THE POST-STANDARD/Thursday, Jan. 10, 1991/PAGE A-9

Orange Hires Pasqualoni as Head Football Coach(ORANGE, from Page A-l)"I worked jft being lousy," he

said.But he also worked at being a

coach, his greatest ambition."I was a guy who was very happy

to be there and lucky because Iknew when I went there that Iwanted to be a coach," Pasqua-loni said. "What I used to do duringgames was get in Coach Paterno'sway a lot just to hear what he wassaying and figure out what wasgoing on."

Pasqualoni, a native of Connecti-cut, began his coaching career as anassistant at Cheshire (Conn.) HighSchool, then served stints at South-ern Connecticut State and WesternConnecticut State. He had a 34-17record as a head coach, including a10-1 mark in 1985.

Pasqualoni came to Syracuse in1987 as a linebackers coach andhas coached the position since.

Players know him as one of the'staff's most intense individuals.While he won't be caught deadwithout a tie on around the office,Pasqualoni turns into a fiercelymotivated coach on the practicefield.

Players refer to him as Coach P,but he's also been called Coach Psy-cho.

"At West Virginia, when Glenn(Young) and I were watching 'Psy-cho IV,' " redshirt freshman line-backer Dan Conley said, "he (Pas-qualoni) was in the room and he left,and Glenn looked at me and saidThere goes Psycho V.' "

Pasqualoni said he was "a littlenervous and still in a bit of shock" ashe met with reporters.

Pasqualoni was Crouthamel'schoice all along. The SU athleticdirector said he went to NewOrleans, where the coaching staffwas attending a convention, withthe idea of hiring Pasqualoni toreplace MacPherson.

After a seven-hour "exercise" ofinterviewing each member of thecoaching staff Monday, an exercisein which coaches and administrationshared frank thoughts about thedirection of the program, Croutha-mel said his decision became clear.

"As I went through that process,it became more obvious to me andreassuring to me that the guy on

"I'm in shock. I'm just very,very, very surprised, very

grateful ~ it's justoverwhelming."PAUL PASQUALONINew SU football coach

our staff who was clearly the heirapparent was Paul Pasqualoni,"Crouthamel said.

By Tuesday morning Crouthamelhad made his decision, and byWednesday morning Pasqualoniwas being introduced before theSyracuse media as the 26th headcoach of the Orangemen.

"I'm in shock," Pasqualoni said."I'm just very, very, very sur-prised, very grateful ... it's justoverwhelming."

When asked about his contract,Pasqualoni said he didn't know anydetails: "I'm so naive, I don't evenknow there's contracts."

Crouthamel said he never inter-viewed anyone outside the programfor the job, not George O'Leary ofGeorgia Tech and not Jim Hofher ofCornell. Crouthamel said he had acouple of outside candidates inmind, but only if his initial plan topursue Pasqualoni ran into trouble.

It didn't.Crouthamel said he wanted to

keep the job in-house to have conti-nuity, a word that came up repea-tedly during Pasqualom's news con-ference. In the end, a source saidPasqualoni became the "compro-mise choice," possibly to keepoffensive coordinator GeorgeDeLeone from joining MacPher-son's staff in New England.

"They all," Crouthamel said ofthe SU assistant coaches, "got anequal look. Obviously, you go inwith preconceived notions; every-thing isn't equal. People are differ-ent. Personalities are different.Experiences are different. So I didgo wi th some preconceivednotions."

CFOuthamel said Syracuse is get-ting exactly what it needs, a coachthe players already know, a coachwho knows the program, a coachwho can pull together recruiting,

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and a coach who can keep a goodportion of the staff from bolting toNew England.

Pasqualoni met with the playersfollowing his news conference, thenawaited the return of Syracuseassistants from New Orleans.' Astaff meeting is planned for 7 thismorning, when Pasqualoni shouldget a better idea of who plans tostay and who'plans to leave.

Aside from the urgency in get-ting the program running again,Pasqualoni takes over one of thecity's highest profile positions.

Pasqualoni also said he had nointention of being another CoachMac, something Crouthamel saidwas impossible, anyway.

"I probably won't drink as muchcoffee," Pasqualoni said. "I'm goingto be me."

MacPherson declined to appearat Pasqualoni's news conferenceWednesday. Sports informationdirector Larry Kimball said Mac-Pherson didn't want to take awayfrom Pasqualoni's day.

And what a day it was. Whiletroubled swirled around — what

with the uncer ta inty over thecoaching staff and recruiting —Pasqualoni managed to take a stepback and realize a dream had cometrue.

"Bear Bryant once said that tim-ing in life is every thing,", Pasqualonisaid. "And last night, it kind of hitme as to exactly what that meant.We've been to the Sugar Bowl, theHall of Fame Bowl, the Peach Bowl;we've been to Hawaii, the KickoffClassic; we've been to Japan, andnow I get to be the head coach. It's adream. It really is."

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