Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 31. 1988
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Steve Traynor/Special to the KANSAN
From left, Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams and his assistant coaches Kevin Staalings, Jerry Green, Steve Robinson, and Mark Turgeon.
Williams' assistants ready
Coaches are excited about University
By Arvin Donley
Sy Arvin Domey
Kansan sportswriter
Jerry Green was ready to go. He knew in July that if Roy Williams was hired as head basketball coach at Kansas, he would leave the job and take a position at North Carolina-Ashville to be an assistant for his best friend.
The relationship between the two began when Green was a player for N.C.A-shville and Williams, an Ashville native who was a junior in high school at the time, would come to watch Green play.
"I was a little jeer at first, because sometimes you picture in your mind that things will be a certain way and you get there and they're not." Green said. "But in the case of my father, I sinned and benefited from came true."
"Roy used to say that I was the
hristort college basketball player
he had ever seen." the 45-year-old
Green said jokingly.
Green said his friendship with Williams would enhance their ability to work well together.
"Roy and I have been close over the last 16 years." Green said. "I know what he is, what he what's behind him, and what he would like an assistant to do."
Coaching at N.C. Ashville from 1979 to 1988. Guest was instrumental in the program moving from the Bronx to Staten Island, well as compiling a 150-168 record.
Although he will miss his players and colleagues in Ashville, Green said he was ready for a change.
"After coaching at a college with only 2,000 students, having $5,000
Another assistant who is glad to be a Jayhawk is Kevin Stallings, who spent the past six seasons as a graduate of Kyoto Keady at Purdue University.
(total) in nine years to recruit and teaching a half-load of physical education the entire school side of it. "Green said, 'I'm ready to go into somebody's house and say I'm going to teach them and see their eyes light up.'"
Stallings credits Keady, a native Kansei, for teaching him many important aspects of coaching.
"The first thing I learned from Gene Keady is to do your best at whatever you're doing. He is the most competitive person I've ever known. He had a great knack for getting the job done, but because he was very up front and honest with them," the 29-year-old Stallings said.
Although he was happy at Purdue, Stallings said there were several factors that persuaded him to become a Jayhawk.
"I took the job because of Roy Williams," Stallings said. "I knew him when I was an assistant (at Purdue). I felt his the type of person I had ever felt. It felt it a chance to diversify my background a bit."
Stallings said his primary responsibility will be recruiting and scouting, but he will also take part in the coaching duties.
Kansas' winning tradition is one of the most impressive things about Jayhawk basketball, Stallings said.
"I think tradition is what Kansas basketball is." Stallings said. "Maybe only Kentucky and North Carolina can compare with the long, long tradition in basketball that Kansas has."
Last season Cornell won the Ivy League and title to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1945. Cornell was eliminated by Arizona in the first round of the tournament.
another member of Williams' staff is Steve Robinson, who has spent the past two years as an assistant at Cornell.
Robinson said he was excited to be coaching at a basketball-oriented university.
"I keep telling everyone that I get to go from number 64 to number one." Robinson said.
One of Robinson's most important duties will be assisting players with their academic concerns.
The 28-year-old Robinson said he has kept busy since arriving in Lawrence.
"I've seen all of these walls." Robinson said pointing to his office walls. "When I first got here, I was in the morning or 11 at 12 or night."
The only holdover from Larry Brown's staff is assistant coach Mark Turgeon.
The former Jayhawk guard said he was relieved to find that Williams was going to keep him on the staff.
"It was really tough because I wasn't sure who we were going to hire as head coach, the 22-year-old, who was the only one they hired an assistant, which left jobs open. A head coach would have probably brought his staff
Turgeon will be in charge of the junior varsity squad again. He said his main goal is to make it more competitive.
"I would like to get more people to try out for the team this year," Turgeon said. "I know there are some good players out there."
Although he was close to Brown, Turgeon said Williams has made a strong impression on him.
'ret's an extremely hard worker and a very organized man. He's going to really help recruiting." Turtle said.
NCAA finds drug use Off-season tests prove suspicions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An off-season program begun last spring by the National College Athletic Association at 25 schools found almost one-third of football players tested positive for steroids.
The Associated Press
"The range we saw was from zero to up to 30 percent positive at some schools," Frank Uryzak, director of the NCAA, told the Kansas City Star.
Steroids, which are synthetic vials of the male sex hormone testosterone, have been linked to increased sports injuries and serious health issues.
