a Page 10-B-Friday, September 7, 1979-The Michigan Daily BROADCASTERS CHANGED: ABC juggles r ..,a.i TV lineup An AP Sports Analysis. OK, students. Time for our weekly television quiz: Who will be doing college football this year? (a) ABC, (b) ESPN, (c) Chris Schenkel, (d) Woody Hayes. If you answered the first two, you deserve a varsity letter. ABC, THE network with the roving eye for top-rated cheerleaders, will be doing the NCAA's glamour games for the 14th straight season. ABC gets first For more sports, see pages 12-13b crack at the major college games and will be doing 13 national broadcasts and 45 regional telecasts live on Saturday. ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, has a hand in the college game for the first time. ESPN will get ABC's leftovers and will be doing those games at odd hours throughout the rest of the weekend. ESPN, a distributor of sports events for cable TV, plans to have 24 hours of sports by Jan. 1, 1980, reaching a poten- tial audience of five million homes. This weekend, for example, ESPN plans taped broadcasts of four college games, including Chuck Fairbanks and Colorado against Oregon at 1:30 a.m. EDT and7:30.p.m. Sunday. Schenkel, a fixture on ABC's college football telecasts since 1966, has been dropped from the squad. He will be sharing the dollege Football Scoreboard assignment with Dave Diles, and he's not at all happy about the demotion. But the move was inevitable. SCHENKEL IS from the "gee-whiz'' school of journalism, and the broad- casting game seemed to have passed him by. While today's best announcers can honestly critique a bad performan- ce, Schenkel was much more at home calling every player a credit to his school, family and country and com- menting on the caliber of ABC's "honey" cheerleader shots. Woody Hayes, longtime coach at Ohio State, won't be on the college scene either. The irascible Hayes was fired last Dec. 29 for punching Clemson player Charlie Bauman, who had had the audacity to intercept an Ohio State pass late in the Gator Bowl game. That infamous interception and pun- ch in Jacksonville, Fla., caused numerous problems for ABC's main play-by-play announcer, Keith Jackson. He was bombarded with charges of covering up the incident because he never mentioned it on the air. JACKSON, WHO says he never did get along with Hayes, explained that the crowd of players, coaches and hangers-on cluttering the Ohio State sideline obscured his view of the punch. He never saw it on the field and couldn't see it on replay on his monitor, either. The replay camera on the ball was turned off as soon as Bauman went out of bounds. And even though the punch was clearly seen live by the viewers at home, the play couldn't be shown again because ABC traditionally blacks out the local area, so there was no network feed back to Jacksonville. With only one minute left in the game, there wasn't enough time to get the replay from the "history tape" from the main studio in New York, leaving ABC and Jackson helpless and embarrassed. "My responsibility is to my profession first and then to the public," said Jackson. "I can't report what I can't see." Jackson was angry that ABC didn't spend the $4,600 to bring the main feed back into Jacksonville, despite the local blackout. "THE REASON it won't happen again is simple," Jackson said. "We'll never get into a situation where we're not protected on the live feed." Jackson will have his live feed Satur- day in Atlanta when Alabama meets Georgia Tech on national TV in ABC's season opener. Former Notre Dame Coach Ara Parseghian will handle the commentary. Jackson will handle ABC's top games, while Parseghian will alternate with Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles. Parseghian, who turned cheerleader in his first and only attem- pt at analysis of a Notre Dame game, will not work any Fighting Irish games. Broyles won't work Arkansas games but can do Southwest Conference con- tests. The rest of the ABC lineup includes Al Michaels, who is close to signing con- tract with NBC for next year, working with either Broyles or Parseghian in the second game; No. 3 team Jim Lam- pley and Lee Grosscup and No. 4 Verne Lundquist and Steve Davis. Sinpk ins on the loose MICHIGAN'S ALL-AMERICAN linebacker candidate and co-captain Ron Simpkins (40) and Tom Seabron (since graduated) chase down a Navy halfback.,Simpkins is expected to anchor the veteran Wolverine defense this season, while the young offense attempts to gel as quickly as possible. The senior from Detroit set a Wolverine tackle record as a sophomore and was the leading tackler on last year's unit as well. Check Out These PLAYERS LET HIM DOWN Don't blame Ozark for Philly demise Book Rush Specials At: pO/amo0.5mr Rofllnq Writer BlG FOLLETTS mpencil Reg: $2.98 Special: 98 n Reg: 984 Special: 59 RED Reg: $2.98 L PEN a--- Special:98 AP Sports Analysis PHILADELPHIA - The man in traction in a hospital bed reached to an- swer the telephone. "Hello, this is Danny Ozark," said the voice at the other end. This was the same Danny Ozark whose Philadelphia Phillies slowly were dying in the National League East race. Rumors of his imminent dismissal were rampant. But despite his problems, he took time to call a reporter he once tried to punch in the nose. "How are you?" Ozark asked. "I missed you. I asked where you were and they told me you were in the hospital." I was never an admirer of Ozark's managing tactics, but the man almost. always demonstrated class as a person. He is the kind of guy you want as a friend. Last year after a ruckus in the clubhouse in which a writer accused shortstop Larry Bowa of hitting him, Ozark was the only mewber of the Phillies' organization who apologized for the incident. He always protected his players to a fault. They were like his children. But even as children do these days, the players let Ozark down. They fell on their fat wallets and the manager paid the price. The Phillies, who many expected to wrap up the East by July 4, were in fifth place when the ax fell on Ozark in Atlanta last week. The Philies of 1979 thought all they had to do was throw their gloves on the field and other teams would roll over. They believed that garbage about clin- ching by July 4. The Phillies can't be blamed for firing the manager. It's the thing to do. You can't fire 25 players. The fans were showing their disgust. The club had to make a move. If you're looking for some deep, dark secret about the collapse of a team loaded with talent, the third highest paid club in baseball, don't look any further than the players. Ozark made his mistakes, but no more than he did as the club won three consecutive East titles. This year the team didn't outplay those tactical errors. This reporter, who has covered the entire Ozark regime since his surprise appointment seven years ago, felt badly. For a moment I forgot the pain of a slipped disc and the uncomfortable traction. Ozark wasn't responsible for the Phillies' season of disaster. The 25 guys he treated like men are responsible. Ozark's end came because he was too nice a person. There were injuries, more than one team could expect. But it wasn't the injuries that beat them. It was simply poor baseball. This was a team that tossed fundamentals to the winds. its c C c ( Pff f, tom, c . '. .. _ . _ . . 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