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The University Daily KANSAN
December 2,1983 Page 14
Johnson praises method of NCAA investigation
AD says steps have been taken to prevent violation
By COLLIN HERMRECK
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has taken the proper steps to prevent any violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association regulations in the future. Athletic Director Monte Johnson said
"I don't think there's any question that it's the responsibility of the athletic director, the chancellor and all of the University administration to ensure that any program directly under the control of the University is operated in a quality and ethical manner." Johnson said.
Johnson said that the best investment the athletic department had made recently was hiring Lonny Rose on July 1 as part-time assistant athletic director for NCAA rules interpretation.
He said that the move would help to clear up questions concerning recruiting and other rules in the department.
"We have complex rules and regulations in athletics," Johnson said. "And when you see an NCAA rule book anyone would admit that rules are interrupted differently by people.
"IN FAIRNESS to the coaches, it's a expecting a great deal when they almost have to be quasi-legal."
Rose, KU professor of law, said the NCAA announcement would not change his role as KU's liaison to the coaches and the Big Eight and will continue to continue to make coaches aware of the rules.
The best thing the University can do, Rose said, is to make alumni and fans aware of the impact their activity with the programs can have.
Johnson says he is confident that coach Gattrick网了 do everything possible to comply with the law.
"I wouldn't trade our staff for anybody." Johnson said. They are as quality a people and an environment as I can imagine.
The athletic department, Johnson said, has undertaken the responsibility to educate alumni about the new rules that were instituted Aug. 1 for alumni involvement in college athletic programs.
"AND WHEN YOU work with them day-to-day, you can tell they don't want this University to be embarrassed in any way. They personally don't want it." Wait, is that a comma after "working"? No.
Is there a semicolon? Yes.
Is there a period? Yes.
Let's re-read the whole thing one more time.
"AND WHEN YOU work with them day-to-day, you can tell they don't want this University to be embarrassed in any way. They personally don't want it."
"working"
"working hard to live within the rules."
Wait, the first line has "AND WHEN YOU work with them day-to-day," then "you can tell they don't want this University to be embarrassed in any way." The second line starts with "working".
The third line starts with "working".
The fourth line starts with "working".
The fifth line starts with "working".
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said a better interpretation of the rules would help schools better understand NCAA compliance standards.
Johnson said that he and others toured the state during the summer and through the football season to meet with alumni in order to promote KU athletics and to tell them about rule changes affecting them and the recruiting of student athletes.
"I think recruiting is a high-pressured situation." Thomas said. "So we need to make the
Jannette Massey, a member of the NCAA Committee on Infractions agreed that recruiting was one of the areas that schools needed to watch closely.
"Some of these young men are from such different socio-economic backgrounds and when some big banker pulls up in his car and offers all kinds of good things and says he's going to take care of mama who he's seen slave away all her life, it's very difficult.
tools available for coaches to comply with the rules "
"ITS DIFFICULT when they’re country poor and they're city poor and their families are needy."
Operation Intercept is one of the NCAA's programs that Massey thinks has created more of an awareness and has made the recruiting problem easier to control.
"Sometimes your best friends can become your worst enemies."
Massey, however, thinks the NCAA is doing its job to make prospective recruits aware of the penalties that can be incurred for recruiting violations.
Bill Hunt, head of NCAA enforcement, said the intercept program had made contacts with the top 50 to 100 high school football and basketball prospects in the country. Officials from the NCAA visit personally with each one to let them know what can and cannot be done during recruitment.
Hunt said the NCAA also printed pamphlets that were sent to high schools in the country, reaching thousands of people.
THE ORGANIZATION also places television advertisements and distributes films. Hunt said, to help anyone who is interested become aware of NCAA guidelines concerning the student athlete.
He said the NCAA was also considering a simplification of rules in the NCAA manual.
The 25 part-time employees, all of whom are former Federal Bureau of Investigation detectives, are located in metropolitan areas around the country.
