European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday november 15, 1985 the stars stripes Page 23 commentary learning the game from or. Rating or. Rating Good morning coach Good morning. Look could we get Down to business right away maybe that s not the Way you people do things. I d like to get out of this suit lie put on a windbreaker stroll or. Rating i coach i Hope so because this was t my idea. Some very influential people at the University told me to come Here. They said to leave their names out of it but you would know who they were anyway if we could Speed this up i d be a lol or. Rating you re the Boss. It s our under standing that you re interested in building a top right football coach that s right. My record Speaks for it self. Just four years ago or. Rating excuse me coach. We know your record. But let s concentrate on the future believe me if you the University follow our advice you la be in the cat Bird seat in no coach really or. Rating let me begin by saying that the University did an a-1 Job in offering you that contract for what is million forces the Public to take a second look. Only bargain basement schools pay bar gain basement coach but the Money was t the deciding fac Tor in accepting the or. Rating save that line for the coach All right. What should i do first or. Rating we suggest forcing the Mcaa to put you on coach Are you crazy my reputation would be ruined. The University would fire me. The alumni would Burn their Crocodile membership or. Rating Calm Down. Probation is the be ginning not the end. Did probation deter teams such As Oklahoma Clemson or sum today it s Florida. Granted the gators can t play in a bowl game. Had they beaten Georgia though they would still be no. I. That s the name of the coach but other schools have been no. 1 with out going on or. Rating those schools had winning traditions. Need i remind you of the crocodiles football records these past decades once word gets out that you re on probation people will realize the University is As serious about winning football games As it i about teaching physics. Believe me it s the Best coach this thing is tougher than playing Ala Bama Auburn Back to or. Rating let s turn our attention to sched uling. If we re to help you earn the National title we must assemble the right combination of coach that s out of my hands. The . Handles that those things arc made up years in or. Rating you mean they used to be made up by the athletic director. What docs he know about ratings let us handle the schedule the Croc Odiles Are guaranteed top coach you make it sound so or. Rating that s our business. Now we be heard the University is considering joining the heart of the nation coach that s right. Our entry would give them eight teams meaning seven conference games four non conference games. That would leave us room to or. Rating want to Man Euver join the army. Want to win stay Independent. That s our coach but the papers have already been drawn up. The conference Only needs our or. Rating Tell them you re a coach not John Hancock. Tell them the crocodiles will go if coach Why or. Rating if you join the conference you re tied to seven games most of which you Don t want. Next thing you know you la have rivalries. That Means upsets. Who needs upsets if you upset a big team that Means you weren t on top to begin with. And if you re upset Well you won t be the Only ones upset Del the picture coach a Little maybe. But there s some weak teams in that conference. Games with them would build our or. Rating True but weak teams exist every where most of them Aren t in that conference. Let us do the scheduling so Many weak teams will show up at your place that you la feel like coach you mean we re not going to play rated teams or. Rating one or two at most. It s Best to play the Tough schools just enough to get on National to. That s when big Money comes in. Then alter compiling an 11-0 or 10-1 Ledger you la receive an invitation to a major bowl. Thai s when bigger Money comes coach i d better be on May Way. Practice be gins in about an hour All this talk about Money is making me uneasy. I need time to or. Rating i coach i m not sure you do. I thought the University hired me to coach not just to win or. Rating yes. Of course if you feel uncomfortable with your position you could coach of i could t do that. I signed for five or. Rating for is million was t it coach about or. Rating Sec you next week then coach name the Ston in rom Gooden from Page 21 Plis ments in relation to those of the team As a whole Gooden had the kind of season that made him stand out from the rest. His Era of 1 .s3 was a team record be led the league with 276 2-3 innings pitched 268 strikeouts 16 Complete games. He also had eight shutout. Gooden a the first Pitcher since Sandy Koufax in 1966 to Lead the league in the triple Crown categories of victories Era strike outs. Six others Koufax Waller Johnson Graver Cleveland Alexander dizzy Vance lefty Grove Hal Newhouser have led the majors in those categories All but new hotter Are in the Hall of a 17-9 record in his Rookie season Gooden hat a career record of 41-13.Gooden bad the season s longest winning Streak 14 straight victories from May 30 aae 25. Braung the dub Mark of 10 by seam b 1969, he went 31 consecutive innings without allowing a run put together a string of 49 consecutive innings from aug. 31 to oct. 2 without allowing an earned run. On aug. 25, at the age of 20 Yean 9 months 9 Days he became the youngest Pitcher in modern baseball to win 20 games. Before Gooden Bob Feller of the american league i Cleveland indians won 20 games St the age of 20 years 10 months 5 Days in 1939. The youngest previous nl20-Gamc Winner was Christy Mathewson who won no. 20 in 1901 at the age of 21years, 1 month 9 Days. He also joined Herb score As the Only Pitcher to record 200 or More it Ikeo to in each of his first two seasons. He fanned 10 or Mora batters 11 times this year now has 26 double figure strikeout games in 66 major league starts. He also struck out the Side 13 times this past season now has done it 30 times in his two seasons. us 1985 winning percentage of .857 was the highest for an no 20-game Winner since preacher Roe went 22-3 for an .880 percentage in 1951. Dwight Gooden by the numbers. season compares Well we the Moat productive a All but a handful 9�?� Pitcher. Hsu the Hail of . Compar��oil�c�c�dtftarentbab8nefa Tyril or veh two. Saa Aora Wei Wewt of Good hitters or hot a by noting a Pitcher to anal t Eearon Tor Borto reproduced the Arito Oread. And lefty Oro Watt o a Roar were a a Towton of Kwes. 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