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Valesente now a Maryland coach
Bv Craig Anderson
Kansan sports editor
The recruiting situation at Maryland probably tells as much as anything about the difference between the Ternapill football program and the Kansas program.
Former Kansas coach Bob Valesente, now the offensive coordinator at Maryland, has already seen the resources that East Coast high school football has.
"The numbers (in the east) make the recruiting base a lot bigger." Valente said. "We've got Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey, and so on, that are all big states and within an automobile drive. There are a lot of prospects here."
oI or prep, with his coordinator duties, Valesette is in charge of recruiting in the Western Pennsylvania area, which is known as a hotbed for prep talent.
"I hit a school and then just keep going," he said. "It makes it easy to see a lot of
KIDS Such was not the case when Valesente and his staff were recruiting for Kansas.
"In Kansas, it's pretty well spread out," he said. "That's not to say that there weren't good football players there, but the
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population cut down the number of prospects."
pecies. With the number of prospects, Maryland has been able to keep its number of scholarships at the NCA级 limit of 9%. While $k$ scholarship players usually had less than $k$ scholarship players.
During the 1967 season as the Jayhawks coach, Dvaleste also had to deal with 15 players who quit the team in the pressure or during the season. Larry Fisher and Tony Harvey — who were inspired for disciplinary reasons. In a season in which Kansas was short of depth to begin with, the team had to play for Valeeste and his staff to overcome.
Kansas finished the season at 1-9-1 and beat only division 1-AA Southern Illinois by one point. The Jayhawks managed a tie with Kansas State, which was the only game the Wildcats didn't lose in 1867. Kansas didn't win a road game or a BIG game. Valentine's two years as coach. He finished with 471-17 record as Kansas' coach with a 4+17-1 record.
They were tough times indeed for Kansas on and off the field. After weeks of speculation, Kansas Athletic Director Bob Frederick fired Valesene November 23. The firing came two days after Kansas finished its season with a 1-9 loss to Missouri.
reason with a 197 loss to Missouri.
"It was a tough situation, but we as a staff
had to keep going with what we thought was right," Ralph said. "I really haven't looked back. Once I left Kansas I felt I had to make a move for myself and my family."
Valesente interviewed for several coaching positions at the professional and collegiate levels. He decided to pursue a relationship with Tervc coach Joe Krivak. The two met 20 years ago while both were assistant coaches in Syracuse, Cornell and Krivcak教了 Syracuse.
Now at Maryland, Valezente is part of a team that has gone 4-7 and 5-1 in the past two seasons. The Terrapin coaches and fans see that as a rebuilding failure. Before the two mediocre seasons, the Terps went to bowl games eight times in 11 years. Maryland opened this season with a 27-16 win over Louisville.
"The minute I walked into the door I felt the tradition (at Maryland)," Valente said. "It hits you right in the eye. Maryland football has been successful for years.
Gottfried faced same challenges at Kansas
"There is a great inner desire to win here. I'm extremely happy and pleased to be here."
By Mike Considine Special to the Kansan
After building up long-dormant Division 1-AA programs in Ohio, both young coaches moved up to tackle rebuild at Kansas
Superficially, there are strong similarities between former KU football coach Mike Goffert and current coach Glen Mason.
"There are some," said Vie Eumont, who has been an assistant coach under both men. "These personalities are a lot different, but they are very alike." A shotster program are pretty similar.
The state of the program when Goffried, now coach of the University of Pittsburgh, came to KU in 1983 was similar to present presidents. The program is little more available talent than Mason.
Gottfried, 43, took over a 2.7-2AYah team, led by all-America quarterback Frank Seurer Kansas made its last bow appearance just two years earlier.
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The former University of Cincinnati and Murray State coach also inherited a two-year NCAA probation.
"It was a tough thing to come into a new program with a senior quarterback." Gettfried said. "It was a rebuilding situation the team had just two wins and two ties the year before — plus the NCAA thing was hanging over our head."
souttested said Seurer was the besetterback he had coached. Using Seurer's talents and a good crop of receivers, he established the Kansas Air Force. The attack helped capture the Jayahekys upstairs at a nationally ranked Southern Cal.
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In 1984, Kansas improved to 5-0 despite losing three of four nonconference games
"At the time, we were trying to build the program," said Bob Valesente. Gottfried's offensive coordinator and successor as coach "that type offense helps you make
After opening the conference season with a victory over Iowa State, the Jayhawks lost 24-7 to Kansas State and 47-10 to Oklahoma State.
Although the Cowboys manhandled his team, Gottfried said he was impressed by how hard his team played.
"I remember for the week before the game, I had a feeling we'd win." Gotfried said. "I remember I passed Larry Kovacs that week and he asked how we were doing.
dinner, told him we were coming on and getting done. told him we I thought we'd beat him, he aimed it. he aimed it.
Goffried said the 2011 victory over second-ranked Oklahoma was one of the biggest wins of his career. It earned him UPI Coach of the Week honors.
Gottfried said, "We talked about every piece of it beforehand. I told them we'd get an early lead and by halftime we'd have them on the ropes but we'd still have to punch it out in the second half. The kids played the whole way with great intensity."
"bad us believing we could beat Oklahoma." said running back Mike Rogers. "he told us, 'Don't lense your soul when you come up at halftime you're ahead."
The 1984 team finished the Big Eight season in fourth place with a 4-3 record.
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"We were close to being an 8-team. Gofftried said, "If we had had some of the kids we best, I know we would have been excellent. We needed to be. We played well."
The Jayhawks had a 4-1 nonconference record in 1985, but a 2-21 loss to Iowa State in the conference opener seemed to set the tone for the rest of the season.
Kansas beat rivals Missouri and Kansas State Gottfred was a 5-1 record against them), but lost 17-10 to Oklahoma State and 14-3 to Colorado.
Gottried had 12 players declared ineligible in 1848 and eight in 1858.
"I would say that in '84 and '85 we had great football teams in the spring," Eumont said, "but that took the wind out of our sails both seasons."
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Gotttried accepted the Pittsburgh job at the end of the season, leaving behind a team with a numbers shortage.
"I felt like we were making great strides.
The only negative was the academic pothole."
lems," Gottfried said. "When you talk about (a lack of) commitment, that was one."
(a lack of) commitment.
Despite earning Big Eight coach of the
Season, Kawasaki wasn't gutted never reached a bowl game and never fielded a winning team at Kansas. However, he said that the perception that it was not possible to win consistently at Kansas was a fallacy.
"I don't think that's true." Gettied said.
"I think you can win there, but you need commitment from every area."
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