Thursday, March 30.1978
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Coaches travel to pursue recruits
Bv GARY BEDORE
Sports Editor
KU's traveling salesman, assistant basketball coach Bob Hill, has recently been busy scanning the country recruiting top high school basketball prospects.
Hill has been living out of the suitcase for much of the semester, recruiting in places such as Pittsburgh, Penn, South Bend, Ind, Kentucky, Baltimore, Md., and San Antonio, Texas.
But for Hill and the KU coaching staff, recruitment is coming down to the nitty-gritty. The first date a recruit can sign a college letter of intent is April 12. Hill said the Jayhawks basically have their sights set on players to fill the four available spots.
"ITS LIKE babystays now," Hill said last week before leaving on an extensive recruiting trip which will keep him traveling until April 12. "Players by now have it narrowed down to a few schools. You just go to the games and make sure the team." A guy likes to be recruited. When they know you're really interested in them, it helps.
Hill beams when he talks to KU's five players on Saturday. He is actively following during the semester.
David Magley is a 6-8 forward from La Baille High School in South Bend, Ind. and has scored 38, 47 and 51 points in recent games. He also showed his college choices to KU and Michigan.
Another forward is 6-8 Guy Williams from Oakland Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif. Hill calls Williams, "an unselfish player with good lateral movement—facing the basket he can do it all."
HILL SAID Williams was deciding between KU, San Francisco, Arizona, Minnesota and Las Vegas.
Forward Keith Edmonson, 6-4, from MacArthur High School is the all-time leader scorer in San Antonio, Texas high school. He narrowed his choice to KU and Arkansas.
Tony Guy, from Loyola High School in Towson, Md., is 6-7, and Hill said guy would play guard if he attended KU. Guy is a McDonalds All America player and has narrowed his decision to KU, Marquette and Pittsburgh.
The final recruit in the big five is 16-11 pit man Mark Snow from Helix High School in La Mesa, Calif. Snow is from the same high school as nba Center Bill Waltman. Snow's choices are narrowed down to KU, Stanford, Washington, San Diego State, and USC.
KU HAS ALSO recruited several players from Kansas and Missouri, including 6-9 Stacks Hastings of Independence. Hill said he would be heavily recruited by KU next year.
"All of these players would have to be an important factor because of the ones we live with."
KU will lose guards Clint Johnson and Milt Gibson, forwards Ken Kueeniga and Chris Schoene.
HILL CURRENTLY is on the road watching several of the recruits play in all star games. Head coach Ted Owens is combining recruiting and guest speaking while assistant coach Lafayette Norwood is also doing spot recruiting.
"NCAA rules say you can't meet with recruits, but 'bu' can bump into them," he said. "You can have three home visits but if you go to a game, you say 'HI' and that's it." The same goes for talking to a player's coach or parents."
While watching players compete in high school games, Hill said he has to make sure his teammates know the rules.
HILL SAID that recruiting was a year-round process. KU subscribes to several scouting reports which list high school players, describing their good and bad points. Hill gets recruits names from those lists and sends questionnaires to recruits. The back office answers back, Hill said the recruiting process really begins with phone calls and visits.
He said the NCAA was making strides to keep recruiting legal by sending players recruiting pamphlets. The pamphlets ex-tenured the recruits the legal recruiting process.
"I keep track of all my phone calls and what I talked about," Hill said. "I also mail recruits post cards from wherever I am in the country."
He said the KU coaches subscribe to several newspapers near a player's home town and mail the recruit clippings of stories.
One of the biggest factors in a recruit's domain is the recruit's visit to the campus. Hill said.
"IF YOU GET a player to visit KU, you'll be in his top three," fill said. "A player has to like it here with our living facilities and a beautiful campus."
Three of the five top recruits have made visits to Kansas and according to Hill, Edmonson and Williams will be visiting within the next two weeks.
Boston fans honor,thank Havlicek
BOSTON (UPI)—From a two-handed dunk in 1962 to an expected rater-rocking reception next Sunday, the 16-year career of a Seattle guard brought memories to a nation of basketball fans.
Ignore everything else and concentrate on one record; this purportedly mortal man will have played in 1,270 games for the New York Nassau basketball Association history.
HIS OWN assessment sums up John Havlick best: "I never was a great shooter or a great rebounder. Other players are always in an jump higher. But I'm an bootnutist."
His low pulse beat and large lungs have helped the so-called "Bionic Man" endure 8,000 miles of on-court hustle, but it is his skill to excel that has made Havick great.
