Friday. December 3. 1971
Section 2 University Daily Kansan
KU Players' Wives Married to Football
By MARY BESINGER
Korean Sports Welter
"With this football I three wed" often becomes the satirical vow of some wives of University of Kansas football players.
Lynn O'Neil, wife of Vince O'Nell she recently that she was married to a "football nut." She said she felt the presence of her husband and husband has football practice all fall and continues to train during the off-season. She said he worked on his own during the winter, and during the spring he worked as much as during the regular season.
"Football is really time consuming." said Mrs. O'Neil.
She said that during the season her husband practiced every day for 7 hours home around 7 p.m. On Sundays there were also practice and meetings, or even the viewing of the last game's films. She said he was not out during the out-of-down games.
MRS. O'NEIL added that before the games her husband was often moody because he was thinking only about the game. Afterwards he relived the game for days. She said her husband is also a fan of Sunday's to get the newspapers to read about Saturday's game.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Neil both attended Hutchinson Junior College before moving to Lawrence. O'Neil played football for the University cheerleader. They have been married two and a half years.
During the football games the wives of the players sit together to cheer their husbands and the children, while the players in a different way thought.
ACORDING TO MRS. O'Nell, listening to people "grow down" on them because they were the hardest things about being a player's wife. She said she believed that the players were not as tough as he was as hard as they could. She said the nasty comments hurt but she usually just sat there and never bothered.
Besides football the O'Neils enjoy basketball, baseball and track.
Shelle McCoy, wife of center Mike McCoy, is a senior majoring in education.
The McCays met in KU's Walkins Hospital. Both were in the waiting room sitting next to each other. A few weeks later she saw how he was feeling. They have been married only six months.
MRS. McCOY said she found it
hard "sharing Mike with something that takes so much time."
She said that her husband who maintains a 3.8 G.P.A., practiced three hours a day and then studied at night. When the team studied on Friday, he said, he usually left Friday noon and got back late Saturday night.
THIS YEAR McCoy has been sidelined much of the time with injuries. He has been hurt in consecutive games, she said.
However she said she had always like football. Before she was married, she continued, she didn't know the game. Now she prepares for it and prepares all the time and effort it takes to be a good athlete.
"I almost expect for him to be hurt and I just wait for it to happen," Mrs. McCoy said.
The McCoys also enjoy other sports such as swimming and tennis.
"We've tried to enjoy tennis. I need lots and lots of practice. I don't play consistently," she lauded.
Just recently has Kathy Cooper joined the ranks of married athlecs She and Bae, an offessor for KU, were married in July.
The Coopers are both from California and met there.
ACORDING TO MRS. CONNOR, one of the hardest parts about being married to a football player was getting her to be called about Coach Don Fambrough and the players. She said she thought that the mistakes couldn't be blamed on just one person and not all of them. She laughed and said that the wives usually sit during the games gritting their teeth for a while and then one by one they yell and defending the team.
MRS. COOPER has always been a good husband has need to explain the game to her. She laughed and added that it took a lot of exertion.
However, her husband disagreed with her. He said that she understood the game well for a woman.
Playing professional football after college often confronts the college player. Mrs. Copper said she wouldn't push her husband one way or the other about pro basketball and let him make his own decision.
"If he's happy, then I can be happy," she said.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cooper
Wives are football widows . . .
Jocks Face Tough Choice
Recruiting Not All Fun
By BRAD AVERY
Khalifa Sparks Writer
Most people who decide to go to college are plagued with some degree of apprehension concerning whether they can get in, if they can afford it, and whether or not they have the choice usually narrows down to two or three schools at the most and any effort to sell one school in particular is done by a parent or friend that has connections with students and that is the way it is for most people.
"THERE IS A LOT of pressure from the different coaches telling you what to do, and what a great tradition they have, and how much they want you," he
Suttle said that recruiters began to appear in his sophomore year and, though he enjoyed it at first, it eventually became a
The exception is the talented high school athlete who sometimes must decide between being, pressure, and captaining his services. An athlete at KU who experienced it all is Rick Suttle, a 6-9 freshman basketball player from East St. Louis. Suttle, by his own contacted by 230 to 350 colleges.
me up, and talking to my mother,"he said.
Freshman guard Marshall Rogers is in much the same position as the other enjoined the interlude afforded him by my missed classes in order to attend.
"You get fat from all the times they take you out to dinner, but I enjoyed it." he said.
FOR SOPHOMORE quarterback David Jaynes, who originally signed a letter of intent to play in the National Football League, KU, recruiting was full of some of the stereotypes commonly used with recruiting. He was匀qiuiing his players up and led him up for him by the players of the school he was visiting, given tickets to football games and was invited to Bryant's southern hospitality.
ANOTHER STEREOTYPE held by many people about vehicle safety are constant benefactors of automotive free vacations, and drivers in the region.
They really do a good job of recruiting in the South because they have an advantage over the main one they want. Pretty soon, however, you come to know that they are much more because there are so many other players being given the same position.
"That's just a big illusion people have. They think recruiters are always offering cars and money, but it just isn't."
so," said Jaynes
Another charge leveled against big time recruiting is that coaches look at an athlete as just a number, not a person. Blocking wait for the highest bidders and that all they're in the player's a athletic ability.