NCAA officials said the findings suggest the policy of testing players only prior to NCAA championship events and bowl games might deter steroid abuse, but has and endied it. The league has released in great detail this fall.
Last fall, only 1.3 percent of 1,589
athletes tested positive for drugs
before NCAA championships and
other events, athletics tested positive for steroids.
"Where sampling is done with little advance notice to athletes, we've seen positive rates (for steroids) as high as 30-40 percent," said Dr.
Yurzaa shot the off-season testing confirmed suspicions that college athletes are switching from oil- to water-based steroids to avoid detection. Some experts say water-based steroids usually wash away and therefore do so players preparing for bowl games have time to clean their systems of the drugs.
'Drug testing just does not provide a true picture of drug use in college athletics. Most athletes can go through their entire college careers without being tested for steroids if they never play in an NCAA championship or bowl game.'
Frank Uryasz sports scientist
Catlin, director of UCLA's Olympic Analytical Laboratory. It is an NCAA approved lab.
Uryase, who oversees the NCAA's drug testing program, believes steroids still pose a real threat to the integrity of the sport.
mightly but Some college football trainers say their own testing finds little steroid abuse.
George Sullivan, Nebraska's head trainer, estimated only about 1 percent of the Cornhuskers tested positive. Lymn Bott, athletic trainer at Kansas, said the Jayhawks hadn't had a positive test in four years.
However, Bott some might slip by since the school seldom tests players "unless we have a classic pase."
Ursas said about half of the approximately 800 NCAA member schools trained athletes for drugs. He said only about half of those tested
for steroids. But many schools don't use NCAA-approved labs, and many don't report their findings to the NCAA.
"Drug testing does not provide a true picture of drug use in college athletics." Uryazsa said. "Most athletes can go through their entire career as drug users, but for steroids if they never play in an NCAA championship or game bowl."
Even those who do play in a major game are unlikely to be tested, Uryazas said. Less than 2 percent are tested at NCAA championship events and only about one-third of the players are tested at bowl games
Former Oklahoma star Brian Wortho, who was banned by the NCAA from the 1987 Orange Ball for bowels, claims in book that the drugs were "abuse as common as American ice cream" and that a match held the team took steroids.
With only a handful of limited surveys, scant information exists on the extent of steroid abuse in colleges.
A poll of 1,000 men at three colleges, published in the July issue of the Physician and Sportsmedicine magazine, showed 2 percent used steroids. Among 33 varsity athletes, 17 percent were users.
KUAC greets 2 new coaches
The NCAA's last nationwide survey in 1984 showed 4 percent of the 2,048 college athletes polled used a cell phone. The survey will be repeated this fall.
Bv Jeff Euston
By Jon Easton
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas Athletic Director Bob Frederick introduced new basketball coach Roy Williams and new track and field coach Gary Schwartz yesterday the semester first at Kansas University Athletic Corporation.
"I feel fortunate to be associated with the University of Kansas," said Williams, who was hired July 17. "I am working to work with you in the future."
Schwartz echoed Williams' comments.
"I'm excited about being at KU." he said. "It's fun for me and my family to be back. I'm looking forward to being involved with an institution that emphasizes the student-athlete."
In other business, the board unimomously selected Tom Mulinazia, associate dean of engineering, as its new chairman replacing Arno Knap
per. It also introduced new board members, discussed coming marketing schemes for the football season and board reports concerning vari-
Frederick greeted seven new board members: John Brickle, Keith Nitcher, Kay Clawson, Wayne Kearse, Collin Jasteh, Julien Hazel. Carabees Zebra.
The University is aggressively promoting the Jayhawks' first home football game, Frederick said.
Buttons with the team's advertising slogan "Meet The at the Stadium" have been purchased by the Keys from the KYCOM Broadcasting Network.
Baycon, which is televising the Baylor game in the southeast, paid Kansas for changing the game's pitch from 1 p.m. to 12 o'p.m.
Frederick also said that Fleming Foods of Kansas City, which has purchased 10,000-15,000 tickets for
the Baylor game, is considering a similar ticket give-away promotion for the New Mexico State game on Oct. 1.
"Our biggest concern Sept. 10 is getting people there (to the stadium)." Frederick said, "We think once they see the team play, they'll make a commitment to purchase tickets."
The academic staff reported that eight student-athletes had GPAs of 40 last semester. Former Jayhawk tennis player Larry Pascal was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
These student athletes are among more than 102 Jawahk Scholars who will be recognized during halftime of the Kansas-Baylor game. Sept. 10.
