European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 1986 stars and stripes Page 25 Safe losing top basketball coaches by Bucky Fox staff writer bit buro a Germany the Good Bye coaches. All of the final four coaches in this week s Safe men s basketball tournament arc waving so Long. There s Julito Junsay who stayed Long enough at we Bruecken to coach the warriors to their first Safe title since 1971. The Day after winning the title wednesday he flew to England fab la.,for reassignment. There s Bob Abbott who coached Ramstein to the final after steering the rams through the Continental sports conference positional tourney. He s stay ing at Ramstein but he says 10 years of coaching is enough. There s Shelton Porte who coached Alconbury into the semifinals. After two years As head spartan he plans on rotating to Kaduna a Okinawa in july. Then there s George Price or. Baronof Pitburg. I be coached 11 years Here. I be had six second place finishes at Safe and won one time. I think i be had my run. I want to give someone else a  Price spoke the morning after his Barons  we Bruecken in a gym roc., a semifinal. He had yelled at his players and yelled at the  when that 73-59 decision ended. Price had leaned Back in his office chair and said it was a Good season. We won about 30 games this year and lost 10or 12. It had to end sometime. It was a Joy now the morning after. Price leaned Back in that same chair and said what else can i do i wanted to go out a Winner but no. I made up my mind before the season started that this would be my  Why us Pitolo by Gui  from left hed Nikon s Don Fellers Billburg s George Price and Alconbury s Shelton Portee. Pose for a parting shot during this week s tourney besides his desire to give someone else a shot namely assistant Don Andrews he gave his health and wife As reasons for stepping  hyperventilate Price said. Don t dwell on that people will think i m Gonna die. I won t die at  for his wife of 30 years Hilde Price said she s a Saint. She s never said a word and i m gone every week. We Start in August and she always supported me. It s just too much time  Don Fellers whose Hill Nikon olympians won Safe in 1985 but failed to reached the semis this time is another coach who won t come Back next season. The Only Way he would he said is if he quotes nuggets Naff likes playing rough sleeps better with cuts and bruises a couple of Guys asked me if i was crazy diving for a Boll Lite that with my bad legs and Alt but that s the Way i play. I just wish then bad been some mud Down on the floor with some Rock mixed in with it so i cow have come up All bloody and Muddy and bruised. I deep better with cuts and bruises Denver nuggets Forward Calvin Natt when asked Why he dives on the floor in practice despite having injured Knees. We have rules and regulations we re expected to follow and one is that we Don t do commercial advertisements on the Field. He did it got fined for it As he should and then literally comes out and says stick it in your ear. If it weren t for football he d be some Yoyo out there drinking  washing ton redskins quarterback Joe Theis Mann speaking about Chicago bears quarterback Jim Mcmahon. If it goes two seconds into the eighth round. I la bite him. If i have to. Aba lightweight Champion Livingstone Bramble when asked for a pre diction for his upcoming Utle fight against Tyrone Crawley. "1 had Turkey on thanksgiving. I wonder if that would show up in my system. I also heard that he bad Mari Juana in his system because he was around people who were smoking it. I laughed at that  Alberto ale Mas. Head of the Aba s championship committee commenting on the positive drug testing of Tim Chher spoon who won the Aba heavyweight title last month and claimed he had last smoked marijuana at a thanksgiving party. The people who play pro football owe h to the people who watch pro foot Ball to prove they re not on drugs. Those Are the people kids look up to. Everybody is worried about their rights but there Are some responsibilities that go with those  former nil head coach bum Phillips speaking against the a Flea s refusal to allow league imposed drug testing of players. I dont know if this game will turn the Corner for us but it helps us so much it in t funny. I be been warning people we re a Good team. I Don t thin people Are taking us lightly. We came so far tonight it s not even  Seton Hall coach pm. Carlesimo after the pirates snapped a 39-game Road los ing Streak in the big East conference. They