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Gough, Chanute junior, said. "But I think that's easy to understand when you consider how much pressure he was under. No man should have to put up with so much pressure."
"I was surprised when I first heard the news," Wayne Loving, Kansas City sophomore, said. "I thought it was a rumor at first."
MONTE JOHNSON. Athletic public relations director, also voiced his surprise at Harp's decision.
"There were many conflicting rumors, but I can say that it was his own decision."
All the team members contacted yesterday voiced strong support of Ted Owens as coach Harp's successor.
"We are, of course, sorry to see the coach leave," Unseld said, "but we are now concerned with getting Owens in as his replacement."
Stinson, who doesn't officially become KU athletic director until July 1, arrived on campus yesterday to get accustomed to his job.
It is Stinson's job to find a successor to Dick Harp, KU's head basketball coach, who announced his resignation yesterday.
"I didn't know the resignation was official until I heard about it just now on the telephone," Stinson, Chicago insurance man and former KU football player, said in the chancellor's office yesterday.
STINSON SAID then he had taken no steps toward finding a new basketball coach—"but I've got a few ideas," he added.
Harp said he hopes his assistant coach, Ted Owers, will become coach. Owens said he "definitely wants the job." Seventeen players who will be eligible for basketball competition next season have signed a petition requesting that Owens be named coach.
ONE OF THE MOST persistent rumors around campus yesterday was that Ralph Miller, Wichita coach, was trying to be lured to KU.
MILLER WAS CONTACTED yesterday in Iowa City where he was being interviewed for the head
coaching position at the University of Iowa
“This is the first news I've heard of it." Miller was quoted in reference to Harp's resignation. "I don't have anything to say about it."
Miller had told friends previously that he would be interested in coming to KU if a vacancy ever developed. He was a standout in both football and basketball for KU in the late '90s.
Miller apparently thought he would not be considered for a spot at KU because of a statement made a week ago by Henry Bubb, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Bubb said, "There will be no pirating among the institutions in this state and that applies among coaches as well as faculty members." Bubb was quoted in UPI reports yesterday as saying that he understood Miller has informed officials at Wichita that he did not plan to return there next year.
BUBE SAID: "If that should be the case and if the new athletic director (Stinson) wants to talk to Miller, then he should talk to Dr.
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the new coach. "I'm not suggesting they talk to Ralph Miller or anyone else," he said. "That's strictly up to the athletic director. All we (the Board of Regents) do is approve or reject."
Bubb made it plain that he is not trying to influence the selection of
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