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works for, the people who run the httle Catholic school where 3.5 averages are ac• ceptable numbers in both classrooms and basketball box scores. "I've had other athletic directors tell me that they'd love to have Jim coaching their team if they had a spot available," said USO Athletic Director Rev. Patrick Cahill ''They tell me that right to my face. "I feel good that he's so respected. And I know he sees a lot of plusses in staying at USO. But at the same time I can see that he has to be a l1ttle frustrated at ti.mes. Anyone who's seen·us play knows how com- petitive a team we have.. even though our record has never been sterling in Division I. But you have to wonder what Jim would do with a team of blue-chippers. "We're all on one-year contracts here. And Jim is in more demand than me. If he wanted to take another job and thought it was something that would be good for his career, I'd respect any decision he'd make." Brovelli sighs and says that he's happy at USD. He says he turned down a couple of job opportunities a few years back because they ju:;t weren't right for him. Apparently, this job is. even though the Toreros are 7•13 and fading in the West Coast Athletic Con- ference with a 1-5 record.

Story by Bud Shaw, Tribun<' Sport.swnt r Photo by Russ Gilbert, Tnbune P/wtagraph,r T HE Bi\SKETBi\U, Jim Brovelli coaches is nice and neat and fun• damentally correct, a game of sharp passes and hard•angle cuts to the ba,ket, a preci ion drill team perfor~ing to a symphony of rubber squeahng against hardwood. In its purest form, this game the Umver- s1ty of San Diego plays is a marriage be tween geometry and chess. But watch 1t once or twice and you understand the trag- ic flaw. It is not so much the branrl of basketball as the level at which it is being choreographed Watch it once or twice and you wonder what the game would be like if the pieces were something other than pawns. What if Brovelli could look out on the court and see vertical jumps considerably higher than his players' ages? What ii ~he geometry re- mained intact but the Imes were brush- troked by the artistic expression of ado- le cence? Maybe a floor-to•ce11ing pi• rou tte Just a little something to fill the eat This 1s not, it should be pointed out, Jim Brovell1' lament, JU t the fantasy of every- one who knows him. Even the people he

Vacant USD Post Attracts Top Talent By BILL CENTER Slaff Wr~er, The Son o,ego un,on The winningest coach in the histo- ry of NCAA Division III football is the leading candidate for the vacant University of San Diego job. John Gagliardi, of St. John's Uni- versity in Collegeville. Minn., IS one of three coaches scheduled to be in- terviewed this week by USD athletic director Rev Patrick Cahill. Gagli- ard1's career coaching record 1s 218- 71.7 USO has been without a coach since Bill Williams resigned tinder pressure three weeks ago, after t,1e school received a year's probation for violating NCAA financial aid pol- icies Gagliardi, 56, has coached 30 sea• sons at St. John's. His teams won the NAIA national championship in 1963 and 1965 and the NCAA Division III title in 1976. Last season, St. John's went 9-1, losing in the first round of the playoffs. USO officials were surprised at Gagliardi's interest. "When I got Gagliardi's applica- tion, I was shocked,' Cahill said. "My initial question to him was, 'Do you really want to start over after build- ing such a uccessful program?' He assured me he was (interested)." Gagliardi said yesterday that he has turned down other coaching OJ}- portunities over the years and that this is the st time he has a ied

Honestly, we are very interested and honored that a coach with Gagliar- di's credentials has applied for our position. On the other hand, we're still interested in hearing from ev- eryone on our final list." Bryond Gagliardi, the Toreros l_ist of t•iree finalists includes a maior college assistant coach and the head coach of a Los Angeles-area Catholic high school. Cahill would not identify them. "If we're satisfied, we could have a new coach next week," Cahill said. Gagliardi is known best among his peers for some of his unusual prac- tice methods. St. John's does not own a blocking sled and does not operate a weight room. "Some of that has been over- blown," the coach said. "We do prac- tice on blocking, but we don't scrimmage in practice. We try to have some fun. I enjoy it that my players are able to say they enjoy practice." An official at St. John's said Gagh- ardi's acceptance of the USO position "would be a serious blow to our school, beyond the sport of football. But we understand. Alot of us would like to be in his position."

(Continued from C-1) for a job. He said he did so because of San Diego weather. ''I'm sitting here now looking out the window at a snow drift," Gagliar- di said from his home, 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis. ''It's four degrees below zero. I haven't seen the ground since the end of the foot- ball season. That's the big reason. San Diego is a paradise. ''The question 1s: Do I want to sac- rifice everything I'vE built here to move to paradise?" Gagliardi has visited San Diego once. He spoke before a St. John's alumni group in 1977. "My first impression was, 'My God, what a nice place.' I told a friend of mine that if something ever opened up at USO, he should let me know. He wired me about three weeks ago. "I was a bit naive. I didn't know places like San Diego existed I want to see some of those places. I'm not planning on retiring soon - I think I'll coach for at least another decade - but I will (retire) someday. What better place than San Diego? In some ways it's like St. John's, a small Catholic college where the most im- portant thing is education." Like USO, St. John's does not offer football scholarships. USO has not committed itself to Gagliardi, nor has Gagliardi commit- ted himself to USO. ''I've heard the cost of housing in San Diego is high, and that scares me a little," Gagliardi said. "I don't real-

