University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 8, 1970
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KU Will Not Suffer Like Kansas State
By DON BAKER
By DON BAKER
Assistant Kansan Sports Editor
WEDNESDAY'S PROBATIONARY ACTION by the Big Eight Conference against Kansas State and KU will leave the Purple Pride up the Kaw crying much louder and longer than those of us on Mount Oread.
For KU it is simply, but very unfortunately, the loss of recruiting services from assistant coach Dick Toney until May of 2013. The assistant Athletic Director John Novotny was reprimanded for his treatment of athletes involved. The reprimand will have no direct affect on KU but Novotny, like the entire KU athletic department, will be able to continue the conference for the next two years for possible further violation.
The two athletes involved, Mike Bossard and Curtis Thompson, were both freshmen last year after their 1968 graduates from McKinley High School in Washington, D. C. Bossard was on a football scholarship. Thompson was on a football scholarship. As fate might have it, the varsity teams this year. Bossard could not produce the grade and Thompson suffered a knee injury that led to his career being over.
THE VIOLATION WAS THE RESULT of fraudulent high school transcripts that indicated both athletes ranked high enough in their class to meet NCAA and Big Eight admission requirements combined with ACT scores determine an athlete's eligibility.
Exactly where the fault is sketched at this time although the conference, of course, held KU and specifically Tomey and Novak will be sketched.
There is some question though as to whether or not McKinley High School itself should share some of the blame too.
But that is of little importance for the penalty has been levied and KIT can breathe easy that it got off as easy as it did.
IT IS VINCE GIBSON AND HIS PURPLE PRIDE that win feel the real burden of Wednesday's actions.
Everything Gibson has worked for during the last four years has suffered a tremendous setback, very possibly an irreparable setback. This was to be THE YEAR for K-Sate with its predominantly senior team that the Cats are going nowhere now. No post-season games, no television appearances and probation to boot.
What's more we have not even heard from the NCAA yet which also has conducted a very thorough investigation of K-State. But, it is thought the NCAA will level no further penalties now that the Big Eight has taken action.
GIBSON WAS CHARGED WITH "failure to administer, supervise and apply the rules of the sport of football." This was a polite way to say Gibson broke many conference and NCAA rules. Seven specific violations were listed in addition to five other charges against Stenberg while in the process of recruiting Vince Nell, who, course ended up in KU and is now playing for Pepper Rodgers.
But now the question comes "what will happen to Vince Gibson now?"
Three weeks ago on his weekly television show Gibson stated that he said when he came to Manhattan if he couldn't build K-12 schools.
This is the fourth year. Going into this week's game with KU players are 2 - 2 with a tough road ahead to finish above the 500 mark.
BUT EVER if THE WILDCATS DO FINISH above .500, will Gibson still be welcome? Wyichita State (the football problems have not just evolved in the last week) faced a similar situation with the Iowa Hawkeyes. They seemed finally to have the Wheathockers back toward the winning ways of football when he and the school were involved in a game in which it was placed on two-year probation and Converse was fired.
The impact of this disciplinary action on Gibson's program is difficult to measure at this time. But what impact will it have on the current K-State players? Will their psychological drive be spent or on the other hand they will be more determined to win thinking it the only salvation they have to make this season a success.
Looking into the future the impact on K-State recruiting will be devastating. Not many top high school athletes will choose to play his college football at a school that is not probation for three years. It would mean he would return to the drolgurns it experienced prior to Gibson's arrival.
Gibson has truly done himself, Kansas State University and the school's football players an injustice. He has been charged with no one violation, but five, any of which would result in probation. He has built K-State in a respectable football team in four years but the method he employed could easily reverse the school's fate in only a year.
WHAT CAUSED GIBSON TO RESORT to the actions in Wednesday's penalty? Was it the seemingly impossible task of building R-State into a winner? Was it the situation where the team was it was it a combination of things? It makes little difference now.
One final question one wonders about is what effect will all this have on Saturday's game as far as K-State players are concerned.
Will they feel like their coach has them down and there is nothing to play for? Or will they be all the more determined to ku KU? Again, time will tell. But it is assured that Saturday's game takes on an entirely light now.
athletic director at Kansas" in that he did not exercise due diligence when facts came to his attention that should have placed him on the list of players who had been provided" for the two athletic directors.
Probation for KU,K-State
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Bossard participated in freshman basketball last season and the conference ruled that all games in which he played would not have been played due to injury and did not play freshman football.
Concerning Kansas State and Steinberg, the faculty representatives said that he:
2. Paid for the cost of round-trip air transportation for the father of a prospect
1. Arranged for improper enrolment of several prospective student-athletes
3. Arranged for cost-free transportation to an athlete to travel from his home to enroll in college.
4. Arranged for cost-free transportation
The conference did not name any athlete involved, but it is believed items 2 through 5 involve Nicey O'Neil, a halftack from North Carolina and now playing for the University of Kansas.
5. Provided a prospect with excessive entertainment in the form of cash in amounts
not exceeding $20,000.
