Page 10
University Dallv Kansan, June 22.1983
KU coaches stay busy this summer
By ED GROM Staff Reporter
Trying to catch new basketball coach Larry Brown and new football coach Mike Gottfried in their offices on the same day this summer would be like finding Ronald Reagan and George Bush together in the White House.
Since taking over their positions, both men have been in and out of their offices constantly. Often busy either visiting their families back home or on recruiting trips, neither coach has much time in his Carroll Center office.
Brown, who was hired April 8 as head basketball coach, is out of his office so much that his secretary, Cathy Gurtler, said she had not gotten to know him yet.
"I really don't know how long he has been here, but it hasn't been too long," she said. "He has been in and out of here a lot."
Gottfried, former head coach at the University of Cincinnati, took over as head football coach Dec. 27. He has been busy since then, but he will continue staff for the coming season. His commuting problems were solved when his family
moved from Cincinnati to Lawrence in February.
"From the first day, it has been very busy," Gottried said. "But I knew it would be a lot of work and travel when I decided to come here. It's always a lot of work when you change coaching positions."
Since June 3, the day Brown came back from a month-long tour of the state of Kansas with Giftfried and Athletic Director Monte Johnson, Brown has been in his office a total of one week.
Brown spent that time meeting with players and coaches before leaving for Europe where he will coach a group of NBA all-stars for three weeks in a small city in southern Italy.
"I spent a lot of time working with the "kids and making myself aware of their needs," Brown said. "I wanted to go as smoothly as possible."
"It's not that I want the kids to forget Ted (Owens, former KU basketball coach) — because I want them to hurt about it — that's that I wanted to get the message across that I would like to continue to do the same thing with them. It was a hard period and I must the situation is a lot better now."
When he returns from Europe,
"It's a year-round job and there isn't much time off." Brown said. "The year goes in cycles and we're in the planning cycle right now."
Brown said, he will spend most of July traveling to several basketball camps to evaluate players.
When Gettfried was hired, he was immediately handed the task of recruiting high school talent. Since colleges around the country had been forced to reduce their high school seniors, Gettfried and his staff had to make up for lost time.
He spent the first months of 1983 preparing for spring practices and then preparing the team for the annual Spring Game.
"At that stage, I wanted to introduce my philosophy of the game to the players. So often they ask me what to do if in that short time and I think we made some progress."
Gottfried also headed a football camp last week and is planning a trip to several NFL camps to "learn more new ideas."
After his return from the NPL camps in late July, Gottfried said, the staff would concentrate on the coming fall practice before freshmen come back.
He said the returning lettermen were asked to report Aug. 14.
"From here on in out, it is going to be a lot of work." Gottfried said.
For information, employees should contact Benefit, 844-4148.
Since last March when the National Collegiate Athletic Association sent a letter of inquiry about KU athletes to the NCAA, the NCAA said much more has been said on the issue.
NCAA question needs answer
informational meetings on campus through July 1.
Is KU being investigated by the NCAA? If so, have we been cleared of its allegations? Or are we already on probation?
In an attempt to find out more about the investigation, I made telephone
calls to the chancellor's office and to the NCAA office in Mission, Kan.
THE CALLS PRODUCED little new information and left my questions unanswered.
From the time "NCAA investigation" was first mentioned in the same breath with KU athletics, a dark cloud has been hanging over the KU campus.
The cloud over KU is similar to the clouds that once loomed over Wichita State and Arizona State.
The results of those clouds were
many "PROBLEM WON" and the same
much "PROBLEM FACED."
THE KANSAS CITY STAR reported in June 1982 that two former high school football players said they had been
long tone probation would last and how severe the penalties might be depend on the severity of illegal actions.
offered $30,000 each from former assistant coach John Haddi to play at
After the NCAA inquiry letter to KU was made public, United Press International reported that another possible reason for the inquiry was Jayhawks running back Kervin Bell. The NCAA had already ruled Bell academically eligible to play in games of the 1984 season and forced him to all oil six games in 1982.
With these two ideas in mind, the public can only assume that the football players
But what becomes alarming is how little the public is allowed to know about the investigation. Granted, certain information should be confidential, but knowing which program was in question and what illegal actions allegedly took place would at least answer some basic questions.
Here we are, students, fans, alumni and athletes in their senior year of high school, living in a world of uncertainty and concern. We have no idea who was the first to notice when these allegations were serious enough to call for some form of probation.
BOTH LARRY BROWN, head basketball coach, and Mike Gottfried, head football coach, were hired after the initial NCAA investigation began late last fall, and both are in limbo, waiting to see what comes out of it all.
"The NCAA investigation does not have anything to do with me or my coaching staff, and that is all I care to about the issue." Gottfried said last week.
the NCAA, said that KU was required to submit a written report to the NCAA before an official hearing would begin.
David Berst, enforcement director of
Following KU's investigation, Berst said, the NCAA will review the report and then both parties will meet with the NCAA Committee on Infractions to decide whether further action should be taken. Committee members include faculty representatives from around the country.