Are Selling my headband at s4.95 All Over new Orleans and Chicago and i d like to have a percentage of it. It s a  National football league commissioner Pete Rozelle after noticing the brisk sales of head bands bearing his name. If you re truly a family this will pull you together. I be had enough adversity in my life so that i can  Louisiana state basketball coach Dale Brown of his team s difficulties Over the nut two weeks which included several tigers coming Down with the Chicken pox and the suspension of team Captain Nikita Wilson due to academic difficulties. Moves to Germany or England. Either Way he would t find Price to coach against and Fellers will miss that for competitive  is Tough to coach Fellers said. You have to establish your do Csc and you have to read the other team s strategy fast. You have to make spot Deci Sions. Some coaches have a hard time against George because he docs that. Hews the toughest i coached against in  is a great Guy Porte said. I played against his team in the 70s, and head a solid winning team every year. I wanted to Transfer Here but i  born 58 years ago in Bloomsburg pa., Price spent 26 years in the air Force and is now bit Borg s athletic director. He played with Dean Smith on the Furstenfeld Bruck Safe champions of1955, then played on Simbach s Safe champs of 1961. When Price became coach at Pitburg he used Many of Smith s North Carolina ideas e.g., the four Cor ners and the press. It All worked toward a Safe title for Pitburg in 1978. The Safe titles when was a player were both real Good things but i take personal Pride in winning in 78," Price said. Price did t win another Safe de Spile his repeated trips to the final. Critics questioned whether his Barons were too team oriented his system failed to allow one player to take control when the Situa Tion demanded it. I never saw one Guy win it. Teams win it Price countered. One outstanding ballplayer can t beat a  Price left the team once before. That was in 1982-83, when Andrews tried to fill the void and went 5-17. Price came Back the next season and went 16-6. Even so Price praises Andrews and Ellow assistant Oda Phillips As the x s and o s Guys. I m the screamer the Shouler the Shaker. They re he  Price s legacy will probably be his a Uick quips and Blue Tongue which make him As Tough to quote As Earl Weaver. As for his trademark of grabbing an slapping players. Price said he Cut Back on that Over the years. He did t do a lot of that this year said Pitburg guard Wallace Northcult. This was Northcutt s first year under Price probably his last. It s a great loss Northcutt said. He was a great help this  Steiner cops men s downhill austrians fill 6 of top 15 places Moraine France a Anton Steiner of Austria ended an 11-year search with his first world cup skiing Victory Fri Day when he won the rescheduled St. Anton Austria men s downhill. The race held under Light Snow and fog on the upper course was shortened by 280 meters 306 Yards to 2745 meters 3,001 Yards. It s the Best Day of my career Steiner said. I have finally seen the figure one next to my name on the scoreboard. I realized with the conditions of the course i would Benefit from being an Early starter. This Victory erases All the bad moments i have had to endure the injuries. I love ski ing. It s my  Steiner posted a time of 1 38.85, which was 7/100ths of a second faster than re bounding Swiss Down Hiller Gustav Oehrli. Starting 41st, the 23 year old nearly stole the event from the third seed of skiers. He was faster than Steiner at both intermediate timing Points but flew too far Down the final jump catching much air and slowing him Down enough to Cost the Victory. World cup downhill Leader Peter  also of Austria was third only8/100ths of a second behind Bis teammate. The result stopped Witsberger s downhill Victory Streak at four but still finds him Lead ing the discipline Over Swiss rival Peter Muel Ler 115 o 84. Mueller was sixth in 1 39.08. Fourth place went to another austrian Gerhard Pfaffe Bichler who claimed his Best result in 3 years. Pfaffe Bichler won the 1983 pre olympic downhill in Sarajevo Yugoslavia coming from the second seed. He skied from the same position Friday. The Day was dominated by the powerful austrians who placed six in the top 15. Fifth place went to 1980 olympic Champion Leon hard Slock. The 27-year-old was nearly re moved from the squad last summer for inadequate performances. He continued Bis comeback clocking 139.06 a no Joanton Steiner. Finally on top