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Tuesday, February 24,1976
University Daily Kansan
Trackmen bemoan Talley 'bomb'
By GARY VICE
Scarth Writer
Last Friday's meeting of the University of Kansas kick team began on a rather ominous note with head coach Jake Snyder. "We've got a lot of work to do," he said.
Timmons said, "Originally, we were going to hold a meeting Monday (yesterday) to talk about the Big Eight Championships, but something has come up that we'll have to talk about now."
As Talley informed the athletes of his decision, his voice grew shaky. Hearts were sinking at the thought of his leaving and several athletes fought to restrain their tears. Others found it easier to shed them.
It was something no KU trackman wanted to hear. In a valley, KU assistant coach, and resign his position at Chicago, he said the Citylathe The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. The resignation is effective immediately following the Big Eight Indoor Track season.
Talleday his decision was influenced by the possibility of the NCAA eliminating coaching assistants from sports other than football and basketball. He said that he wanted more job security for his family and that he considered his new position a permanent one.
"You can take a boy out of the South, but you can, too, the South out of a boy," Talled say, "it's like sola."
Talley, a graduate of Furman University in
New York, has been an enthusiastic about
returning the part of the country to which he
gave his life.
In his fourth year as KU's top assistant, Talley had an excellent rapport with his athletes. After the team shuffled out of the meeting room, a few walls were filled with memorabilia, and there were many team members, were shaking their heads sadly.
Quarter-miller Randy Benson said, "It's just like a bong being drowned on me. It bit hard."
Freshman hurdler Anthony Coleman said, "I was really shocked. Coach Talley was everything on this team," he added.
Jay Wagner, one of KU's top sprinters, said, "It's
kind of a shock. He worked with all of us so personally."
Talley said that he enjoyed working with people, and
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Talley yelling encouragement
that he preferred "to coach a person and not just an event."
"At The Citadel," Talley said, "it's going to be a program where you develop an athlete.
"The group we have here at KU, with their talent and ability, will always be successful."
Talley, regarded as one of the nation's top sprints
and hurdles coaches, said he hoped his decision wouldn't affect any of the athletes' status at KU.
"I don't really look for any of them to withdraw," he said. "The guys deserve a program of this quality."
gives you a program of this course. High junior Bill Bailey said, "People don't realize how much losing Coach Talley will hurt this program. You look at the sprinters and they are the strength of our team."
Wagner, a junior, indicated that this might be his last year competing for KU.
"I probably won't (compete next year)." Wagner said. "Talley was just the nucleus of our group."
Coleman said, "I'm going to keep on working, but if we don't get an excellent hurdling coach, I'm going to have to leave. I need someone to work with me like coach Talley does."
Tailey said the athletic department was hopeful that a replacement could be found in time for the outdoor season.
Clyde Walker, KU athletic director, said yesterday that finding a replacement would have to follow affair rules.
If the Jayhawks can't find a replacement, sprint captain Benson said he was prepared to assume a
"We'll certainly attempt to replace him as soon as possible." Walker said, "but I fully expect it to be several weeks."
"I'm going to have to really do job outfors and to everyone it can be done." Benson said. "I got to know them well, and they helped me."
"We will be to be pushing for one another a lot more, coaching each other. We may just I save to follow later旦
One brief exchange between Talley and Coleman seemed to capture the mood of the emotion-packed
After announcing his resignation, Talley told Coleman, "I don't want to hear about the Big Eight's best hurdler any more. I will hear about the best hurder in the world."
Coleman replied, "I don't know if I can make it without you. coach."
Freshman Coleman a humble hurdle star
By GARY VICE
Sports Writer
Alternately sprinting and jogging around the track in Allen Field House is a freshman hardier who is surprised to find himself among the Big Eight conference in two events.
Anthony Coleman, a prep star last year at Lincoln High School in Dallas, Texas, said yesterday, "I never expected to be one of the best." Eight as a freshman. It's a great feeling."
Coleman is humble about his conference leading marks in the 60-yard high and low hurdles, but his teammates chide him about the abbreviation "A.C.T.S." on his practice T-shirt, saying it stands for "Anthony Coleman Track Star."
Those who have witnessed Coleman's blazing performances during indoor competition this season would find it easier to believe his teammates.
Coleman refutes that translation and says it means Active Committee of Teachers and Students, an organization he was involved with in high school.
His 7.2 mark in the high hurdles set a record for KU freshmen and meets the qualifying standard for competition in the NCAA Indoor Championships.
He has run a 6.8 in the 60-yard low hurdles and a 7.2 in the 60-yard high hurdle event. Both times are lifetime bests for Coleman, who is also coming to the University of Kansas.
"I's a real honor for me to go to NC's." he said. "I plan to run them at a 7.1 or a 7 fat in the Big Eight. That's my goal. I'm really going to get down to work."
Coleman's hurdle tutor, Tad Thalley, assistant track coach, said he believed that Coleman's inexperience was the only thing slowing him down.
Tallay said, "Anthony is a young hurder. He has not hurdled for a very long period of time. He's having some trouble with his steps to the first hurdle.
"he has a lot of potential with his height more hurdle work." He just needs a little more hurdle work.
Coleman said, "When I come out of the blocks, every time I go over the first hurdle, I hit it right here (pointing to the scab on his left knee).
"Most of the time, the first one out of the blocks. If he's an exceptional runner, wins
sports
every time. I always have to come from behind to win, or I need to lean hard."
In KU's last meet against Oklahoma State and Wichita State, Coleman didn't need to lean too hard. He came a 6.8 in the 60-yard low hurdles against an easy field of competitors and looked over his shoulder for his nearest challenger in the final yards of the race.
Coleman said the public address system at the meet bothered him. At Allen Field House, PA announcer Harvey Greer, Talley's predecessor as assistant KU track coach, introduces the hurdle events and puts the spotlight on Coleman.
In the meet, Greer said, "Keep your eye on lane four, the Big Eight's leading hurdle."
"Whenever I run," Coleman said, "I run to win, but I don't like it (the PA system); to win, I don't like it."
Coleman, it would seem, prefers to the pressure on himself. He said his ambition this season was to try out for the U.S. Olympic team, which will be competing against the world's top athletes this summer in Montreal.
"I plan to go to the Olympic Trials," he said. "I want to do my best to make the trials, whatever it takes. I'll try to do my best."
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