VICKIE THOMAS, University general counsel, received the job of drafting KU's response to the charges. She is three months into her investigation and has not yet completed a written report to the NCAA
"I'm still working on it," Thomas said. "But I would rather not give out my email."
Berst said that, in some cases, the NCAA took no action following an inquiry and hearing. He quickly added that most official inquiries resulted in some punitive measures, such as probation and a loss of NCAA privileges or a letter of reprimand or notification of closer monitoring by the NCAA.
"I really can't say how much longer the investigation will take," Thomas said. "If I need more time, it is only two weeks." He will ask the NCAA for continuance. "The
investigation could linger into the football season, and we are the people who are stuck in the middle of it all.
The hiring of Gottfried and Brown stirred excitement among KU students and alumni, and only probation can put a damper on that.
Health Care Plus to hold meetings
let us know what is going on now so we can stop assuming.
THE CASTLE
TEA ROOM
phone: 843-1151
C-90
RENTS RECORDS
1422 W. 23rd St. 841-0256
Health Care Plus, an organization offering health insurance to state employees as an alternative to Blue Cross, Blue Shield, is conducting 39
Computerark
KNOWLEDGE SERVICE EDUCATION
COMMUNICATION EPSON MORNING DESIGNS
VICIOR 9000 KAY PRO ORIDATA
WB W 20:36 h. 841-0044
YELLO SUB
DELIVERS
841-3268
KATY'S CELLAR SHOPPE
842-7456
NEXT-TO-NEW
CLOTHING FOR WOMEN
745 NEW HAMPSHIRE
THE MARKETPLACE
(BEHIND THE HARVEST)
Open Tues. thru Sat 10:30 to 4:30
DON'T FORGET... Zercher carries Jayhawk Souvenirs
1107 MASS
919 IOWA
HILLCREST
DOWNTOWN
includes medium drink & curly-Q-fries
$250
Starting Monday...
Minsky's Introduces
STEAK BURGER!"
6-pke.
beer to go.
"IT'S NOT A HAMBURGER, IT'S A 1/2 LB.
2228 Iowa
James Bond's all OCTOPUSSY time action high.
Evenings 7:25 8:40 Mat. Sat. Sun. 2:15 **EXIT**
842-0154
THE ORIGINAL
Minsky's
PIZZA
CINEMA 1
TIME AND JOY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ends Thu. 2:00
Evenings
BLUE THUNDER
7:30 8:30
HILLCREST
917-820-1544
warGAMES
VIP
venues 7:20 to 9:30 Mat. Sat. Sun. 2:16
HILLCREST 2
TOWNHOUSE
RADING PLACES
DAN AKYROD
EDDIE MURPHY
Evenings 7:30 9:40 Mat. Sat. Sun. 2:15
COMMONWEALTH THEATRES
GRANADA CITYWIDE
TELEPHONE 812-5740
STAR WARS
RETURN OF
THE JEDI
2ND CONCERT, 7:30 P.M.
ON SUNDAY AT 9:00 A.M.
CINEMA 2
1234 AND 567
EVENINGS 7:25 6:30
ANTHONY PERLING PETCHMILL
Mat Sat Sun 8:00
As long as acquaintance with the superficial satisfies lip service liberals, they will continue to misdirect their energy and thus serve the interests of those with whom they claim to differ.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terrace
Paid Advertisement
842-2930
Double cheeseburger, french fries, medium milk shake,(chocolate, strawberry, vanilla) for only $1.99
Lip service liberals consider liberating a procedure which always brings suffering and usually death to innocent dependent human beings, but tolerate a socio-political mechanism which consigns to poverty many courageous women forced to rear their children without assistance, and avidly support the profitable war against women being waged by many a depraved pornographer and pimp.
workers:
Lip service librarians find acceptable the verdict of "innocent by reason of insanity" which requires of one or more compensated-for-being-accommodating psychiatrists the uncovering within an acknowledged killer's psyche of phenomena which foredoomed him to murder. To digest this psychiatrically-inspired circumavigation, it is necessary to ignore the accumulated evidence and embrace the illogical and unprovable theory that someone's conscious act can be the result of undeniable forces which overcome at an inopportune moment.
A TRIBUTE TO LIP SERVICE LIBERALS
Lip service liberals are genuinely compassionate individuals whose desire to resolve often precludes a thorough examination of the relevant facts. One of this group recently reverted to form when he glanced at my hands and concluded that I'd never done any manual labor. In comparable jousts with this miscreant, any mention of my admittedly brief stints of energy-expending employment or my willingness to perform community work alongside him for a designated period of time always failed to elicit anything other than a grunt of momentary recognition. By implying that the size and shape of my hands were experientially rather than genetically determined, this adversary overlooked a considerable body of information and thereby reaffirmed his commitment to lip service liberalism.
the GROSSING
4-7p.m.
$1.50 pitchers
1 block N. of Union
Lip service liberals support the use of reverse racial discrimination in the distribution of jobs, but ignore the incalculable damage wrought by an economic system which is said to be operating democratically even while it leaves in the margin millions of potential workers.
2120 W.6th
offer good through Friday 6/24
1
1