University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 18, 1975
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By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Track mentors
Coaches Gary Pepin, Bob Timmons and Thad Talley combine their talents to lead the KU track team.
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Pepin, Talley combine in coaching KU track
By JOHN HICKEY Sports Writer
The University of Kansas has another fine track team this year, and two of the men instrumental in building it are assistant coaches Thad Talley and Calyre Penin.
Pepin, who handles KU's recruiting, coaches the high jumps, triple triers, pault vaulters and long jumpers and Talley coaches the sprinters and the relays. As KU track fans know, these events have been strong this season.
Talley credits Chuck Role, for whom he coached at the University of Tennessee, with helping him learn to coach the hurdles events. Together they coached Richmond Flowers, an NCAA champion. At Arkansas who tied the world record of 13.2 in the high school world record of 13.2 in the high hurdles, although he had never run the hurdles before entering college.
Some of the jumps on the KU team this year will be striving for NCAA outdoor titles and some are looking toward the U. S. Olympic team, Penin said.
"THINK," PEPIN SAD, "First of all the coach must be a technician. He must know
The two coaches said coaching track requires technical skill.
Talley said the pole vault was an example of an event in which attention to detail was required for success. There are 20 to 25 little things that must be right for a perfect vault, he said. Talley also said a good track coach must study and be familiar with the human body, particularly the muscles that are used for a given event.
In this respect, he said, track coaching is more sophisticated than basketball or football.
"How many football coaches know the functioning of those muscles used in getting up?"
'THEY're AS GOOD AS A foreign Olympic team," Pepin said.
KU finished second in the NCAA indoor meet in Detroit this year and would like to win the outdoor meet. But that won't be easy because the University of Texas at El
He said success in football and basketball contributed to recognition of the University by people on the coasts. But even more so was his ability to win whom almost everyone associated with KU.
Paso team, which won this year's national indoor title, is very strong.
the recruiting of foreign athletes is a subject about which Perin and Tallley
See Coaches page 8
Sports Writer
By DAVE GOSSER
Timmons' concern earns respect
Bob Timmons, University of Kansas track coach, used to hang from shower stalls while two buddies tugged on his legs hoping to help him tall enough to join the Marines for World War II. Today, he is one of the most successful track coaches in the country.
Often called "Trumpy" by his assistant coaches and athletes, Timmons is a believer in discipline, determination and perseverance. That explains how he eventually was accepted into the Marines despite not being tall enough.
"IFELT AS IF I wasn't doing my share of the fighting during World War II and I wanted to join the Marines and get into the action," Timmons recalled. "I flunked my physical for officer's training programs because I wasn't even close to 5-4. Even when the marines by taking a lot of stories. Also, the fighting go bad and that helped my choices."
Timmons, 50, has made more difficult adjustments in life than merely overcoming his difficulties. He quit his sophomore year of high school in Pittsburgh, Kan., when his parents gave him turn in in his football equipment because he didn't want their 97-pound son getting hurt.
Much later, he almost quit coaching at KU four years ago because campus violence and the death of his student would go home many nights sick to his stomach. And he was at the Munich Olympics in 1972 when Amair terrorists cast a shadow on one of sport's most beautiful spectacles.
"I WOULD HAVE LEFT KU on a minute's notice four years ago if I could have," Timmons said. "I agreed with a lot of the principles the college kids were fighting for but I couldn't agree with their methods. I thought their methods were more than the problems they were trying to correct. I wanted to join the Peace Corps then."
But these days, Timmons is glad he didn't leave KU.
"I had to look inside myself then," Timmons said. "I found out that a lot of my problem was me. I had to change with the times. I still believe in discipline and my hard work." He sat down and talk conflicts out. That wasn't an easy thing to realize four years ago.
If Timmons would have quit KU he might not have been in the German community of Munich, Germany. In Munich, news of the Arab terrorists attack first broke. He attended the Olympics with former Kansas maser Jim Ryman, a member of the U.S. track team there.
"WHAT HAPPENED IN Munich was just terrible," Timmens remembers. "I watched the shooting on German television and, as I looked at it, I knew what was being said, I knew what was going to be."
Timmons suffered another heartbreaking
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--experience at Munich when Rynu failed to qualify in the mile run after he stumbled. The films showed he was tripped but of course they were adamant in upholding their decision.
Timmon's relationship with Ryun has been widely publicized and Ryun still trains under Timmons for the professional circuit. He describes their relationship as "very close."
"It wasn't always that way at times but we certainly like one another and we have a very, good relationship to this day," she said. "There were a lot of pressures put on him when he was here and that might have strained our relationship at times.
"Still, I am glad to be able coach Jim
this day. You think that after all of
the court classic that goes anywhere
these years he'd go on his own, but he wants to be coached so I do it and I'm more than ready.
RYUN SAID THERE was something special about Timmons.
"He has got something uncommon in a lot of coaches," Ryan said. "I don't think he is any more sincere towards one athlete than he is another."
See TIMMONS page 8
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