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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Diving into the recruiting process with Tyrel Reed
In today's excerpt from "Reed All About It: Driven to be a Jayhawk," Tyrel describes his recruiting experience as a high school star in Burlington.
Fortunately, I didn't have a cell phone until I was 17. I say fortunately because not having a cell phone meant college coaches couldn't call and text my cell phone all the time. My parents were really good about managing all of that, because the calls started coming in pretty much every day when I was in high school.
The conversations with coaches really aren't much. It's a lot of small talk. How's the family? How is school going? That kind of thing. They're really just trying to get a feel for you. That's one thing college coaches are really good at. They're salesmen. It's basically in the job description. They're just good with people. They're good recruiters and, I guess, good coaches, but mainly just good recruiters.
You probably can't be a head coach in college basketball without having some ability to make
people feel good or make them feel special.
Coach Self has that uncanny ability to command your attention and make you feel like you're the most important person in the room while he's talking to you. He may only talk to you for 30 seconds, but for those 30 seconds you feel like he knows you. Coach Self, once he meets you, will never forget you. He will remember your name for life. It seems like he knows everyone's name, regardless
if it's your mom, your dad, your girlfriend or your brother's friend. That's one of the things that makes him special.
You might think a Kan-
have gone to KU to play for just anybody. I had multiple scholarship offers by the time it was all said and done, including one from my friend, Coach Williams, at North Carolina. I had taken an official visit to Stanford and loved it. I could have gone there. Oklahoma offered me a scholarship. So did Missouri. I was blessed to have so many options.
Regardless of how much you love Kansas and the program and everything it stands for, which I
sas fan like I was would have wanted to go to Kansas no matter who the coach was, but when you're a player, the specific coach is a really, really big factor. I wouldn't
had loved since I started watching basketball, you still have to take the coach into consideration. Believe it or not, whether the tradition is great or not, the coach in front of you is the one in charge
of your playing time, not the fans or anybody else. That's a big consideration. You're going to be spending 80 percent of your time with these people. I loved Coach
Williams when he was here and I loved him when he was at North Carolina recruiting me. When Coach Self took over, it was another great thing.
As a player, you still want to do your homework to some extent and get a feel for the coaches. When you go on your visits, you talk to the players and ask a bunch of questions. What would coach do if this happened? Do you like your coach? I think players are candid in those situations. I really do. At Kansas, we were always honest with recruits whenever they asked us a question. I think that's just the code of honor you take.
© Reed All About It:
Driven to be a Jayhawk
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Oklahoma teams to decide Big 12 title
The Big 12's automatic BCS berth could easily come down to one game, even though there are still three weeks left in the league's first round-robin schedule.
As long as fifth-ranked Oklahoma (8-1, 5-1 Big 12) doesn't slip up before then, the regular-season finale between the Sooners and No. 2 Oklahoma State (10-0, 7-0) on Dec. 3 will determine who gets the league's automatic berth into the Bowl Championship Series — and possibly the national title game.
"My whole thoughts are solely on going to Baylor, but that's one of the steps in the process. So we just have to keep working through it," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said Monday. "You get to this point and everybody wants to project the end, and you can't."
Oklahoma has won seven of the last 11 Big 12 titles, but the 10-team league no longer has a championship game.
The Sooners travel Saturday to No. 25 Baylor (6-3, 3-3), a team they have never lost to in 20 games. That's the night after Oklahoma State plays at Iowa State, the team Oklahoma then faces Thanksgiving weekend.
Stoops planned to remind his players what they have to do before any sort of BCS talk.
"It's our job to stay grounded and in the moment," Stoops said.
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy team's is 10-0.
Associated Press
PROFESSIONAL SPORTS
NBA lockout drags on
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
NEW YORK — Rather than surrender, the NBA Players Association opted for the poison pill.
The union's executive director, Billy Hunter, announced Monday afternoon that the players will not accept the NBA's proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement and instead a Notice of Disclaimer was served to the NBA office to effectively dissolve the union and turn the five-month lockout over to the court system.
