October 1994 PUBLISHER ? Ernest H. Pitt EDITOR ? Ffichard L. Williams PRODUCTION Scariat! Summons Cow Ka*yLw . Chaflon# Newfrtin I STAFF WRITERS LangMonWtou. Jr. Owricfc Mahon* Qragcxy C*y Activities For The Well, the baseball season ended early and, no one could get it. started again. Here are seven things that base ball-less fan* can do with their free time now. 1.) Forget you liked baseball anyway. V The games are too long. There's too much spitting. There's not enough scoring or . action (sounds like we're talking about soccer). But then, baseball is about honored tradition, about pitchers riding golf carts from the dugout to save the day, never mind the fact that they take enough to time for tne to watch "Living Single" to finish an inning or I can go to the movie and the score will be the same when I come back that is was when 1 left. (True story: Went to see Ah-nold in his big box office bomb of last year, "Last Action Hero" and Pittsburgh was playing the Mets. The score was 1-0 when 1 left and Trm . McCarver was talking about Doug Drabek's pitching arm. When I returned three hours later, the game was in the eighth inning, the score wasJ-O, and yes, McCarver was talking about Doug Drabek's pitching arm.) 2.) Watch the NFL on Fox. Football, in case you've been in Asia or somewhere, is America's sport now. The games are great, the players are great, as we've found out more and more now that Fox is giving us more coverage of the players without their hel mets on. The Fox broadcasts with old standbys Pat Summerall and John Madden arc excellent and don't you just love the stereo sound, the improved camera angles and that little scoreclock in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. - 3.) Take the little woman to the park. Hey, she'd sure appreciate some attention, and besides with no rotisserie pools to discuss with your friends on the telephone, you've got the time. , And picnics are way cool. 4.) Forget you liked baseball anyway. Did we already say that? 5.) Go see some college football, especially black col lege style. "Hunk all the big-time names are playing for Okla homa, Miami and Florida State? Well guess again, friend. Great players are playing in the black colleges this year and . _ every year. _ . ? If there's a player more exciting than Alcom State QB Steve McNair, a guy who threw and ran for nearly 1 ,000 yards in his fust TWO games, well, we ain't seen him in a helmet. And the one thing black colleges have that the big ger white ones don't is ... 6.) Go to halftime of a black college game. If you don't like football, just slip in?about an hour after kickoff and catch the halftime show. You've got bands, dancers, announcers saying "we're the greatest, most splendiforous, exciting, collection of instruments in the nation, "the ultimate progression of sound, we're going to shakt-you, quake you and wake up your grandmother." Never mind that it doesn't make sense, it sounds good. And the bands, well to quote our rap friends, they're slammin'. , 7.) Forget you liked baseball anyway. Oh, we definitely said that before. ? Langston Wertz Jr. Black Col lege Sports Review is published by Black Sports inc . 817 N Liberty St., Winston- SaTem, N.C. 27101. Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs will not be rstumad. Inquiries should ba addressed to Ernest H Pitt, Publisher. Black College Sports Review, P O Box 1836, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. - ^ Cover photo by Wads Nash BCSR is a supplement to these newspapers Atlanta Voice. #ie Bulletin, Baltimore Atro- American, Baton Rouge Community Leader, Birmingham firms, Carolina Peace maker Caronna Timee, Charleston Chronicle. Charlotte Poet, Dallas Tax** Weekly, Iredell County News, Philadelphia Tribune. Pittsburgh Courier. Richmond Afro-Amari can* itnptdn rt to* American and *ia Winston-Salem Chronicle Hope Springs Eternal; Smith Needs Better Resources To Improve Its Footbair Program I Johnson ?. Smith Coach Ray Lee looks at the type pf program that Joe Taylor has so quickly turned Hampton into, after two consecutive losing seasons before he got there, Taylor has made Hampton so strong that after two' CIAA titles in a row, the Pirates will play Division I-AA next year, and has hope that he can do the same thing at Smith. I V , The Bulls haven't had a winning had a winning sea son since 1982. Smith started out the *94 season 0-2. But with Lee, hope springs eternal. He is, in a few words, Smith's biggest believer. Still, Lee knows that to take Smith where Hampton has been and where Hampton is headed, he, needs one very precious thing. "It's resources," Lee said. "They have resources. How do you say this in print? In trying to make compar isons, it's like when you have a horse that you're training for the Kentucky Derby, you'll make sure it's the best bred horse. You can't take a jackass to the derby and expect to win. "You've got to give that jockey something to ride on," Lee continued, "to give him a chance. Hampton just has resources. People look at coaching ability. If you bring anybody somewhere that has no resources, I don't care who it is, Bill Walsh or Jimmy Johnson, they can't do it without resources. Not taking anything away from ccfach Taylor, he's a good coach. He's just added his coaching ability with resources and taken the program to the next level." Literally. ? ? 1 L_ : , Lee can see how things could go at Smith. He's con sidered one of the CIAA's bright young coaches. He led the Bulls to a 5-5 record his first year, but Smith slipped to below .500 last year. Winning at Smith has never been easy. ; "It's something we want to do here," Lee said. "We're trying, but it all goes back to resources." Hampton's are among the best in the CIAA. Smith's are among the worst. '(Lee) is a hard-working guy," Hampton's Taylor Haywood Cloud of Winston-Salem State University runs part N.CA&T defender in 5-3-7 loss Sept 10. " You can't take a jackass to the derby and expect to win . . .You've got to give the jockey something to ride on." . . . - ? Ray Lee said. "In fact. Bill invited 25 (mainly minority college and NFL position) coaches to spend a week with him at 'Stanford last spring and Lee was there. He works hard. But it goes back to this: people feel like you can Jine up and just outcoach people. You really can't do that. The resources must be in place. I don't know what the budget is down there, but you've got to have resources, you've got to be able to bring in young men in and your facilities must be in place." Smith is coming along. But slowly. ,An on-campus football field has been built and is always undergoing renovations to improve it. But the team shares a locker room facility with the basketball team, and a basketball lockcr room is quite cramped for a football team. - Smith's weight room is tiny, built for basketball, not football. The Bulls did get new uniforms this year. The team had been playing in what amounted to practice gear until then. But right now, more than facilities or pretty outfits to wear on Saturday, Lee wants more scholarships, a larger recruiting budget. He wants to make Smith win again. \ "The administration has to makeva commitment," Taylor said. "That was something coach (Darryl) Mudra (former Florida State head coach) always told us: always see that the commitment is there. If they want you to put on a halo and be a miracle worker, then it's just a grave yard. But as much as (Lee) works, if he has some more help financially and some support from the administra tions, and the community is buying tickets and-not beg ging, then he'll make Smith into a super program;" . Said Lee: "I will tell you this. I'm going )o keep on trying." ? Langston Wertz Jr

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