Tuesday, December 21, 1999
UK staff adds Highlands grad
The Associated Press
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky football coach Hal Mumme hired two new assistants Monday, replacing members of his staff who have been hired by other schools.
Former Highlands star John Schlarman, an all-Southeastern Conference lineman at Kentucky under Mumme in 1997, will take the graduate assistant job vacated by Sonny Dykes, who was given a full-time assistant's job at Texas Tech.
Schlarman started from 1994 to 1997 for UK. He spent the last two years as a defensive line coach at Bourbon County High School and will help Guy Morriss coach the Kentucky offensive line.
Dan Lounsbury, the former offensive coordinator at Houston, will take the job vacated by Chris Hatcher, who left the Wildcats to become head coach at Valdosta (Ga.) State. Lounsbury will coach Kentucky's tight ends and special teams.
Lounsbury, an Arkansas graduate, has coached at the college and professional levels for nearly a quarter-century, including positions at Texas and Purdue and in the Canadian Football League and the World League of American Football.
Also Monday, Mumme named running backs coach Tony Franklin as his offensive coordinator. Mumme ran the offense this season.
HOLTZ'S FRIEND KILLED: South Carolina coach Lou Holtz's pilot and friend, Dewey “Sonny” Foster, died in a plane crash near Beaufort, S.C., during a recruiting trip.
Foster was to have picked up Holtz on Sunday night for another leg of the trip to New Jersey. But the plane, which had gone to Savannah, Ga., to refuel, crashed on its return about four miles short of the runway in a misty rain.
Co-pilot Joe Baier underwent surgery for a broken shoulder.
“I'm still in a state of shock,” Holtz said Monday. “It was a very close call.”
VANDERLINDEN CONTRACT: Maryland has extended the contract of football coach Ron Vanderlinden for two years to 2004.
Vanderlinden led the Terrapins to a 5-6 season, their best since 1995.
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