sports briefs Carr announces replacements on coaching staff In the wake of the thrilling victory in the Orange Bowl, Michigan coach Lloyd Carr announced several additions to his coaching staff for the coming season. In response to former offensive coordinator Mike DeBord's decision to take the head coach position at Central Michigan, Carr promoted quarterback coach Stan Parrish to the position. In addition, Carr named former Michigan player Andy Moeller as offensive tackles coach. Parrish coached Michigan's quarterbacks for the past four years. Prior to his tenure at Michigan, Parrish spent six seasons as quarterbacks coach at Rutgers, the last three as a head coach. His head-coaching resume also includes time at Wabash, Marshall and Kansas State. This past season was Parrish's 25th as a coach on the college circuit. In the second move, the 35 year-old son of former Michigan head coach Gary Moeller was added to the Michigan staff. Andy Moeller spent two seasons in the mid-1980s as the starting linebacker for the Wolverines and his 326 career tackles still rank as 12th on Michigan's all-time list. In his senior year, he helped lead his team to the Rose Bowl. Moeller comes to Michigan from Missouri where he was a coach for six seasons, helping lead three offensive tackles to all-Big 12 first team honors in the last three years. He had recently been promoted to co-offensive coordinator. He had also served as a tight-ends coach. The Ann Arbor native also spent time coaching at the U.S. Military Academy and served as a graduate assistant coach at Indiana. Carr expressed his excitement regarding his new coaches, particularly citing Parrish's success in leading Rutger's offense to the top of the Big East during his time there. - Jon Schwartz Michigan State's Burress, Ohio State's Diggs declare for NFL Michigan State wide receiver Plaxico Burress said Tuesday he will forgo his senior season for the Spartans and enter this spring's NFL draft. Burress, an all-Big Ten selection, led the Spartans with 53 catches for 957 yards during the past regular season. The Spartans' Citrus Bowl victory Saturday over Florida, he caught a school-record 13 passes for 185 yards and three touchdowns. "Since I started playing football, I have dreamed of playing in the National Football League," Burress told the Detroit Free Press. "But the past two years at Michigan State have made me think hard about realizing it early." Burress, who is 6-foot-6, said that "his teammates and most importantly, the fans, have made this experience truy memorable." Burress wasn't the only Big Ten standout to declare NFL draft eligibility on Tuesday. Linebacker Na'il Diggs, Ohio State's leading tackler last season, seldom wavered on the field. But he sure did in the days and hours leading up to Tuesday's decision to forgo his senior season. The tormented Diggs destroyed the first draft of a statement that he was leaving for the NFL, but later changed his mind. "I've been back and forth until Sunday night, until I finally came to realize that this is really what I want to do," the 6-foot-4, 232-pounder said. "There was really no definite factor that pushed me over to declare. "I just felt after doing the research and seeing what my chances are that this is the right time to do it." -From staff and wire reports Originally on page 2B in the 1-5-2000 issue of the Daily.