But for schools and alumni that cannot follow the rules, the NCAA enforcement staff currently consists of 25 part-time professional investigators as well as 10 full-time staff members.
The primary responsibility lies with the 10 staff members. Hunt said. These employees work out of the office.
"There was no vindictive attitude; there was no adversarial attitude." Johnson said. "They were demoralized."
JOHNSON PRIASED those NCAA investigators for their professionalism in working with KU.
"First of all, the NCAA has a very difficult job and not only in the number of schools they supervise but in the staff that is assigned to those responsibilities." Johnson said.
"The NCAA will do more in the area of education and information than people will ever give them credit for. That's the sad thing. People think that all they do is enforce and penalize."
Brown bags first game, Henry torrid from field as KU defeats St. Louis
By Staff and Wire Reports
ST. LOUIS — Carl Henry scored 6 of his 22 points in the final 1:46 last night to give the Kansas Jayhawks a 67-63 victory over St. Louis for Larry Brown's first triumph as the Jayhawks' coach.
"We beat a good team tonight." Brown said. "St. Louis really played well. We don't underestimate anybody. Last year we bear them by 15 in Lawrence, but a lot of people told me the game was closer than that."
KU will make its home debut tomorrow night against Morehead State. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field House. Last season, Morrison led the team with a strong performance by winning the Ohio Valley Conference post-season tournament.
Brown then put the Jayhawks in a spread offense with just over a minute left, and Henry converted a layup with 28 seconds left.
With the Jayhaws leading 61-59 late in the second half last night, Henry hit a short jumper to increase KU's lead to 63-59. Free throws by Abdul Rahim Al Matin and Luther Burden cut the lead to 63-64 with 88 seconds to play.
The Jawhaws came out red hot in the first half, hitting their first 10 shots from the field. An alley-op dunk by center gave gave KU its relief at 23-17.
BURDEN HIT TWO free throws with four seconds left that again brought St Louis within 2 points. But Henry capped the fourth with three shots with three seconds remaining
Burden and Al Matin led the Billikens back in the final minutes of the half, although KU led 42-36 at halftime. Calvin Thompson hit five of
six shots and scored 10 points in the half. Henry added 10 points and four rebounds, and Kelly Knight added 9 points. Jim Houser made the first half, and 29 of 48 for the game.
Led by Burden, St. Louis came alive and outscored Kansas 12-4 over the first 7-13 of the second half, taking a 5-0 lead in a jumper from the corner by Burden.
KU SCORED ONLY ONE basket in the first five minutes of the half as it committed three turnovers and an offensive foul.
Kansas got five straight points from Kerry Boagni, including a three-point play, to give the Jayhawks a 51-48 lead with 11 minutes left.
"We came back slowly." Henry said. He took the lead, he had to show our views.
Baskets by Henry and Knight gave the Jayhawks a 55-49 lead. St. Louis used clutch free-throw shooting, 19 for 23 for the game, to close within two points three more times, the final time at 65-63 with four seconds left.
Dreiling and Knight each missed the front end of one-and-one with less than five minutes left before Henry took over to give Kansas the victory.
Brown said his team had played in opening 91-76 loss to the Houston Cavaliers.
"WE IMPROVED." Brown said. "We defended better and nustled a lot more. Kerry and Carl played well. We got good guard play."
Brown also praised freshman point guard Cedric Hunter, who came off the bench and directed the KU offense down the stretch.
Henry scored eight of Kansas' last 10 points in the final 6:06. Boogie and Mills both scored.
St. Louis, 2-1, was led by Burden's 22 points, 11 in each half.
St. Louis — Calvin Thompson grimaces as he drives to the basket as St. Louis' Rick Williams, left, and Luther Burden defend. Thompson hit for 10 points in the first half. Carl Henry scored 22 points to lead the Jayhawks to a 67-63 victory over the Billikens.
