University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1981
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. threatening that tradition. And it is a treat that has track officials shaking gloves over the country, not just in Kansas. It really makes TATUM knows he is to deal with.
"The future, I'm afraid, is frightening." Timmons said. "The rising expenses seem to explode each year. It isn't just the Relays we're talking about. It's the economy of the times, so I speak."
"If your expenses exceed the revenue in a department, it's obvious it not going to work. There are a lot of schools that require very long times that are tremendously unstable."
One of the problems the Kansas Relays faces is the limited amount of money it is budgeted—$23,000. Other large meets in the country receive compensation from the Dante Relays, which is budgeted for more than $80,000 this year.
BUILDING ON TRADITION.
Part of the tradition lies with Jim Hershberger. Traditionally, Hershberger has been one of the Jayhawks most reliable sources of funds.
HERSHERBERG, a member of the Jahyhawks' track team in the 1950s, donated the all-weartion Tartan track in Memorial Hall, donates four track scholarships each year and is a constant contributor to the Kansas Relays.
"Jim Hershberger's active interest in the University of Kansas has been a great asset to us," Timmons said. "The new track he tracked us for, example, streamlined the entire operation of the Kansas Relays. I wish we could fully express our gratitude for everything he has contributed to our program."
Hershberger's donation—$10,000—is even more important this year because the Miller Brewing Co., which dishd out $10,000 to cover expenses for 33
athletes in 1980, didn't contibute anything this year.
BUILDING ON TRADITION.
The Relays, for many people, improved greatly last year. Some people mention the decrease in total events and others mention the weather, but most agree last year's meet was one of high quality.
"I last year's meet was one of the best we've had," said Tumorms, who has coached at KU since 1965. "Couches, and it was one of the biggest meets we have."
Last year's meed drew a Saturday afternoon crowd of about 8,000 in sunny, warm conditions, unusual weather for a rainy day. It is frequently run on cool, rainy days.
Timmons, however, would like to see a considerably larger crowd.
"We'd like to have a crowd of around 20,000," Timmons said. "I think the meet was run well and the performances were really good. We're hoping that people will be able to want to say we disappointed. If we had 40,000, we'd still be disappointed."
"WE TRIED TO be very fair on ticket prices," Timmons said. "It takes a very large crowd to make it come out even. If the economy were really sound, customers would stop buying and happening. Almost all of it comes back to the same time—dollars and cents."
THE STUDENT RELAYS Committee, which analyzes the meet every year, reported the following positive aspects:
*The appearance of the field, with the colors and without a lot of extra people cluttering the field, made the Relays attractive to spectators.
*The performance of the top-nam
athletes, such as Steve Riddick
and Renaldo Nehemia, helped make
the meet successful.
*The parade at the opening ceremonies added fanfare and introduced a 'caravival' atmosphere to the Relais.
As the Relays heads into the middle of the 1980's, however, improvement must continue. As might be expected, problems are many and solutions are few. Among some of the meet's difficulties:
- Travel costs. Many teams, even at the major universities, cannot afford the trip to Lawrence. Athletic departments are being run on limited budgets, and the money is drying up fast.
*Atletes. Sure, the Kansas Relays has good athletes every year, but no athlete has been able to capture the atlanta title, as much as just Jim Ryan did 19 years ago.
*Ticket sales. Somehow, meet officials must make an effort to sell more tickets. As long as the Relays aren't all over the country, year it won't draw a large crowd.
Most fans wait until the weekend of the Relays before buying tickets because of the weather. If it’s nice, they go. If it’s raining, they don’t go. It is as if the Relays can’t get to a large crowder, the Kansas Relays must sell more tickets in advance.
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“It’s always been, the Kansas Relays, an event I looked forward to very much,” said former KU milier Kyun Ryu, who will be honored at the meet, along with other KU stars of the past, Wes Santee and Glenn Cunningham.
Everyone but the common fan. In 1976, the attendance fell to 6,830. Rain also fell.
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Attendance was up to 7,820, and the sun made an appearance. Still, the Relays were said to be in trouble.
"They'll jog a quarter mile on the track for the first time in history and probably the last," Timmons said.
The best in 1977 was Clifford Wiley, a KU junior. The sprinter won both the 100- and 320-meter invitations.
But the best of the meet was a hurdier who doubled as the quarterback of KU's wishbone. He was Nolan Cromwell and the same day as the spring football game to victory in the 400-meter hurdles. His time was the fastest of the year.
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TIMMONS CALLED the list of competitors his best ever. There was 18-foot paultier Dave Roberts, Woolhizer, Crockett, Shorter, 1972 gold medalist Randy Williams, Bolt and women's star Francis Laurie Lutz.
"It has been one of the finest tracks in the United States," he said. "I don't know if there's a Tantan track that is one of the best tracks, but it has been one of the finest tracks going."
"You could just say we're going from sun-up to sun-down," he said of the meet's expanded format. "We've got something for just about every body."
In Oklahoma, 3,000 attended
major renovation after the 1977 football season. It would barely be ready for the 1978 season.
Timmons, however, said he was proud of the track.
In 1798 they really were. Memorial Stadium for so long the site of the Relays, was scheduled to undergo a
TWENTY-ONE UNIVERSITY teams ran at the University of Oklahoma. Twenty-one college and 18 women's teams ran at Emporia State. Twenty-two twoscups ran at Haskell Indian Junior College. Hundreds of high school students ran at Shawnee Mission Northwest.
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BUILDING ON TRADITION
The Relays came home for its 54th edition in 1979; 6,250 were to watch. But many of the best college games not. Neither were the world's best.
At first, the Relay were on. Then they were cancelled. Finally they were on, but at several different sites separated by hundreds of miles.
"It is one of the oldest tracks in the country," Gary Pepin, former assistant coach at KU and now the women's head coach at Nebraska, said. "The track is really not in good shape. They're going to have to do something with that track really soon. We've patched it up many, many times."
Quantity had replaced quality. But Coach Timmons was optimistic.
THE KANASS RELAYS, long the middle jewel of the Texas-Kansas-Drake Midwest Relays circuit, was in serious trouble. A decade that had begun on the verge of a golden age, went out with eez on its face.
*The track. The Jim Herberhauer Tartan track was installed in Memorial Stadium in 1970. Originally one of the tracks in the country, it is wearing out.
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