"We've arrived at the conclusion that the collective bargain
week with an ultimatum that it must be accepted by last Wednesday. The league agreed to return to the negotiating table to discuss the deal and then presented this latest proposal last Thursday. Commissioner David Stern told the union that if the deal was not accepted, the owners' negotiating stance would reset to their original platform of a hard cap system, a revenue split of 53-47 in favor of the owners and a rollback on current contracts.
ing process has completely broken down," Huntersaid after the union held a meeting with its executive committee and
"The players feel that they are not prepared to accept any ultimatums and that it is extremely unfair on the part of the NBA
We've arrived at the conclusion that the collective bargaining process has completely broken down.
BILLY HUNTER Executive Director of the NBA Players Association
30 team player representatives plus several other players, including Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups of the Knicks at a Manhattan hotel to present the NBA's latest proposal.
The league offered the players a 50-50 split of league revenue with a soft salary cap system that included steeper restrictions on luxury tax paying teams than in the previous deal. This was a revised proposal of one made last
ownership to give an ultimatum that they had to accept their proposal or a rollback to 47 percent," Hunter said. "We have negotiated in good faith for two years and have done everything that anybody could expect, particularly when you look at the givebacks and concessions. The players just felt they have given enough."
Hunter said the players will now be represented by the union's outside counsel, Jeffrey Kessler, who spearheaded the NFLPA's antitrust battle with the NFL last spring, and another attorney, David Boies, who coincidentally represented the NFL.
Neither would say when action against the league would be filed, but Boies said that could come in the next few days. The NFLPA's decertification effort failed after an appeals court ruled that the NFL was in its rights to lock out the players. The sides eventually reached a settlement on a CBA in time to save the NFL season.
"This is the best decision for the players," union president Derek Fisher said. "I want to reiterate that point, that a lot of individual players have a lot of things personally at stake in terms of their careers and where they stand. And right now they feel it's important — we all feel it's important to all our players, not just the ones in this room, but our entire group — that we not only try to get a deal done for today but for the body of NBA players that will come into this league over the next decade and beyond."
Fisher, flanked at a news conference by dozens of players including Kobe Bryant and Anthony, said the decision was unanimous.
Stern said if the players accepted the deal, a 72-game season could have started on Dec. 15. Instead, there is great concern that the entire 2011-12 season will be lost.
"Obviously Mr. Kessler got his way," Stern said Monday afternoon on ESPN, "and we're about to go into the nuclear winter of the NBA."
MEN'S GOLF
High school player signs with men's golf team
LAUREN DRUMMOND
ldrummond@kansan.com
The men's golf team has received a national letter of intent from Prem "Ben" Samritpricha, from Bangkok, Thailand, this week. He will join the team in 2012 for the 2012-2013 season. Samritpricha is the 82nd ranked recruit of the 2012 class, according to Golfweek.
Coach Kit Grove said he was excited about the addition of Samritpricha.
"Prem is a very consistent performer that also possesses the unique ability to go low, as demonstrated by his opening round 65 at the Bubba Conlee this summer," he said.
Sanitripricha had a successful prep career prior to committing to Kansas. He recorded six top-five finishes in 2010, including a victory in the 16-19 division of the HJGT Hunters Green Junior Shootout. After his junior year season, he was named to the IMG Leadbetter Second Team to the All-America accolades.
Samritpricha is very optimistic about coming to Kansas and is very excited.
"I believe that Kit Grove and Brian McCants will help me achieve my goals and get me to the next level," he said. However, golf is not the only reason Samritripho chose the University of Kansas. He also stated that KU's School of Business was another reason.
"I believe that KU has one of the
best golf facilities you will find in the country. The campus is beautiful and the athletics side of KU just blew me away — the athletic buildings, support, gym and every aspect of it" he said. "Also, the basketball program is phenomenal. The home games are going to be incredible, and I cannot wait to be chanting 'Rock Chalk Jayhawk' with the crowd."
The Jayhawks will begin their 2012 spring season March 5 when they compete in the Louisiana Classics in Lafayette, La.
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