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ly know if they want me, and I don't know for sure that I want to move. "But friends have told me I'll fall in love with the school, the campus and the location. It'd be such a great place to finish my career." "John told me that after 30 years in Minnesota, San Diego would be 'like moving to another planet,' "said Cahill. "We have made no decision. though. We aren't playing games:

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College Football: USD has a candidate • John Gagliardi, coach of St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., ill a leading contender for the vacant head football coaching job at the University of San Diego. Gagliardi, IS&, one of the winnlngest coaches In college football hi.story. has a career record of 218·71-7. He has guided St. John's NCAA Division III football program for 30 years. Last sea- on, he led St. John's to a 9·1 record. USD has been without n head coach since Bill William• resigned und r pressure three weeks ago when It was dis- closed that the NCAA was investigation illegal cash loan given to several football players at the private Catholic college. The NCAA subsequently placed USD on a y nr's probation for violations of the asso• elation's financial aid policies. Beyond Gagliardi, USD is set to interview a major college assistant coach and the head coach of a Los Angeles-area Catholic high school.

Gagliardi finalis_t for USD grid coaching job Collegeville; Minn., into a small college power over the pasl 30 years. He ha~ a career record of 218 71.7. SAN DIEGO (AP) - John Gagliardi, one of the winningest coaches in college football history, is a finalist for the University of San Dirgo's football job, "It's fair to sa, there is genuine intt>rest on both purls," said Th( Rev. Pl)trick Caliill USD athletic

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athletic director, the Rev. Patrick Cahill. ··when I got Gagliardi's application, I was shocked,.. Cahill said. "My initial question to him was, 'Do you really want to start over again after building such a successful program.· He assured me he was (interested}.·· Gagliardi said he applied for the job because he likes the weather in San Diego. 'Tm sitting here now looking at a snow drift... Gagliardi said from his home 80 m!les northwest of Minneapolis. "It's four degrees below zero." Beyond Gagliardi, Cahill said he will interview a major college assistant coach and the head coach of a Los Angeles-area Catholic high school Cahill would not identify them. If a coach is not selected from among those three. Cahill said he will interview two alternates. The list of five candidates was culled from a field of 85 applicants, Cahill said.

USD SEEKS COACH - The University of San Diego is interviewing Notre Dame's scouting coordinator Mike Stewart today and tomorrow for the vacant head football coaching post. Stewart had a 53-18 record in six seasons of coaching at Xavier High in Louisville, Ky., before joining Gerry Faust's staff at Notre Dame in 1981. Stewart is the third of three finalists being interviewed for the position here. USO is expected to name its coach by the first of the week.

coaching job at the University of San Diego is John Gagliardi. coach of St John's University in Collegeville, Minn. Gagliardi , 56, one of the winningest coaches in college football history. has a career record of 218-71-7. He has guided St. John 's NCAA Division III football program for 30 years. Last season, he led St. John 's to a 9-1 record. USD has been without a head coach since Bill Williams resigned under pres- sure three weeks ago when it was dis- closed that the NCAA was invesllgating illegal cash loans given to several football players at the private Catholic college. The NCAA subsequently pl.aced USD on a year·s probation for violations of the association's financial aid policies .. Gagliardi is one of three coaches sched- uled to be mterv1ewed this week by USD

USD Interviews Faust Assistant Notre Dame University scouting coordinator Mike Stewart will inter- view for the vacant University of San Diego football job today and tomor- row. Stewart, who had a 53-18 record over six seasons as head coach of Xavier High in Louisville, Ky., before joining Gerry Faust's Irish staff in 1981, 1s the third of three finalists to interview for the Toreros post. USO athletic director Rev. Patrick Cahill and the seven-member selec- tion committee earlier interviewed an unidentified Los Angeles-area high school head coach and St. John's (Minn.) head coach John Gagliardi, the winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division III football. Cahill said he hopes to be able to name a new coach by the first of next week.

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COLLEGE BASEBALL - UC-Santa Barbara split a double-header with U.S. International University yester- day, taking the first game 6-0 with the Gulls winning the nightcap 7-5, a game called at the end of six innings because of darkness. The Gulls scored five times in the sixth inning of the second game. In Fresno, the University of San Diego was beaten 4-1 by Fresno State as Bulldog pitcher struck out 13 Toreros. USD was scheduled to play a double-header against the same opponent today. ___________ __.