"It's true in a way," Jaynes said, because you eventually accept the fact that you're really interested in is your job. But that's the way it is."
MOST OF the other players interviewed felt the same way. Freshman running back Robert Miller from Houston said that he played well because of its business school and nice surroundings he got the impression people were basically interested in how he could play football. He said, however, that the coaches had treated him very well.
Freshman lineman Fedro Dillon agreed and said the reason he had eventually decided on KU was that he was tired of being recruited
AS MIGHT be expected the coaches had a different perspective of what recruiting was all about. Assistant football coach Charlie McCullers said he must have been very careful, as the academic wounds of KU
"We try first of all to sell the educational aspects of K.U. We emphasize the standing of the university, the number of Rhodes institution, and how important a degree from KU is in the Midwest," he said.
Woman Athlete Looks to Olympics
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Miss Jaceen usually works in the kitchen or at Thursdays and Sundays she works on her techniques.
Miss Jacobson works out every day in either Allen Field House, Robinson Gymnasium or the Memorial Stadium. She said her workouts included primarily two conditioning and technique.
dream for an Olympic medal
may come true someday for
track competitor Mary Jacobson,
Florence, Oregon sophomore.
Running, sprinting, exercising and weight-tifting are part of the conditioning. The technique was shot a shot and distracted she said.
By MARY BESINGER
Kennan Sports Writer
petitive sports that are supplementary to the regular training.
Miss Jacobson said she often worked on the Universal Gym and the military press, but did two types of arm lifts, the bench press and the military press. She can bench press 150 pounds using the military press.
She also does leg exercises with the gym machine. She can press 600 pounds with her legs. Doing this exercise she can push 110 pounds, she said.
Miss Jacobson trains mainly under the supervision of Mrs. Anla Tapad, physical education teacher at the school she had worked a little with Karl Subl and other athletes. By chance, Jacobson can pick up tips and new ideas.
The best shot put Miss Jacobson she'd never won in July at the national meet in Bakersfield, California, when she threw the 8 pound 13 ounce weight finished fourth in the meet. She finished fourth in the meet.
In 1972, Miss Jacobson plans to try out for the Olympic team, compete in the national and place in ten. From those ten girls three will be chosen to represent the United States at the Olympic Games. The girls must girls must have a standard throw of 53 ft. 3½ in. If no one can qualify with that standard, then Miss Jacobson will throw will compete in the
Olympics.
Miss Jacobson hadn't worked with the discus this year yet and she said she'd been concentrating in the shot put.
While in high school Miss Jacobson was the state high school champion and 1970 and 1971, and state discus champion in 1970. She was also the national girls' champion in 1972, and Olympic champion the same year. In 1970 Miss Jacobson won the national women's indoor shot
Miss Jacobson said she hoped to compete in the intercollegiate basketball tournaments at national indoors in New York City, the national outdoor and indoor courts.
Besides track Miss Jacobson is a member of the KU women's football field hockey teams. She also occasionally bowls for the in-
HE SAID the initial contact with a player is usually made with the permission of the high school coach during the spring before the prospect's senior year. McCullers estimated that he had to spend $10,000 per prospect as much as once a week over a month and a half period.
given out fewer scholarships than
another school.
"It is important for us to be around without harassing him because a boy wants to know he is interested he said. The teacher permits a school to supply a person with room and board, books, fees, tuition and £15 a month. McCullars said he had never run across any violations of terms at KU or anywhere else."
"We've really missed the boat in recruiting the last few years, especially after we played in the Orange Bowl," he said.
Head football coach Don Fambrough agreed and said that in the last four years KU had
old school in the Big Eight. He pointed out that KU had to compete with that institution for schools in Kansas for prospects and that made it even more difficult to recruit in a thinly populated state such as Kansas. That was any reason that there was an angry panky in the recruiting business.
"IVE BEEN at it a long time and most of the rumors start with sour grapes over someone losing a prospect. When they do, they start to think 'Well, they've done something illegal to get him fired,' or just like making excuses for losing a football game," he said.
Fambrough explained that all the funds allotted for recruiting came from gate receipts and contributions from alumni. All awards are pooled into the Outland Fund and doled out accordingly.
HE DECLINED to estimate the average cost of a trip nor did he wish to reveal the total of the fund.
Basketball coach Ted Owens also said his No. 1 selling point was the academic stature of KU.
"We try to sell a prospect on the positive aspects of KU. We also try to convince him that we are good friends, because we have been a consistent winner. The lowest we've finished since I've been here is second and that's usually good enough for a N.I.T. berth," he said.
HE AFFIRMED that there was an entertainment aspect to attracting a recruit but that he deplored it and said that he, as a member of the CAA rules committee, had introduced a rule that would prohibit it.
"We do it because it's just like keeping up with the Joneses. Other schools do it and we have to too, but it shouldn't have to do with whether or not a baby comes to school here," he said.
Owens said the recruiting was fairly evenly distributed among KU's and KU's program was due to the coach of the coaching staff to "outward reach."
Both Fambrough and Owens said the role of the alumni besides contributions in fact relayed what was important information about potential prospects to them. They said it was also legal for an alumni to fly a prospect to KU for trips to a college or a prospect is allowed to make.
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