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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
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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
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 Friedrick said, "I respect his opinion and his decision to do so if that's what he feels like he should do. He's given
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 insente's 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.
The Hill calls Stallworth back home
Stories by Mark Tilford
"I would have liked Bob Frederickr to preferably have discussed it with the board last week when it was at issue." Redwood said. "If that was
F or Bud Stallworth, life wasn't a beach, even when he lived two blocks from one. So the 6-foot-5 former point guard for
the Kansas Jayawks and the Seattle SuperSonics recently moved back to Lawrence from Lahaima, Hawaii, on the island of Maui. Wizard homely in Hawaii, Bud?
"That's putting it mildly," he said with a laugh. "It's just a far-away place. It's not like Wakiki or Honolulu yet, but it's basically just a tourist place."
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walthock, who was recently divorced, will now work for Hall-Kimbrell Environmental Services in Lawrence. He also is interested in coaching or broadcasting basketball.
Stallworth also follows the Jayhawks closely, though that was not always easy in Hawaii.
possible, then at least he should be assembled hear
though that was not always easy in his life.
"I think they have a good a shot as anybody this year," he said. "Danny can be like 'Los Angeles Lakers' (forward) Magic Johnson sometimes."
And according to Stallworth, the RU players can't get him, either.
"I'm right on the wall in their locker room," he said with a laugh.
Bud Stallworth
Stallworth still keeps in shape by playing, though in Hawaii he only had about 15 fellow players.
players.
He did have a chance, though, to play against some NBA stars in Hawaii for an exhibition game. Charles Barkley, a forward for the Philadelphia 76ers, was one of those players, and is now hailed by Stallworth as one of the best professional
"You had to drive 40 miles for a decent pick-up name."
prior to the game. "I didn't get in his way, I'm no fool," he said. His favorite memory of KU is from his team's 1971 Final Four appearance in the Houston Astrodome, where the Jayhawks fell in the semi-finals to coach John Wooden and the 2014 ICLA champions, who ended at 10 national championships in a row. Villanova and Western Kentucky also shared that tournament with the Jayhawks.
Though he admitted that television coverage for the tournament was not as big back then, "The Final Four is the Final Four."
But for Kansas fans, the greatest memory would come the next year, in Stallworth's final game in Allen Field House, when he would pump in 50 points against Missouri. Thousands of people packed around him on the court as the KU band played a take-off on one of the favored ad slogs of the day: When you say Buunad Stallworth — you've said it all.
"The 50-pointer was icing on the cake, he recalled. "Missouri was it as strong then, but it wasn't quite so."
would have had a choice of going to the Denver Rockets of the old American Basketball Association or the Seattle Supersonics of the NBA.
See STALLWORTH, p. 26, col. 5
LOVELLETTE IS FULFILLED BY RELIGION
Most anyone would be fulfilled with being a two-time all-American, winning an NCAA championship, a gold medal, three National Basketball Association championships and being nominated to the NBA Hall of Fame. Not Clyde Lodge
"I used to have everything, but I was empty inside. It's just been these past eight years that I've begun to love," Lovette, 58, said.
A former standout center and the second-leading scorer in KU basketball history. Loveltie credits his team with having become a Christian in 1980.
His experience with Christianity has led the Terre Haute, Ind., native to work at White's Institute in Wabash, Ind., a Christian-concept vocational training institute for juveniles who have been in trouble with the law.
"Hopefully we can give them some values that will carry over into their real lives," Loveltie says.
Clyde Lovellette
out of high school," he now admits.
"I spent 13 years in the pros; then I was out, it really hit me."
"I wasn't prepared to go to college
He played one year of Amateur Athletic Union basketball with the Philips 66ers, a company team in Bartlesville. Okla.
when I fall asleep is usually The 13 years, though, would be treasured by most NBA players.
averaged 17 points in 704 games, and won two NBA titles with the Boston Celtics and with the then-Minneapolis
Valentine stuck in 'The Futility Zone'
In his 12-year career in the NBA, he
See LOVELLETTE, p. 24, col. 4
submitted for your approval:
Darnell Valentine. A former standout point guard for a successful University of Kansas basketball team, he now play in the argu-
nal Nike Basketball Association. His league is dominated by two teams: you-know-who and you-know-who
play. And when fellow teams tibers him about one of his alma mater's sports teams, his common response is "just wait until basketball season." Darnell Valentine has just entered "The Fulfillment Zone."
entered The Patchly Community Sound anything like Kansas football?
Actually, probably not even Eod Sering would want to show up for a game with the Los Angeles Clippers, Darnell Valentine's team since
January of 1985.
"Support is based on winning," Valentine says of the Clippers and their few fans. "It's like Kansas they're won more, they'd get more support."
But winning certainly was not part of the Clipper's game plan last year. They almost became the first NBA team to win 80 games, ending with a 12-24 record.
They play in the giant shadow of
the Los Angeles Lakers, the toast of the City of Angels.
But despite his team's struggle, Valentine still loves his profession.
"I think it's the best job in the
"I think it's the best job in the world," he says. "It's a lot of fun."
world," he says. "It’s a lot of tifu.
He now platoons at point west,
at the Arkansas/Kansas-Kansas State barbs with Norris Coleman, former K-State forward
See VALENTINE, p. 24, col. 4
to all students, faculty, and staff, for your great support this semester.
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"We're for fun!"
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nt board member Sue Glatter
No students were consulted.
I seek out student opinion.
He has three student rep-
lays.
rick said. "From individualations and from letters, I feel now where most of the people stood on the issue."
erick said, "We're coming situation where the previous had academic difficulties. Bob I hard to gain the respect of
wood praised Valente's comit to recruiting freshmen footlayers who were capable stud. He said that Frederick didn't efficient consideration to Val's attention to academics.
See KUAC, p. 12, col.5
Joe Wilkins III/Special to the KANSA
Joe Wilkins is special to the KANSAS a news conference with his istions about his firing.
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