Thursday, April 15, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 5
Blue Devil leaves school for NBA
Brand gives up Duke for chance at pro ball
The Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. — Even his coach knew it was time to go.
Elton Brand, who won just about every individual honor a player can, left Duke yesterday and headed to the NBA. The 6-foot-8-inch sophomore center became the first Blue Devils player to quit school early for pro ball.
In announcing his decision to give up his last two years of eligibility, Brand was joined at Cameron Indoor Stadium by his mother and a half-dozen teammates.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski, recovering from hip surgery at home, joined in by telephone and called
the decision by the player of the year a "no-brainer."
Brand was persuaded to leave school last weekend by Kryzewski and associate head coach Johnny Dawkins, a former Duke star and NBA player. They are certain Brand will be a top-10 pick in the June 30 NBA draft.
"The way college basketball has played me last year with the double teams and zones, Coach felt I would only improve in practice and wouldn't get a chance to develop in the games," Brand said.
Brand averaged 17.8 points and 9.8 rebounds a game in carrying the Blue Devils to a 37-2 record. But he fell short of his goal of leading the Blue Devils to the national title, with a 77-74 loss to Connecticut in the NCAA championship game last month.
"It's somewhat of a sad time to be leaving friends, teammates and coaches," Brand said. "But it's also a joyous time because I get to go into new adventures and new things and just live a lifetime dream of mine."
Brand was the first sophomore to win the John R. Wooden Award, presented by the Los Angeles Athletic Club to college basketball's top player. He also was honored earlier this season by The Associated Press, the Atlanta 'Tipoff Club and the United States Basketball Writers Association as national player of the year.
"I'm still not ready physically to go out there and play with those guys, but in a month or two from now I'll be more prepared," said Brand, who will begin a workout regimen with Dawkins immediately. "I don't think anyone coming
out of college is actually ready to play in the NBA."
While Brand will be gone next season, the Blue Devils have signed four prep All-Americans for next season.
"You are going to see players who are coming out of high school who probably wouldn't choose Duke because they didn't think Coach K let his players leave early now say, 'I can play to Duke because Elton Brand is leaving,' " junior Chris Carrawell said.
"Times are changing." Carrawell added. "It was one of those things where Elton Brand got the player of the year award. He swept every major award. What are you going to come back for, to sweep it again? The only thing he had to accomplish on the college level was to win a national championship."
All schools to pay in coach settlement
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK — The NCAA, trying to mollify both the major powers and the small-time schools, is going to ask everybody to share the pain in the $54.5 million settlement in the restricted earnings case.
Under a plan approved this week by the management council, payments into the fund would range from a low of about $77,000 for small schools, many of which had hardly any restricted earnings coaches, to around $200,000 for each of the big-time institutions.
The NCAA faced a potential revolt from its money-making Division I schools had they been asked to shoulder the entire amount, which will be distributed
among roughly 2,000 coaches in various sports whose salaries were unlawfully capped by the NCAA at $16,000 per year.
The smaller schools argued they
should have to pay little if anything. The major schools noted that the small schools voted for the rule and that they also receive money from the
men's basketball tournament while rarely contributing much to it.
"I think what they've come up with shows Solomon-like wisdom," said Patty Viverito, associate commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference. "It was a compromise in the truest sense of the word."
The plan, which now goes to the NCAA's board of directors for final approval, was agreed upon at the management council meetings after what one representative of small schools described as a "sulttle threat."
"There was no direct threat," said the representative, speaking on condition of anonymity. "But the suggestion was very apparent that if we didn't approve this plan now, the new plan to follow could cost us even more."
NCAA president Cedric Dempsey said there was no threat of any kind.
"It was framed right at the beginning that neither of the two extreme arguments were acceptable," Dempsey told The Associated Press. "I don't know if someone would have misperceived that."
The NCAA must submit the full cash payment of $54.5 million to lawyers for the restricted earnings coaches by May 7.
The coaches,however, probably won't see any of that money until Christmas.
"We've been advising the coaches we would like to see payments made within the next 6-8 months," said Lori Schultz, one of the lead attorneys.
The coaches will be compensated according to what sport they coached, for how long and where. Schultz said very few will receive any significant amount above what they would have earned.
Home run hitter helps end losing steak for Cubs
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — He's a strongly-built outfielder with the Chicago Cubs and he's one of baseball's leading home-run hitters. Sammy Sosa, of course.
Nope. It's Glenallen Hill—and he doesn't even play every day.
Sunday is not the Chicago Cubs. We've got 25 guys capable of
doing a job and it's our responsibility to take some of the pressure off of Sammy," Hill said yesterday after hitting his third and
fourth homers to pace a 5-4 victory against the Cincinnati Reds.
Sosa appeared to snap out of a season-long hitting slump with two doubles and a walk, but Hill supplied the power as the Cubs ended a four-game losing streak behind quick-working Jon Lieber.
Hill would normally have been on the bench against right-hander Pete Harnisch but started because Henry Rodriguez was out for a third straight game with a strained side.
"It's no secret, I'm a role player. I play a couple of times a week and give the manager some flexibility," Hill said, shrugging off questions about whether he would like to be in the lineup every day.
"I'm a player, and I do what the manager asks. I'll leave it at that."
Lieber (2-0), using a rapid delivery, allowed three runs and eight hits during eight innings in the 2-hour, 6-minute game. He struck out nine and walked one.
his second save, surrendering Aaron Boone's first homer of the season with two outs.
Rod Beck pitched the ninth for
"I love to work fast. I don't mess around," said Lieber, who threw 89 pitches, 71 for strikes. "The quicker you get the other team off the field, the quicker the guys can get in and swing the bats."
Hill honored leading off the second against Harnisch (1-1). The
Cubs tacked on a second run as Jose Hernandez singled, raced to third when Boone missed Benito Santiago's
grounder to third for an error and scored on Gary Gaetti's sacrifice fly.
Harnisch, who pitched a six-hit shutout in his first start against St. Louis, gave up a double to Sosa in the third and Mark Grace's RBI single that made it 3-0.
"My stuff wasn't as good as last time," Harnisch said after giving up five runs and six hits in 51-3 innings.
The Reds got two runs back in the fourth as Barry Larkin singled and reached third when Sean Casey's hard grounder through the box hit Lieber in the foot and riccoleted into right for a double. Greg Vaughn and Dimitri Young then hit back-to-back sacrifice flies.
But Sosa lined his second double in the sixth and, one out later, Hill cleared the back fence in left field with a long drive that made it 5-2. Cincinnati got a run in the eighth on a double by Mark Sweeney, single by Mike Cameron and Barry Larkin's double play grounder.
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