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Wednesday, August 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Big Eight teams shuffle coaches
Bv MIKE EARLE
Associate Sports Editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Take three years poor recruiting and stir in one lengthy legal add. Add one punch from Wood Hayes, the cash fund for players, and beat to a slow burn.
Remove from heat and you have four servings of new head football coaches in the Big Eight conference this season.
However, none of the four new coaches, at Kansas, Colorado, Iowa State and Oklahoma State, are strangers to the conference.
Don Fambrigh served as KU's head coach from 1971 to 1985, and was a tough enough 'sough' success. Bud Moore, was fired after three years of poor recruiting and a 17-24 record that caught him at the end of his career.
Bamroub's subsequent re-hiring marks the first time in Big Eight history an institution has hired back a previously-employed head football coach.
"THESE LAST eight months have been the happiest of my life," Fambourd said at the Crown Center Hotel, Kansas City. Mo. I really missed the other coaches and everything involved in the game. All I was worried about before was making that decision.
Fambrough said that during the four years he served as assistant director of the
Williams Fund, an organization that solicits money for athletic scholarships, college football had changed.
"The biggest change I noticed was in recruiting," Fambrough said. "With the 30-player limit, there are no boundaries."
"Now, when we try to recruit a young man in the Kansas City area, we find Southern Cal and Notre Dame are after him too. We're about 30 best in the nation and advise after them."
AFTER A LONGER absence from the league than Fambridge and is a costly court battle, the Big Eight's prodigal son, Chuck Buffalo, returns as coach to the Colorado Bison.
Before Fairbanks could accept Colorado's bid to win the N.F.L. title, he by the owner of the New England Falcons, for the NFL, National Football League. The suit questioned the legality of breaking his own contract.
Fairbanks won in court, but lost on the recruiting front. He was officially hired April 4, giving him a very late start to find recruits.
Fairbanks had an outstanding record from 1967 to 1972 as Oklahoma's head coach. He compiled a 52-15-1 record with Sugar Bowl victories in 1971 and 72.
At the kickoff luncheon, Fairbanks referred to the 1911 Thanksgiving clash with Nebraska as "one of the greatest games in college history," and asked the coaches at
the head table who were involved in the game to stand up
On the Oaklanda staff with Fairbanks were Barry Switzer, present head coach of the Sooners; past assistants Jim Dickey, John Schroeder and new Oaklanda State coach Jim Johnson.
Johnson, Oklahoma State's new coach,
had no previous head coaching job.
He had been an assistant coach for 11 years, at
the University of Arkansas and Pittsburgh universities.
Johnson has an immediate adversity to overcome. The Cowboys were placed on probation by an NCAA investigation that determined they were receiving money from a slush fund.
"IT'S Like a black cloud hanging over us," Johnson said. "We try to dissociate ourselves with the situation because it's something we have no control over."
The fourth new face in the conference is Iowa State's Dennis Dunce, who replaced Erase Brue. The position opened when Woody Hayes of Ohio State was fired after punching a Clemson player at last year's game. Woody Brue had served as an assistant career Hayes at Ohio State earlier in his coaching career and was nured asHayes replacement.
Like the three other new coaches, Duncan is no stranger to the Big Eight. He was an assistant at Oklahoma from 1973 to 1978. This is Duncan's first job as a head coach.
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