ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, February 29, 1996 TAG: 9602290065
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: College Notebook
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY
A trade involving former Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie could have a positive impact on the career of ex-Virginia quarterback Shawn Moore.
Moore finished the 1995 Canadian Football League season with the Calgary Stampeders, losers to the Baltimore Stallions in the Grey Cup, the league's championship game.
Moore began the season with Ottawa and spent eight weeks with Winnipeg before being traded to Calgary. He started the final regular-season game following injuries to Flutie and Jeff Garcia and threw three touchdown passes.
Flutie was sidelined for much of the year, and Garcia, from San Jose State, was named all-league in the CFL's Northern Division. Moore, involved in a six-quarterback logjam in Winnipeg, doesn't mind the competition.
The third quarterback on Calgary's preseason depth chart is Virginia Tech alumnus Maurice DeShazo, who played for Bassett High School several years after Moore played for Martinsville. DeShazo originally was on Ottawa's negotiating list.
Moore, who played with the NFL's Denver Broncos and was with the Arizona Cardinals for a while, will turn 28 on April 4. Some believe he has a bright future in coaching, if that's what he chooses.
``I've had some people ask me about that,'' said Moore, who is moving from Charlottesville to the Washington, D.C., area, with his wife, Kimberly, an attorney. ``Right now, I still have the hunger to play.''
Moore has been impressed with Calgary's offensive coordinator, former Penn State quarterback John Hufnagel, and feels the Stampeders have the most stable operation he's witnessed in the CFL.
``When I came home, it had been a long, long year, and my first instincts were not to go back,'' he said. ``But, when I read about the huge, huge bonuses being paid [in the NFL], it made me think. People always ask me about going back to the NFL and I have to tell them, `It's not my choice.'''
RECRUITING: New Virginia Tech football assistant Charley Wiles has a reputation as a hustler in recruiting, which should help make up for the loss of Todd Grantham, who resigned to take a position at Michigan State.
Grantham had principal responsibility for nine of Tech's 28 signees. All three junior college transfers and three of Tech's six signees from Florida were Grantham recruits. Wiles is a Florida native.
One-time Virginia football recruit Stephon McQueen, whose scholarship offer was rescinded on the eve of the signing day, has signed a letter of intent with North Carolina. McQueen, a defensive end from Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, N.C., was warned by UVa that he could not afford any D's on his first-semester report card.
VMI has signed running back Linwood Robbins and defensive back Quesuan Wigfall from Denbigh High School in Newport News. They bring to 10 the number of players who have signed with or made public commitments to VMI, which plans to release its list in March.
THINKING BIG: Dave Cameron, basketball coach at Cape Henry Collegiate School in Virginia Beach, says there is strong mutual interest between 6-foot-9 Chris DiNunzio and VMI. DiNunzio, averaging close to 12 points and 13 points, likely will sign with VMI if his academics remain solid.
The Keydets reportedly have offered a scholarship to 6-8 Ryan Charles from Clover Hill High School in Midlothian. Charles, a 3.9 student with a score of better than 1,200 on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), recently scored 20 points or more nine times in an 11-game span.
IN THE ACC: North Carolina has lost three home conference games for the first time in coach Dean Smith's 35-year tenure. ... Georgia Tech is the first team since Virginia in 1980-81 that has swept Duke and North Carolina in the same season. ... Freshmen scored all of Clemson's points in a recent 68-48 loss to Wake Forest.
TEMPER, TEMPER: Duquesne coach Scott Edgar has been reprimanded by the Atlantic 10 for his comments following a 116-115 overtime loss to Xavier on Saturday. ``Thirty eight to 17,'' Edgar said of the fouls. ``Two teams play similar - young, aggressive, emotional ... 38-17. You tell me.''
AROUND THE STATE: Virginia Commonwealth is beginning construction on the $29 million Siegel Convocation and Recreation Center, a near-campus facility that is scheduled for completion before the 1998-99 basketball season.
The VCU women will play their home games at the Siegel Center, the men may play some games there and both programs will practice in the new building, where their offices also will be located. The Rams will continue to use the Richmond Coliseum, which seats 12,500, for their biggest draws.
HOLLINS RECOGNIZED: The NCAA has issued invitations to the Division III Mid-Atlantic South Regional to Hollins College fencers Virginia Katz, Chris Holt and Christie Laming. Laming is a foil fencer, and the others specialize in epee.
Katz, a senior from Alexandria, has an academic conflict and will be unable to attend. Laming, a sophomore from Port Huron, Mich., and Holt, a junior from Williamsburg, will represent Hollins in the competition at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J.
NON-REVENUE: Hasani Menefee from Franklin County is wrestling at 158 pounds for VMI, whose 11 dual-meet victories are the most in coach John Trudgeon's 11-year tenure.
Zach Feldman, the top wrestler for Virginia, is the younger brother of former Virginia Tech All-American Josh Feldman, now an assistant coach for the Cavaliers. Zach Feldman, a junior in eligibility, transferred to UVa after three years at Michigan.
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