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University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1983
Debra Bates/KANSAN
A travel-weary Larry Brown answered reporters' questions Friday afternoon before meeting with the KU basketball squad.
Brown's life as KU coach is hectic
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Staff Reporter
Larry Brown, KU's new head basketball coach, has hardly had time to relax since the moment he stepped off of a plane at Kansas City International Airport Friday morning.
"It's just been one thing after another since I got here," Brown said from his hotel room last night.
He has met school officials, other coaches, reporters, basketball players, football players and has been wined and dined for the last several days.
BUT MOSTLY HE has met with Jo Jo White and Bob Hill this weekend to map out a strategy for recruiting. The national letter-of-intent signing day for National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I schools is Wednesday.
"The last two days I've met with them all the time," Brown said. "I had dinner with their families last night and met with them again this afternoon."
Brown left the door wide open to
retaining both of them as assistant
"I'd pretty much like to stabilize things and keep them the way they were and let the players have a chance to relax a little.
"IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING that
they're still here until July first. I just don't want to make any changes at this time. I just want to do what's best for this program."
Brown said that Jim Pelton from California would honor the letter he signed in November but that he did not know the decision of Curtis Alkens, a player for Buffalo, N.Y., who said he would play for KU before Ted Owens was fired.
He said he would also talk to David Johnson, a Wyandotte High School senior, this week about coming to KU.
"The kid in California is OK — he's definitely coming next year," Brown said. "We'll all go to see the kid in Buffalo and the kid in Buffalo on Tuesday."
ON SIGNING DAY, BROWN said that he would probably be in Buffalo part of the day Wednesday and traveling to other places the rest of the day.
"We really don't want to bring in that many people," he said. "We don't want to bring in people that won't have a chance to play. We've got nine good kids returning here next year. We just want enough to fill the need."
One of the largest meetings Brown has had since arriving here was the news conference held Friday, at which he announced that he hadduced Brown as the sixth coach at KU.
MOST OF THE conference was dedicated to Brown's explanation of his reasons for leaving the New Jersey Nets to come to the University and his reasons for jumping from job to job in his 11-year career.
he coached for the Carolina Cougars of the ABA from 1972-72, the Denver teams in the NBA and ABA from 1960-61. He was the Neta from 1984 until four days ago.
"I hate to say this, but I'm getting used to these press conferences looking at my track record," Brown said. "I hope it stops.
"I plan on being here a long time. I owe it to my family and the University,."
HE ALSO SAID THAT Dean Smith, KU alum and coach at North Carolina who Brown played for, had an influence on his taking the job at KU.
"Coach Smith had a great affect on my life," Brown said. "I know what this school means to him. Being around Coach Smith, I have a pretty good idea of who we are." He's hearing about Kansas, the great coaches who have been at Kansas.
"I'm anxious to be a part of it. I don't think there could be a better situation."
Brown said at the conference that he had not signed a contract, but that he would have paid after the conference.
conference that Brown would earn
$77,000 a year on a four-year contract.
AFTER THE NEWS conference, Brown met with the team in the team locker room and described his style of play to them.
"I like to press, play 94 feet," he told reporters. "If we're physically able to press and run, we are going to. If not, we have to be in situation where they are comfortable."
After the team meeting he stopped by football practice where coach Mike Gottfried introduced Brown to the girls. Gottfried also greeted Brown at the airport.
"I'm excited for him to be here," Gottfried said yesterday. "I think he'll really add to the program."
Saturday Brown met with Chancellor Gene A. Budig, Brown said that Budig welcomed him to the University and explained some of the academic programs that would be available to his athletes.
Budig said yesterday, "I met him Saturday and I predict that Coach Brown will be here for a long time.
"Students will like Coach Brown — he's open and to the point. He believes that KU has much to offer our young student athletes. I think he was attracted by the quality of the programs here."
Thomas tops own U.S. record
By COLLIN HERMRECK Sports Writer
Sports Writer
Kansas senior Tammy Thomas out-did herself by breaking her own American record Friday with a 22.13 on the 90-yard freestyle in preliminaries of the 60-yard freestyle.
The new mark, set this past weekend at the U.S. Short-Course Championships in Indianapolis, shattered her previous record time of 22.17, which she set three weeks ago at the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships in Lincoln, Neb. Her 22.20 time later that night might have been enough to secure the event, beating defending champion Dara Torres who finished second in 22.60.
"It was a different meet totally." Thomas said. "The pressure wasn't there. I had trained all year for the NCAA's and this was more like just another meet."
While Thomas was pleased with her record-setting mark, she said the meet, which is open to all amateurs who have met the qualifying times, did not have the intensity and the pressure that she felt at the NCAA meet.
THOMAS AND THE Jayahawk swim team showed the nation once again that all the good swimmers don't come from the South and West, as seven of the Jayahaws scored 218 points for a combined men's and women's sixth place finish at the University of Indiana Natorium.
the 218-point total was the most ever scored by Kansas at the U.S. Nationals, and it was a big improvement over the 20 points scored by the Jayhawks last
"We're superbly pleased," KU Conch Gary Kempi said. "It was a tremendous way to finish off what I consider to be the best swimming season in KU history."
