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USD Maps ItsDestiny With Care

12 Part Ill -Thur. Nov. 1. 1979-J- llo&Angetes * USIU'S AMBITION IS ON THE CLIMB Continued from 9th P ge "You want to bridge the international gap anyway yai can," Palmiotto said. "Sport is an integral factor. You thi11t or Notre Dame as a winner because of its football team. We feel we're competitive with anyone in academics. We wart to brmg athletics to that level, too." The 3.0 GPA requirement makes it necessary for the school to indeed have "student-athletes." "tr you mess up m chool, they won't let you play," said Ga~liano, the quarterback. "There were a couple cases iJ spring where people were m trouble academically and hat to traighten out. The head of the department (Palmiotto) won't put up with anything." * The clunb to Div1 mn I took a turn for the worse for USIU on Apnl 23. That's when Sid Gillman resigned after four months as athletic director to become an assistanl coach with the Philadelphia Eagles. t caught the university by surprise when the forme( head coach of the Chargers, Rams and Houston Oilers Jen that quickly. But 1t had been even a bigger surprise when 1t was announced la~t Dec. 19 that Gillman was becoming aff1lhated with USIU. "Sid was a focal point that made people recognize USIU was rious," Palmiotto said. "He gave us the credibility we need d in athletics. He knows he has an open door at USIU. When he left, he left us with a legacy of recogni- tion." Gillman also left the school with a football team that 1 6-2 as it prepares for Saturday's game with the University] single-handedly convinced me what I had been dreaming of could be accomplished here. It was my program to build.' -PRl!DOII! GOSS. USIU INllletlltll coldl of San Diego. ll's no secret that Gillman's name was the • key factor 10 brmging quality foolball players to USIU. But without Gillman around now, 1t has forced the yo ng U IU coochmg staff to grow much faster. Head c ch Tom Walsh is 30 years old and the average age of lu a 1slanls IS 25. 'lt would b r1d1culous and foolish lo say Sid didn't have a tremendo\lS impact "Walsh remarked. "He initiated mllCh of what w done. Sid told me he was here as an ad- v1 r. In a way, we were envied by a lot of other staffs be- ca e we had him all to ourself. It was a great experience. Wern that" Gillman IS still involved with the program, however. Ac- cording to Walsh. Gillman calls at lea l twice a week to fmtl out how USIU is doing and to offer advice. "I won't ay that we were forced out of the nest and forced to fly (wh n Gillman left)," Walsh commented. "It' not that h was a crutch, but he had the answers. It wouldn't be easy 1f he wa here. 'fhen, people would expect u to wm 9, 10 or all 11 games. They would figure that a guy who has won pro football championships should be able to win in college." The big question without Gillman concerns recruiting. Mmus the pre ence of a big-name pro football coach, it may again become difficult for the team to bring in lop• Dolch players. "I thmk we'll recruit better for two reasons," said defen• sive back Aaron Graham. "No. 1, these coaches were new this year and.got a lat tart. They didn't get a fair shot at recruiting. And No. 2, w have a good record." "It helped me make my decision," Gagliano said. "Play, CTI! didn't come here t because of him (Gillman), but that was a big influ n * If there's one program st!II in question al USIU, it's foot- ball. Despite playing m the Stadium and having a 6-2 rec- ord, it's still undetermm whether it would be worth- while for the schoo to go big-lime in the sport. What happens In the next ,two years will determine what direction th football program takes. ·•Football is on the block to be evaluated," Palmiotto ad- mitted. "We need lo see if we can brmg in the level of plzyer. we're lookmg for. The kicker is, that they have to bring ma player with a 3.0 (GPA). We re making 1t d1ffl- cu\t on our elves, but we're staying with the quality of education that is important to us." Palm1otto said he didn't think the school would ever drop football. But he did a.dmit that if things don't work out, the program might have to drop back into Division III with no financial aid available. What the Gulls are attempting to do is build rapidly mlo Oiv1S1on II, then gradually into Division I-AA. The only I AA team on their scnedule this year is Portland late. Bu, , m future years, they have scheduled teams of that lev, .. from Northern Ar1ZOna, Montana, Weber Stale and IdaJ St le. -e ''All programs have lo start somewhere," said Wa~ "lJike Gillman told us, San Diego State was playing C, State LA and schools of that caliber 10 years ago. Ne they're playmg a Big lO school (Wisconsin). ''As much as we'd like to be an immediate success, ~~s' not as sy as it appears," he continued. "Our adminislrea tion's wpomt 1s that we have to succeed where we ;;111 now before we can make a consolidated effort for a higr - I level. You can't blame them for holding that opinion." - San Diego Stale started its climb into the big-timt;,., 15,000-seat Aztec Bowl on campus before moving to ~, Diego Stadimn. USIU might take the opposite approach,! f there is talk of building a 10,000-lo-15,000-seat stadium the football field in the canyon on campus. PG Campus personnel admit that might make more sci.- than continuing to play m San Diego Stadium. 11 "It's great to play m the Stadium because of the facilit there," Gagliano said. "Of course, everyone .would love have a big crowd. The first game. 1t was kmd of strai,, ·1th the number of people there (789 against San Franc'!; co State). If more people were there, it would be nice." ' The Gulls will find out whether their desire to obtain vision I-AA status is approved at the NCAA meetingi1stt lpe January. UJ "This is a key year because we are making a name ourself" Gagliano said. "We're going to get better. I • only hive a couple of seniors starting. But in,Divisio you are talking about good schools. I won't say we'll able to do 1t for sure, but it's a possibility." * hen USIU advertises "The Best College Hockey V of the Rockies," it's not an exaggeration. The Gulls are only team west of Denver University playing a Divisi, sc ule this year. . IU started out as a club team last year but gain, Di 1Sion I schedule in just one year, which Howe, 1vo coach, claims ls five years Jess than it took Notre Dam make the transition. However, the Gulls are still going through grov p s in terms of what is available lo them. They pra(de< t o days a week from 12,30 lo 2,30 p.m. and three da week from 10:30 p m. to 12:30 a.m. ..We get very htUe consideration from the House of I Howe said. "We've even had to paint the lines on lh< and do ma.JC)r work to keep the ice m shape. We also h, put latches on the doors so they could open and close, we bad to pay for the goal lights. We just don't want o teams to step on the ice and say 1t is to,o dangerous to • on." . 'fh Gulls have been able to attract big-name oppon alrea . They are Z 2-2 this season against a trio of to, teams: Ohio State, Denver and Bowling Green. 'He (Sid Gillman)

