KU coach irked by Texas
Timmons still puzzled over Texas
By BOB KEARNEY Kansan Sports Editor
You could hardly blame Bob Timmons for being irked.
His role as meet director for the rain-plagued Kansas Relays—with all the accompanying woes—would seem enough to put lesser men
in straitjackets. Now his Jayhawks, turning the other cheek after the Oklahoma City Invitational, had been slapped in the face again.
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"People ask you 'What happened at Texas?' and give you a sympathetic look," said the KU track coach, leaning back in his chair with a puzzled stare. "Everyone judged us by the sprint medley and two-mile relays and figured we were disappointed. Sure we were disappointed, but now with our
performance."
Timmons flipped a page from the thickness of notes on his clipboard, then searched for a way to vent his gripe tastefully.
"Our boys were outstanding at the Texas Relays—one of the finest team performances ever down there. But you wouldn't know it from reading the papers or from talking to people."
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Hard to explain
The newspapers said something about Rice being voted the Outstanding University Division team, and something to the effect that Jim Ryun's teammates let him down at Texas.
"We scored the meet according to national championship competition," said Timmons, scanning his
notes, "Rice and Kansas State would have tied with 50 points. The University of Texas at El Paso would have had $68 \frac{1}{2} $points, but they're looked upon as some sort of outcast in Texas."
Then Timmons added the clincher. "We would have scored 122 points!"
But that was only a start. "The combined total of the Southwest Conference schools was 86 points, and six of those scored five points or less," Timmons continued.
attention of the KU coach. "Nobody let down Jim Ryun, like the Texas press said. Most of those boys ran their best times ever," observed Timmons of the two third-place finishes.
"The same thing happened at Oklahoma City (during the indoor season), and our boys didn't know just what to think. They've done a... outstanding job and get no recognition."
For the record, Ryun's anchor carries of 1:46.9 in the sprint medley and 1:47.4 in the two-mile relays were second to none. KU's time of 3:16.7 in the sprint medley would have ranked No. 1 in the nation through all of last year, and the 7:21.8 two-mile clocking that matched a school record would have ranked second only to Villanova's 7:17.8 during the 1968 season.
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Then the "Ryan rub" got the
"There were some excellent relay teams at Texas, and we certainly had no reason to be
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