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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday November 24,1987 Vol.98,No.67
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Valesente fired as Kansas football coach
Frederick says team must make progress
By CRAIG ANDERSON Staff writer
Kansas football coach Bob Valesente was fired yesterday by Athletic Director Bob Frederick. Valesente was offered a position as an associate athletic director, but he declined the offer.
Frederick said that he made the decision Sunday night after many weeks of deliberation.
See related stories p. 9 and 12.
"It was not an easy decision to make," he said at a news conference. "In recent days some have said this is an academic issue or an alumni-versus faculty issue. It was an issue of progress of the football team on the field. In the last two years there."
KUAC's chairman resigns in protest
By MIKE CONSIDINE
Staff writer
Anthony Redwood, chairman of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation for the last five years, announced his intention to resign yesterday to protest the firing of football coach Bob Valesente.
"It was an unprincipled decision, and I'm protesting it the only way I can," Redwood said. "I feel the integrity of the University itself is at stake. This is one aspect of the athletic program I feel I can't live with."
At a news conference in Summerfield Hall, Redwood announced that he had called an emergency meeting of the KUAC board at 3 p.m. today in the Phillips Room of the Adams Alumni Center. Redwood said that his resignation would be formally announced at that time.
Kansas Athletic Director Bob Frederick said, "I respect his opinion and his decision to do so if that's what he feels like he should do. He's given six years of outstanding service to
In a prepared statement, Redwood said that during the past decade, Kansas football had a history of revolving coaches and a quick-fix philosophy. He said that Valesente was denied the opportunity to see his program through to success.
"He should have been kept on at least for another year but preferably for the length of his contract," Red-Wing insenté the contract lasts two more years.
Redwood said that Frederick took him of the decision at 8 p.m. Sunday. Redwood said that he phoned the KUAC board to call the meeting after a second conversation with Frederick.
Although KUAC by laws state that the decision to hire and fire coaches belongs to the athletic director, Redwood said that he thought the board should have been involved.
"I would have liked Bob Frederick to preferably have discussed it with the board last week when it was at issue." Redwood said. "If that was not possible, then at least he should have spoken to the assembled board at the time the decision was released."
Iowa State
After finishing sixth in the Big Eight last season, the Iowa State Cyclones, led by senior forward Jeff Grayer, are looking to end a three-year dry spell of not being involved in post-season play.
Grayer, a first team All-Big-Eight and Honorable Mention All-America selection in each of the last two years, appears to be the cornerstone of this year's team. He was the league's third-leading scorer last season, averaging 22.4 points per game.
Although the Cyclones return three starters, the two they lost, forward Tom Schafer and center Sam Hill, were their two main big men last year. Schafer averaged 18 points and the other pitcher Hill averaged 9.4 pop and 6.4 rug.
To make up for those losses, Iowa State will look to Elmer Robinson, a 6-foot-5 junior forward who averaged 4.94 ppg last season, and Lafester
Rhodes, a 6-8 forward/center who Iowa State coach Johnny Orr called, "the fastest center in the Rig Fight."
Orr said his team had "extreme quickness" and would use it to press their opponents and to run an up-tempo offensive scheme. He that said the NCAA tournament was in the NCAA tournament two years ago, last season was disappointing.
"I've been coaching 36 years, and only three times have I had a team that didn't play up to its potential." "Our team's year was one of those teams."
The Cyclones will have a mixture of freshmen and transfers to help supplement the returning players. Mark Baugh, a first-time all-Illinois pick in his senior year at Elgin High School in Elign, Ill., could make an impact. Impact, a 65-guard/forward, was an honorable mention All-America pick last season and averaged 24.8 points and 4.9 rebounds.
Oklahoma St.
Oklahoma State coach Leonard Hamilton enters his second year of rebuilding the Cowboys' program this season. They finished seventh in the playoffs and were reduced by the Big Eight media poll to move up one notch this season.
Also returning is senior guard Todd
The cowboys will have America's tallest returner player; 7-foot-4 center Alan Bannister, back in the lineup this year after he missed last season with a stress fracture in his left foot. Bannister used the redshirt year to bulk up, gaining 40 pounds since he arrived in Stillwater in 1985.
Christian, who averaged nearly 14 points per game last season. Christian is one of the league's best three-point field goal shooters, as he had a percentage of 49.6 toward the three-point line, the second-highest in the league, last year. Sylvester King-Howard had a seven-season last season with 6.2 rpg, also returns. He was also the team's third-leading scorer with 10.6 ppg.
Hamilton said the Cowboys would use a run-and-gun offense in an effort to keep u up with the rest of the league.
"I would like us to be somewhat more up-tempo this year," he said. "Right now, I think the players are learning to play at a faster tempo."
Nebraska's two returning starters, 6-foot-6 forward Derrick Vick and 6-foot guard Henry T. Buchanan, will be the team's first three starters. Vick averaged 11.1 ppg and 5.6
"We are really a very, very inexperienced basketball team," he said. This is the start of a rebuilding process that we have patience and see where we go."
The only place the Colorado Buffaloes have to go in the Big Eight Conference is up. Although they have lost only one player from last year's team that finished at the bottom of the conference, that loss was forward Matt Bullard, who averaged 16.6 points and 9.3 reebounds last season.
"I was shocked," Miller said. "I would never want anyone to stay if he doesn't want to be here but when he does it he will." I could do with the recruiting class.
"The only poll that interests me is the one that comes out at the end of the season," he said.
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rpg as a junior, and Buchanan averaged 8.2 ppg and 2.6 rpg.
The 'Huskers lost seven lettermen, including the 10-under starters from last season and will be relying heavily upon their newcomers. The three lost starters, forward Bernard Day, guard Brian Carr, and forward Bill Jackman, represented a large part of the offense last year. Day led at 12.4 ppg, and Carr was close behind with 12.2 points per game. Jackman was the team's leading rebounder with 6.5 per contest.
Bullard transferred to Iowa in the off-season, something Colorado coach Tom Miller didn't know about until Aug. 1.
Colorado has five freshmen on this year's team, most notably 6-10, 230-pound center Bill Markham. In Markham's senior year at Hersely High School in Arlington Heights, Ill., he played nine rpg and seven blocked shots.
Aside from senior center Scott Wilke, who averaged 16 ppg and 6.7 rpg last season, the Buffalos have
Like Oklahoma State and Nebraska, Colorado is rebuilding its team, but Miller isn't giving up on the season just yet, although the Buffalo Bills have won their bottom of the conference again this year in the Big Eight media poll.
little offensive production returning and will be relying heavily on Miller's recruiting class.
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Frederick said, "From individual conversations and from letters, I feel like I know where most of the people on the board stood on the issue."
student board member Sue Glutter said. "No students were consulted. He didn't seek out student opinion." He has three student representatives.
Frederick said, "We're coming from a situation where the previous coach had academic difficulties. Bob worked hard to gain the respect of
Redwood praised Valesente's commitment to recruiting freshmen football players who were capable students. He said that Frederick didn't give sufficient consideration to Valesente's attention to academics.
See KUAC, p. 12, col. 5
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