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Thursday, February 7, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Fambrough, Sayers Optimistic About Grid Recruits
By GERALD EWING
Kaman Sports Editor
Don Fambrough and Gale Sayers are anxious, yet optimistic about what will transpire next Tuesday. They have a right to be anxious because that is the day on which area high school athletes will sign Big Eight Conference letters of intent.
They don't need to be reminded that the future success of KU in the Big Eight depends upon the quality and quantity of players that sign with KU.
"It's been really hectic around here lately," Fambrigh said. "There is much more competition for quality players this year than there has been in the past."
Last year was a good recruiting year for KU but Sayers thinks this will be even better.
"NIGHT NOW, things look very good," Sayers says. "Last year was one of the best years we have ever had here, but this year can be even better. There are some really fine athletes in the area, especially in Kansas City."
Tuesday will be the first of two dates for the signing of high school athletics. Out-of-state players will sign national letters of recommendation. Eight area players will sign next week.
Fambrigh said that recruiting was especially tough this year because of the global crisis.
The new rule, passed by the NCAA last summer, numbed the number of students in sports in past years.
schools were allowed to give 45 football scholarships a year.
"THIS RULE MAKES things a lot different," Farnham said. "We've found that need is getting better for the team, with 45 scholarship, you could recruit the good athletes. But with the 30 limitation rule, you have to be more selective because you simply can't make it."
Sayers said the main emphasis of this year's recruiting was on running backs and big plays.
Farnham said that the limitation rule forced them to break the recruiting down into positions that the team needed badly. He said instead of recruiting the good athlete that could adapt to any position, they had to proven players at mid-岗位 positions.
FAMBROUH GAID KANSAS had become a valuable recruiting area and they would be trying to recruit as many players as possible from the state.
"Kansas football has improved tremendously in the last 10 years," he said. "The playoffs and the all-star games have helped a lot. Right now, we're concentrating greatly on players in Kansas and the Kansas City area."
Although Kansas football has improved greatly, Sayers said the best high school team in the country is.
"I've been recruiting in Texas, Arkansas,
New Mexico, New Jersey and Mississippi," Sayers said. "I think this is where the best quality players come from."
Sayers agreed with Fambrough in his assessment of the past season but said it was also important to athletes to help in building and being a part of a winning team.
"There are two reasons why we don't recruit many junior college players." Sayers said. "One is that they only have two years of playing time to give us. The other is that we just haven't had a great deal of luck with them."
had to help, but you have to talk about the future and not about the past year while
AS IN THE PAST, KU won't be recruiting
as many junior college players this year,
and will have to wait.
THE 'PAST SEASON doesn't really do anything for the players coming in', Sayers said. 'What really matters to them is that they get to play and help build a winner.'
You have to respect Sayers' opinion when you consider that three of KU's top players, Delvin Williams, Don Goode and Robert Miller, are all from the Houston area.
KU's successful season and the trip to the trip to the California Bayleah have also helped in recruiting more players.
One consequence of having a successful team, Fambrough said, is that other teams will start recruiting in the areas that the team has had the most success.
"We've had a lot of success with our players from Kansas," Fambridge said.
Fambrough said the exposure certainly
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Recruiting practices have come under recently for the alleged corruption and
Fambrough said he had heard about it all he said and I thought it was as bad as everyone said.
"I DON'T THINK we run into it in our section of the country," Farnbrough said. "I"
Sayers disagreed and said that there was corruption in recruiting.
“It’s there,” Sayers said. “Some of the people I've been recruiting have said they've been offered money and curs. But they know if they accept them, they could run the rest of their lives. With the 30 limitation rule, it'll get worse.”
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