North Carolina State.
The Richmond native was the defensive coordinator at East Carolina for two seasons before joining the Virginia Tech staff in 1985 under Bill Dooley. Throckmorton accompanied Dooley when the Hokies' coach moved to Wake Forest in 1987. He coached the Demon Deacons' linebackers for two seasons.
Throckmorton said he had been away from football for a year. In 1992, he was a scout for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Throckmorton was a tight end and defensive end at Ferrum and Randolph-Macon. He coached four years on the high school level at George Wythe-Richmond and Fieldale-Collinsville.
Thomas Johnston, an assistant men's and women's tennis coach at Virginia since 1991, has been promoted to head men's coach. Johnston, formerly the head men's and women's coach at Pomona-Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., succeeds John Dokken, who took a job as a tennis club manager.
by CNB