Havileck the opportunist—the gangly kid who took Frank Ramsey's sixth-man job and turned it into a science, the young professor who was born but in the 1965 semifinal series to preserve a
110-109 win over Philadelphia, the wounded swingman playing with a dangling right arm and singlehandedly keeping Boston in play. A deflection life defense to the New York Knicks.
Havlicke the opportunist—the maestro orchestrating the rebirth of a champion in the 1974 final series against Milwaukee, the seemingly too-old man throwing in off-balance help to help seal a triple overtime win against Phoenix in 1976 and the ageless team for loose balls while playing for the shell of a team that passed for the 1977/78 Celtics.
THOUGH HE turns 38 on Saturday, Havlicek still will be assigned to guard the opposition's toughest forward, as he has throughout his career in which Boston won eight NBA championships and he became the third highest scorer in league history.
The mayor of Boston will declare April 7-9 as John Havlicek Weekend, the team will throw a birthday party Saturday night and have a celebration at Buffalo using the halftime of the finale against Buffalo.
The difference will be in the weekend-long celebration planned for the quiet and meticulous man from Martins Ferry, Ohio. He, No. 17, will be retired early next season.
The Celtics, the last team to heap going away presents on Havellwick, will give him a win.
And when the season is over, many will ask why the NBA's Ironman left so soon. They will point out that Havlicek played all 13 games without a loss of playing time and scoring 14.9 points a contest.
"The way he's playing, you wonder why he's retiring," said General Manager Red Auerbach, who selected Ohio State's Havlicek in the first round in 1962 while he was a junior at Dover and Dick Dischinger. "If you watched him and didn't know his age, 'you never guess."
"But he wants to retire while he's still playing good basketball and wants to go out like the great player he always has been," he said. "He's been coached him in his first four years as a pro."
all with KU has to offer. Hill said the Jamaican could afford to be choosy in recruiting.
"We look at the types of people they are," he said. "The guys on this year's team are great guys and that's one of the reasons we were so successful.
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—Former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Paul Wiggin Wednesday was named defensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints.
Wiggin named to Saints coaching staff
Wiggin served with Nolan from 1968-73 as defensive line coach for the San Francisco 49ers and in 1974 was named defensive coordinator.
hard working man with capabilities in many areas."
"We are very fortunate to get a coach of his caliber," Saints Coach Dick Nolan said. "Wiggin will be a tremendous asset to our organization. He is an extremely intelligent,
"AT KANSAS you can bring in good people. It's a privilege to come here and play. There's a lot of schools that might take a kid who is suspect as a person, but here you go. They are not suspecting they have big eyes. You just have to be to keep them and see if they would be a gift to the team."
Wiggin, 43, was coach of the Clubs during the season and was fired after the seventh game.
Wiggin said he had several offers to return to coaching after leaving Kansas City, but chose the Saints "because of the people I'll be working with."
NOLAN SAID Wiggin's other response to the data analysis and conditioning program analysis and conditioning program analysis.
He said that at this stage he didn't worry about the fact that KU has tough competition for the recruits. He said they all have expressed great interest in KU.
"I never worry about any other schools," he said. I never ask the players about other recruiters. We have nothing to hide under the tradition, great fans and a great campus.
"We're salesmen; you just have to be confident."
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KU intramurals set for spring
A new event, a home run derby, will be included in this spring's intramural activities, which also include softball and soccer league competition, wrestling and tragetball tournaments and a cross-country race.
The home run derby will consist of male-male pairs, each getting seven swings at ten pitches and receiving points for the distances of their hits. Teams need merely show up before the start of the derby at 10 a.m. The Robinson East softball fields one and two.
For A and B leagues, the softball season will consist only of a championship tournament, while C and Co-Red leagues will consist of the season games before their tournaments.
THE DEADLINE for entering the mixed doubles raquetball tournament is tomorrow. The tournament is scheduled to begin Saturday.
Composition of the soccer leagues depends on interest shown at a meeting for prospective teams Tuesdays. Games will be held in Field House during a six-week period.
Entry forms for the wrestling tournament, for which there will be nine weight classes from 115 lbs to heavyweight, are available in the intramural office, 208 Robinson Gymnasium, and must be turned the day of the tournament, April 29.
The Recreation Services office is also helping publicize the First Annual State of Kansas Frisbee Tournament, sponsored by the Frisbee Club.
Originally planned to be a full-fledged track meet, the cross country run has only a tentative date, April 22. Officials are presently looking for a suitable course.
The schedule is as follows:
April 1—Mixed doubles racquetball tournament begins
March 29- Softball play begins
April 4—Soccer entry meeting
April 8—Soccer begins
April 15 - Home Run Derby; First Annual State of Kansas Frisbee Tournament
April 29—Wrestling tournament
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