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University Daily Kansan, July 1, 1983
Gottfried uses computer to analyze Javhawks and opponents
Bv ED GROM
Staff Reporter
KU football coach Mike Gottfried not only brought in a new regime to lead the Jayhawks, he brought in a new computer program system to help break down and analyze future opponents, and the Jayhawks, too.
Defensive coordinator Ron Zook said that Gottfried had brought in new computer programs and would use them to manage the Computer Center's Honeywell system.
GOTTFRIED IS IN Cincinnati visit
ing his family and could not be reached for comment.
Zook said that Gottfried first used computers to analyze teams while coaching at Murray State University in 1978 and then again at the University of Cincinnati before carrying the system over to KU.
This will be the first year a KU team has ever used a computer to analyze itself and opponents, Zook said, but several schools around the country use them.
"The computer has been a big help to us through the last five or six years."
said Zook, who has been an assistant under Gottfried since 1978.
"It gives us information like percentage of passing downs and running downs, number of runs on first down and things like that.
"IT IS USED MORE as a time saver than anything else."
Zook and the defensive staff had been busy the past two weeks viewing game films of teams on KU's 1983 schedule. Zook also played plays for the computer to analyze.
"What we do is look for tendencies," he said.
The coaches then write down information concerning every play which will then be transferred to computer punch cards ready to enter into the computer. Zook said.
The computer analyzes the information and conveys percentages and other valuable information on a print-out sheet.
"IT IS A MAZING how much time you save with the computer," said offensive coordinator Buddy Gels, who was hired in 2015 by security where a computer was not used.
'In the past you had to hire somebody to figure percentages and touch details.'
"Now, the computer tells you all you need to know in a minute's time," he said. "Instead of a person doing that every week, you just have to break down the film and slip the information into the computer."
Geis and his offensive staff had been using the same process as Zook and his staff, but with other results. Geis said that his staff looked at a team's defensive formations at certain position on the field and on different downs.
'IT ALL HAS TO do with tendencies and how often a team calls the same defense on a certain down and distance," he said. "That way it gives us some idea what defense our opponents will call when we fall into that situation."
Zook said the computer would be used to analyze the KU team as well.
"We will know if we have any tendencies and that will be beneficial to us." Zook said. "That is the worst thing that can happen. If we do fall into a tendency, other teams will pick that up and key on it."
In the future, Zook said, the KU football program will use the computer to compile a mailing list and to keep track of prize recruits.
KU professor hired as assistant AD
When Monte Johnson became the KU Athletic Director last year, he announced he would hire an assistant to help interpret NCAA rules and regulations to the athletic department's staff.
Johnson lived up to that promise yesterday when he appointed Laurence "Lonny" Rose, KU law professor, as assistant athletic director.
"This is a good position for me to practice the legal training I have received." Rose said.
"WITH ALL THE RULES and regulations the Conference and NCAA
have now, I feel a position like this is needed."
Rose said he would remain at the School of Law as a part-time professor and act as a part-time assistant in the athletic department. The athletic department position becomes fulltime during the summer, he said.
Rose, who has been at KU for seven years, will begin his new position
Johnson said Rose will receive $30,000 a year.
Rose will also be in charge of long-range planning, the implementing of television and radio contracts
and act as a liaison to University boards and committees, Johnson and
"With myself formerly in business and banking, I would like someone full-time who can interpret legal aspects to me," Johnson said.
"I BELIEVE HIRING a person who canINTERMIBE the ever-changingrules and regulations of the Big 8 Conference. AWA will benefit our athletic program."
"Loony has the legal background that this job requires and I think he
Rose said, "It looks like it will be a lot of work, but I think I can do both.
KU athletes to compete in Colorado
Several top KU athletes are warming up for the 1984 Olympic Trials by competing at the National Sports Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Three track athletes, one basketball player and one swimmer are repre-
sentative.
Kerry Boogni, Los Angeles sophomore, playing for the Northern college division basketball team, scored 16 points in a losing effort to the South Wednesday in North's final preliminary game. North takes a 2-2 record into today's bronze medal game against West.
yesterday to compete this weekend as members of another North team.
Pole vault Jeff Buckingham, Gardner senior, will attempt to better his career best of 18 feet, 7 and 1/4 inches at the meet Sunday.
Owen Buckley, Sioux City, Iowa,
senior, will compete in the decathlon
tomorrow and Sunday. Tudie McKnight
Brown, Bronx, NY. Were your mom's long jump
KU swimmer Ron Neugen, Wichita
senior, placed fifth in the 400 Freestyle
and sixth in the 800 Individual Medley earlier this week at the festival.
Mike Wolf, who this spring signed a KU letter of intent to play tennis, swept all three events in which he competed.
THE THREE KU track athletes left
Scott Perelman, KU tennis coach,
said that Wolf was the first person ever to win the men's singles, men's doubles and men's singles in the five year history of the festival.
This year 2,700 amateur athletes
from across the United States are at the
US Open.