Thursday, December 6, 1978
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Juco coach knocks KU's tactics
By PATTI ARNOLD
sports writer
Kansas had its hand slapped by the Big Eight Conference last week for a minor football recruiting infraction, but the man who was charged with the attack that KU's penalty should have been stifter.
Kansas was publicly reprimanded last week for big airgong lambing for providing Wallet Mask, a device with ground transportation from Kansas City International Airport to Lawrence and St. Louis.
George Rush, Mack's junior college football coach at San Francisco City College, reported the violation to the Big Eight. He also has accused KU football using medical, but nevertheless legal, tactics in recruiting his former star running back.
"THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS used the most unethical and unprofessional tactics ever been exposed in junior college courses and paid yesterday in a telephone interview."
Rush admitted Mack was not recruited illegally. According to NCAA rules, a pro athlete can be recruited by a major college at least 24 semester hours. Mack qualified
"What the University of Kansas did not ilegal," Rush said. "They could come in and take my whole team, and I just be left holding the bar. It is just not ethical."
Bob Marcum, KU's athletic director, said yesterday he was familiar with Rush's accusations, but refused to comment on them.
Rush contacted Big Eight officials after he learned Mack had left San Francisco in June for Lawrence.
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Kansas coaches last spring ask for a list of top prospects for the 1979 football season. The letter said KU was searching for players for the 1980 season, according to Rush.
Mack, a part-time starter for KU this season, was on that list. Rush said that if Mack had remained at San Francisco, he would have recruited by as many as 30 major universities.
AN UNIDIFIED KU assistant coach contacted Mack at his home and flew to California to visit him in June. When the KU mask was on his way to Kansas, Rush said. Mack was on his way to Kansas.
"I had no idea what was going on. Walter was gone when I found out," he said. "Walter Mack left San Francisco June 27th and hasn't been back."
Rush also said the KU coach never told him he wanted to talk to Mack.
Mack said Monday he was not aware that anything wrong was being done last summer
"I didn't know anything was wrong," he said. "The most important thing at the time was to get to KU to play ball."
Mack could not be reached yesterday for comment on Rush's allegations.
Rush has been at San Francisco since 1972, serving the first five years as an assistant.
In his three years as head coach, he has compiled a 17-12-1 record. Former players have gone on to finish their last two years of
college ball at some of the top football schools in the country, he said, such as Texas AEM, Southern California and UCLA.
PRENTICE GAUTT, an assistant commissioner of the Big Eight, said the violation was a minor one. He also said the penalty handed down was lust.
"People, I like to think, are logical in the matter of giving out reprimands," he said. "They look at the situation and the motive behind the event.
"It was a combination of things, like a tangled web. It was a spur of the moment thing, but it was not a flagrant violation."
KU head football coach Don Fambrug admitted Tuesday KU was in the wrong.
"It was a misunderstanding of the rules," he said. "Nobody was trying to break any rule. Some of them are just so complicated that a Harvard lawyer to interpret them."
Fambrough, however, was out of town yesterday and unavailable for comment on Rush's accusations of KU's lack of recruiting ethics.
The matter has been turned over to the NCAA, according to Big Eight policy, but Marcum said he was confident that the national organization would be fair.
"WE WERE DEALT fairly with by the Big Eight, and I expect the same failness from the NCAA," Marcum said.
The Big Eight decided Mack had to pay back the summer school tuition, his only penalty.
David Berst, head of the NCAA enforcement department, said he could not confirm or deny a possible NCAA investigation.
NCAA policy is to wait until private action has been taken on a situation and then issue a public statement, he said.
Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism and KU faculty representative to the Big Eight and NCAA, "Most of the money has been paid back and the rest
Despite that penalty and KU's reprimand, Mack is happy about the Big Eight's decision.
His former coach, however, is not.
"The victim in this thing is the kid- Walter Matter," Rush said. "He was asked, 'Would you rather play against Oklahoma or San Matzo?' What else would he say?
"As long as I'm the head football coach here, Kansas will never be on this campus."
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By DAVID BURNS Sports Writer
The track season starts tonight for both the KU men and women's teams with an annual meet at 7 in Allen Field House. Meet at 3:30. tomorrow afternoon at 3:10.
"This intrasquard doesn't really prove anything or make any difference other than it can be a reflection of what derson said." The team's been practicing all along, and they haven't been practicing since.
KU coaches Bob Timmons and Terr Anderson have a large line-up of players who are very freshmen. In Timmons' case, he'll have basically the same squid that wove through the 2015 season. Anderson, meanwhile, will be looking for the runners to secure her first start.
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and blue squads for the 21-event meet. Timmons simply plans to look at his team by event rather than by squads.
"They'll just go out and race their particular events," Timmons said. "We won't break the team down to snuads."
The women's team will be looking pass last season's letdown in the Big Eight with this year's hand of top quality. The defense should be the team's strength.
Timmons lost a number of runners this year, especially All-American Anthony Johnson, who won his last game — won't be hurting in the sprints and will be doing well for Middleton, a top indoor performer. 600. Miller David Bauer is back and so are All-American Stan Whitaker and David Kornberg.
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