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,Knight by Mike McGraw Imprint staff The I-ibb descrintion -------r ~-~~ co ~- uld have easily read like this. WANTED: Head football coach for team which has lost 23 consecutive games. Program has history of vacant stands, embarrassing reputation, and player revolts. Must be prepared to endure endless futility jokes. Apply if you dare. mavhe
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begins disaster relief project I1 pear in any classified section. Still, what sane creature would apply for the head football coaching job at Waterloo? Why didn’t they just list it as a Ret or Kin CO-OP job, or give Some armchair football fan in K-W a chance to try his hand on the sideline? What Waterloo got was the second most winningest coach in Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) history. Dave “Tuffy” Knight is still
settling into his new office along the PAC corridor. With the hordes of high school students visiting the campus these days, Knight is busy recruiting talent for his rebuilding project. A trip to his office now finds several burly candidates waiting to talk to Waterloo’s new skipper. The term “rebuilding project” doesn’t begin to explain the task which lies.abead for Knight. The Warriors last won a game on October 12, 1984. For trivia buffs, that’s the weekend the Detroit Tigers won the World Series [remember?]. Some Waterloo football fans have grown from frosh to grads and never witnessed b vie tory. Three years worth of frustration burst in October, 1987. The players, distraught and disillusioned as their record fell to 0-5, banded together and forced the firing of then head coach Bob McKillop. Waterloo fi’nished with an O-7 record for the third straight season, and after the dust settled, a review committee pondered the fate of the program. By Christmas it was all systems go; and on February 9, 1988, the trumpets sounded as Knight returned to his old stompin’ grounds, Waterloo.
The October Revolution
ARE THE DAYS OF EMPTY STANDS OVER2 Vacant bleachers are commonplace at Seagram’s Stadium when Waterloo plays. But new head coach Tuffy Knight vows to make the Warriors competitive again.
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THE UNIVERSITYof Waterloo Drama Department presents Stephen Sondeim’s Broadway hit musical A Funny
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Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, March 18-19 at, 890 pm. in the Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building. Ticket are $8.00 for general admission and $5.00 for students and seniors. For tickets and information please call the UW Box Office at 885-4280.
INVESTMENT SEMINAR sponsored by the Entrepreneur’s Club. l O:OO ain. or 1 :OO pm. Physics 145. A financial planner and a stock broker will be speaking at each session. Refreshments will be served. Cost is $3 members/S4 non-members. ANOTHER GREAT presentation by Phi Delta Theta. Toga party at theKent Hotel, 800 pm. It will also be the location of our raffel. 82.00 admission.
FED FtlCKS.
FED FLICKS. The Golden Child. Eddie
The Golden Child. Eddie Murphy. Showtimes are 700 pm. and 9:DO pm. in Arts Lecture Rm. 116. Feds $1 .OO, non-Feds $3.00. IMAGES IN Vogue. Images in Vogue. $6.00 Feds. 8:OO pm. Fed Hall.
PEACE SOCIETY Coffee House. An evening of folk and folk music. 800 pm., ConradGrebel College. $1 .W admission fee. HEALING SEMINAR with MikeTurrigiano - Vineyard Christian Fellowship New York. Good Samaritan Community
Church.
Highway
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Township Road 72 behind Grobe Nurseries. 6:30 - 1000 pm. and Saturday 9:30 - 500 pm. LET’S MEET at the Mug tonight. 8:30 - 11:30 pm. CC 110. Features lively, interesting people, homebaked goods and hot drinks. Runs alternate Friday nights. Sponsored by Waterloo Christian Fellowship. Everyone welcome.
Murphy. Showtimes are 7:00 pm. and 9:OO pm. in Arts Lecture Rm. 116. Feds $1 .OO, non-Feds 83.00.
CONCERT at WLU 800 pm. in the The&e Auditorium. $5.00 adults, $3.00 seniors and students. High school students with ID free.
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FED FLICKS. The Golden Child. Eddie Murphy. Showtime is 8:oO pm. in Arts Lecture Rm. 116. Feds $1.00, nonFeds $3.00. GRADUATION RECITAL at WLU. 3:oO pm. in the Tlireatre Auditorium. Featuring Kimberley Enns, sopran?. Admission is free. TED CARLTON’S last Students’ Council meeting. 100, NH 3004. Everyone welcome.
