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Thursday, March 28, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Obnoxious Personality Helps McGuire Win
By GERALD EWING
Kaman Sooria Editor
James Capney he's not; but Al McGuire plays the role of the tough guy pretty well. You listen to him for a while, look at his caoching record and watch him in action on the court, you'll know the Marquette coach has a right to be brash.
He 'was his "obnoxious" best at last weekend's NCAA Championships in Greensboro, NC, where his Warriors, a team of eight players, finished second to North Carolina State.
"I have a yelling type of style and if a guy like me could win a few championships, I would become completely obnoxious." McGuire said. "Teams are usually extensions of their coaches' personalities, and mine is obnoxious."
HE WASN'T ORNOXIOUS, but he was confident and candid in his assessment of
the players, people and teams in the tournament.
His coaching record is reason enough for his confidence. In his 17 years of coaching, he has supervised more than 20,000 athletes.
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games and lost only 131. Marquette has won 20 games or more and has competed in post season play each of the last eight years, but never in the finals of the NCAA.
This record and his accomplishments this year won him the University Coach of the Year award from the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
"We've been in tournaments before."
McGuire said, "And we've been big winners for eight straight years. In the last five years, I don't think we've been out of the Top 10 once."
MGCURE SAID HIS BEST team was in 1971, the year it lost to Ohio State, 60-59, in a game where his defense won Monday's championship game. McGure said that although this year's team was his fifth or sixth best in the last eight years, it hit North Carolina fortunate" to beat North Carolina State.
"We're here because Johnny Orr (Michigan coach) beat Notre Dame in the regional. Our Dame has a better ball club than ours," he said. "We're dynamite in our own strata but now it's the six race where the thoroughbreds are."
He said the throughbreds were UCLA, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, North Carolina State, Vanderbilt.
Fans got a look at his on-the-court antics in both games. In the first game, McGuire was constantly yelling at his players. At halftime, he had a "yelling session" with
He said he considered his team merely adequate.
"WE WENT AT EACH other pretty good at halftime," he said. "There were a couple of things I didn't like. They had nothing to do with basketball."
MqGuire's cussing at his players and his criticism of them are parts of his unique coaching style. He lets them drink beer, have long hair and cuss him back, but on the
court he expects confidence and discipline.
"We have a family unusual relationship," he said. "My players can speak up. I hate anything. But I'm still the dictator. I come to driving the bus, I drive the bus."
His own confidence showed in the championship game when two technical fouls within 63 seconds cost his team the championship.
"I COST US THE game," he said afterwards. "There will be no alibis or blame put on anyone else. It was me, all you. You had one. Two points played it did."
The first of the two questionable calls came when Marquette's Marcus Washington was called for charging into State's David Thompson.
Kansan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
The second was a goatting call on Bo Ellis. The second time, McGuire charged the referee and kicked the scorers table before he called for the technical. The two technicals cost Marquette 10 points and the game.
"I would rather not say anything about it, because I was right," he said. "Hey, I wouldn't say it if I didn't believe it. Would I lie?"
Al McGuire Shows Disgust After Receiving Second Technical
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"We need to set out goals now and make them high," Fambridge told his players. "We made up our wunde'd we d to a bowl game, this year we need to set our goals higher."
Head football coach Don Fambrough told the 110 men competing for positions that everyone would have an opportunity to play.
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The University of Kansas football team put on helmets and pads yesterday for the first time since the Liberty Bowl game to begin its spring drills. Practice was to have started Monday but was called off because the field was wet.
"We'll get right with the, the players should be in condition so we'll have a lot of contact out here," Fambrough said. "Spring drills are important for the coaches to look at people in different positions, mainly the younger players since the juniors and seniors are pretty well set in a position."
"We've got a new offense that we think is the best in the country and just right for this team, but we need 190 per cent concentration by everyone to learn it right On Friday," he said. "We are going to do it all and we've got a defense that can get the ball back for us."
Fambridge said before practice started that spring drills weren't just to keep in mind what was needed.
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