Women asked to participate in ITCA meet
By the Kansan Staff
Basketball, swim teams set for tourneys
Pereman said that the top two overall finishers in singles and doubles in the tournament would automatically qualify for the ITCA National Tournament Feb. 8-11 in Provo, Utah.
Four KU women tennis players were accepted to compete Friday and Saturday in the ITCA Central Region Qualitying Tournament at the Woodlake Racquet Club at Oklahoma City.
Pereman said he was more concerned with finding out what the competition was like in the Central League than collegiate regions in the country.
Freshmen Barbara Inman, Christine Parr, Janelle Bolen and Cindy Bregin will compete in the indoor individual tournament for women, Scott Perelman, KU tennis coach, said yesterday.
"We're definitely not the favorite or anything," Perelman said. "But I think we have a chance to do well if the girls perform well."
course, tournai. The tournament is sponsored by the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association.
Inman and Parr will also play as one doubles team, while Bolen and Breinat will be the other.
By JANELLE MARTIN
The men's and women's swimming teams will compete in the six-tem team Saluki Invitational today and tomorrow. The Northern Illinois campus at Carbondale.
The swimming teams will travel east to Carbondale, Ill., while the women's basketball team flies south to Ruston, La.
The University of Kansas will have athletic teams traveling in two different directions for competition this weekend.
Sports Writer
The women's basketball team will
Men's and women's swimming coach Gary Kempf said yesterday that he thought his teams were ready to swim and had a good attitude going into this meet.
compete in a four-team Dial Class Basketball tournament on Louisiana Tech's home court tonight and tomorrow.
The Southern Illinois women's team battled the Jayhawk women's team at the National College Athletic Association swimming championships last March.
"I THINK THEY see the importance to swim fast this weekend. Kempf助
team, "Kempi said, "I would say if any team needed me, pre-men favorite, it would do that."
He said SIU was favored because of the number of swimmers it had received. "It was a good start," he said.
"Both teams are balanced," he said of his men's and women's team. "They just need to make the step upward now."
In the men's division, he said Southern Illinois and the University of Nebraska were his pre-met favorites. He said a strong challenge from Florida State.
"Southern Illinois has a very good
The women's basketball team will face host school Louisiana Tech in the Lady Techster's Dial Classic tonight in first-round action.
the butterfly and individual medley relays.
The backstoke event should definitely be strong for the KU men, Kempi said, along with the middle distance freestyle events.
Louisiana Tech, with co-head coaches Sonja Hogg and Lennar Barmore, was runner-up to Southern Cal for the NCAA women's basketball championships.
IN THE WOMEN'S division, Kempf said, the strong events for KU should be
Depending on the outcome of that game, KU will play either Florida State or Texas.
He'd better bring a hacksaw with him.
Mike Rozier prepared to accept Heisman Trophy
Rv LOGAN HORSON
NEW YORK — Mike Rozier has already figured out what to do with the Heisman Trophy he's expected to win tomorrow night.
United Press International
The Nebraska running back, who has dropped National Collegiate Athletic Association issuing records like opposing tacklers, is strongly favored to be named the best player in college football for the 1983 season at the University.
"Turner (Gill) will get the head.
Irving (Fryar) will get the arms, I'll get the legs and the offensive line will get the heart," said Rozier. Nebraska's since Johnny Rodgers won it in 1972.
"IF I DON'T GET it, people around here will still know I did my job, and that will be as good as a Heisman. I'm not saying I don't want the Heisman Trophy, but it doesn't mean as much as a national championship. If I don't win the Heisman and you call me up, I'll probably still be partying."
Rozier, a 22 year-old from Camden,
N.J., gained 2,148 yards in 1983 to
become the second back in college history to crack 2,000 yards. His total is second to Marcus Allen's 2,342 in 1981 and fourth in 128 fewer carries than did Allen in 1981.
