hope to Oklahoma football
Sooners want to erase
all memories of
Schnellenberger.
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
Three coaches in three years and
zero points in its final two games. With
those numbers, there is no direction to
go but up for Oklahoma football.
So now, new Coach John Blake will
try to restore pride to a football team
that finished 5-5-1 a year ago.
Blake, who at 34 is youngest head
coach in Division-I college football,
replaces Howard Schnellenberger, a
coach who promised “the Sooner na
tion” his team would be a national force
last season.
But in Schnellenberger’s final two
games, the Sooners were outscored 49
J by Oklahoma State and Nebraska.
Blake was an assistant coach with
3U from 1989 through 1992 after play
ng for OU from 1979 through 1982.
He is no stranger to the word success.
He played on the Sooners 1979 and
1980 national championship squads
ind was a coach under Barry Switzer
>n the Dallas Cowboys 1993 and 1995
Super Bowl champion teams.
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Saturday, Blake takes the sidelines
for the first time in Oklahoma’s sea
son opener at home against Texas
Christian.
“Deep down inside, I feel this foot
ball team has a chance to win any game
that it plays,” he said. “One or two
plays can make a difference in a game.
I don’t instill in my kids that they are
that low,
After nonconference games with
TCU, San Diego State and Tulsa, the
Sooners play possibly the toughest
schedule of any Big 12 team.
Kansas, Texas, Baylor, Kansas
State, Nebraska, Texas A&M and
Texas Tech fill out OU’s Big 12 slate.
“I’m being very interesting and very
honest with people about what this
football team can do,” Blake said. “I
know what it takes to get it done.”
And according to running back
James Allen, Blake has his players’
respect. Last year, Allen said, there was
a division between the players and the
coaching staff.
“Things are so much better this
year,” Allen said. “A year ago, every
one was uptight and we didn’t know
what to expect. I’m trying to forget
about everything that happened last
season.”
Despite everything that happened,
Blake said, now is the time to change
things.
“It’s important that things turn
around now,” he said. “When I mean
turn around now, I don’t mean winning
the Big 12.1 just mean that things head
upward. We cannot go down any far
ther at Oklahoma.”
Note:
The Sooners also have a new ath
letic director. Steve Owens, who played
for OU from 1967 through 1969,
replacedDonnie Duncan — the Big
12’s new associate director of football
operations — on Tuesday.
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K-State tickets
on sale Tliesday
From Staff Reports
Full-time University of Nebraska
Lincoln students can pick up ticket
applications for the Nebraska football
team’s student migration game—Oct.
5 at Kansas State—Tuesday attheNU
ticket office, H 7 South Stadium,
t Tickets are $35, and 800 will be
distributed on a lottery basis, said John
Anderson, NU’s ticket manager. Stu
dents are limited to one ticket Abdi
cations are due Thursday.
New tie-breaker rule
pleases league coaches
By Vince I^Adamo
- - - Stif/f Reporter
College football’s new tie-breaker
rule has drawn positive reviews from
Big 12 coaches in the opening days of
the 1996 season.
If a game is tied at the end of regu
lation, the team that wins a coin toss is
given the option of taking the ball at
die opponent’s 25-yard line. If that
team scores, the opposition must match
the score.
The teams trade possessions —
much like extra innings of a baseball
game.
The tie-breaker rule went into ef
fect during bowl games last season.
Oklahoma State has already re
ceived a taste of overtime play. The
Cowboys beat Southwest Missouri
State 23-20 in overtime last week.
OSU Coach Bob Simmons opted
to kick an extra point, which tied the
game, after the Cowboys scored a
fourth quarter touchdown.
“I didn’t know what to think of it,”
Simmons said. “We tried to prepare for
it Based cm how the tram was play
ing, we had taken the momentum of the
-—- -
game. I knew we were going to over
time.”
Nebraska spent the first potion of
its scrimmage last week preparing for
a tie-breaker situation.
“I suppose the only change in strat
egy probably will be to kick the PAT
and tie,” Osborne said. “The PAT is
more automatic than the field goal.”
Texas Tech Coach Spike Dykes
endorsed the new rule.
“Nobody likes ties,” Dykes said.
“The few times I’ve been involved in
a tie, neither party has been happy.”
Most Big 12 coaches said they think
the rule change will have an inpact on
decision malang.
“I think K very definitely could
change your strategy depending on
how things are going,” Texas A&M
Coach R.C. Slocum said. “You might
see guys going for a tie, but it depends
on the flow of the game.”
Kansas State Coach Bill Snyder
said the decision will depend on the
team’s preparation and physical con
dition near the end of regulation.
“A lot will depend on the condition
of your players at that point and time,”
Snyder said, “also how productive
you’ve been during the course of the
game,”
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