31.   Harrick, then in his first college coaching job at Pepperdine, nearly led the Waves to an upset of North Carolina State in the NCAA tournament.

32.   Gywnn has applied for the head coaching job at his alma mater, San Diego State.

33.   He had rebounded to take the Texas Tech head basketball coaching job at that less than teeming outpost, Lubbock.

34.   He had been after an elusive head coaching job for years, and he had finally arrived.

35.   He left after that season to take the head coaching job with the Cardinals.

36.   He recently interviewed for head coaching jobs at Louisville and Alabama-Birmingham.

37.   He has had four head coaching jobs in his life and in each case he inherited a bad situation and made it substantially better.

38.   He has never had another head coaching job.

39.   He originally visited with Baylor officials about the interim head-coaching job -- spending the Thanksgiving holiday in Waco.

40.   He dreams about being given a second chance in baseball, about one of his old friends calling and offering him that coaching job.