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Fears of athletic merger wane
By STEVE YOUNG
Staff Reporter
As the athletic department approaches the end of its first year with its men's and women's programs merged, coaches are often their most worst fears have not come true.
Coaches and administrators generally agree that communication and organization are more important in separate departments are worked out as people get to know each other better, and staff members have to be better.
The men's and women's athletic departments merged last year on the first day of July, following more than three years of discussion and planning.
Under the terms of the merger, men's athletic director Bob Marceau became chairman and director was to become assistant athletic director for all non-revenue producing teams.
ALMOST ALL DEPARTMENT operations-administration, academic advising, recruiting, business affairs, fundraising, and sports information—merged.
In addition, the function of various advisory boards and support committees changed.
The Women's Athletics Advisory Board ceased to exist, and its responsibilities—as well as the faculty representative to the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women—were incorporated into the addition of the University of Kansas Athletic Association.
According to William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, the departments were merged to reduce duplications of the training program and continuation of the total athletic program at KU.
"There was a feeling that a merger would result in greater efficiency and better service," he said, because you'd have a lot of people to administrate personnel, and facilities."
HOGAN SAID THE plan that finally was approved by the central administration was
He declined to comment on the plans not selected.
selected over several others that were discussed.
Even if administrators approved a
program, the athletes and women's sports feared their programs would be hurt because of greater competition for the limited amount of dollars
"You always run into problems of dollar availability," Marcus said last summer. "We regularly sports here at KU have only recently reached a milestone, you come along and ask to split up that limited amount of money with women's health, so we have to give a certain amount of resistance.
"It's not a philosophical difference, but an economic one."
As Hogan, who had responsibility over women's athletics before the merger, recalled, "There were some concerns ex-actually about any time you change a department structure.
"THERE WAS A natural apprehension about entry into the merger. I would express it not as bad feelings, but rather as apprehension."
Now, more than nine months after the merger some coaches and administrators say some, if not all, of that apprehension was unwarranted.
"I think the merger has worked out better than any of us really expected it to," said Pat Collinson, administrative assistant. "Most of those fears were unfounded."
Collinson she said she thought the women's program was no worse than it would have been without the merger, but added that it was a "wonderful thing" and the program would be if it were still senator.
"I really think that the desire is very great to have a really good women's program; certainly don't think we are moving forward and into a better position."
COLLINSON'S VIEWS HAVE been echoed by other men's and women's coaches, at least by those who would
comment on it—and there were several who would not—but no one seems to be entirely pleased with the way things have gone.
Sandy Bahan, women's golf coach and assistant academic counselor, said the year had been chacic because so much time had to be spent working out problems.
"I think we spent most of the year trying to get to know each other and working out problems that should have been addressed before the merger," Bahan said.
She said most of the problems involved small procedural matters, such as who was responsible for certain things.
"We have a serious communications problem and the communications problem is reflected in the morale of the staff."
A coach who asked not to be identified said poor communications from the top down also had been a problem.
THE COACH SAID communications between other coaches and administrators had been much better in the women's department before the merger.
*Phyllis Howlett (assistant athletic director for non-revenue producing productions) is extremely easy to talk to and she does her work because she is now as how and why things are being done.
"There's never an feeling of support expressed," the coach said. "You're never told when you do something right; but, boy, screw up and hear about it."
"If we didn't have PIPilis, that'd be it." But even Howard's efforts are not enough, the team added, and poor communications have been a problem. "We're happening and helped expand rumor mill."
HOWEVER, HOWLETT SAID one effect of the merger was probably that a large department made impossible the closeness of departments and administrators felt before the merger.
"I have strive to be accessible to all my coaches and athletes," she said. "But I sense that business does deny intimacy."
"That's not necessarily bad," she added, saying the environment in a larger department was more professional in its operation.
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