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University Daily Kansan
From Page One
Friday, Nov. 22, 1985
Coach
Continued from p. 1
and grabbing players after they make mistakes.
"He's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde," said Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director and a close friend of Gottfried's. "On the sidelines, it's war, and he's trying to win. Off the sidelines, he's one of the quietest, most sensitive guys you'd ever meet.
"But I've never been around the guy — whether it's playing pinball at Mazizio's during lunch or whatever — when he was not a winner."
Gottfried is just as competitive when it comes to academics. In the past two seasons, 18 players have been declared academically ineligible. Gottfried sees that as 18 losses.
"When I lose people, that's almost like a defeat," Gotfried said. "I don't want us to fail at anything, whether it's academics or whatever. I guess when I lose a Doug certain, I really take that personally because he was one of the kids I brought from Cincinnati."
and set rules.
Gottfried also has supported tailback Lynn Williams and defensive lineman Dane Griffin, who were declared ineligible and are challenging the University's action in Johnson County District Court.
Certain was ruled ineligible before the beginning of this season. Since he was a fifthyear senior, Certain had no more eligibility and left school.
"I felt like that was a conscious decision on my part because I really felt like they had a good point." Gottfried said. "I haven't had one regret. I felt, especially in Lynn
Williams' case, that they deserved to play. He has a wife and a child, and it is his last year."
His fierce battle for his players has ruffled feathers in the academic community.
teachers in the team be that his intensity and competitiveness may be misinterpreted," said Del Brinkman, KU's faculty representative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and dean of journalism.
"I've seen that often with people involved in sports. It's win or lose, up or down. That's the way it is for coaches because that is how society judges their success. Coaches tend to look at things as win-orlose situations, and in reality, what it's what it is for Mike Gottfried."
Hunter worked as a middleman between Gottfried and the University faculty during the conflict last August. He said he saw the same intensity from Gottfried that he observed on Saturday afternoons.
on Saturday.
"Mike feels a deep sense of responsibility for his kids," Hunter said. "I think sometimes he's misunderstood by the public and the academic community because he battles so hard for his kids."
In each of the past two years, Gottfried has lost key players because of academic problems. The ineligibilities twice have forced Gottfried to change plans right before the opening game of the season.
"The academic thing has been one area that has kind of been a detriment," he said. "But I think people are working to improve that. There's a lot of things that happen when you're down, and people want to start jumping on people. I don't blame anybody for that."
Still, the losses were bitter for Gottried. He says he wishes the problems never would have surfaced. But he has kept those feelings under wraps, despite the frustration.
Mickey, Gottfried's wife, has watched the frustration build for the past two years.
"This year, with all the things that have happened, has been really hard for Mike," she said. "This has been probably the touhest of all his years in coaching."
Gottfried is no stranger to adversity. Despite the ineligibilities and five consecutive losses, Gottfried doesn't consider the 1985 season a tough time in his life.
When Gottfried was 11, his father died of a heart attack at home. He held his father in his arms as he took his last breath.
Two years ago, after KU upset USC and Gottfried was named Coach of the Week by UPI, he made a special trip to Alabama to visit a sick boy. Gottfried gave the boy an autographed football, then came home and asked other athletic officials to call the boy
The boy died a week later.
Hunter said of Gotfried, "I saw him cry in Hawaii this year after we won because we thought Skip Petee had a knee injury that might never allow him to play football again. It was because one of his players was hurt, and he cares about them deeply."
So when Gottfried is asked about adversity, he just shrugs his shoulders.
"This is not really a tough time. People are asking me about adversity, but this isn't
This paradox of feelings bothers Gottfried at times. He desperately wants to win, but he also is aware of life outside football.
adversity. When we were preparing for the Colorado game, I heard about the girl who fell out of a window and died. That's tough."
"Sometimes I lose perspective," he said. "Win and loss record is important, but your everyday interaction with players and relationships with all other people is just as important, maybe more important. Not everybody can be an 11-0 team. Maybe you are a 5-7 team or a 5-6 team or a 6-8 team or a 7-team.
"What it means when you lose is that the time is not right for you to win yet. We haven't done enough to win yet. We're going to do it and keep going until we get it right."
Gottfried has seen the season slip away, from the ecstasy of a 4-1 start to the depths of a five-game tailspin in which the offense has disappeared along with chances for a bowl game.
Tomorrow brings the end of the season,
and with it the chance of finishing below 500.
"If we get the sixth win, that's improvement," Gottfried said. "The kids have been through a lot. Everybody has."
That includes Gottfried. Because the bottom line for him is winning — not at any cost — but winning. And he hasn't won at Kansas.
But if his past is any indication, his competitive drive will keep him here until the Jayhawks are winners.
"I felt like that's whatyou're supposed to do — you're supposed to win."
Americans halt spending spree
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Americans reined in their purchases of big-ticket items during October as they nearly doubled their savings following a two-month car-buying spree, the Commerce Department reported yesterday;
The department also said personal income before taxes rose 0.4 percent, or $13.1 billion, during October to $3.22 trillion on a seasonally adjusted annual basis — the fifth straight monthly increase. After-tax income also increased 0.4 percent, or $9.7 billion, following increases in September and August.
But spending on goods and services tumbled 0.9 percent, or $23.3 billion, matching the same drop in February 1984 and bringing spending for the month to $2.54 trillion on an annual basis.
Despite the drop in spending, attributed to fewer new car sales, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, "We feel confident that the solid gains of the recent past should continue unabated."
The drop "was inevitable," said Sandra Shaber, an economist with Chase Econometrics in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. "It was that huge swing in car sales that accounted for the drop but I don't think we're seeing a collapse in spending overall."
consumers went on a car-buying spree in September and August, spurred by sales and attractive financing deals on 1985 models as dealers cleared their inventories before 1986 models came on the market.
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