ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, August 15, 1996 TAG: 9608150035
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: COLLEGE NOTEBOOK
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY
Florida State, which plays six of its eight ACC football games in the Sunshine State this year, will be getting no more favors from its conference rivals.
Wake Forest and Maryland will enjoy paydays estimated at between $850,000 and $1 million this season for moving scheduled home games with Florida State to the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla., and Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, respectively.
``The people who did it did it for a great reason,'' commissioner Gene Corrigan said at the ACC's Football Kickoff in Hot Springs. ``They did it to balance their budgets. And, it's been done before. But this is probably the last time you'll see that.''
Florida State will leave the state only twice during the regular season, when it visits North Carolina State and Georgia Tech. The Seminoles' non-conference games are at Miami and against Southern Mississippi and Florida in Tallahassee, Fla.
``I wish they'd all come to Florida,'' said Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who has won 31 of 32 ACC games since beginning conference football play in 1992. ``No doubt about it, it's to our advantage.
``Would I [move home games for a price]? Never. Never.''
Actually, Bowden made similar deals when he was trying to get the program established after taking the Florida State job in 1976. The Seminoles played at LSU five years in a row and had a pair of two-game series with Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb.
``It just made a lot of sense for us [to move] this year,'' said Wake Forest coach Jim Caldwell, whose Deacons already had six home games at Groves Stadium, where renovations could cause some logistical problems.
``It's good for us, too, because we recruit heavily in Florida. I think there's a lot of benefits. I think everybody looks at it one way, as if it's a detriment to the program. If the situation was different and we had the same number of home games, we'd consider doing it again.''
One team that won't be playing a home game in Florida again - ultimatum or not - is Duke. The Blue Devils, coming off an 8-4 season in 1994, agreed to move their 1995 opener with Florida State to the Citrus Bowl and were routed 70-26 in a game that grew ugly with charges of poor sportsmanship.
``We made a mistake doing that and that will not be done again,'' said Duke coach Fred Goldsmith, who had barely taken the job when the deal was made. ``We needed to do a lot to kick-start the program, but Duke doesn't need to be moving games. All we've got to do is win games to fill Wallace Wade Stadium.''
IN THE ACC: Maryland football signee Dermal Brown, a promising running back, has signed a contract with the Kansas City Royals and will concentrate on baseball. The Royals selected him in the first round of the free-agent draft.
The Terps also lost redshirt freshman running back Darnell Eatmon, who left school.
Clemson wide receiver Antwuan Wyatt has enrolled at Bethune-Cookman after his arrest for intent to distribute cocaine. Wyatt's father, former NFL defensive back Alvin Wyatt, is on the Bethune-Cookman staff. Antwuan Wyatt had 45 receptions last year and ranked in the top 20 in NCAA Division I-A in kickoff returns and punt returns.
Darwin Walker, a former high school All-American, was expected to start at defensive end for North Carolina State before asking for a release from his scholarship. He is expected to transfer to Tennessee. ... Kenya Fouch, rated the 10th-best tight end in the country as a senior in high school, has transferred from Georgia Tech to Furman.
MOUNTAINEER MOVES: West Virginia has lost one of its back-up quarterbacks, Wilkie Perez, who will transfer to Glenville (W.Va.) State. The NAIA program earlier provided a second home for another former Mountaineer quarterback, Scott Otis.
Otis, in camp with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, passed for close to 6,000 yards after transferring to Glenville State. Perez was not about to play ahead of Chad Johnston at West Virginia, but the Mountaineers have been trying to find a No.2 quarterback since 1995 back-up Eric Boykin moved to tight end for his final season.
TRANSFER HEAVEN: Marshall's passing attack this year could consist of quarterback Eric Kresser, a transfer from Florida, throwing to Randy Moss, a transfer from Florida State, and Jerald Long, a transfer from West Virginia. That's if first-year coach Bob Pruett decides to redshirt quarterback Chad Pennington, who passed for 1,650 yards in 1995 as a true freshman.
CAREERS IN TRANSITION: Former Virginia basketball standout John Crotty, a back-up point guard for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers this past season after three years with the Utah Jazz, reportedly will receive $500,000 to play in Italy next season.
Another former Cavalier, Junior Burrough, has a similar offer from a team in Germany, but wants to give the NBA another try. Burrough, who played in 61 games for the Boston Celtics during the 1995-96 season as a rookie, recently played in a tournament with a group of Atlanta rookies and free agents.
AT THE OLYMPICS: Two alumni of the Radford University sports information machine, Jon Steinberg and Jimmy Bove, worked at the Olympics. Steinberg, a public-relations assistant with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, was a press steward. Bove worked for NBC Sports.
Art Daves, a graduate of Lord Botetourt High School and Virginia Tech, was an on-site coordinator for eight Olympic events. Daves, who has a graduate degree in sports management from the University of Richmond, has a full-time job for Medalist Sports that involves route coordination and finish-line operations for the Tour DuPont cycling race.
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