Page 12 University Daily Kansan, April 3, 1981
Marcum, Boyle deny Crowder's accusations
Confusion continues to cloud KU Head Coach Tiffany Owens recruitment of Colorado prep Tad Snap
Colorado Athletic Director Eddie Crowder says that Owens applied for the vacant coaching job at Colorado. Tad Boyle says he is going to KU regardless. KU Athletic Director Bob Marcum says he believes Owens. And Owens is unavailable for comment.
THE MYSTERY began Wednesday when Crowder accused Owens of applying for Bill Blair's old job to pressure Boyle into making a bid for the Buffs to take a job with the New Jersey Nets.
Boyle said Wednesday that Owens had called him to explain that he had made recommendations of possible Colorado coaches and not applied for the job himself.
Owens, who just finished his 17th season as the Jayhawks' head coach, has been offered a two-year contract.
year extension to his existing one-year contract. Marcum said he believed Owens had only been making recommendations.
"The only thing I know about it is from a conversation with Coach Owens and he said he had called Colorado to recommend some people for the job," Marcum said. "This was last week in Miami, but we still talked about basketball in general and his contract. We started talking about who Colorado was going to get for the job, and he said he had called them with some recommendations.
"I REALLY have nothing to say about what Eddie Crowder says. but if Ted said he didn't apply, I believe him. You can visit with any person who is a friend, and he'll tell you there's pressure in recruiting."
Boyle, a 6-foot-4 guard from Greeley Central High School in Greeley, Colo., said he felt unresecured by Colorado. He said in a press release that the team gave him a seat heard from a CU representative for three weeks.
Marcum said he did not understand how Owens' applying for the Colorado job would put extra pressure on Boyle, or why that extra pressure was needed.
"That's the part of it I don't understand at all," he said. "Coach Owens said he felt very good about the recruitment of Tad Boyle last week."
MARCUM ALSO said that even if Owens had applied for the job, it would not have been a breach of his KU contract.
"Not at all. We talked about this last week not when we renewed," he said. "He ppted have called before."
Boyle is the first player known to have committed to KU. The coaching staff has been especially quiet during this season's recruiting cycle. Boyle said his high school students caused by excess publicity.
National letter-of-intent day is April 8.
Ted Owens
Baseball team takes 1-3 Big 8 mark to KSU
For the first time this season, the Kansas baseball team will have to play catch-up.
The Jayhawks, 13-8 overall, but 1-3 in the Big Eight, will try to climb back into the conference race this weekend with a four-game series against Kansas State at Manhattan.
"When you go 1-3, now you've got to go 3-1 to even again," said KU Coach Floyd Temple.
After hammering Oklahoma State, 6-1 in the conference opening Saturday, the Kansas hitting attack contributed just four more runs the rest of the season. Both yawns dropped three straight to the Cowboys.
Kansas State, last in the Big Eight with an 0-4 record, could be a timely opponent for the Jayhawks, who own a seven-game winning streak against the Wildcats.
Temple said that his team could not afford to take the Wildcats lightly, however.
"Kansas State is an improved ball club and we are going to have to play well if we're going to win."
Two right handers, Kevin Clinton, 2-1, and Jim Phillips, 3-1, will start for the Jayhawks tomorrow, with left handers Dennis Coben, 40, and Randy McIntosh, 0-2, set to work Sunday.
Rovals cut Terrell, seven others from team
PORT MYERS, Fla. (UP1)—The Kansas City Royals cut eight players from their roster yesterday, reducing their ranks to 26. Among the Royals cap was infielder Jerry Terrell.
The Royals farmed out the 5 players, including six to Triple-A affiliate Omaha, and asked waivers on Terrell, 34, for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release.
Players sent to Omaha were infiltrals Onix Concepcion and Tim Ireland, pitcher Jeff Twiffy and Gary Christenson, catcher Jim Gaudet and outfielder Dan Garcia. Concepcion
and Twitty both spent the bulk of the 1960 season with the American League Champion Royals.
Kansas City also announced that pitcher Dave Wehrmeier, who was acquired from the New York Yankees in the major league draft last fall, will be assigned to a minor league team today.
Terrell in 1978 was the first player ever signed by Kansas City out of baseball's r-eentry draft. He won the World Series and his first two seasons with the Royals but spent most of 1960 at Omaha, where he batted .288.
Terrell, a veteran of seven major league seasons, has a 253 lifetime average.
Concepción appeared in 12 regular season games and three World Series games for the Royals in 1980, being used almost exclusively as a pinch runner. Twitty was 2-1 with a 6.04 earned run average in 13 regular season games out of the Kansas City bullpen.
Of the 28 players left in the Kansas City camp, 10 are pitchers—a position likely to see more cuts. There are also three catchers, eight infielders and five outfielders.
Relay squads important to Jayhawks in Texas
During the past few track meets, the relay events have not exactly been a strength for the KU men's track team.
By PAULD. BOWKER Sports Writer
The Jaywhacks' mile relay squad did not place in the NCAA indoor championships and last week against Arizona, the Jaywhacks were disqualified in a third-round game. Owolabi missed connections on a baton handout.
THESE WEEKEND, however, the Jayhawks relay squads will get plenty of practice at the Texas Relays in Austin. They entered relayed effort with the 4 x 200 and the 4 x 800-meter races and the sprint medley.
