The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 66, No. 57, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1979 Page: 4 of 16
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“You can’t get ahead if you’re trying to
get even.” —OU head basketball coach
Dave Bliss
HOW THEY STAND
For starters, the Sooners will return Al
Beal, who won the Big Eight’s Post Season
Tournament MVP award after destroying
Kansas and Kansas State; Terry Stotts, who
was named to the 1979 All-American
Academic team and headed the Big Eight
academic squad; Raymond Whitley, a
lightening-quick guard who was named to
the NCAA All-Midwest Regional team;
and Aaron Curry, who, after a slow start,
picked things up in the middle of the season
and played as big a role as anyone in turn-
in the Kemper Arena in Kansas City,
however, most basketball observers began
to take notice.
And if ever there was a Cinderella team,
that had to be it.
“We’re only one out of six schools to
have a basketball and football team finish
in the Top 20 last year,” Bliss points out.
The other five were UCLA, Texas, Arkan-
sas, Purdue and Notre Dame.
“We’ll have a good team this year. We’ll
be competitive. But 1 think you can have a
good team and not do as well. ”
While Bliss, who is heading into his fifth
year as head coach, is not trying to tone
down his enthusiasm he is one of the
hardest driving coaches at the university —
he realizes that what looks good on paper in
the beginning may not turn out to be so
great in the end.
And he knows that through experience.
He was named the Big Eight’s Coach of
the Year in 1976 when took over a flounder-
ing program and went 9-17, en route to
playing a spoiler role in the Big Eight.
When a strong nucleus returned a year
later to post an 18-10 record, it appeared ail
was going to, pardon the pun, be bliss for
Sooner basketball.
The start of a powerhouse?
Nope. Not yet.
And this is why Bliss says a team can get
better and not do as well.
His 1978 team was hit hard by injuries
and went 14-13. A couple of players quit or
transferred afterwards, and people began
wondering if that 18-10 team was really a
fluke.
This year, the story may be the same.
The Sooners return four starters, had an
excellent recruiting year and should be bet-
ter.
Yet, some of the pre-season polls are still
picking OU third, behind Kansas and Kan-
sas State.
By DAVID DONCH1N
Sports Editor
The drawing on the easel in the middle of
his office shows Lloyd Noble Center as a
sprawling facility.
Indeed, it is a big facility.
But something is different from real life
and the picture. The picture is three years
old, but shows Jenkins Avenue as a four-
lane street wth a meridian. Paved parking
surrounds the building on all four sides.
“It will be like that when they build the
new baseball stadium," Bliss points out
with enthusiasm.
And there are the little things — like
sidewalks leading up to the arena and better
landscaping — which he has had done.
He looks forward to the improvements
which are supposed to begin after this
season. He has, for the past five years,
worked hard for them.
But the biggest improvement of the year
will not come outside of Lloyd Noble
Center.
The biggest improvements will come in-
side, on the 1979-80 men’s basketball team,
which will return four starters from last
year’s defending Big Eight championship
squad.
And the Sooners will put on their first
‘exhibition’ of the year when they host the
Australian national team Saturday in
Lloyd Noble Center.
Students who present a student football
or basketball season ticket will be allowed
in the game forSl.
Tipoffis set for 7 p.m.
The Sooners are coming off a sensational
21-10 season, capped by a trip to the NCAA
Midwest Regional semifinals in Cincinnati,
where they fell to national runner-up-to-be
Indiana State.
But it was quite a surprise that OU won
the Big Eight championship. The Sooners
were picked no better than third, mostly
fourth, in the preseason polls: They were
coming off a 14-13 season, so there was no
reason to even consider them.
But even when they won the Big Eight’s
regular season title, they were the under-
dogs at the Big Eight’s post-season tourna-
When the Sooners thoroughly
dominated both Kansas and Kansas State
Strength, experience now the key
ing around a Sooner team whch finished a
humiliating fourth place in the Big Eight’s
Pre-Season season tournament.
The big holes will be left by the gradua-
tion of John McCullough, the Big Eight’s
Most Valuable Player, and of super-sub
Cary Carrabine, the Sooners’ sixth man.
