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Recruiting with vigor has big payoff
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"You get this feeling of power," he said. "Some of my friends were worried about getting this scholarship or that to go to a certain school, and you can go anywhere you want for free. And once you get there, they have programs set up to help you succeed."
The deciding factor was Roy Williams.
"Late in the summer Coach Willhams came to watch me play a pickup game in the park. That's the kind of game, I think he cares about you, as a person."
Lindley didn't decide to attend Kansas until the morning the early signing period began.
"Couch Williams called the last night it was legal and talked to me," he said. "I was going to wait and visit Arkansas and Oklahoma before I decided, but the pressure from all the schools was too much. I got up and told my parents and signed my letter."
The legendary letter of intent that creates such havoc in the sports media is a four-page contract stating that a recruit who signs cannot play basketball at another NCAA school for two years after signing.
Even after a letter is signed, it becomes void after 21 days if it is not filed by the school.
That is unless the recruit ends up attending a junior college, which invokes a whole new set of rules.
... you lose some
Chris Heller, a 6-foot-10 center, was
another top-51 player recruited by Kansas Heller, a sophomore, was recruited by Brown and Williams at Kansas but he decided to attend college.
"I just had to go with a gut feeling that Mizzou was where I belonged," Heller said. "Couch Brown and I went there and recruited me, but I fit in better here."
"There's no telling what might have happened if Coach Williams had been there the whole time. I'm happy that, don't that, isn't an appropriate question."
When Coach Williams leaves a home after a visit, that recruit and his family will feel that he was the most honest and sincere person they've ever met.
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Waging the recruiting war
— Kevin Stallings assistant basketball coach
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Each school is armed with the same weapons in recruiting warfare. The Kansas basketball recruiting staff can try only to wield them
"We start by getting names," Stallings said. "We get them from alumni, from recruiting publications and from other coaches. Then we contact each kid's coach to ask him about the kind of player and student the kid is."
"Then an assistant goes to see them play, Williams evaluates his information and makes a decision to continue recruiting or not."
"If he can't play, he won't help us. If he can't make the grades, he won't be able to play for us either. So those are the first two questions we ask."
The majority of recruiting is done before the start of the player's senior year. Of the top 100 players in the country, 90 percent will decide between Nov. 14 and Nov. 21, Stallings said. Most players will sign a letter-
of-intent Nov.14.
Some schools will violate the rules in the scramble to keep a seat in the recruiting game of musical chairs. Kansas won't.
"Coach Williams runs a clean program, a good program," Heller said. "Some schools do some stuff that's against the rules, but Coach Williams is clean. He's good enough that he doesn't have to cheat."
"He's a Southern gentleman," he said. "He keeps his program squeaky clean."
Lindley echoed Heller's assessment of Williams.
Stallings said Williams was the key to Kansas' recruiting success.
"I've never seen a coach as involved with recruiting as he is," he said. "Certain coaches exude certain things. Some portray flamboyance, others arrogance, and some strict behavior. You can see this when you meet them."
"When Coach Williams leaves a
home after a visit, that recruit and his family will feel that he was the most honest and sincere person they've ever met."
Coach Williams is a recruiting tool even when he isn't around.
"You can tell a recruit that Coach Williams is the greatest guy in the world. He can't," Stallings said. "One of our jobs is to help kids what kind of relationship they can have with the coach, to see how hard he will work for them as a student and an athlete, as well as a person."
The system works. Kansas has one of the top five recruiting classes in the nation on the strength of its early success. It also excels in analysis Gibbons and Van Coleman,
Five top players have signed with Kansas since the early signing period began last Wednesday.
The players who signed with Kansas are Greg Ostertag, a 7-1 center from Duncanville, Texas; Greg Gurley, a 6-5 guard/forward from Overland Park; Calvin Rayford, a 5-8 guard from Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sean Cox, a 5-5 guard/forward from LaGrange Park, III.; and Ben Davis, a 6-8 power forward from Mouth of Wilson, Va., who signed with Kansas yesterday.
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What will happen after Kansas gives away the last of its six scholarships for next year?
"Once we get into the season," Stallings said, "that's when we can get names of top juniors from the recruiting publications. Then we'll start with the letters and phone calls again."
Texas woman to play basketball at Kansas
The No. 2-ranked high school player in Texas signed a letter of intent yesterday to play for the women's basketball team next year.
Kansas begins regular-season play this weekend at the Amana Classic in Iowa City, Iowa.
Alana Slatter, a 6-foot 2 forward, chose Kansas over Stanford, the 1990 defending NCAA champion. She averaged 12 points and eight rebounds a game last year at J.J. Pearce High School in Dallas.
The Jayhawks will face Louisiana State at 1 p.m. Saturday. The game will be the first meeting between the two teams.
UCLA will take on lowa in the second game. All three teams joining Kansas in the Amana Classic qualified for the 1990 NCAA tournament.
Kansas, Nebraska meet in post-season volleyball
After having lost five of its last six matches, the Kansas volleyball team will travel to Omaha, Neb. on Friday to take on the second-ranked Nebrasseers in the first round of the Big Eight conference post-season tournament.
The tournament champion is
A victory against the Cornhuskers in the 6 p.m. match Friday would pit Kansas against the winner of the tournament's other semifinal match, which features Colorado and Iowa. The two teams will be played at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
ensured a berth in the NCAA's postseason tournament.
Since its beginning in 1982, Nebraska has won all but one of the conference tournaments.
Kansas has lost both its matches to the Cornhuskers this season, but the Jayhaws have given Nebraska two tough matches.
In their first meeting Oct. 3 in Lawrence, Kansas late in each of the first two games before falling in three games.
The Jayhawks were even more of a load for the Cornhuskers when the two teams met again Oct. 30 in Lincoln, Kansas became the first opponent to take a game off of Nebraska as it lost in four games.
Women's golf places 11th at South Carolina
The Kansas women's golf team placed 11th out of 12 during the weekend at the Golf World/Palmettle Dunes College tournament at the Palmetto Dunes course in Hilton Head, S.C.
The Jayhawks were led by junior Shelly Triplet, who tied four others in the field for 32nd with a three-round total of 238. Three strokes behind Triplet was Laura Myers, who tied four others for 41st at 17
Taking medalist honors for the tournament was Christy Erb of UCLA, who shot a 212 for the Bruins. UCLA also won the team champion in the NCAA tournament of 665, a seven-shot advantage over second place tinseader San Jose State.
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