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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 19, 1964
'No Pirating' In Universities Declares Regents' Chairman
The chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents has declared that there will be "no pirating" of state university coaches and that Kansas State University football will not be pulled out of debt by raising student fees.
Henry Bubb, Topeka financier and chairman of the Regents, discounted a United Press International hint that Wichita University basketball coach Ralph Miller might come to KU next year and also said that K-State football is not the responsibility of the Regents.
COACH MILLER said yesterday that the UPI story of his wanting to come to KU was purely speculative and a "vicious rumor which could do nobody any good."
This was after UPI had previously quoted coach Miller as saying, "There will always be a soft spot in my heart for Kansas. There are not many schools I would consider moving to from Wichita, but Kansas
University is the big one among those I would consider."
The UPI story continued to quote coach Miller as saying he was not seeking another job, but "if I wanted to change, this would be the time to do it. But I don't see that there is anything I can say as long as they have a coach at Kansas."
THE POLICY of the Regents through the years has been against "pirating" coaches or faculty members among state schools. On July 1, Wichita University will become a member of the state university system controlled by the Regents.
Bubb declared there was "nothing" to the UPI report that coach Miller wants to come to KU.
"THERE WILL be no pirating among the institutions in this state and that applies among coaches as well as faculty members," he stated. Bubb also said yesterday that K-State University will have to find its own way out of its football dol-
drums, affirming that football was not the responsibility of the Regents.
The sum of $60,000 has been mentioned as the figure needed to bolster Kansas State's 1964 football program, and a proposal to raise student fees $5 a semester was brought up in Manhattan Sunday.
B U B B DECLARED yesterday,
"We're not going to raise fees."
He said if Kansas State wants to raise money for athletics through fees, it is up to K-State president James McCain to submit a proposal.
"I am almost certain the board will okay almost anything he submits that doesn't raise fees," Chairman Bubb said.
He said the Regents will deal only with the K-State president and "we are not going to tell them (the students) they have to have a good football team."
The K-State student senate has scheduled a meeting today to consider other means of bailing out its football team.
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