He also broke the NCAA record with 29 rushing touchdowns, which tied the overall record set by Lydell Mitchell of Penn State in 1971. Rozier, who attended Coffeville Junior College for one year, tied the NCAA record with 11 straight 100-yard plus rushing games and gained over 200 in each of his four games. His 929 yards over that four-game span is an NCAA record.
Boxes, Standings, Scoreboard, p. 12
"THE IS THE REST blocking I-back we've ever had, he catches the ball well and he follows his blockers," said Nebraska coach Tom Osborne of his running back who averaged an astounding 7.8 yards a carry. "And he's physically tough and durable. We've had backs in the past with the ability to win the Heisman, but they didn't. They weren't mentally and physically tough enough to play every week and hold up. Mike has that toughness."
Rozier, who would be the 12th straight running back to win the Heisman, is also sixth in NCAA career rushing with 4,780 yards. Only Herschel Walker has gained more in three seasons.
Jayhawk officials relieved
NCAA enforcer denies claims of lax penalty
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Johnson praised KU's response to the NCAA findings and said, "We need to get those things behind us and look to the prospects of the
The announcement of the two-year probation, which prohibits the University of Kansas from bowl and television appearances next season, ended more than 20 months of restrictions on collaborations committed by the Jayhawks.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson and other KU officials yesterday expressed more relief with the National Collegiate Athletic Association's announcement Wednesday of the on Jayhawk football program.
"AS THE PRESS release said, we accepted the violations and also the penalty," Johnson said.
KU had 15 days to appeal the decision made by the six-member NCAA Committee on Infractions, but chose instead to accept the two-year penalty, in which the year would be free of sanctions.
"We felt it was time to resolve the matter and move on to the future." he said.
Football coach Mike Gotttried said that he thought the procedure for penalizing KU had been fair
"That's the best way they have of doing it right now," he said.
The investigation has not had negative effects on recruiting yet. Gofftried said, but the real test will be in February, when high school students attend.
Feb. 8 is the first day for high school athletes to sign.
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said that she also was relieved that the long process was over.
“It’s been long and time consuming—much like preparing a law suit,” she said. “Now I’m ready to get on to something else.”
"TM GLAD we finally got to this point and that now we're able to go forward," said Thomas, who provided critical responses to the NCAA findings.
Johnson said that Thomas was excellent in her preparation and response and that he was satisfied with the answers. He also suggested a better response to the NCAA
Lonny Rose, assistant athletic director for NCAA rules and interpretations, said that in many ways KU had been suffering infractions for the last year and a half because of the diverse publicity of the investigation.
Rose was out of town when the announcement was made but returned to Lawrence yesterday.
"I think the penalty is a pretty harsh penalty in that it imposes sanctions on us. But they did find violations," he said.
BUT A WRITER with the Kansas City Times yesterday criticized the penalty, saying KU had made a "mockery" of NCAA rules and that the limited situations would encourage NCAA school programs to break rules as well.
The story, however, drew a strong reaction from Bill Hunt, head of NCAA enforcement.
Hunt said yesterday that he thought the penalty placed on KU was fair because many of the allegations brought to light by newspapers were unfounded. He said that some media speculated that made KU's violations sound worse than they actually were.
"I believe the penalty is a strong one," Hunt said. "I can't speak for those at the University of Kansas, but the period was a difficult time for them."
Hunt said that the penalty would have a substantial effect on the future of KU's athletic program because the probation and investigation periods combined for a total that met the severity of the violations.
Minette Massy, a member of the NCAA Infractions Committee, said yesterday that the committee was unable to find proof for many of the allegations publicly brought against the KU athletic program.
The NCIA Enforcement Committee makes a list of allegations after a pre-trial hearing with the university and then determines which of those allegations to present to the Infractions Committee.
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In KU's case, Massey said, some of those allegations did not seem valid enough for consideration by the Infractions Committee and were withdrawn by the Enforcement Committee.
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