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tlllted-and fulfilled the promise. "The location's great," said Pierce, the guard from Lot Angeles, "sitting up here on top of the hill overlooking t~ bay." "The campus is about the perfect size," Bartholome1 said. "You can go around campus and know almost every. one. It's really nice. You get the whole school behin >·ou.• That is one of the lling points Brovelli YSCS. ..A lot of students are beginnmg to look al small(! schools," he said. "They get more individual attention They get to know lheir teachers personally. They get a unique type of education." Smaller schools can be qwte successful In basketball, USF being a prime eX£JYJple. But USF has all those years of tradition behind it As Brovelli said, USD will be starting on the ground floor. It will be playing its conference games in the Sports Arena. where it will share tenancy with the professional Clippers and San Diego State. "Realistically," Brovelli said, "it's gomg to take some time to become a consistent winner in this conference. It'll be very, very tough." Father Cahill conceded that the Sports Arena was a costly place to play and that there might be times in the beginning when it might be a losing proposition at the gate. "But," Brovelli said, "I don't believe in gimmicks to get people lo come out and see us. If you have a good product, they're going to come to you. With a quality product, we know it will happen." * USO has not developed tremendous community involve- ment, as is more easily the case with San Diego State with 1ls 33,000 students. Indeed, there are no booster orgamzalions at USO, though Father Cahill said they were m the formative stages. The money to run intercollegiate athletics comes from the university budget ~There are advantages and disadvantages to funding through boosters," Cahill said. "The whole thing at Anzo- na State is an example of what athletic foundations can do as far as taking things out of the hands of a university. There are certainly no problems here as far as who is run- ning the program. The umvcrsity 1s." It might also be a factor that the community al large might fmd it difficult lo relate to a school with a religious affiliation, albeit students of all faiths attend USO. "I thought not being Catholic that it might be hard," said Pondo Vleisi

