1991_11 The Daily Collegian November 1991

              Daily Collegian Sports
Youthi shines in scrimmage
By Dan Evans
DC Sports Writer
Basketball coaches across the
country would love to have Gary
Colson's problems.
Too much talent? Get serious.
With the start of the 1991-92
NCAA season staring him square
in the face, Colson must soon
decide what to do with his over¬
load of young talent.
The latest installment of misery
hit Colson Wednesday night at the
Bulldogs' annual Red/White
Scrimmage before a "standing,
room only" crowd at the FSU
North Gym. The white team won
the game, 92-74, but it was the
plethora of youth that stole, the
show.
Leading the way was the red
team's Davon Satterwhite. The 6-4
freshman guard scored 20 points
and grabbed four rebounds.
"I loved him," Colson said of
Satterwhite. "I thought all pi our
new kids did well tonight. They
handled themselves very well."
Satterwhite connected on eight
of 11 shots, including four of seven
from three-point territory. The
product of Tyler, Texas said it took
him a while to adjust in the early
stages of the scrimmage.
"At the beginning, I was kind of
varied,-ne said, gj^ffi't^
See BASKETBALL page 7
Gimme that
Fr%shrqa/i DeArjdre Austin,and Sammie Lindsey go
Ifter aldose baThri Wednesday nights Ned/White inta-
Hector Amezcwa/ DC Photographer
squad scrimmage. The Bulldogs play an exhibition
against the Lafayette Hustlers Monday night.
FSU looks to host first
round playoff game
By Chris Cocoles
DC Sports writer
After a 1-0 victory over UC Irv¬
ine last Sunday, the Fresno State
soccer team appeared to have
clinched its fourth consecutive Big
West Conference title.
But it took an announcement
from Big West Commissioner
James Haney that allowed FSU
coaches John Bluem and David
Linenberger to find a spot in the
soccer office for another champi¬
onship trophy.
After the Irvine game, the 12th-
ranked Bulldogs' 7-1-1 conference
record put them oneand-a-half
games ahead of Cal'State Fuller-
ton (6-3). But the Titans protested
last Thursday's game with Nevada
Las Vegas, when a brawl forced
the referees to stop the game with
18seconds leftand the Rebels lead¬
ing 4-3.
Had the protest.ruling favored
the Titans, the game would have
been replayed, but Haney awarded
the victory to UNLV, clinching the
league title and an automatic
NCAA playoff berth for FSU.
The Big West's derision means
the attraction of Friday's 7 p.m.
game between Fresno State and
Fullerton will be the final regular
season home game for seniors
Austine Ogbodo, Erik Pottorff, Vu
Tran, and all-time FSU leading
scorer Gerell Elliott.
But Linenberger is hoping the
Bulldogs beat the Titans to im¬
prove his team's chances of host-
See SOCCER page 7
No wonder FSU isn't ranked
Bjy-Micha&S. Handorf
I was shocked, no I was
horrified, to open Monday's
USA Today and find that the
Fresno State Bulldogs were not
ranked in the Top 25. Imagine
that. And I had expected to see
Fresno State ranked 25.
Of course, I had also expected
to see Utah State ranked 24th.
After all, they had just defeated
the Fresno State football team,
which was ranked in the Top 25
last week. Yeah, right. Neither
team should be anywhere near
the Jop 25. Think about it. The
Top 25 represents the 25 best
teams in the nation. There fore, to
be In the Top 25 one would
expect that there would only be
24 teams in the nation that were
better than the Bulldogs.
Not 24 teams better than
Fresno State in California, or 24
teams better than Fresno State in
the Pacific Time Zone. The
whole nation.
I'm sorry. But the team is just
not Top 25 material. Not today,
not tomorrow. Their schedule
sucksJt sucks rhino. New
Mexico, Long Beach State, New
Mexico State, and Northern
Illinois? These powerhouses
have combined fora 6-30 record.
Not one of these teams has won
more than two games this
season. Fresno City Cortege and
Hoover High School might be
able to survive a schedule as
tough as Fresno State's. ■
USA Today has ranked the.
nation's collegiate football teams
by a strength rating devised by
their, staff. Fresno State was not
ranked in the first 25 teams.
Fresno State was ranked 47.
USA Today also rated the
team's strength of schedule. It
was dismal. The Fresno State
schedule was rated a full 16
points lower than the average
rating of those teams in the Top
25. In fact, the average strength
of schedule of the teams that
Fresno State plays this year are
all at least six {joints higher than
Fresno State's rating.
Even lowly Utah State played
Nebraska arid Oklahoma this
year. Long Beach State played
Miami. You don't hear their
coaches crying about a Top 25.; • '
See RANKED page 7
Viewpoint
Choking on ratings
By David Donnelly
,   Originally, this column was
going to be on the conclusion
of the Women's volleyball
season and the upcoming
basket.all season.
However, I just can't ignore
what happened in'Logan,
Utah Saturday night so I'd like
to take some space and discuss
the shoddy pejrformance of the
football team here at lovely
Fresno State University.
! am disgusted, ashamed,
and humiliated. How could it
happen?
FjSU, whining for the
previous three weeks about
how the 'Dogs should be
ranked in the Associated Press
Top 25 finally got ranked 25th
in the nation and, to be honest,
■ choked on the ranking. They
lost to, get this, the jUtah State
Aggies, 20-19.
The Utah State Aggies. I
( mean come on, guys.
I can't*believe just three
weeks earlier I picked this
team to have an undefeated
season.
Not only is the undefeated
season down the drain, but the
Bulldogs might have lost any
chance to win one more Big
West title before moving on to
the >^es^ejn*AthIeric Confer¬
ence next season.
The Bu9dogsiel|> game
and a half behind the San Jose
State'Spartans, who are 5-0 in
the conference, and face the
University oAhe Pacific; the
top-ranked offense in the
nation, Saturday. •
I can just see the headlines
on Sunday. FSU'sconference
title hopes shattered, in loss •■
against Pacific.
Saturday's game is crucial
for the Bulldogs. -"     *
To have any chance of
winning the conference, FSU
must win the rest of its games,
including Saturdays game ;*>
and Nov. 23, when the
Bulldogs face the Spartans.
Enough negatives, lef s
move on to some positives.
I was impressed how the
UBth-ranked Fresno State
women's volleybalff^amrcame.
back and gave the third-
ranked team in the nation, the
Pacific Tigers, a run for their
money oh Tuesday night.
; This was after" the team
played'onS of its worst
matches of the season against
Long Beach State.Satarday,
FSU is mtte hunt fora
NCAA tournament, bid and
heeded a good showing
against one of thetop teams in
" the country. The first two
scoresare indicative of how "■'•■
the match went but anyone
who picked up yesterday-;-^
morning's newspaper would
think th£Tjgers wcafj^ffy;. *g
Forgef-forThe l&Bdogs wefelr^
this'mat^frpn^heit^t-. p,
" S? The BtuTdogs, who' fodk'the'
See VIEWPOINT page 7
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