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! Hayes' departure made at
 least one person very happy
, By RANDY PETTITT
[jj Chronicle Sports Editor
^ Bill Hayes made Mark Dunlap a very happy
JT young man last Friday morning when he officially
; designed as the head football coach at WSSU and
I joined the Aggie camp.
^ Dunlap, a standout tailback/linebacker at Parkland
JHigh School, was personally signed, sealed and deliv-
'' ered to N.C. A&T by former head coach, "Mo" Forte.
I But when Forte stepped down to grab an assistant
* coaching job with the Denver Broncos, the Mustang
' senior quite naturally had second thoughts.
"I really Uked Coach (Bill) Hayes a lot," said Dun-
I lap, an All-Central Piedmont Conference choice at
1 linebacker.
"But I wanted to play in Division I and get away
from home a little bit," he explained. "So I chose N.C.
« A&T over Winston-Salem. It was a tough decision to
^ begin with.
1 t^"When Coach Forte quit, that really got me."
i .When he heard the news Friday night, though,
Dunlap was one of the happiest people in town.
"I was shocked and thrilled at the same time," he
said.
^'’When Coach Forte gave it up to go to the NFL,
Ij pec^le starting asking me what I was going to do. I
ilj decided to wait until they hired a coach and see what
h^tpens.
! "I'm glad I did."
Hayes, who battled Forte and A&T for the ser
vices of Dunlap, is probably glad he did, too.
"Mark is a fine athlete," said Hayes of Dunlap dur
ing the peak of the recruiting wars in March. "We hate
to sec him go to A&T, but I don't think we'll be hurting
with the guys we always already have.”
Hayes appointment to
A&T has quickly put all of
Dunlap's fears to rest.
"I was afraid that the guy
they hired would be senior-
oriented and ignore the new
guys," he explained.
"Now, with Coach Hayes,
I know I’m going to get a
good chance to play. As ^
Coach (Homer) Thompson i
always told me, ’Things]
always work out for the best.’
"This time they certainly *
worked out okay for me."
Dunlap said Hayes and the Aggies will indeed
have their work cut out for them.
"Alan Hooker and some of those guys will be hard
to replace," he said.
"But I know Coach Hayes. He can bring in some
more freshmen and have us winning games right away.
Look what he did at WSSU with (Connell) Maynor."
While Winston-Salem may resent or criticize
Hayes for leaving the school, at least one person is
glad he made the move.
Mark Dunlap certainly is.
Mark Dunlap
ON THE SIDELINES
I-
From Page B1
"I'd like to introduce you to our
interim head coach, Pete Richard-
SCHl."
.,No applause, just the scuffling
of a chair and a polite cough filed
the silence.
fThough Richardson was not
exactly a bundle of nerves, one
could tell he was slightly new at
this.
iGrasping the podium firmly
(that's what I always do), he impres
sively tackled a vast array of ques
tions " most of them along the lines
of, Hey, are you going to mess up
anfiready wonderful program?’
|His basic reply was in the
dirtiction of a no.
•Richardson, who has faithfully
served as an offensive backfield
coach, assistant coach, offensive
inator and defensive coordina
tor during eight years of the Hayes
era, is an obvious candidate to per-
:ntly fill the vacancy.
"It's tough to take over a pro
gram that he (Hayes built over a
period of several years," said
idiardson, often Hayes' right hand
man.
"Bill and I built quite a rela-
5 tionship during my stay here. I
know these are some big shoes to
fill, but I'm going to give it my
best."
Indeed, if Hayes' accomplish
ments were measured in shoe size,
he'd probably rate about a size 22.
■Bob Lanier, eat your heart out
baby.
RICHARDSON SLOWLY
SETTLED in at the podium and
actually looked like he was having
fun towards the end of the press
conference
He said the loss of defensive
back Anthony Blaylock and Marie
^^bllace will hurt the Rams, as will
departed Lonnie Pulley, Jerry May
nard and Barry Turner.
But he indicated that Hayes by
no means left the cupboard bare.
"Barring any major injuries, we
should have a pretty decent team,"
said Richardson, appearing to be
mindful that coaching changes often
slow things quite a bit
"I still believe in one of the
major things that Bill always
stressed -- that's winning games in
the pits. It all begins in the middle.
Wfe have some big people and we're
certainly going to use them."
