University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1984
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Tubbs says victories bring out critics
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
The Oklahoma Sooners and their head coach, Billy Tubbs, have acquired a reputation as the renegades of the Big Eight conference in basketball. But to Tubbs, that's all part of the price of being a winner.
"When you win, a lot of people don't like that. They try to find things to say about you. But if that comes with the territory of being a winning team, then so be it." Tubbs said this week.
Incidents at road games with KU and Colorado last year, while the Sooners were rolling to the Big Eight championship, sparked the controversy
Tubbs was accused of making an obscene gesture to the crowd in a Feb. 22 game at Allen Field House, and guard Darryl Kennedy was accused of the same act in a game in Boulder, Colo., Jan. 18. Sooner players were accused of taunting the crowd in both games.
TUBBS HAS SAID his team was wrongly accused at Kansas and
Colorado. But regardless of who was right, the incidents drew plenty of attention at Monday phone conferences between Big Eight coaches and members of the media following both games.
Earlier this month, when the conference had its annual pre-season media day at the Marriott Hotel in Boston, he was again the center of attention.
Asked whether he had any regrets over the incidents at Lawrence and Boulder, Tubbs told the media and conference coaches that he would turn his team loose to the crowd if they won on the road this year. If they lost, the players would file quietly to the dressing room.
"I have told them the crowd belongs to you a after victory," he said. "We don't curse or make obscene gestures." He said he had been tricked it, then they shouldn't dish it out. I have been told to the victor spoils the spoils.
WHEN CONTACTED LAST week, Tubbs said the crowd issue had been taken too seriously by the media.
"At the places we've been around the conference, we've never had any
problem with the student bodies," he said. "For instance, at Missouri, you've got the group called the Antlers. I think they're great. They can smart off and crack jokes at you, but as long as they are at that fun. That's what basketball is all about. When we go on the road we've got to expect that."
"The only people that get too caught up in it sometimes are adults that get a little vicious with their language.
"The thing I resent is that the people within the news media paid so much attention to what happened after the game at Lawrence last year and forgot what a great game the team had played. The staff served more attention than they got."
Oklahoma WON THAT game in overtime, 92-82, and clinched a tie for the Big Eight regular-season title with three conference games left in the season. Afterwards, the Sooners celebrated by cutting down the nets.
one NCAA Tournament to Dayton, and finished the season with a 29-5 overall record.
' Tubbs doesn't try to hide his players after the game, and he doesn't try to hide them during the game either. That, Tubbs said, is the main difference between him and other coaches.
"I don't think there's that much difference other than the fact that we try to display our talent more than other teams who may try to hold back their players and make it look like the coach does the work," he added. "We do like it, but higher up our players and you play a fast-paced game like we do you're going to get chances to highlight your players."
THE SOONERS SEEM prepared to make an assault again on conference and national honors this year with the return of junior All-American and Olympian Wayman Tisdale.
Tisdale, who considered turning professional this year, led the conference last year with 27 points and 9 assists. He also attended the conference player of the year.
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