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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 26.1980
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Owens bucks recent college trend by staying here
Did Ted Owens do the right thing by staying at the University of Kansas?
But right or wrong, he bucked a national colleague trend. Top head coaches around the nation are moving to other places.
Bill Foster of Duke, who just two years ago lost to Kentucky in the finals has moved on to Kentucky. He earned a national title with North Carolina and nominated for a national title with David Thompson and Tom Burleson, has moved on to Florida. And now Johnny Orr of Michigan, who in 1998 lost in Indiana in the NCA4 finals has moved on to Texas.
OFF ON A TANGENT
gene myers
IOWA STATE, FLORIDA and South Carolina are fine schools,
preference of Michigan, North Carolina State and Duke.
But the Oklahoma and Iowa States of America are ready to dish out the bucks to enter the big time. They want to on to the band.
wagon of collegiate basketball. The have-nots want to purchase fame.
Iowa State, for example, gave Aryr a $45,000 starting salary, plus
extras. Michigan said him $33,665.
Orr, Foster and Sloan all are victims of overwhelming success. That means pressure from administrators, alumni, students and fans. They'll be expected to produce, and produce big, at their new homes, but there will be a grace period.
At Iowa State, Orr will have a bisonymon of losses, just as Owens would have had at Oklahoma. But Orr and Owens have other injuries.
ORR is $2. Owens will be 50. Orr spent 12 years as head coach at Michigan. Owens has been 16 years as head coach at Kansas. Owens took his team to the Final Four once in the '70s. Owens took his team to the Final Four once in the '80s. Owens took his coach-of-the-year twice. Owens was named Coach-of-the-Year once.
Orr had only two losing seasons. Owens has had only two losing seasons. Orr was once under heavy pressure to resign, only to escape. Owens was once under heavy pressure to resign, only to escape. Orr was under pressure again. Owens is under pressure again.
But Orr left. Owens stayed.
"IT'S THE TOUGHEST IDEA I've ever made," Orr said yesterday. "I love Ann Arbor and I love Michigan and I hate to leave. But I feel this is a new challenge and it's a great opportunity. I want to see if I can build Iowa State's program." What did she do?
Why did Orr leave?
MEWHANLE, IN Ames, Iowa, IOW will be loved, for a while. The program has been in confusion since Lynn Nance resigned in January. Since then, assistant coaches Reggie Warford and Rick Samuels have handled the team.
"I have developed a deep love for KU over the last 20 years," Owens said in a prepared statement Sunday. "I look forward to the challenge of next year, returning our team to the level of excellence required by the league and during the time of the great coaches who preceded me."
The Iowa State athletic officials could have hired a third co-captain to act as the trebleheader in decisions. But the fans wanted him, and he was not. He played for zyeksei, who has since moved on to Duke, the Texas Tech coach, Gerald Meyers, who has been listed among Oklahoma's candidates. And he was a star in Duke's squad.
"I won't be able to do much recruiting this year." Orr said. "But
I'm going to be out there trying to get the best athletes I can find— big or small.
"I want to see the arena filled and I want others to dread me at Ames. To do that, I'm going to upgrade the schedule. Iowa State is one of our biggest rivals."
MAYBE. AND if Iowa State doesn't improve, no one will be afraid of the Cyclones.
With the addition of Orr and when Oklahoma finally selects a new coach, the Big Eight will have three coaches who have spent two years in Oklahoma. Oklahoma State's Paul Harnes is entering his second season, which he has earned in Kansas State's Jack Hartman N. 11, Missouri's Norm Stewart N. 14 and Kansas' Owens N. 17. Nebraska's Joe Cipriano enters N. 18. Texas' Jake Evans, thought to be cancer Moe Iba, his top assistant, took over.
"There isn't a better job in America and that what I wanted."
"Or said. There is no coach in the country with better than job"
"in America."
Whether that's Orcs just spouting forth a lot of hot air or not, the Cyclones 'fans must love it.
Orr leaves Michigan for rebuilding job at ISU
KU's fans will want the same talk if the Jayhawks don't go the NCAA way next year.
AMES, Iowa(AP) - After 12 seasons with the Iowa Hawkeyes, coach John O'Neill decided it was time for a change. so he left the Big Ten pressure cooker in Ann Arbor to come to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
The decision came after several weeks of speculation and searching by the 17-member committee. Orr wasn't even a starter, but he did play in McCullough during the NCAA basketball
Orr, 32, was named the new head coach at Michigan. The team was made by Athletic Coach Loe McCallough after the Iowa State Athletic Council unanimously welcomed Orr to the program.
From the Kansan's wire services
The National Association of Basketball Coaches of the United States gave Iba, son of the famous former Oklahoma State head coach Henry Iba, that honor during a banquet today. Iba took over the reins of the Nebraska program last November when head coach Joe Cjirciura became ill.
INDIANAPOLIS--When the 1979-80 basketball season started, Moe Iba was in chief. The team had ended and Iba has is still an assistant, but he also a key Division C coach of the Year.
Iba coached the entire season and took the Cornhuskers, a team picked to go nowhere, to the National Invitational Tournament.
tournament in Indianapolis over the weekend.
THE JOB WAS reportedly offered to three other applicants, but all three turned it down. Former Army coach Mike Kr-
zyzewski accepted a similar post with Duke. Gerald Myers opted to stay at Texas Tech and Bob Wellington will return at Mississippi.
"There isn't a better job in America and that's what I wanted," Orr said. "There is
no coach in the country with a better job than Johnny Orr has at Iowa State.
Preaching enthusiasm and a positive attitude, Orr told a full house at ISU's Fisher Theater that he won't make any promises. But he said he didn't see any others' roles as players all program couldn't make it to the season tournament during his tenure.
"I'm really excited to be here. I'm going to do everything possible within the rules to make the Cyclones champions."
ORC CALLED himself "one of the best paid coaches in the country" after signing with a new team in New York and extra's. "Included in the fringe benefits will have his own television show and "some people
Cerone's blast lifts Yankees over KC
FORT MYERS, Fla.-Rick Cerone blasted the grand slam game run to rally the New York Yankees to an 8-7 win over yesterday over the Kansas City Royals.
Cerone connected for the slam off Rich Gale, the Royal's starter, in the fourth inning. Lou Pinella opened the inning with a single. Jim Spencer then reached base on an error by rightlefthand Clint Hinkle and Gale walked Eric Soderholm lead the team. Cerone his former erased a 34-10 lead and made the score 38 Yankees.
GALE, WHO picked up the loss, but not yielded a run in three previous starts. The Yanks battered him for five runs, four of them earned, on five hits.
Bob Watson led off the New York fifth inning with a home run off Renie Martin, who gave up another pair of runs in the sixth.
But the Royals came back in their half of the sixth on a two-run home by Pete LaCock. His homer came after Hall and he also hit a RBI. His Rich Gessau to narrow the gap to 8-5.
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A new short film directed by KU alumnus Steve Johnson and starring KU alumni Roger Nolan and Duane LaDage. Original music by Mark Hart, former pianist for Justice. "Homebody" was the only student film from USC to be accepted for showing at FILMEX, a prestigious film festival held annually in Los Angeles. We will show "Homebody' before the following regularly scheduled SUA Films:
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