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I ay DAVID BULLA
Clyonlcle Sports Editor
^GREENSBORO - William%
Collick had a taste of success last
season in his first year as
Delaware State's head coach.
>Collick, who got the DelState
jcBb after Winston-Salem State's
BfLl Hayes turned it down, guided
tffc Hornets to a 9-2 record and
tijfe Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
championship. His team
will be strong again this year,
w)th 14 starters returning.
JBut the future looks bleak,
(J^lick said last week at the
I ME AC preseason coaches' confluence.
His gloomy outlook is
b &ed upon the early effects of
Imposition 48, which went into
effect with this freshman class.
Tto NCAA by-law calls for incoming
athletes to possess 700
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores
and a 2.0 high school grade-point
average. A slightly scaled-down
rule applies this year.
'This rule change is a real
threat to (Division I-AA) black
college football," Collick told his
fellow coaches and the media,
r4We've got to get into the high
schools and get with the guidance
people and make these students
realize how much they are going
have to improve. We need to start
- ?- the recognizance of these standards
as early as junior high
- school."
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; Collick said his recruiting efforts
were diminished by approximately
60 to 70 percent because
of the enactment of the new bylaw.
Most of the players he lost to
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;II schools.
"Young black ftids are in a
Itough situation," he said.
: "We've seen the reports that say
:the SATs are invalid. We had a
player on the team who scored ,
: 750 on the SAT and now he's gojing
to med school. The SAT
; doesn't always predict achieveI
ment."?
J But he said the rule is a reality
| now and must be dealt with and
; not ignored. The DelState coach
; said it is incumbent on high
; school coaches to ameliorate the
. situation.
Sports Profil
;game and made an immediate imI
pact. He tossed a touchdown pass
!to Willie McCants, hit Kevin
Dendy with a two-point conversion
nass and returned a fumble
Sfecovery 43 yards for a
/touchdown.
I; For the season, Covington
totaled 476 yards rushing and 535
passes with a total of seven
touchdowns. He also intercepted
jfive passes.
J' But there's a lot more to his life
j than completions and interceptions.
Covington was an honor
jjroll student at Parkland and was
Recognized by Who's Who
$ Among American High School
jJStudents. It comes as no surprise
Jjhe was eager to get started at
?:UVa. He planned to attend sum1
!mer school, but had to choose
{ between it and the all-star game.
Z; "When I first applied for sumI^mcr
school, the people at the
^university said it would be no
jlproblem for mc to take time off
Sjifor the all-star game/' he said.
{'"But when it was time to start
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interesting to see if
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think close games are
going to be the
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-- Mo Forte,
A&T Football Coach
* "Every Saturday these athletes
play for high school coaches anc
they're not getting anything ir
return,". Collick said. "We hav<
to get them on track and keej:
them on track. I know a coach
has many responsibilities, bui
this has to be ton priority."
Proposition 48 is not the onlj
new rule to affect college football
this year. Larry Hill, the MEAC
supervisor of officials, said the
new 35-yard-line kickoff was the
biggest rule change. He also said
the offending team would have
the option to start the clock aftei
a penalty in the last 25 seconds oi
either half. The clock could start
after the yardage was marked off
or at the snap. In the past, the
clock started at the snap.
While Collick's team was
predicted to finish first in the
vote of league coaches and sports
information directors, North
Carolina AT was selected second
based on its strong finish in 1985
for its first winning season since
1980.
- "This is the time of year
coaches tell big lies," Forte said.
"It will be extremely interesting
to see if the champion has a loss.
Rather than on rare occasions, 1
think dose games are-going to tx
the rule
"We now feci we have both
quality and quantity. I don't
know if we have enough quality
to win always, but we'll be
among the competitors for the
league championship."
Forte said all-America quarter
back Alan Hooker will be the
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summer school, there was a
dilemma. So I chose to play in the
all-star game.'*
Covington, *$ho will be a
business administration major,
has already worked out his
schedule for the fall semester.
He'll take psychology,
astronomy, English composition,
drama and the history of jazz.
The drama will be a return to an
old passion. As a child he acted in
the Little Theatre of WinstonSalem.
Covington, who played comedic
roles, always keeps sports in
perspective. For him they are a
matter of having a good time.
"My friends think I'm a trip,"
he said. "But I like to make people
laugh.
"I played in the all-star game
to have fun. I felt if I gave 100
percent, had fun and represented
Parkland well, then I made the
right choice. Even though we
didn't win, I tried my hardest."