Die Wing-T, Richardson says,
will still be the Rams’ bread and
butter offensively.
'We’ve spent a few weeks this
spring reteaching it to some of the
newer guys," he said. "I don't plan
to get away very much fi’om what
we were already doing.
"But with a guy like Connell
Maynor (the Rams' incumbent
quarterback) running the show,
we're definitely going to open it up
a little more.
'We'll be able to do a lot of
things with him back there. He is
much too talented to hand the ball
off all the time. We’re going to use
him extensively."
But Richardson stuck to a
WSSU tradition and insisted that
this team would still run more than
it throws.
'We're still going to run the
football quite a biL Our line will
be doing a lot of trapping and
pulling to open up the running
game.
THOUGH HE HAS once
served as offensive coordinator, the
former Buffalo Bills defensive back
is considered to be a defensive
mind. He agrees that his skills as a
coach are better suited on the defen
sive side of the football.
"I love coaching defense," said
Richardson, who was heavily
responsible for developing the
schemes that Hayes relied heavily
upon to win the CIAA title last year.
"I will probably act as the head
coach and defensive coordinator.
^'11 probably get someone else to
be in charge of the offense."
That someone is likely to rest
with another Hayes assistant
The only hitch is that two Ram
assistants are rumored to be fleeing
with Hayes.
Meanwhile, the rumors became
reality last week.
There was a buzz of chatter
around the campus all week.
Hayes met with his players in
mid-week to assess the situation,
and undoubtedly, the word spread
fast long before it ever hit the
papers.
A group of football players
stood outside the athletic dorm that
rests on the hill adjacent to Martin
Luther King Jr. Drive.
Their talk was not of a playful
nature -- at first.
But even when there is a death
in the family, all is not sad.
In fact, some good may come
of it all.
'We're going to be all right,"
said one of the players (who joking
ly threatened to use me as a tack
ling dummy if I printed his name in
the paper).
"Just come watch the A&T
game."
I will, but that's another story.
Right now, lets mourn the
departed, wish him well and cele
brate the new.
And beat his pants off in
September.
Winston Lake AAU
From Page B1
"But we took an ill-advised
’ three-pointer that hobbled out and
Charlotte went down and scored.
We turned it over three straight
times after that, and that was pretty
much the ball game."
Despite the loss, Feggins con
tinued to prove that leaving him off
the all-state team was a definite
ovasight, as he connected on one of
the most spectacular dunks of the
KHimarnent in Winston Lake's final
game.
"It was the most ferocious dunk
that I've ever seen, college, pro or
high school," said Hollingsworth.
• "He was definitely sniffing the
rim on that one."
The Winston Lake said though
his team played well in spots, Feg
gins was the only one who had a
satisfactory toumamenL The Glenn
High School swingman had 29 in
the loss to Yanceyville, but was held
to just five points in the mini-pool
loss to Charlotte.
*^Feggins has been the man for
us all year," said Hollingsworth of
the Winston Lake standout.
"He is the only one off the
team that played up to his potential
as far as I'm concerned. Feggins
had a hell of a tournament. If we
had made the finals, he probably
would've been the MVP.”
The loss to Yanceyville could
turn out ot be a valuable learning
experience for the team says
Hollingsworth.
'We made some crucial mis
takes in the final minutes of a close
game," he said.
"I think that loss will help us
when we play in the 17-and-under
national tournament.
Winston Lake jumped on the
Yanceyville team, moving out to a
14-2 lead, but 27 free throw
attempts saw the All-Stars trailing
48-45. Foul trouble was also a
problem for the Winston Lake
team, as Feggins, Phil Glenn and
Stu Epperson each sat out several
minutes of the first half with two
fouls.
Yanceyville opened the second
half by extending their lead to 15
points, but a 1-3-1 trap sparked by
Juius Minor I
je calls %
closing ; \
proved i W
coming off the |
bench helped I
close the gap to I
three with eight *
minutes left.
Three c
in the closing ; ’
minutes proved ;
to seal Winston *
Lake’s fate, Stu Epperson
though. The first came when a
three-pointer was overruled by
another offical and a point was
taken off the scoreboard.
Then, Stu Epperson was whis
tled for his apparent fifth foul, but
was not asked to leave the game by
the scorer's table or the officials.
Moments later, on a Feggins
foul, the referee ruled that Epper-
Please see page B4
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