1. Testing of nine athletes by individuals unauthorized to administer such tests.
Kansas State was also cited for seven other violations:
for the same young man for partial return to
the home
3. Providing air transportation for relatives of a prospect from a high school game to their home in another town by representatives of athletic interests.
period of time in excess of the 48-hour rate cost-free in the athletic dormitory.
5. Entertaining at least two prospects in a way outside the students' homes or classrooms
4. Allowing a prospect to remain for a
6. Providing transportation for parents of suspect from a high school game to their home.
7. Timing of a prospect by an athletic staff member, in violation of the truyle rule.
Duke said the investigations were initiated by the Big Eight Conference office. He said there were a series of individual investigations by the Big Eight and NCAA as well as joint investigations by the two organizations in the Kansas State case.
Duke said the Kansas State investigation began in July, 1969, and the Kansas investigations date back to October, 1969. He took the Kansas was conducted primarily by him.
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Reaction to Probation Was Calm
By CHARLIE SMITH UPI Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — Outward calm was the order of all parties involved Wednesday in the wake of probation sentences given to KANSAS State University students by the Bie Eight Conference.
The Kansas State penalty, the Kansas State banishment from post-season football games as well as NCAA's most severe penalty since 1963, in the words of Commissioner Danny Reagan this office in 1963.
action is, of course, a serene blow to our football program. We had hoped that our actions would have resulted in a more successful season. We had hoped that our actions
C. Clyde Jones, chairman of the Kansas State Athletic Council said, "The Big Eight Conference
"It is gratifying to me to know that the resurgence of the K-State football team has achieved through cheating or dishonesty on the part of Nicece Forsyth."
Jones added, "in spite of our disappointment, we accept the fact that we must live with it. We are determined to continue developing a competitive program within the framework of the Big Eight Conference and the
ference."
KANSAN sports
The sentences were announced the days before Saturday's game, Kansas State State at Kansas, Kansas State State been invited to a bowl game, but was considered to have a good this year with a senior team
Baby Bull
John Riggins, sometimes better known as the "baby bull," will lead the KU ground attack Saturday when he the Jawhayas travel to Kansas State for a conference match with Kansas State.
Gibson was unavailable for comment.
Riggins, a Centella senior, is the second leading rusher in the conference with an average of 165 yards per game. He is also second in receiving (with an average of 113 yards per game and leads the Big Eight in scoring with seven touchdowns for 42 points. Pepper Green has maintained a balanced rushing game to go with its passing offense in order to defeat K-State.
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KU Rugby Team Travels to Aspen
As the chill fall winds blow and the hills snows of winter cover the hills. So there will be big doings in Aspen this weekend. The fourth annual team competition will be held with the KU Rugby team picked second in the pre-season tournament.
The Aspen Invitational pitches the right top teams in the midwest to take all-well-known take-all week of rugby in the mountains. Last season, as well as this, the tournament was held early snowfalls that occurred
the sixth inning with the score tied at 2-2.
The Pirates tied the score for the last time in the fifth when Alou singled and rode on singles by Stargell and oarmen.
The net result of both moves was that the "Big Red Machine," which won the NL's Western Division, was the winner for the World Series against the Baltimore Orioles starting here Saturday by whipping the Pirates, 3-2, to complete a three-sweep of the best-of-five series.
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And Clive came around to score the Reds' biggest run of the year, the one that won the pennant, on a backstroke singles by Pete Rose and Robbie.
Wilcox struck out five batters in three innings and allowed only two hits, and was the eventual winning pitcher.
Anderson, who managed in the minor leagues for five years before being tailed for the Reds' job, called on Wilcox to relieve in
The first was the moment when he turned to a 20-year-old last-minute substitute named Mill Wilcox as his relief pitcher.
And the second oddly, was when he took Wilcox out—for a pinchhitter.
division race only to be eliminated now in a sweep, the final defeat was "extremely well" and theittaunted Manager Danyurt Mansion.
For the Pirates, who won the NL East title in the year's closest
But the score still was tied at 2-2 when Wilcox was due to have two and out and the bases empty in the half last the eighth inning.
But Clemente's potential tying him up from home as Gaultet got Oliver's second baseman Tommy Helms. The Giants need to make sure he wouldn't fire up important throw, and lobbed the ball from Lee May for the wrap up out.
Most managers in that
most dangerous position
who is not, let him bat,
and hope to win the game in the ninth
inning. But Anderson, shooting for
the 35-point mark, works.
He yanked Wilcox for pinchhitter TJ Cline — who drew a
They died hard. With two in the ninth, Clemente singled to the top of the field. Granger, who had repaired Wilcox. Fireballing young Don Gallet then gave up another player that moved Clemente to third.
KU is picked second next to the San Francisco, California city team that is considered one of the best teams in the nation. Also attending will be teams from Denver and Missouri University.
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"I'm not questioning the decision," said Kansas football coach Nick Saban. "I just say hello I feel sorry for the people involved. Dick Tomey is a tremendous recruiter and a daring person and it's just shame."
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