European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday june 18, 1987 majors says sack playoff idea l y Bucky Fox Slait writer Rhein main a.  Johnny majors remembers his last National championship 1976. He wants Enol her but not by winning a playoff hell stick with the College football bowl , thank you the bowls have done Loo much for the game the University of Tennessee coach said on the last Dav of the Safe football clinics tuesday. " the bowls have made a lot of Money or College football and have Given the game great prestige. There s no Assurance College football would make More Money with playoff majors disagrees with other coaches and fans who bemoan major College fool Ball s lonely stand against a playoff sys tem. Penn stale s Joe Paterno whose Niu any Lions were voted no. I last sea son elects to keep the bowls intact Cyl use them As pan of a playoff. The bowls could t accommodate inc playoffs majors maintains. I think a lot More coaches arc against it than for it majors 52, has this love affair with bowl games. His pitl panthers won the sugar bowl to Clinch the National championship in 16. His Tennessee volunteers won the sugar bowl to grab a no. 4 ranking in 1983. Then last year majors coached the volunteers to inc Liberty bowl where they beat Minnesota 21-14 to Cap a five game winning surge and a 7-5 record. Those last two bowl triumphs pushed majors postseason record to ,5w 6-6 Ana l9-Ye in head coaching Mark to 124 88-7, one of the 20 Best standings in col lege coaching. Majors credits the bowls with spread ing the winning wealth. Whereas inc National football league boasts one Cham Pion and 27 also rans. Majors likes College football s bowl full of season end ing victories. He would t exactly hate it if his vols grabbed a season full of victories like his 12-0 panthers of 76. Majors who arrived at Tennessee in 1977, looked ready to close in on his second National title when the 66 season arrived. Yet Corning off i hair Blitz of Miami in the previous sugar bowl the vol Iri pred to a 2-5 Start. Tennessee looked so disappointing sports illustrated labelled in Flop of the year. Make lha mop of the year the Way it cleaned up on its last five opponents the vols will try " tend their Streak to six on aug. 31 against Iowa in the kick Oft classic. We had no defense last year said is Ptan Gus termite site coach Johnny majors mates a Point while viewing football video during inc Safe clinic tuesday at re can main. Majors whole icam surrendered a combined 90 Points to Alabama and Auburn we lost a lol of players to injury bus it was also a Lack of discipline. We got caught up in the year before. We were Iii As  majors stressed during classes at Chicksands Torr Jon and Here the past two weeks that defense kicking and Field position arc his keys to winning. His big defender in 19b7 should be inside line Backer Kelly Ziegler. Our Spring practice did not indicate that we would be that Strong majors said of his defense. We have to make tremendous growth in preseason practice to be adequate much less Good. Our offence has 10 carry a bigger Load than i would i i pc to have a really Good  Jeff Francis directs that offence. He s a Junior quarterback who completed 64 percent of his passes in 1986. Majors figures most forecasters pick Auburn or Louisiana slate atop the Southeastern conference for 1987, with Tennessee third through sixth. We re not going to Settle for Lylial before returning for his Lith season Al his Alma mater majors pushed Safe coaches to keep it sound simple consistent other majors theories surface when discussing thai elusive National championship. How docs a coach build toward no. 1? the schedule sure helps As Penn state showed last  he said. The number 1 thing is ability. We had out standing ability that Var with Pitt in 1976. Tony Dorsett was probably the Best Day to Day football player i Ever coached. As for that team i Don t think there s team in the country for the last 20 years that rivals it. I know i m Reju  he also knows the bowl system and poll voting rewarded him with his National championship. He votes Lokeel it. Box Square grooves being probed open Winner s clubs could be illegal9 by Bob Green a p Golf writer san Francisco there s a Good Chance thai the Man who wins the . Open this week will be playing with clubs Likely to be declared illegal. Tom Waison estimates As Many As 90 percent of golfs touring pros carry at least one or two clubs with the controversial Boi or Square grooves. A Spola Sman for the 1j.s. Coif association. John Morris said the clubs More specifically a method of measuring grooves on these clubs will be consid ered Al a Urga executive committee meeting Early next week. If the proposed method is approved some of the clubs specifically the Ping 1-2 will not conform to the rules of Golf Morris said. Any such ruling however will nol be retroactive and will not affect pliers in the 1987 open. The Square grooved clubs along with the one piece Ball represent the greatest change in Golf equipment since the shift from Hickory to steet shafts a half Century ago Watson said. Both Watson a five time British open Champion and once the leading player in the game and Jack Nick a us Point to the equipment change As a principal reason for the exceptionally Low scoring produced on the pea tour this year. And both object to the Phenomena. Maybe it is Progress Watson acknowledged. But there has to be a Lime to say no More the Urga has to do something. We can t let the integrity of the game be destroyed Watson Laid. The controversial clubs now produced by most major manufacturers of Golf equipment first came on the Market about to years ago. Instead of the traditional a shaped grooves these clubs contain Square or Box shaped grooves that impart a greater spin to the Ball and Jailaw the player to Eiert greater control Over his shots particularly out of the rough in wet conditions. " Vou can get in the rough and Slop the Ball on the Green. Shot making has been reduced if nol eliminated Waison said. You spend years Willine thousands of balls learning to play different shots under different conditions. Now some one comes alone and can hit the same shot immediately just because of his equipment. "1 Don t like it. It s making an Ordinary golfer a Good duller and that s wha the manufacturer wants. Hid you Ever hear an and that did t  it would male you hit it longer and Slraight a Nicklaus agreed. It s taking shot making out of the game he said. And that deeply concerns the Urga the spokesman said. We believe that a player should not have an advantage because of equip ment. In is a consistent policy. A player should win on the basis of skill riot equipment not technology moms said. Various tests of inc clubs were made in Urga laboratories. Morris said and we went Down 10 Florida and had Greg Norman iry the  Norman.  and Wain All agreed that the clubs greatly enhance the performance of weekend Amateur players and suggested that perhaps Liliose a Byers should be allowed to continue to use them All agreed Hunt or. Trial they should not in allowed in professional tournament Golf