The Texas Relays in the first step on the Midwestern relay circuit, which continues for 10 years.
In the spirit medley, Polk, Hogan, Bullock and Ricks will run, Polk, Hogan and Ricks were members of the Jayhawks' 180 mile relay which they captured first place in the Big Eight championships.
Anthony Polk, Willowte, Rodney Bullock and Deen Hogan will run in the *4 x 200 relay*, while Van Schafer, Anthony Leaks, Leonard Martin and Mike Ricks will compete in the *4 x 800*.
Whitebo and Mark Hanson will compete in the long jump at the Texas Relaxes. Other KU competitors are Mike Morse in the javelin and Hawk and Leaks in the intermediate hurdles.
FT IS ONLY the second outdoor meet for KU,
with defended Arizona, 79-75 in a dual last
Saturn.
The meet, which is similar to the Kansas Relays, actually started Wednesday with the fifth game.
Fifty-nine college and university teams are competing at the meet, which is being held at Memorial Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas.
The University of Texas-El Paso, defending national champion, won the team medal at last year's meet. Three weeks ago, UTEP captured the national indoor championship at Detroit.
The meet, which concludes Saturday, is expected to draw about 10,000. meet officials said.
THE MEET'S ATTENDANCE, however,
could be minimized by the showery conditions predicted by weather forecasters. The deation event was completed last night in a light drizzle.
Tito Steiner of Brigham Young won the decathlon for the second time in three years, totaling 7,831 points. Robert Baker of Sam Adams Track Club captured second place with 7,804 points and Jim Howell of the Philadelphia Pioneers Track Club finished third with 7,409.
The 10,000-meters run, also held last night, was on by Nejo Naun of the Wyoming Track Club w/Steve Kovacs.
JAYHAWK NOTES: The Jayhawks, who will compete in the Emoria State Relays next week, don't compete in another dual until April 25 when they compete at Oregon.
KU athlete SANYA WOGLABI is the only
kU athlete to qualify for the NCAA outdoor
championship.
Women's track team to Husker Invitational
Nebraska's new outdoor track surface may help the KU women's track team this weekend.
The Jayhawks travel to Lincoln today to compete in the Nebraska Invitational against the Cornhuskers, Central Missouri State, Missouri, Kansas State and Drake.
"Nebraska has a fast track," Coach Carla Coffey said. "They just changed its surface. This should help on the starts and overall performances."
KU has placed second at the meet for the last two years. The Jayhawks also placed second at their first outdoor meet this season, the Memphis State Invitational.
Those three were Lori Green-Jones, Connie McKernan, and Tudie McKnight. They will compete in the AIAW National Championships, May 27-31.
event people. The team is looking forward to
moving the times up. I can't be too upset when
it happens.
"That meet (Memphis) gave them exposure." Coffey said. "This will carry over to the outdoor space."
"I'm pretty well pleased with the overall team," Coffey said. "I'm pleased with the field
Coffey said she expected good competition at Nebraska.
"I would like to have a good team performance," Coffey said. "Right now, getting going is important in all areas. We're trying to get everyone ready." The girls seem to run with more confidence now.
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City Commissioner Marci Francisco chose the City Commission meeting of March 24th to reaffirm her opposition to the proposed parking lot at 600 Massachusetts. Although Commissioner Francisco's statement resulted from some private legal advice that she had received, her fellow Commissioners
According to the Journal World, "Commissioner Don Biens said he thought Ms. Francisco's statement was a continuation of her protest of the decision to raze the Anderson building. 'She's just bitter. She never gives up. She just can't lose gracefully,' he said. 'You win a few. You lose a few.'
but you still have to be able to accept a decision'. In short, Commission Binns viewed commissioner Francisco's expression of opinion as a valid argument.
Commissioner Bob Schumm was described as being unable to "understand what the big deal is"—a personal shortcoming inherent in his opinion on this issue. Commissioner Ed Carter said that if he "ever felt a decision required my own attorney it might be a reason to think the decision was wrong." Evidently Commissioner Carter either has very little faith in his personal attorney or believes that the decision would never have been made. "If the lot's design was unsale," is Commissioner Francisco given to flights of fancy or does her opposition to this project have substance?
On March 17th the Mr. Al Wright, a local resident, suggested to the commissioners that the lady seek the advice of a professional safety consultant before beginning work on this $250,000 parking lot; but his suggestion, though supported by two faculty members of the Kansas University School of Architecture and Urban Design, was rejected. The forthcoming issues of the locally published newspaper, The Public Notice, will contain information about safety regulations and information regarding its safety. Why does the City Commission want to ride roughshod over such a presentation? If the parking lot, as presently envisaged, is unsafe, then its completion will exact of the city even greater expenditures of public funds. These additional costs will be the sums required by the city for its defense in the litigation that will inevitably result from the creation of this hazard. In those suits in which the city is an unsuccessful defendant, the public will assume the financial responsibility for the damage caused to the lot all along. I can't find a thing right with it," she voices the sentiments of a great many of us. When she, in trying to call attention to this $250,000 bogoodie, is forced to endure siodes beside a of a standerous spirit, she gains our admiration and renewed support as well.
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