Contiaued from 11th Page We were 6-4 last year, but we were only 56 seconds from going 9-1. We lost one game with no lime left. one with 18 seconds left and one with 38 seconds on the clock." And now the Toreros rank third among the Division III teams in rushing defense. Another silver lining. "We may be 20 lo 40 pounds a man smaller than USC," Williams said, "and maybe two-tenths of a second slower, but the intensity is the same." Williams' team plays in a 4,000-seat stadium down the hill fro.m the gymnasium. The field is so worn from prac- tice, games and inlramurals that William ~lls the surface Astrodirt. It must remind him of his undergraduate days at Central Missouri State, a small"school located in the community of Marysville. He said the population was 9,000, counting dogs, cats and horses. "I guess l'll have to admit I'm just an old-fashioned ro- mantic at heart," he said. "I could stay here forever. It's ideal. We have student athletes who are intelligent and self-motivated. He doesn't have to play." After all, the football players stand to Jose no athletic scholarship monies because they do not get any. AU aid is based on need. Williams' assistants have much in common with the stu- dents they coach. The 10-man staff shares an allocation of $4,000. "They're like the players," Williams said. "They don't have to be here either." Williams laughed. "When we have success," he said, "it's like going lo the Alamo and the guys inside the fort are hanging in there. "We're so much better than we were last year," said icciardulli, a se ior linebacker, "and next year we're going to be twice as good. I'd like to see us move up." The players would like to see it move up, obviously, be- cause there would be scholarships at the Division II level. "I manage a store by campus," Ricciardulli said. "I work Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. I'm getting ft. nancial aid• so I'm not Slarvmg. If you want to go, you can Williams wants his players to completely immerse You're happy for them." find a way to make it." themselves in college life. "This is a special time for them," he said, "and I want them fired up on all their activities. Clubs. Student government. Academics. Athletics. I even expect them to "The football team kind of runs the campus," Ricciar- dulli said, "and we do have the prettiest ladies." Pretty ladies or not, the Torero football team seems des- "We're happy with what it is," said the Rev. Patrick Ca- hill, USD's director of athletics. "We're not m the position facility-wise or financially to go big lime." And Williams, too, is comfortable al the Division Ill lev- el. He has had opportunities, he said, to go to the National take out the finest dollies." lined to stay Division Ill. "But," he said, " th e job isn't done here. Maybe someday we'll go unbeaten and unscored upon and we'll graduate Brovelli's dream has been that the basketball program would get to the WCAC. This is the year it hap ns. "The trustees and boosters said that maybe we should be successful at Division II first," he said. "They threw the The basketball team has made the Division II playoffs two of the last three years, winning 20. 22 and 19 games. The 1977-78 team was 22-7 and won the Western Regional "But we know on this level that the competition's going to be a lot keener," Brovelli said. "Recruiting will be a lot more difficult because we've got to get the top athletes." USD has 15 scholarships to offer, the maximum number allowable under the NCAA rules. But virtually everyone else also has 15 scholarships. Blue chip players do not au- "We don't have a lot of talent," said Bob Bartholomew, a junior forward from Kearny High, "so we don't have any one individual who dominates. We play good team ball." Bart,holomew was recruited as a freshman. Brovelli told him the Toreros would be Division I by the lime he grad- ball back in my lap." championship. tomatically flock to the doorstep. all L eague as an assiS t ant. everybody on time." And maybe not. * 'We know on this level that the compe- • , • b , k R · tit,on s gomg to e a ,ot eener. •h' • e op a,, ,e,es. t ecru,t- ing will be a lot more difficult because t t t th -JrMaaove:u.~u 50 11astllbellct1c1t .. ,: ::::m:•,~·-'··rnwnm:'{·rnim

