6 Tuesday, February 3, 1976 University Daily Kansan Nuisances recalled on signing day By STEVE SCHOENFELD Associate Sports Editor Lloyd Sobek was relaxing at home one night last February when the phone rang. He was pretty sure it was a college coach on his way to the Big Eight football season. It was the Big Eight football season. Sobek, a freshman tight end at the University of Kansas, picked up the phone and an assistant coach from a Midwestern university was on the other end. THE CONVERSATION WENT something away. She walked down to sign on you," the coach said. "Coach, I'm not interested," Sobek said. "I'm going to sign with Kansas." The coach didn't listen, however, and spent the six hours driving down to sign Sobek, a senior at Lee's Summit, Mo., High School. Sobek didn't change his mind; the coach left empty handed, and Sobek enrolled at KU. SOBEK'S STORY ISN'T too unusual. Of the high school seniors who will sign, one letter-signed student may have gone through the same routine last night. College recruitters can be persistent. Just ask Sobek, nosegger Dennis Balajama, who played for the Knicks tackle Kirk Tuddus. They all went through it last year. And they remember it well. One coach at an opposing Big Eight school just wouldn't take "no" for an answer, but I would. "HE STAYED ARGUND late at night and twice even stayed all night," he said. "I didn’t like it too well because it was sort of a horror to do it, but I got up my bed and sleep downstairs." Jackson, a 6-4, 252-pound from Maine, said he thought about giving the whole thing when I bought about giving the whole thing. up and not going to school. It all didn't seem worth it." Many of the players said the recruiters bothered not only them, but also their interns. "THIS ONE SCHOOL kept taking to my mother," Jackson said. "They tried to convince her that she should make up my mind for me and tell me to go there. Mom wouldn't do that. She wanted me to go wherever I wanted to go." Tushua said one coach actually came into his high school and bothered him during the game. "A LOT of RECRUTERS put on an act to get you to come there," the bobble said. "The one who talks best usually wins. I tried to be very quiet and tell them and tell them straught." All of the coaches tried hard to sell the players on going to their particular school. Not all of their selling jobs impressed the KU players, however. Balaiga said, "The whole thing was like a little game. They'd try to get you to go to their school by telling you a lot of stuff. Many times they weren't too honest." "A couple of schools tried to get me to cancel some of my visits," Tushaus said. "They told me I should never go to KU because I could never win there." "THEY ALSO TOLD that coach Van Zandt (Lance Van Zandt, assistant head coach and defensive co-ordinator), who was recruiting me, didn't stay at a school very long, and he just might be at our school in the next year or two." Another player said the coaches disregarded other schools when they were required to play. Tushaus said he was told by one coach that he would start for his school during his freshman year. Tushaus said he knew the coach used that line on all recruits. Three of the four players said they were offered things they knew were illegal. Sobek said, "Someone from one of the other Big Eight schools—he's on probation now—was talking to me about something when I told him I liked the leather jacket and I liked that shirt. But if you sign right now I'll get you a leather coat and a ring just like it," "ONE PERSON OFFERED me a car," Jackson said. "I knew right away he was putting on a show. A car would have been nice, but I knew the NCAA didn't allow it." Balagma said he was offered money to sign. "THIS COACH OFFERED it to me," he said, "I just couldn't accept it, and I told him that if I was going to come to his school some come without any extras being offered." None of the players said the KU coaches offered them anything illegal. When it finally got down to making a decision, players said it was tough decision. "I'd list the coaches, the players and the facilities of each school I'd gone to and rate them," Tushua said. "I went to Arizona State, fell in love with the place and didn't go to leave. But then the next week I go somewhere else, and I'd feel the same way." The players admitted there were fun times while they were being recruited. After a while, the fun began to wear off, but the recruiting wore on. "Everywhere you wont you'd go to bars, get plastered and rowdy," Balagna said. That was great fun at first. But everything was different, including the same thing. I was glad when it was all over." 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