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University Daily Kansan, June 8, 1983
New Kansas coaches make tour of state
By ED GROM
Staff Reporter
The director of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation said Monday that KU alumni what seemed enthusiastic about what the new football and basketball head coaches had to say on a recent tour of the state.
Mike Gottfried, hired as football coach last winter, and Larry Brown, hired as basketball coach in April, along with KUAC Director Monte Johnson and Williams Educational Fund Director Bob Frederick, spoke to alumni on a tour of 17 Kansas cities during May.
Johnson, who fired head football coach Don Fambrigh and head basketball coach Ted Owens, said he thought the tour was successful.
"We were all very happy with the number of people who attended the graduation ceremony."
"Speaking for Mike and Larry, they were all overhelmed by the support and enthusiasm of the alumni all over them," he added. "The amount of enthusiasm out there."
Frederick said that the Jayhawk AlumniAthletic Meeting summer tour was co-sponsored by the Williams Fund and the Alumni Association.
He said that the tour gave the
athletic department a chance to let the alumun around the state know what was going on in KU athletics.
"What we did was contact an active alum from a part of the state we wanted to cover and have him set up a time and a place where the coaches would speak," said Fredrick, who completed his third summer tour.
"We then sent out invitations to all alums in the area and took it from there. It was sort of a public relations measure from the coaches to the team."
The tour began in Junction City May 3 and continued through Salina, Emporia, Great Bend, Russell, Independence, Wichita, Colby, Dodge City, Garden City, Liberal and ended in Pittsburgh June 3.
Meetings are also planned for the greater Kansas City area, Topeka and St. Louis.
After replacing Jim Lessig, who resigned as KU athletic director to take a job as commissioner of the Mid-America Conference, Johnson angered the school. He called Fambrough and Owens, two coaches who have been around for many years.
Clair Kierzer, field director of the KU Alumni Association, said that after Fambrough and Owens were fired from the university, a government from the alumni around the state.
"There may have been some bitterness too because Don and Ted have been at KU for a long time and a lot of the alumni were personal friends with them," he said.
"That is basically the reason for the big turnouts on the tour," he added. "They were curious about what the coach was going to do to improve KU athletics.
"They are all interested in KU athletics and they want the school to be successful."
Keizer said that the number of people attending the meetings improved 25 to 50 percent at 16 of the 17 tour stops and that the coaching changes were partly responsible for the increased attendance.
"The alumni liked what they heard," he said. "There was no flowery talk and both coaches let them know what the forecast was going to be.
"They will be the first to tell you that they weren't born Kansas Jayhawks, and they will do the best they can to make their programs successful. The alumni appreciated their honesty and are looking forward to next season."
The tour also was the first time Johnson was able to address the alumni since he asked them to double their Williams Fund donations in February.
"Let me say that the trip was basically for public relations reasons and we weren't there for the purpose of collecting donations," Johnson said.
"You do get some donations at these functions, but we do all of our corresponding through the mail or by phone."
Although numbers were not available for donations received from the tour, the Williams Fund office reports a large increase in the past three months.
"We are more than happy with the response thus far," Fredericks said. "Since we sent out the letters in February, the following three months have been record months. We have averaged about $200,000 each month and that is up considerably from a year ago."
As an added dimension of this year's tour, several deans of schools in the University joined the trip at various locations to speak from an educational standpoint.
Among the deans who joined the tour were Del Brinkman, School of Journalism; Mike Davis, School of Law; Max Lucas, School of Architecture and Urban Design; David Kraft, School of Music; James Moser, School of Fine Arts.
Frederick said that in the past the tour included only one dean, but that the other deans were asked to speak this year.
McRae has four RBIs as Royals beat Twins
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ha Malee Krookseed in four runs to propel the Kansas City Royals to a 9-4 victory Tuesday night over the Minnesota Twins and give Larry Gura his first victory since April 26.
Gura scattered eight hits over six innings to snap a career-long seven-game losing streak. He improved his record to 5-7. Dan Quisenberry burden the final three innings to record his 13th save.
MRea knocked in his runs with a single and a pair of doubles. Amos Otis chipped in three hits and twoRBIs, George Brett, Willem Alkens and Frank White added two hits apiece to the Royals' attack. Brett also scored three times as the Royals climbed back to 50 at 24-24.
Gura yielded a two-run homer to Kent Hrbek, his sixth homer of the year, in the first inning, but the
Royals bailed out their struggling left-hander with three runs in each of the first two innings to take a 6-2 lead.
After Wilde Wilson was hit by a pitch and U.L. Washington bounced into a fielder's choice, Brett doubled home the first Kansas City run with the first of four consecutive hits Ken Schremer, who is now #1. McAfee also scored on a single by Wilde Aikens and came home on a single by Ots.
Wilson singled in the second and the Royals proceeded to lodge the bases on walks to Washington and Brett. McRae then doubled in two more runs and Otis knocked in Brett one out later with a single.
Kansas City picked up an insurance run in the fourth when Brett trotted home on a bases-loaded wild pitch by reliever JACK O'Connor.
Minnesota also on a solo homer by Mickey Hatcher in the third and a sacrifice fly by HRek in the fifth.
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