Floyd Temple said a new lighted coreboard had been installed at fogland Muppet's studios and made the stadium one of the best facilities in the area.
CHIEFS FINALIZE ROSTER:
CHIEFS FINALIZE
the league, who spent three seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, has been waived, the National Football League club announced yesterday.
KU HOKEY MEETING: The Kansas ice Hockey Club will hold an organizational meeting for returning players at 7 tonight in the East Gallery Room of the Kansas Union. There also will be a meeting with the Kansas Knicks begins its season Sept. 24 against Drake in Kemer Arena.
Sports Briefs
Cocroft's departure, and the move
of running backs Herman Heard and Christian Okeye to the injured reserve list, held the team at the 47-man regular season roster limit.
one team reached that limit Monday with a number of moves, including asking wavers on three players who were not identified. Coach Frank Gansz said that Heard and his team had been injured in injured reserve, with their roster spots likely to be taken by two of the players wavened Monday.
GREETZKY TRADE SPARKS
THREATS: Peter Pocklington says he is getting death threats over his
trade of NHL star center Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings.
"It's incredible — worse than
"it's the millionaire businessman
and owner of the Oliers said in an
interview with the Edmonton Sun
Pocklington said most of the threats have been anonymous and he isn't worried about his safety.
"If they had any guts they'd tell me to my face."
KU's Snell eager for football season; taking role as leader on team seriously
Hockey fans were stunned three weeks ago when Pocklington traded Greytak and two other Oliers for two American pitches at an estimated $18 million.
By Ken Winford
Kansan sportswriter
While prospects for this year's University of Kansas football team aren't exactly bright, senior running back Brandon Howard is on a trajectory toward the season with anticipation.
'Right now I'm in the best shape of my whole life.' Snell said. 'The last couple of years I've been in a fair condition, but I've never felt as good
Snell, the Jayhawks' leading rusher the last two seasons with 672 games in 1986 and 644 games in 1987. He was a dominant power-play work ethic on the team this year.
Swell transferred to Kansas after playing his freshman year at Independence Community High School, where he earned honorable mention All-America as a punt and kick returner. He was considered one of the best backs in the junior college ranks.
If Snell leads the Jayhawks in rushing again this season, he will have the opportunity to join an elite crowd.
Running back returns to team
Only three other players have led Kansas in rushing three consecutive
Kansas running back Frank Hattieet, who quit the team last Friday for unknown reasons, will return to college coach Andy said yesterday.
raccettie, a sophomore who was listed at No. 2 on the pre-season depth chart behind running back Arnold Snell, apparently contacted one of Mason's assistants Monday and said he wanted to return to the team. Mason met with Hanlestock and decided to let him come back.
to be part of the KU team." Mason said. "He said he missed the team and he'd made a mistake and shouldn't have walked out. I treat the players like they were my sons. I dealt with this like he was my son. If my son quit the team he wouldn't have made a mistake and wanted to come back, you'd be hard-pressed to turn him away."
Bv a Kansan reporter
"He said he desperately wanted
names. Homer Floyd did it from 1968
o 1958, Gale Sayes did it from 1982
o 1964, and John Riggins did it from
98 to 1970
Hatchett will be paying a price for leaving the team. He will not be allowed to play in the home-operator Sept. 10 against Baylor, and he will have to earn his job back from "the bottom," Mason said.
Snell said he had special incentive to do well this year.
"I don't feel like I have anything to prove to anyone but myself." Snell said. "But this season is special for me. My father passes away in
March. I'll be playing for him and my family."
Jayhawk running back coach Vic Adameh had he noticed a certain intensity in Snell's play this year.
"Arnold is the only senior in the backfield, and he is taking his position as a team leader very seriously." The player we need that kind of young team and we need that kind of
leadership badly.
adamle said Snell's physical strength was his best asset.
"Arnold isn't the fastest or quickest running back around, but I haven't seen him play like he does." Adamele said. Seel said he could help the team by
Snell said he could help the team by being a strong leader.
"I've been here a little longer than
"a lot of the other players and I want
them to know that they can come to
us. If we don't want any real team unity, People pretty much stayed on their own. Some of the other guys look at plays
played by this little fighter as
well as leaders. It's important for us to be there."
With Kansas winning only four games since his arrival, Snell has had to learn to cope with losing.
"You just mention Kansas football and 'right away everyone thinks they can win' sometimes doing that with. But we can't worry about what other people say about us. We just have keep the ball in our hands to prove all the critics wrong."
Arnold Snell