Mission Viejo, Calif., won the combined team title with 878.5 points, followed by Florida Aquatic with 746.5 and Pacific Islanders Miami with three with 345.5.
KU finished sixth in the women's division with 163 points while the Jayhawk men finished 13th in their own division. Mission Viejo won the women's division and Florida Aquatic won the men's competition.
FRESHMAN TAMMY PEASE was one of three other top finishers for KU
on Friday with a 12th place finish in the
56-vard. freestyle.
The other Jayhawk scoring came in the 400-yard freestyle relay event in which the KU team of Celine Cerry, Jenny Wagstaff, Pease and Thomas,
Wagstaff also finished individually with a 15th place in the 200 individual medley.
TWO KU VARSITY records were set on Saturday as the four-day meet was coming to close. The Ron Neugent team went to seventh in the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 15:12.9
Wagstaff finished eighth in that event.
The women's 400-yard medley relay team of Pease, Wagstaff, Cerny and Thomas came in second for the KUUs KU's Chuck Neumann tied for 12th in the 100 breaststroke.
JAYHAWK NOTES — The top performances by Neugent, Thomas and Wagstaff qualified them for the University World Games, which will be in Edmonton, Canada June 2-9.
KU long jumper Warren Wilhote exceeded the 26-foot mark for the second time in as many weeks and led the Jayhawk track team in the 56th annual Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, last weekend.
Wilhite leaped 26-2 $ \frac{1}{2} $ against a strong headwind and won the event, taking home his first Texas Relays watch. The jump was Wilhite's second longest outdoors, bettered only by his 26-3 $ \frac{1}{2} $ of a week ago. He has won four of the six meets he has competed in this year.
THE JAYHAWK distance medley relay team placed second in the men's open division of the meet with a time of 9:56.36, less than one second behind Lamar's winning time of 9:55.65.
KU weightman Clint Johnson finished fourth in the open men's discus with a toss of 185-4.
with a toss of the bat. Three Jayhawk athletes participated in the men's invitational division, with two of them placing.
Distance runner Tim Gundy ran a lifetime best outdoors in the Jerry Thompson Invitational Mile Run, placing fourth in 4:05.7. Big Eight Conference rival Bob Verbeek from Iowa State won the race in 4:09.9.
MARK RAU COMPETED in the invitational 400-meter intermediate hurdles, running 52.43 for a fifth place finish.
Pole vaulter Jeff Buckingham, the collegiate indoor record - holder, failed to clear a height in the invitational pole vault, which saw indoor world record-
holder Billy Olson win at 18-8 1/4. Due to gusty cross-winds, only two valuers, Olson and Louisiana State's Greg Rappe, were able to clear a height in the competition.
The heavy winds didn't seem to affect many of the events, as there were a dozen meet records broken and two collegiate record set.
THE NEBRASKA women's spirt medley relay, behind the running of world-class spritter Morlene Ottey, a collegiate record of 129.5 men's mile team team an 3:01.98 to set a collegiate record in that event.
The next competition for the Jayhawks comes next weekend when they travel to Norman, Okla. for the John Jacobs Invitational.
David Waterman's social to the KANSAN
David Waterman/Special to the KAPT Tracy Carroll, Lake Forest, Ill., sophomore, battled it out with Brett Loyd, Hiwatha hiphawna, in the fourth annual Brett Peterson Memorial Boxing Tournament held in the National Guard Armory, 200 Iowa. Carroll won the match by unanimous decision. Nine hundred spectators watched the 60 boxers fight on Friday and Saturday in the tournament sponsored by the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Mark Lembeck, the tournament director, said that nearly $1,100 in proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society.
KU outhits Mizzou in soggy victory
Kevin Bascue and Mark Gleick knock home runs over the right-field fence of the soggy University of Missouri at Columbia ballpark, leading KU to a 8-4 victory over the Missouri Tigers yesterday and bringing their record to a 6-2.
Bascue knocked in two runs with his second inning homer and John Glenn scored on a sacrifice fly by Javahun ahead 3-1. Gle, who went three-for-5.
including his sixth double of the season, hit his home run out of the park in the eighth inning.
"I WAS REAL WELL pleased with the way the guys came out and hit today," coach Marty Pattin said. "They were facing the No. 1 pitcher. A was a little skeptical since we hadn't played in so long."
The Missouri hurler, Dave Otto. went into the KU game with a 4-0 record and a 0.64 earned run average, and had only
given up two runs. KU tagged him for seven runs, including the two home runs.
Dennis Coplen, the winning pitcher for the Jayhawks, allowed only 5 hits bringing his record to 3-2 for the season.
The Jayhawks stayed in Columbia to play another double-header today beginning at 12:30. Sophomore John Heeney will start the first, and Jim Phillips will pitch the second.
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