81.   He led the Jets in tackles in each of the last two seasons.

82.   He spent the last six seasons as a bench coach at the major-league level, four with Montreal under Felipe Alou and the last two seasons with the Dodgers.

83.   He played extremely well off the bench the last two seasons, when Moon was injured.

84.   He was suspended for a game in each of his last two seasons.

85.   He then moved up to the late-model stock division, where he has raced the last three seasons.

86.   He was with Morelia in Mexico the last two seasons and played for Ecuador in the Copa America tournament in Paraguay.

87.   He was actually both the crew chief and car owner for Matt Kenseth during the last two seasons in the Busch Grand National Series.

88.   He was head coach at Pacific three seasons before spending the last three seasons with the Jets.

89.   He will be expected to reverse a trend that has seen the team lose successively more games in each of the last six seasons.

90.   His self-assurance may well be the season he erases the word potential that has been attached to his name the last four seasons.