EVENING TRIBUNE NOV G 1979 HOOPSTERS HIT THE ROAD San Diego's two major rollege basketball teams are on the road tonight. San Diego State, 2-0 and fresh from a 67-58 overtime virtory over the 1 !PJYCCSi\Y of / sap Rrngo Tuesday mght, IS at Idaho Stale this evening for a non-confer- Pnre battle at 7 (PST). KFMB radio (760) will han- dle the live broadcast Meanwhile, (I I) is in Stockton to battlP Um- versity of the Parific to- night at 8. Pacific. is the defending Parifir r.oast Athletic Association cham- pion and is fa vured to re- peat this season.

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"It took our hockey team a while to gel recognized at Division I," Palmiotto said. "If football had won before, hockey might have been noticed earlier. Football is kind of critical. It sets the tone for the rest of the sports." Howe says his hockey background was able to help USIU in scheduling Division I opponents. He played amateur, college and semipro coaching the University of Maine its first four years. In his final year at Maine in 1976, he was named NAIA Coach of the Year. He admits the USIU program is a challenge, however. While most Division I schools have six full-lime coaches, USIU has just Howe and part-lime coaches Randy Moy and Ray Payne. According to Howe, the three coaches work 15 hours every day of the week. "The only appreciation you can look for is self-apprecia- tion," he said. "It's a kind of high you can only get when you go agamst a team like Denver which has won five NCAA championships. When you tie and beat them like we did with a freshman team, it's the kind or high like no other high you can experience. That makes all the work and are "90 percent freshmen," according to Howe. The team received national exposure two weeks ago when one of its games against Denver was teleVJsed by a lernational coverage. Word spreads fast in hockey to places like Europe and Canada. l feel hockey JS the only sport here (at USIU) that can become self-supporting." In 10 years of coaching Riverside basketball on the D1vi- sion II level, Freddie Goss compiled a 17 -111 recor , a..,.. vanced lo the Western Regionals six limes and made 1t to the national tournament four times. But when he was passed over for the UCLA and USC jobs last sprmg, the horizon didn't_ look bright and he stepped down from 2 d ,i One day after his resignation at Riverside, he receiv a call from Gillman. That was enough to convince him USIU-might be the Division I coaching job he was seeking. "When Sid called, I told him I wasn't interested~' Goss recalled. "But Just because I had a lot of respect for Sid, I decided to fly down and listen to him. He single-handedly convinced me what l had been dreaming of could be ac- complished here. It was my program lo build. He made me an offer that wa; difficult to turn down." The office Goss now occupies has one desk and one chair, but all the cabinet space is barren. Goss still resides in Riverside, allhough he stays with friends in San Diego His hectic travel schedule makes it easier lo accept the Sports Arena and a 25-minute drive to Municipal Gym f r prachce. "I've been through this before," Goss said. "When 1 started at Riverside, I had to raise money for scholarships. I came here and they gave me all the tools. It's just a mat- ter of me doing the job. The only thing I don't have here is Goss claims he isn't bothered by the school's lack of a "When USF won 52 straight with Bill Russell, it didn't have a gym on campus," Goss said. "The only thing about a gym is that players can go there in the offseason." The past offseason was a busy one for Goss. He said it took his staff five months lo make the necessary contacte His selling point to players is that several past and pre- sent NBA stars went to small colleges. He reels off names such as Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe, Willis Reed, Al Attles "I Just showed players our schedule and told them we play in the Arena," Goss said. "I can't believe how easy that made recruiting. I couldn't get some players to even visit Riverside. I couldn't gel Marcus Johnson lo visit --- there, but I could gel him to viEil here because it 1s Division L" But USIU will need mrn:,o than just a visit from the Mar- cus Johnsons. lt will need ,cm to sury on campus if it is ev ,. I i~teathle it 1 :! . Footb during the week. team's pract dlttons. It's a 20-min nv a gym." gymnasium. and recruit players. and Jerry Sloan. cable n wo . ~--. Gu Hockey can o. I here," Howe said. e're an 1t1- * coaching Riverside. eel worthwhile." Howe said he and the assistants spent three months last we ve go O ge summer going across the United States and Canada to re- cruit. The Gulls have just three returnees from last year mw,::~fr ··:-w::::1'-" ·· ,··

