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how do you feel about comments that this year's team doesn't throw the ball enough ? A: It's certainly true these days that the better you throw, the more you throw. We'd like to throw more, and we hope to in the future. We also realize that it's a fallacy to wait until third down to throw. We're starting to throw more on first down—probably 50% of the time if you check on it. Of course it can backfire, too, just as last Saturday when an interception set up their first score. Q: Do you feel tha t the Owls are really equipped to play the kind of power game that seems to be their style? A: Let me clarify something. Wha t appears to be power has really been a lack of it. Instead of t rying to blow people out one-on-one, we've been t ry ing to run outside by blocking down and angle blocking. We've gone to this because we don't feel that we do have the personnel to t ry to run over people. Q: What about creating a little deception with the option, a play that has worked well before but one that we've seen little of this year? A: Actually, we have as many options, now as we have ever had. We just haven't run them as much. But our people run them quite well, ' and we plan to use them a lot more in the fu ture . Sideline calls Q: Would you comment on calling plays f rom the sideline? A: First , with regard to last week's column, I'd like to say that the coaching f rom the sidelines rule wen£ out two years ago, and also that it would have been impossible to intercept our signals. You might have picked up formation signals, but not the play calls. Actually we would like to have our quarterbacks call their own plays, although 98% of the schools in the country send in plays from the bench. But all our quarterbacks are pure sophomores — no experience, not even a reds-Hart year — and we don't have, the necessary time — about an hour a day — to prepare quartebacks adequately. We discussed it with the quarterbacks, and we didn't feel that, with the academic workload they carry, we could ask them to spend an extra hour a day on this kind of training. As for the plays we call, I think maybe one reason they seem so unoriginal to you is because af te r five years of watching us, you ought to know our tendencies pret ty well. You said something about the draw. We ran it so much because we were behind and in a passing situation, so it was a good way to get a fewyards and slow down the pass rush at the same time. The main thing tha t ' s t rue in this case is that it looks good when you win and bad when you lose; nobody complained af te r VMI. Favorites Q: What about statements that you play favori tes or tha t your best players are on the bench ? A: To suggest that would be foolish. That is a most unjus t accusation. Our positional coaches evaluate the players against each other and choose those who play. We also watch and grade game fi lms quite thoroughly. The film is really the only fa i r means to evaluate the job a player does in a game. You may see one player make a few good plays, and another player break down a couple of (This interview carJy this week by