10 top coaches selected for football preview Howard Schnellenberger, coach the IO coaches. Approximately 50 loosa, from 1959 to 1965, Schnellen coach-of-the-year honors in 1974 James of national champion University of sportswriters are expected to attend. bnerger moved to the profesional while coaching at Youngstown State Dean of Pacific- 10 Conference Miami (Florida), heads a group of The preview is designed to generate ranks from 1966 to 1978, serving as University. His other coaching coaches, James completed his ninth 10 coaches who have been selected to interest in the 1984 football season. an assistant coach for the Los Angeles experience is at the high school level season at Washington this past year participate in the College Football The nation’s top sportswriters will Rams and Miami Dolphins and head in Ohio and as a special-teams coach with an 8-4 record, improving his ‘84 Preview February 26-28 at the have an opportunity to meet with coach of the Baltimore Colts. for the Detroit Lions. Husky career mark to 73-32. Prior to Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, coaches from different parts of the An all-America end at Kentucky, Edwards taking the Washington job in 1975, Missouri. country in addition to those from Schnellenberger was named Southern All Edwards has done in 12 years James was head coach at Kent State Other coaches who will attend the areas they normally cover. independent coach of the year by at Brigham Young is compile a 105- University. eighth annual NCAA-sponsored Following are capsule summaries The Associated Press in 1980 and 37-1 record, win nine Western Athletic In nine years at Washington, James preview are Rey Dempsey, Memphis on the 10 coaches selected for this national coach of the year in 198 1 by Conference titles, lead the Cougars has led the Huskies to six bowl State University; LaVell Edwards, year’s preview: Football News. to eight bowl games and direct an appearances (Rose Bowl three times) Brigham Young University; Don Schnellenberger Dempsey offense that has led the nation in and three Pacific-lOchampionships. James, University of Washington; Schnellenberger capped an amazing Dempsey was named head coach passing six times. His 1972 Kent State team also Charley Pell, University of Florida; four-year turnaround of the Miami at Memphis State in December after participated in a bowl (Tangerine), Mike White, University of Illinois, program this year with an Orange leading Southern Illinois University, Edwards, a 1952 graduate of Utah giving him seven bowl appearances Champaign; Ed Emory, East Carolina Bowl victory over Nebraska and a Carbondale, to a 13-l record and the State University,joined the Brigham in 13 years as a head coach. Young staff in 1962 as an assistant University; Jackie Sherrill, Texas subsequent No. I ranking by both 1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Prior to landing a head-coaching and assumed the head job in 1972. A&M University; Jim Johnson, wire service polls. Championship. position in 1971, James served He is ranked in the top IO in winning Oklahoma State University, and Schnellenberger’s fiveyear record The Salukis’ 43-7 victory over apprenticeships at Florida State percentage among active coaches. Bobby Ross, University of Maryland, at Miami now is 41-16, a stark Western Carolina in the I-AA cham- University (1959-1965) the University College Park. contrast to the 14-29 record compiled pionship improved Dempsey’s eight- Following an I l-2 campaign in of Michigan (1966-1967) and the Included among the agenda items by the Hurricanes in the four years year record at Southern Illinois to 198 I, Edwards was named head coach University of Colorado ( 196X- 1970). for the three-day preview is a prior to his arrival. Included in that 54-37. Dempsey rejuvenated the for the Hula and Japan Bowls and James was named coach of the year question-and-answer session Feb- record is a 24-2 log at home. Southern Illinois program in 1976, won the BYlJ alumni distinguished by the American Football Coaches ruary 27. Each coach will preview his After assistant coaching jobs at compiling a 7-4 record after a I-9-I service award and the outstanding Association in 1977 after leading the team and conference, and the media the University of Kentucky and showing in 1975. man-of-the-year award by the Provo Huskies to a IO-2 season and a Rose then will have a chance to question the University of Alabama, Tusca- Dempsey earned Division I1 American Freedom Festival. Bowl victory. Pell Pell has a penchant for turning lagging football programs into consis- tent winners. His 1983 Florida Gators were ranked sixth in both wire service polls and defeated Iowa in the Gator Th e NCA Bowl. It was the first time Florida had finished a season ranked in the National Collegiate Athletic <\\sociation February I, 1984. Volume 21 Number 5 Official Publication of the top IO. Pell began his coaching career at Jacksonville State University and Athletes to compiled a 33-13-I record before CEO Commission taking the head-coaching position at Clemson. Under Pell, the Tigers were get career 18-4-l in two seasons. They had won only five games in the previous two nominations sought counseling seasons. Chief executive officers at all football in Division 1 or not at all, I I Pell took the Florida post in 1979, ---, ,-...