The West team struggled in its
loss to the East. Martin gained
only nine yards on 10 carries as
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I would enable the Aggies to cut
t loose some of their other skill
; players, like wide receiver
> Herbert Harbison, another all\
America, and running backs
t Stoney Polite and Juan Jackson.
"Alan can have not as great a
r year and we can still win more
I games," Forte said. "It's the cast
: around him that will enable us to
? win games."
? Larry Little's BethuneI
Cookman team loses standout
* quarterback Bernard Hawk, wide
receiver Sebastian Brown, who
r signed with the New Orleans
t Saints, all-conference tight end
Arthur Simmons and running
back Kinfi Green. Little said his
team will be built around an offensive
line led by Donava Fann.Senior
Greg Ross and transfer
Anthony Thomas (Tennessee) are
vying to fill the Hawk void,
i Howard's Willie Jeffries,
predicted to win the MEAC by
The Sporting News, said his program
is reaching some stability in
its third year under his guidance.
4 This is the first year we
haven't lost anybody to academic
attrition," said the coach with
, . the, most-eyer MEAC. wins.,
"Well, we,<\o have one player
' wh6Vv having trouble" with an
English class. His teacher introduced
the lesson the other day
by saying, Today we're going to
study adjective and predicate
clauses.' The football player raised
his hand and said, 'You forgot
one, teacher: Santa Claus.' " .
Jeffries could have an early
) Christmas if he can get his team
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the East's defensive front and
linebackers gave the West problems.
The 5-11, 200-pound Martin,
who signed with North
Carolina, also fumbled three
times. He played with a pulled
groin injury, but was baffled by
the miscues.
"I don't know what was
wrong," he said. "This is the
most I've ever put the ball on the
ground."
In Martin's defense, one of his
fumbles came on a poor handoff
and the other on a vicious tackle
from behind in which the
defender struck the football with
his fist.
Fellow North Carolina signees
Bernard Timmons of Fayetteville
Smith and Stanley Daniels of
Bandys were clearly the game's
most productive players. Tim- *
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to reverse some close scores. Last
year's 4-7 squad lost in the last
minute to Winston-Salem State,
South Carolina State and
Bethuae-Cookman.
"Closeness only counts in handgrenades,"
he quipped.
The Bison's hopes for moving
up from the conference's depth
are pinned on quarterback Lee
DeBose, running back Harvey
Reid and wide receiver Curtis
Chappell. DeBose earned the QB
job as a freshman because of his
ability to run Jeffries' dive ontinn
smoothly.
"We still will predominantly
be a running team," Jeffries said.
"If we get a seven-point lead,
we'll go underground."
Howard also returns
linebacker Marvin Jackson, who
led the team in tackles, and Billy
Johnson, who made eight interceptions
last season.
South Carolina State's Dennis
Thomas is the conference's
newest coach. The former Alcorn'
State defensive coordinator begged
forgiveness from his peers.
"I'm waving the white flag
now," Thomas said. 'Take it
easy on us. Don't treat us too
bad."
Thomas said he was partially
handicapped by arriving late in
Orangeburg, after the bulk of the
recruiting season was over.
"1-11 have to play! with the
cards that were dealt me and
make the best of them," he said.
v The Bulldogs will run an option
offense that does plenty of
trapping and multiple defenses.
Morgan State hasn't won a
game since the 1983 season.
Coach Jesse Thomas was probably
working hard last week
while his peers met in
Greensboro, for nobody
represented the Bears at the gettogether.
Morgan, which operates witfe
minimal scholarships, is eligible
to win the cottffttentfe' title 'Hitt
rail.
That gives the MEAC the
operative number of eligible
teams to qualify for an automatic
bid in the NCAA Division I-AA
playoffs. Commissioner Ken Free
said the conference will receive an
automatic bid, but he would not
elaborate.
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mons gained 84 yards on 18 carries
and scored a touchdown.
Daniels made several nifty receptions,
including a 17-yarder from
Alabama recruit Jeff Dunn of
Greensboro Page.
"Our defense stayed on the
field almost the whole first half,"
Covington said. "We thought
we'd stop them in the second half
and get it going in. But the
defense was a little tired from the
first half."
Covington also said that the
East broke a pre-game pact to not
blitz linebackers.
"The East coaches broke the
agreement," he said. 'They were
big and jamming us so good that
we couldn't get untracked."
Carver's Fernando Horn,
bound for Auburn, caused an
East fumble.
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