But why would a man with a lucrative job as personnel director of the Torbnto Argonauts want to come to Waterloo, a move comparable to trading in a ‘88 Cadillac for a ‘73 Dart? But Knight admits he has no reservations about coaching here after last fall’s uprising. As far as he’s concerned, that was then, this is now. “I’ve heard different versiohs of the story, but I’m not too interested in what has happened in the past - there haven’t been a lot of positive things happen here in the past. To me, the slate is wiped clean.” He applies the same approach to the players who participated in the notorious October Revolution. But he is making it known who’s in charge. MONDAY,
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“Again, I look at it as a clean slate. Some players won’t be pleased with my coaching methods. But if they’re not, I can suggest 21 other schools where they can transfer to. There’s two wais of doing things - my way and the wrong way. If they don’t like it, they should think about transferring, and I’d be glad to help them transfer.‘*
“There’s hills and valleys at all universities, this place is no different from Laurier, McMaster, or the rest of them There are always hurdles to overcome, it’s just different here from other schools. If you really want to play football, you’ll overcome them. If it’s a good program, the players wifl stay.”
My way and the wrong way
Recruiting a&de, let’s look ahead to September. Are the days of fumbles, interceptions, blocked kicks, and Is-yard infractions over? Well, Knight has set lofty goals and admits he might not attain them.
Knight the talent
admits he can’t assess left over from last sea-
son. “I’ve had a dhance to look at it a ,little bit, but it’s tough to evaluate the personnel we have now, we’ve only done some agility drills. But we do need some size.” But he emphasizes the importance of recruiting to his restoration project. “It’s a non-ending thing, we have to recruit every year. I’d like to get 20 to 25 blue-chip athletes who are good academically and good ball players in here every year. It’s going to take some time, there’s not a lot of depth here right now.” All you have to do is look at Knight’s day planner to realize how his reputation has genevated interest in the program. Nine recruits visited 6n Tuesday, 10 on Wednesday, seven on Thursday while more ’ were slated for Friday. Knight hints that he may see 50 prospective Warriors by the end of the month. Does his reputation have anything to do with this? Knight won’t say. “I don’t know, it (his record) doesn’t impress me. I don’t know if it impresses anybody else.” Knight doesn’t believe that Waterloo’s co-op system and stringent academic demands should affect the success of his program.
“To say we’re going have a 7-0 record, win the_ OUAA and go on and win the College Bowl is ridiculous - but I’m planning on doing it. I believe that if you don’t shoot for that, you won’t get it. I’ve been around long enough to realize that if you say you’re going to go 2-5, you will. I thought my last year at Laurier was going to be g real struggle, but we finished first and got beat in the playoffs. It’s so hard to predict .” Knight vows he can return respectability to Waterloo football in his first season at the helm.
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“I can bring respectability here this season. But for you, respectability may mean going 5-2, Respectability to me is that we’ll be competitive. We’re going to be a very competitive and entertaining football team. My personnel will dictate what type of game we’re going toglay, but we will be aggressive. I know right how that we will be a team that will attack you.” After almost four years of humiliation and a bagel in the win column, one win would be respectability for most Waterloo football fans.
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KPL NOON hour lecture.
Dr. Merrill H nsberger, WLU, will present ‘The J ream of Chinese History”. Kitchener Public Library (main branch). Admission is free.
FACULTY
OF Social Work Workshop at WLU. “Understanding Family Dynamics Through Film”. 9:OO ah. 4:30 pm. Registration limited. For more info. call Jane Kirkpatrick, >WtU
ext. 2022. TUESDAY, VEGETAWAN
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Young people who may qualify are those who are: l between 18 and 24 and not cttending school full-time or
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term potluck. Everyone welcome. Bring your favorite vegetarian-delight and take in the fun before exams start. Psych. Grad Lounge 3005 at 5:30pm.
Own Business l between 25 and 29 and are recent graduates from a postsecondary school or have received a trade certificate in the past year.
HOUSE OF Debates still has a few positions open for new members. To join, be at St. Jeromes College, Room 229 at 5:40 pm. All-Kangaroos Welcame.
Get down to business, 1 call (free): ’ THE . YOUTH HOTLINE
SCHOOL OF Architecture. Catherine Cooke from London, England will lecture on Russian Constructivism: Myth and Reality. 8:OO pm., ESII, Room 286.
The program is sponsored by the Ontario Ministry ot Skills Debelopment in co-operation with the Royal Rank of Canada. the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and local participating Chambers of Commerce Skills Development and Boards of Trade.
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