His two wins in the top flight plus SC's depth gave the Trojans a commanding lead in team play over UCLA and No. 2-ranked Pepperdine University. "He was a bit tired," said Leach, who admitted Pawsatt has played better early this season en route to e.ght straight wins against no defeats "He (Cluse) is a good player and returns the ball well," said Pawsatt after his first-round win . "I wasn't as sharp as I can be and if I didn't get my first serve in, he'd jump on my second." \\'hen Pawsatt, who won the Tribune event in 1980 uncoils with the first serve' rt tends to shake up an op~ ponent and when he spreads that tall frame around the net, very little gets by him. , Meanwhile, Pepperdine was also using a San Diego- nurtured player in its, top spot. He is Kelly Jones, also a freshman, and he, too, came through with a pair of wins, the first over Brigham Young's Paul Steele 6-2, 6-4, the second over Chapman College's Troy Turnbull 6-2 7-5. ' Jones, the former Point Loma High star, made it look easy with a solid serve and volley game that kept his opponents guessing all the way. The first major upset in the top flight (No. 1 and No. 2 players) was when Ari- zona's Eric Quade, the No. 5 seed, bowed to Chapman's Roger Alex in the second round -6. 6- .

SAN DIEGO UNION FEB 1 7 1983 Toreros' Chapman Sparks First Victory Mark Chapman's two-run double in the fourth inning gave the University of San Diego its first victory of the season yesterday as the Toreros defeated the Uni- versity of California at San Diego 4-2 at the Tritons' Olsen Field. USO is now 1-4; UCSO is 2-4. UCSO plays Occidental College today at home.

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f'EB 1 ? 1983 S.D. Tennis Tourney Opens Sixteen of the nation's. toP. men's tennis teams will compete today th'.ough Sa~r..rday in the 10th annual San Diego Intercollegiate Invitational Tennis Tournament co_-sponso:ed by the University of San Diego and The Sa~ Diego Umon. Play begins ~oday at 7:45 a.m. and continues all day at USO and San Diego State. Quarterfinal and semifinal play r~ns all _day tomorrow at USO starting at 8 a.m., with singles fmals and doubles semifinals and finals at USO Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. Defending NCAA champion UCLA and perennial pow- e_rs USC and Pep_perdme are the favorites for the team t!tle._Am~ng the hst of entrants includes 1982 tournament fmahst Jim Snyder and former Point Loma High star Kelly Jones, both of Pepperdine. ?ther tea.ms entered are USD, SDSU, USIU, UCSD, Arizona, Anzona State, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, Chapman, BYU, Cal State Bakersfield, Redlands and Long Beach State.

Alex had to play a three- setter in defeating Alex Levie in the morning, but the extra "pratice" seemed to set him up for his battle with Quade in the after- noo~, another three-setter which saw him lose the first set 3-6, but come back to take the next two 6-4, 6-2. But the major surprise of the day came when San Diego Sta~e•s No. 1 player, Troy Collms, was knocked into the consolation catego- ry in his first-round match losing to Jerome Jones of Pepperdioe 6-3, 7-5. Collins was seeded No. 3. After two rounds of sin- gles, USC led in team com- petition with 12 points, fol- lowed by UCLA with 9, Pep- perdine 7, San Diego State and UC-Irvine with 6, Ari- zona, University of San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara Chapman, Redlands and Long Beach State with 4 Brigham Young 3, U.S. In; ternational, UC-Bakersfield and UCSO with 2, and Ari zona State with 0. The finals in each flight begin at 9a.m. tomorrow at u~.

USC leads as Pawsatt . . wins pair Tim Pawsatt, a freshman at the University of South- ern California, didn't figure to be No. 1 right out of the starting gate. The former Tribune Ten- ms Tournament titleholder, who lives up the road in Santa Ana, knew he could hold his own at the college level, but he didn't think he would be playing top dog on · the nation's No. !-ranked tennis team with such standouts as Jim Agate, Gary Lemon, Rafael Osuna, Ric Bengston and Brad Cherry. Yesterday, howev- er, in the San Diego Collegi- ate Tennis Tournament, Coach Dick Leach decided to go with the tall, hard- serving youngster Pawsatt responded with a double win, a tough 7-6 (7-3). 6-4 triumph over Long Beach State's Steve Cluse, who in the first set seemed determined to pull off an upset, and then an easier \ ictory rn the afternoon over Mark Fmerman of UC- anta Barbara 6-2, 6-2. By Elson Irwin Tribune Sportswriter

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2 More USD Home Games se~:nY:-iverst of ~n Diego closes its home basketball Portland ist:i~h~nd w~thJames agai~t th~ University of night. an onzaga Umvers1ty tomorrow Both games at t~e ~SD Sports Center will start at 7-30 Tp.m. T~m_orrow mght s game will be preceded by the oreros first Alwnni Game. USO enters ~he_weekend with a l-5 mark in West Coast :i:::~r ~iation play, 7-13 overall. Portland is 8-14 an onzaga JS 10-11. Both are 2-4 in WCAC la a nd bo t b h~ve homecourt victories over USD. p Y Guard Rich Davis paces USD with a 13 3 po' ts age Forw d ua.. · m aver- ·. ar "LU\~ Whitmarsh is averaging 12? · ts ·t JS doubtful wi a strained Achilles tendon. to!, pom '

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Some of the nat!on•~ best college tennis teams and players ~re partic1p~tmg in this year's San Diego In- 1ercolleg1ate Inv1tational Tennis Tournament. Prelim- mary contests for the 10th annual event were held all d~y yesterday and today. Finals are tomorrow begin- c nmg at 9 a.m.. at _the University of San Diego West ourts. Adm1ss10n 1s free.