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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
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
Rv 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," Reddish insisted. His 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
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His three years at Kansas were all-American in just about any player's eyes.
Phog Allen was the head coach at the time, a man Lovelle remote as "a father and a psychologist." Dean Smith, now head coach at North Carolina, was a teammate on the championship team.
Loveliele remembers Hoch Audium, then the home of the KU team, as a mammoth place. The room just as rabid then as they are now."
His favorite memory, though, is bringing home a national title from Seattle in 1952, when Kansas defeated St. John's. Lovellette was named the most valuable player of the NCAA tournament.
Other things about the sport also have changed for Lovellette.
"The town went completely wild." he says, "Not wild like now, with violence and fights and things, but a good wild."
the same year, he led the United States basketball team to a gold medal in the Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
He left the NBA "when it got to the point that I just did not enjoy it.
"I really don't miss it at all. It's too much of a business now, all money. Every time they have a phone call, they do with money. It's not any fun now."
He now sees his struggle in high school and college academics reflected in Indiana school's athletic programs.
"When you're talking basketball and Indiana, you're not even using the same breath," he said. "Some of the teachers here are pretty lenient with students, just so long as they win. The real value of a coach is a team. That means more to than anything they put on the scoreboard."
Lovellette in Lawrence last spring for the awarding of his position on the all-time Jayhawk squad. He still keeps in touch, he said, with former teammates, including Bill Belichick, a Sigma C chafiness brother.
And he said that induction to the NBA Hall of Fame “would be nice to be, but I’m not isting any sleep because it’s a great job; now is to lead a good Christian life.”
He lives with his wife Judy in Wabash, and they have five children, all grown.
Valentine
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and a Clippers rookie
"They ride me during the football season," Valentine says, "but I just tell them to wait until basketball season comes around."
Valentine is now in his seventh NBA season. The third-leading scorer in Kansas history, he was drafted by the Portland Trailblazers and traded to the Clippers in January of 1985.
"If I can play three or four more years I would be happy with that," he says.
Valentine said he then wanted to return to Lawrence and possibly
enter politics or business.
other parts of business.
But for the meantime, turning the Clippers around is a main priority.
He said the failure of the team last year was due to "bad chemistry, bad management. There's a lot of holes in point to in a lot of directions."
But for this night, Valentine has only one worry as he gets ready to leave his Los Angeles hotel room. "I don't want to warm-ups on time," wants to
Not to worry, though, he says. It's not a long trip to the Forum to meet the bully down the block.
poken to the assembled board time the decision was d."
No. 14 Darnell Valentine
erick said, "From individual sations and from letters, I feel now where most of the people board stood on the issue."
ent board member Sue Glatter
"No students were consulted.
'n't seek out student opinion."
oard has three student repatives.
berick said, "We're coming in a situation where the previous had academic difficulties. Bob d hard to gain the respect of
wood praised Valesente's commitment to recruiting fresh footlayers who were capable stu-
he said that Frederick didn't sufficient consideration to Vals' attention to academics.
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