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Thursday, July 19, 1979
Summer Session Kansan
Pressures grow in women's sports recruiting
By SCOTT C. FAUST
Staff Reporter
Recruiting for women's sports is difficult to begin with because of tight budgets. Now, it is caught between a new emphasis on winning and the constraints of low-pressure recruiting rules, according to three KU women's coaches.
"We don't want to go to the meat-rac approach where athletes are judged like hunks of meat." Sandy Behan, assistant academic coordinator and women's golf coach, said recently. "We want to keep it as individual as possible, but the pressure to win is on."
The Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women has only recently allowed colleges to house visiting prospects in college athletics and coaches to take athletes to lunch. Behan said.
Under NCA4 recruiting rules, she said, a men's coach can give a prospect free transportation to campus along with free meals and motel lodging for us in six times.
AIAW rules require recruits to pay for all transportation to campuses. Women's coaches cannot offer prospective student athletes any opportunity to pursue any prospective KU student, Behan said.
THE ALW forbids coaches to visit with the prospect or her parents off campus, although they can communicate by phone or walk-in. You may visit an athlete three times in his home.
Bob Stancilff, women's softball coach,
said. "You go out and see someone play,
but you don't have to."
athlete about our program and our school."
Teri Anderson, women's track coach, said one of the reasons the AIAW rules existed was to protect athletes from pressure to just because a college coach was watchin
"But it is frustrating not to be able to talk people when they come up to you to talk," he said.
Chris Stewart, a recruit from Owelin, Iowa, said she was glad coaches were not allowed to talk to prospects off campus. Stewart signed a letter of intent in March to come to KU this fall on a partial basketball scholarship.
"IT MAKES it kind of hard to turn them down," she said.
However, she said, she would not mind of a coach to speak her after watching her in a
Stewart said Central Missouri State University, the University of Nebraska and the University of Nebraska at Omaha recruited her.
She also said that she had received a lot of mail from smaller schools, but that she had gotten hold of KU on her own. None of the letters sent her anything under the table, Stewart said.
Earnest Hegwood, St. Louis sophomore and a football player, said he was offered $500 under the table while being recruited by a school. Besides KU, Hegwood was, Kanzi and Penn State, all from Illinois, Northwestern University and the University of Missouri had recruited him.
Stancliff took one advantage of the AIAW rules over the NCAA rules was that they allowed women athletes to try out for all teams, even at times and championships won are important indicators in individual sports, he said, judgment on team sport athletes must come before the NCAA.
"That's why I came to KU—because I like the way they recruited me," he said.
The rules save money for the women's teams because they do not allow payment of prospect's transportation costs. But they also provide trips ineffective, Stancillo said.
The rules make it harder for coaches to spend effectively, he said, because of the restrictions on campus visits and on communication between athlete and coach.
STANCLIFT SAID he was not always sure of a prospective's talents, so his first priority was to upgrade scholarships for players he would rather than offer scholarship money to recruits.
"Our scholarship budget is becoming more and more competitive with the bigger schools," he said. "Now it's just a matter of spending money wisely."
Beban said women's coaches could not offer prospects things such as housing at Jayhawker Towers, a training table or money for books and laundry services, and the opportunity to spend time in men's sports. There is not enough money to pay for these in women's sports.
Tutoring by Supportive Educational Services, student volunteers and Behra herself, are the only things offered by both men's and women's programs, Behra said.
AS AN EXAMPLE of funding problems, Behan said, this past year was the first time the golf team had "anything resembling a uniform."
"The men's program had these kinds of things for years," she said.
"Athletes ask, 'What can you do for me?' or 'What can you give me?' Behan said. "You're very aware that there are a lot of things being offered, a lot of things under the table."
Anderson and Behan both said that although they couldn't offer such amenities, the university respects a high quality academic program and has achieved nationwide recognition that had achieved nationwide recognition.
"I FIVEEEN the game played in gou, she said. "You run into a recruit who says, 'So and so offered me this, this and this,' and you wonder if they're telling you the truth or if they're just saying that to see what you'll give them."
There is confusion about the rules, Behan said, because the AIAW does not publicize recruiting violations the way the NCAA does, in which the athletes are not aware the rules exist.
"I think the rules are good and I think they should stay," Behan said, "but I think something should be done to educate the public."
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Resignations . . .
about whom he is going to retain," Schiehsinger said.
ANONYMOUS WHITE House sources also said that Carter would not accept resignations from three members of his national security team: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and House Secretary Harold Brown and national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Carter also met twice yesterday with Patricia Roberts Harris, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development. No decision on her future was announced.
Before the announcement of Jordan's appointment as Chief of Staff, Robert Straus said, if the changes in the administration are reported in one piece, rather than in "jerks," they "will come out as an orderly plan."
STRAUS, CARTER'S MIDDLE East peace negotiator and frequent political adviser to the president, would be a good choice for President Obama's management and Budget, according to Getter.
"I imagine a relatively strong person will be appointed as director," he said. "Such a move would leave Carter more time to play a leadership role such as addressing himself to broad questions of policy and carrying those messages to the people and to help them stay day-to-day at administrative tasks to the director of OMB or Hamilton Jordan."
Commentators in Europe disagreed yesterday on how to interpret the mass offer of resignations. Some newspapers said it indicated a deep-rooted crisis and others said Carter was simply taking firm control of the government.
The announcement was headlined in morning papers across Europe.
The Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" said, "the sensational announcement from Washington reveals the gravity of the energy crisis."
The Oslo Newspaper, Dagbladet, called the move, "a historic clean-out in the newspaper," should give the people a picture of Cairns' the vigorous and action-filled president."
The official Soviet news agency Tass blamed the Cabinet move on economics.
The Washington correspondent of the conservative Daily Telegraph of London said Carter seemed to "be clearing the road for a readiness for the new presidential campaign."
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LYTHAM ST. ANNES. England (AP)—Bill Longmire, an obscur golf pro and sometimes male beauty-comet winner, tied a couple of records on his 100th career hole that took the first round lead by three shots yesterday in the 18th British Open.
"I believe neither the score nor the person," defending champion Jack Nicklaus said in mock tones. "I believe both of them scored the same and score on top of the leader board.
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Gary Player, the South African who has won this event three shots, shot a 72—two strokes higher than the score posted by his 17-year-old son, Wayne.
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