Following this evening's game, the Aztecs will move on to the midwest to play the University of Kansas Saturday night. The Toreros come back home Saturday night to meet Westmar College. SPORTS AT USIU ntfnued from First Page was looking for "Earl Campbells wit 3.-0 averages." AI Palmiotto, vice president for student services, !Says USIU is looking for more than that Palmiotto haq been on campus 11 years "Jld admits a ·lot or pe

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• 2 San Dieg~ S~hools Climbing the Sports Ladder SD Has Mapped Destiny With Care r----::------..... USIU Lacks Facilities, Not Ambition BY DAVE DISTEL, Times Staff Writer

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. SA_N DIEGO-In the infancy of its athletic life, it was suggested that it might become the Notre Dame of the West. It joined the West Coast Athletic Conference and heard that maybe it might become the USF of the South. Howe".er, Halloween or not, the University of San Di~o prefers to skip the masquerade. It wants ply to be itself. "W dOJi't want to be anybody else " said Jim Brovtlli. the basketball coach. "W; want to c~te something ourselves. We want to establish our own traditions." This is a Roman Catholic university with a complex a!hletic personality. It presents a CO!!~le of different faces, but both of them are smiling.

BY STEVE DOLAN, Times Staff Writer

Take, for example, the two sports that are c~nsidered the majors on almost any univer- sity campus: -:-Football. Division m. No scholarships. , Strictly a small college program. No apologies here, however. "It's intense on Saturdays " said football coach Bill Williams, "but it's still a game.'' -Basketbaµ.__A program on the move. Steps up l!) D1V1SJon I this year, its first in the WCAC with USF et al. Fifteen players on scholarship. Ambitious, yes, but not without re~sonable perspective. . 'The goals for the basketball program are · . long _term,'' Br~velli said. "We could bring in bandits and win right away, but what we Please Turn to Page 11, Col, t

~on•~ thi_nk they know what a football looks said quarterback Bob Gagliano. "It's a ~e1r a mosphere for football. We're up here m the foothills in a eucalyptus forest. We don't have great facilities for football, but the players on the team have ad,iusted. It was hard for a lot of players to get it together and a lot quit in the early fall.'' . The Gulls are far from giving up their goal, however. In the near future, they aspire to become an Ivy League school of the WC$t.. USIU has an academic standard similar to the Ivy League, with a 3.0 grade-point aver age required for admittance. Sid Gillman in his short term as athletic director, said USIU like_, d t '

SAN DIEGO-E~ch day _before practice, ,the U.S. Internat1onal University football team suits up. Nothing unusual about that - .exc_ep_t that at USIU, there is no locker room ac~ 1 Y on _campus. Players must dress in their dormitory, and after practice must shower there as well With _or without facilities, however, USIU has a.big goal. It is attempting to make the J~p. m tw~ years from the NAIA to NCAA :D1v1s1on II mfootball-and to Division I in all f I t It will not be easy for the Gulls to make the ascent.. USIU has a student body of 3,500, one-third of whom are international students an,1 sports have never been No. 1on campus.' A lot of the students are foreian, and 1 ..,.. other sports.

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