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University Daily Kansan, November 20, 1980
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Ross says he quit 'Hawks to gain lost self-confidence
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Writer
Ricky Ross came off the bench in Kansas basketball game last season touted as the best shooter in Kansas high school history. When he got the ball the crowd's reaction was predictable. The crowd yelled for him to shoot and expected him to make it.
He didn't notice the pressure then.
"There was no pressure," Ross, a 6-foot-6
phonomant, said shortly by telephone to
Bob Hammond.
At the end of the season, some that of confidence was gone. He had averaged 11.7 points a game but had played inconsistently during the Big Eight season. Those fans that had shouted against him, for example, were yelling at him about playing defense. He began to talk about transferring to another school.
"I could have done 10 times better than I did last year," Ross said last March. "I feel like I wasted my丰年ward."
HIS CONFIDENCE HADN'T improved when he began practice this season. Finally, when reports were published last Friday that showed that he and at least two other players on the KU team were involved in the misuse of an assistant coach's telephone credit card, Ress' confidence increased. He and his team locker and went home to Wichita. Tuesday morning Head Coach Ted Owens announced that
Ross was no longer a member of the team. Ross is harbor it is all in the nest.
"This is a load off my mind," Ross said. "It's not for me, I'm trying now to get my candidate back."
"I lost my confidence as a player at KU, and I was something I was fighting. I wasn't comfortable. I guess God put me into this situation to learn more about what theisticism that I can guess is a great college player."
ROSE MADE THE DECISION to quit the team on this own. That decision was not made because of RB's injury.
"I am not a quitter," Ross said. "Sometimes you have to make a move. I'd rather keep the reasons I left to myself. No one ran me off from KU, thouh.
"People think when you quit that you have a lot of problems and that you can't handle the situation. I've never been a quitter. This was just not the situation for me.
"Some people are going to think I couldn't handle the credit card thing and that I'm running away, but that's not true. I never did understand everyone got so worked up over that anyway."
"Everybody makes long distance calls and then gets the bills. The thing was taken care of long ago and then the media starts bringing it out longer after it happens."
Ross will return to KU to finish the fall semester before he transfers to another school to play basketball. When he will return to Lawrence is not known.
"I'm going to concentrate on my grades a little
he said. I might shoot around a little bit
and be more aggressive."
UNDER THE NCAA'S rules, no team can approach Ross without first getting clearance from KU Athletic Director Bob Marcum. For that reason, Ross can contact the schools that he is interested in playing basketball for, and that list is not long.
"I'm definitely interested in Wichita State," he said. "I'm going to write them and tell them so. I'll also write Arkansas, but those are the only two.
"I like the looks of WSU, and I would love to come down here and play if people want me. I'd like to hear people say they would like me to come. That would turn me on even more."
Ross said he would decide what school to attend by the middle of December. He will have to sit out two semesters before he can play at a four-year school under the NCAA's transfer rule.
He would be eligible to play in the spring semester of 1983 if he transferred at the end of this semester. Finishing the semester at KU will not be bothered, said he, but he will not be bothered by anything.
"I can't worry about what other people think of me," he said. "I can't let people bother me now. This is my life. I know people will probably look up to me." I'm stupid. But it's not going to bother me at all.
"I was put into this world to be a basketball player. I'm going to advance my ability to be a pitcher."
Coaches call Bradley player to build around
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Maybe Missouri's Phil Bradley would prefer to spend the rest of his life playing baseball, but coaches around him are still on the field in a football uniform—preferably their own.
In an informal poll taken Monday during the Big Eight's final weekly conference call of its football coaches, the coaches agreed that if they team around one player, it would be Bradley.
Bradley, a senior quarterback who could decide to play baseball instead of professional football, was named by four coaches. Others receiving scattered support were Iowa State tailback Dwayne Crutchfield, Nebraska quarterback Michael Miskin, Minnesota Wilder and freshman running backs Kerrin Bell of Kansas and Buster Rhymes of Oklahoma.
"BRADEY'S GOT SO much talent." Oklahoma State Coach Jimmy Johnson said. "He can dominate a game by himself. And quarterback is the one position I'd like to fill."
"Bradley is probably the best player in the Big Eight," Oklahoma Coach Barry Sizer said. "There's no superstar defensive player in this league, and there's not really an offensive one, either. There's no running back in Billy Sims' class. But Kerwin Bell is a good little player. If you're starting a team, you'd like to have a guy that for four years."
"I if had a one-year contract, I'd take Phil Bradley," Kansas Coach Don Fambrigh said. "But if I had a four-year contract, I'd take Kevin Bell."
Bradley has been the No. 1 quarterback for the Missouri Tigers for almost his entire four-year career. He shared the starting assignation in 2014 and injured Pete Woods. But Bradley was the All-Big Eight quarterback by his sophomore and junior years.
BRAIDLEY IS THE favorite to claim the honor again this season. Missouri is 7-3 with one game remaining and is heading for its third straight bowl appearance. The Associated Press made Bradley its first-tier conference quarterback yesterday. United Press International will announce its team soon.
Bradley ranks third in the conference in passing but has thrown a league-high 221 passes for another league-leading 1,425 yards. He ranks first in total offense, but that's not enough to win in career total offense to remove Lyman Dickey's name from the top of the record books.
"I'd take a guy like Bradley." Missouri Coach Warren Powers said. "He can handle all the dimensions—he can run, throw, he's smart, 'very durable and has good smarts. He can do right option, drop back or roll out. He can do everything you can ask of a quarterback."
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