-“T+!+A-A‘active member institutions Division 11positions and II Division Panels to provide athletic career and his team went 0-10-l. But the have been invited to submit nomi- III positions. counseling to student-athletes may Gators have participated in four nations of candidates to serve on the Each Division I-A conference has now be appointed in accordance bowls in the past four seasons and new NCAA Presidents’Commission, been asked to designate its repre- with an amendment to NCAA Con- have compiled a 32-16-1 record. as established by the 1984 NCAA sentative by February I, if possible. stitution 3-l-(h)-(4) adopted at the He was Southeastern Conference Convention. Division I-AA chief executives recent Convention. coach of the year three times in four In a January 27 mailing, NCAA received a separate mailing dated Proposal No. I 18, as amended by seasons. President John L. Toner asked CEOs January 26, asking them to nominate 118-1, authorizes an institution’s chief White to submit nominations for service on and endorse a Division I-AA CEO executive officer (or his or her desig- In his fourth year as head coach at the Commission not later than Feb- from their Division I-AA football nated representative from outside Illinois, White led the Fighting Illini ruary 15. Because the presidential region. The legislation adopted by the athletics department) to appoint to their first Rose Bowl appearance nominating committee that will pre- the Convention specifies that each a three-member panel from among in 20 years after having become the pare the slate of candidates for the nominee for the Division I-AA the institution’s full-time employees first coach in Big Ten Conference history to defeat all nine conference first Commission is still being orga- regional positions must be endorsed who work outside of the athletics nized, the nominations are to be sent by at least five CEOs from the region department. The purpose of the panel opponents during a regular season. to the NCAA national office. They involved. If more than one candidate is to provide advice to student-athletes White was named 1983 national will be delivered unopened to the is properly nominated from a region, about future professional athletic coach of the year by The Sporting nominating committee when it there will be a mail vote of the CEOs careers. News, the Walter Camp Football becomes operative. in that region to select the individual The legislation, which was spon- Foundation and United Press Inter- national. The chief executives can submit to serve on the Commission. sored by the NCAA Council, was He took over at Illinois after having nominations for 3 1 of the 44 positions In another January 27 letter, originally proposed by the Associa- on the first Commission. The other President Toner notified the presi- tion’s Special Committee on Player been assistant coach with the San I3 positions will be filled by the nine dential nominating committee speci- Agents. It provides the authority for Francisco 49ers of the National Division I-A conferences, each of fied by Convention action of its task, institutions to appoint such panels Football League for two seasons. White was offensive coordinator which is entitled to select one of its expressing hope that each of the 13 but does not make their appointment at Stanford University for eight member CEOs to serve, and the four chief executives named to serve on mandatory. seasons, and two of those Cardinal Division IIAA football regions, where that committee (see January 18, 1984, Concern over whether existing the chief executives in each region issue of The NCAA News) would be NCAA regulations provided sufficient teams were Rose Bowl champions. He made his head-coaching debut will elect their own representative. able to accept the assignment. Toner opportunity for student-athletes to at the University of California, That will leave the nominating will schedule a telephone conference receive objective advice in making committee with the task of preparing of the nominating committee as soon informed choices about when to Berkeley, his alma mater, and during Preview six years his teams went 35-30-I a slate for 3 I positions two repre- as possible to enable the committee pursue a professional athletic career senting Division I-A independents, to select a chair and to review its All-America Ricci Luyties or whether to employ an agent Under White’s direction, Illinois teams have set seven NCAA passing one Division I-A at-large position, charge.