“No one will take their places,’’ Bliss
said, with a touch of regret. “No one ever
did so much for a program as those two.”
For openers, though, let’s take a look at
the four returning starters:
CENTER
Beal returns as the Big Eight’s premier
center.
The 6-foot-9, 215-pound senior led the
Big Eight in field goal percentage (62.7 per-
cent) and blocked shots and swept post-
season tournament honors.
He was snubbed on the All-Big Eight
team when writers didn’t pick a center and
was listed as a second-teamer. He will serve
as the Sooners’ co-captain with Terry
Stotts.
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The enjoyment at the wedding was high; everyone
was excited and happy and there seemed to be plenty of
wine. Actually nothing on earth is a more joyful occasion
than a wedding. Everyone celebrates; no one is unhappy
- it is the beginning of a new life, it is the continuation of
human existence.
Traditionally a marriage feast always has wine, lots of
wine - even the feast itself largely depends on wine. And
so it was In Cana of Galilee at the wedding which Jesus
of Nazareth was invited to attend. They were enjoying
the wine; the future looked bright; everyone was excited
and full of joy. It seemed as though it would never end -
when all of a sudden, the wine ran out (John 2:1-3).
Today our human life is just like that wedding feast at
Cana of Galilee. There is, no doubt, some real joy in
human living - we have material things, our family and
friends, and other types of pleasure. Sometimes there is
real excitment, the future may look bright and there
seems to be plenty of "wine" to drink. (In the Bible wine
always signifies life—because unlike water which comes
from a source without life, wine is the very life essence
of the grape). However, just as at the wedding at Cana of
Galilee the "wine" of human enjoyment always runs out.
Human enjoyment is fleeting- it is real, but it is running
out. Sooner of later in every situation, in every relation-
ship, in every type of human pleasure - "the wine runs
out." Our family, though so dear to us, one day is gone.
Our husband or wife, maybe the perfect match, one day
is no longer with us. Our friends, with whom we have
shared so much joy, one day are separated from us. Our
college days, so exciting, are soon ended. In every
human achievement, pleasure and joy - the “wine" is
slowly running out. And eventually our own life,
regardless of successful or joyful, is over. In this "wed-
ding feast" in which we all live today - the wine is runn-
ing out
But Jesus was invited to this wedding. This shows us
that the Lord came into the world, Into a situation where
human enjoyment existed, but was not lasting. The
changing of water into wine was more than just a
miracle. It was a sign to show us why Jesus came into
the world.
There were six empty water pots at the wedding (John
2:6-7) signifying man, created on the sixth day (Genesis
1:27,31) as a vessel (II Corinthians 4:7). The Lord com-
manded the waterpots to be filled with water. Water here
signifies death (Exodus 14:21; Romans 6:3), showing that
all men, though in a situation where there is some enjoy-
ment, are actually just vessels filled with death. The Lord
then commanded that some of the water be drawn out
and brought to the ruler of the feast (John 2:8). When the
ruler tasted the waler made into wine, not knowing it had
been water, he exclaimed, "Every man serves the good
wine first, and when they have drunk freely; then that
which is poorer; you have kept the good wine until now."
(John 2:10).
Actually our human life is just the poor wine, greatly
inferior and quickly exhausted. The best wine is the
Lord's life, the divine and eternal life we receive in
Jesus, in this life our pleasures and enjoyment will never
end. Even as the ruler of the feast discovered that the
new wine was better than the former wine, so we too
shall find that the life we receive in Jesus is much better
than our natural life. This life is the best because It is the
life of God Himself. When we receive this life a marriage
feast begins that will never end.
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life. Today Jesus is present. He is in this world, a place
where human joy is quickly fading, and He is here
waiting to change your death into life. Regardless of
what our life may be like now, in God’s eyes it is full of
death and running out. The Lord Jesus is here to change
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poor life, but new life, the best life - the life of God
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Robertson, Stephen. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 66, No. 57, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1979, newspaper, November 7, 1979; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1830541/m1/4/: accessed June 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.