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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday November 24,1987 Vol.98 No.67
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Valesente fired as Kansas football coach
Frederick says team must make progress
By CRAIG ANDERSON Staff writer
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 hadn't been an improvement."
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 the athletic board and I appreciate
"He should have been kept on at least for another year but preferably for the length of his contract," Redmond consecete the contract lasts two more years.
Redwood said that Frederick told 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.
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.
"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
Final Four just down the road for KU
Jayhawks and Kansas City have united several times in Final Four tournaments
Storv by Rob Knapp
P reseason predictions have indicated that the Kansas Jayhawks have a good chance of making
the NCAA Final Four, Kansas City, the site of this season's Final Four, doesn't seem to hurt those chances.
City after nearly a quartercentury absence.
The Final Four, the two-day NCAA basketball showcase that ends with the National Championship game, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1988, when it returns to Kansas
The Jayhawks have made it to three of the nine Final Fours played in Kansas City. Half of their Final Four appearances have been at Kansas City tournaments.
The Final Four last United Kenses City in
The Midwest Regional champion will face the winner from the Southeast and East will meet
year, beating Duke 98-83 in the title game.
installed when the games were at Municipal Auditorium. UCLA began its string of nine national championships in 10 seasons that
Kansas City has played host to nine Final Fours, more than any other city. After the inaugural
final was played at Evanston, Ind., in 1939, the Final Four moved to Kansas City for the next three years. The Jayhawks made their first trip in 1940 and lost 60-42 to Indiana in the finals.
After winning the NCAA championship
at Seattle in 1862, Kansas returned to the finals in 1933 in Kansas City but lost 69-68, again to Indiana. The Jayhawks' next trip
to the Final Four, again in Kansas City. Left them again as runners-up after a 54-33 triple-overtime loss to North Carolina.
In 1971, the Jayhawks advanced to the first Final Four played in a domed stadium at the Astrodome in Houston. They lost 68-60 to eventual-champion UCLA in the semifinals and 77-75 to Western Kentucky in the third-place game.
It was 1892 before the Final Four returned to a dome, this time the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. But the NCAA has stated that the Final Four now will be played exclusively in domes.
Stallworth
Continued from p. 15
He chose the Supersons because of the better contract, and spent seven years, the last two with the New Orleans Jazz, before retiring because of back injuries sustained in a car accident.
He also racked up some points in the trivia column, by scoring the first points ever for the expansion Jazz, and scoring the first points in the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., now home of the Washington Bullets.
He played with Pete Maravich while at New Orleans and was coached by Bill Russell at Seattle
He plays enough now, "just to keep the addition off," but there is still one thing he misses about the NBA.
"Yeah, all that money," he said with a laugh.
Stallworth has three sons ages 10,8 and 5.
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e time the decision was ed."
All-American Danny Manning, frequently being touted as the best college basketball player this year, will play a primary role in guiding the Jayhawks to the Final Four this season.
lerick said, "From individual sations and from letters, I feel know where most of the people board stood on the issue."
lent board member Suc Glatter "No students were consulted. In't seek out student opinion." board has three student repatives.
derick said, "We're coming a situation where the previous had academic difficulties. Bob hard to gain the respect of
wood praised Valesente's content to recruiting fresh footlayers who were capable stu-
he said that Frederick didn't sufficient consideration to Val-
's attention to academics.
Joe Wiklink is special to the KANSAS as a news conference with his estions about his firing.
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