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Thursday, February 4, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Basketball player transfers; bitter about KU experience
By Elaine Sung
By Elaine Sung Kansan sports writer
Joe Young, a 6-foot-10 transfer from Dodge City Community College and former recruit of Kansas coach Larry Brown, transferred from the University of Kansas the first week of the spring semester and is now a student at Washburn University in Topeka.
"I called Washburn, and they knew who I was," Young said. "They have a highly acceptable program, and they're doing really well this year."
Young transferred at the end of last semester to Cameron University in Lawton, Okla., but became increasingly depressed and wanted to attend a different school. He made numerous calls to schools in Kansas and finally settled on Washburn, an NAIA school.
"I didn't like it down there," he said. "Not to be on down the place, but it just didn't seem like everything was going my way. At this point, I have to look after my best interests."
Young will sit out the rest of the season at Washburn and will wait to play next year. Otherwise, he would use up one of his two remaining years of eligibility.
Young was declared academically ineligible at Kansas in October 1897, just as the season was about to officially begin.
The NCAA requires that transfer students have 48 credit hours in order to compete, but only 41 of Young's junior college hours transferred, leaving him ineligible for the season.
Young got into further trouble when it was found that he had already accepted two athletic scholarships. That is a violation of NCAA standards, which say that all ineligible athletes must forfeit their athletic
Joe Young, who was declared academically ineligible in 1987, will play next year for the Washburn Ichabods.
scholarships.
Young nearly lost a year of eligibility because of that mistake. The KU Athletic Department appealed to the NCAA, which restored his eligibility and stipulated only that Young had to repay whatever athletic aid he had received
Those events left Young bitter toward the University.
"The situation was their fault to start with." Young said. "I had signed a letter of intent, and I had been there the whole summer. Someone should have been doing their job. I was really frustrated because I didn't find out until the first official day of practice."
Olga Evelyn, academic adviser for the men's basketball team, said that she could understand why Young was angry about the problems that occurred last semester but that what happened after he was declared inelegible could not be blamed on anyone but himself.
"We admitted responsibility for his ineligibility, initially," Evelyn said. "But the events that occurred afterward were primarily Joe's responsibility."
Young would say only that it was an academic situation that led to his transfer.
"It just didn't work out. I strongly hold the academic advisers responsible." Young said.
istration, held a meeting at the end of last semester to review Young's progress and to determine his standing. What they found during that evaluation was not promising.
Evelyn, Brown and Mel Dubnick, associate professor of public admin-
"We reviewed his juco transcript and what he had done so far at KU, and all indications did not point at his success," Evelyn said. "We gave him some alternatives, such as going to the NAIA."
But Young said that there were a lot of negative feelings about his situation and that he only wished the University had given him a chance.
"I didn't do exceptionally well, but I passed all my classes," he said. "It wasn't my decision. It was a decision I had to make. If I could go, they preferred that I go."
Brown had sat in on the meeting only for the purpose of being advised on the situation. He said that he did not directly tell Young to leave the University but that he considered that if Young's career goal was to graduate with a degree, his alternative would be to transfer.
"It would have taken him so many hours to graduate. We didn't accept a lot of his credits," Brown said. "I feel bad about it. It's sad to see him go. He came to the University intending on playing and contributing, but he never had the opportunity."
You look toward the future now, especially his two remaining years of eligibility. He admits being angry at the University, but wants to put the whole situation behind him and start fresh with his new school.
"I'm very happy at Washburn now," Young said. "I just have some advice to student-athletes who are transfers. Don't leave it up to other people. Check it out. I suggest you follow it up by yourself, not like what I did."
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