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Academics Continued from p. 14
tutored in subjects ranging from English to chemistry.
Tutorina
Snyder said he came from a good school, but it was a shock when he found his classes harder than what he expected them to be. That's where the tutoring program came in.
"It's an excellent tool. The program has a lot of class to it," he said.
Tutors from Supportive Educational Services are available from 7 to 9 p.m. on study hall nights, and players who have scheduling conflicts meet with tutors at other times.
Both the tutoring and mentor prog.
rams have been praised by athletes and faculty alike. The average GPA of the football team went from 2.04 in spring 1986 to 2.57 in spring 1987.
Some have questioned the validity of that rise in the average. But players such as Chris Perez, a redshirt freshman from Palatine, Ill., discounted the notion that athletes were taking easier classes or choosing easier majors in order to boost their GPA. Instead, he said, it was Valesente's work ethic.
"It's an unwritten law that you do well in academics or else you're in trouble."
Valesente said the stories of athletes with easy classes and easy majors were inaccurate.
KU set a new core curriculum in fall 1987, which affects freshmen entering in 1987 and thereafter. The curriculum dictates certain times that a student must begin progress to completing his requirements.
"They're simply not true. We have entrance requirements. You have to
maintain a certain GPA in order to be eligible. All the classes take preparation to get the job done."
New curriculum
In addition, the NCAA requires athletes to complete work leading to a degree at a satisfactory pace. Athletes must declare a major by their junior year and are required to take a minimum of 12 hours a semester in order to remain eligible.
"It used to be like that, with athletes taking all the easy cases and getting
smarter. They're realizing that they can't play major college football forever," Bong said. "We have a lot going into engineering and pre-med. A lot of the kids want to major in something like physical education since they're in football, and some of them dream to be a coach.
"With the new KU guidelines, I don't think it's harder for the athletes, because they know what the guidelines are. Now they're getting things out of the way and getting into their major quicker."
Bong said he recommended athletes enroll in 15 hours. That way, he said, if they had to drop a class, the athletes would still be within the eligibility standards.
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Comments: Hadl denies reports and rumors that he is a lock for the job and said that no one from the committee had contacted him.
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“There is always a lot of speculation in this type of situation and I have heard a lot of things,” he said. “I have applied, that is true. But I don’t know anything about it and I don’t know how it’s progressing.”
- Ted Tollner, 47, is in his first year as receivers coach with Buffalo Bills.
as receivers coach
Experience:
University of Southern
California
coach for the last four
years; named Pac-10 coach of
the year in 1984
Could not be reached for comment
■ Mark Duffner, who is in second year as coach at Holy Cross
Experience: Holy Cross — defensive coordinator for five years
sive coordinator for four years Ohio State -- part-time assistant for two years
sive coordinator for four years
sive coordinator for five years
University of Cincinnati — defen-
Could not be reached for comment
Dave Wannstedt, 35, is in second year as defensive coordinator at University of Miami
Experience: University of Southern California — assistant 1983-85
Oklahoma State - assistant 1979-82
Pittsburgh - assistant 1977-78
Comments: "I haven't called anyone myself, but I'm very serious
about it. I'm not interested in being head coach just to be head coach. I think KU has a lot of things to offer, and the opportunity to win is there because of the resources available.
Earle Bruce, 56, fired from Ohio
state after nine years as coach Experience: Iowa State University coach for six years
coach for any year's Tampa - coach for one year
Tampa — Coach for the year Could not be reached for comment ■ Glen Mason, who is in first year as coach at Kent State University
College: Ohio State University Could not be reached for comment
Recruiting
to look elsewhere in recent years.
One reason, Brown said, was that the state's high school rules were too confining.
coach at Kent State University College: Ohio State University
Continued from p. 13
visit," Gentry said. "I think it's a situation of being involved with some very good recruits and the schools that we're up against are also very good.
Gentry said the key to Kansas' recruiting was establishing a solid base of incoming freshmen. He said he had worked with four were recruited to fill a specific need.
Kansas State High School Activities Association regulations, which govern team practice time, the number of high school teammates allowed on summer league teams and the number of games that teams can play, are stricter than those in many states.
The lack of in-state NCAA Division 1 prospects has forced the Jayhawks
nia kids have played 18 games on
nia Year's Day," Gentry said.
"It's a big hardship when you consider that Kansas kids play 18 games in a season and most Califor-
In a three-year span, Wichita produced three of the country's best high school basketball players — Darnell Valentine, Ricky Ross and Antoine Carr. Topea High School coach Willie Nickler, a 33-year veteran, said there may be as many good Kansas players now.
"On a per capita basis, Kansas would probably rank pretty high in the number of kids who play major college basketball." Nicklin said, "regardless of the limits the Activities Association has imposed on us."
Although the staff recruits nationally, Gentry said Jayhawk recruiting efforts were focused on the Midwest most players stayed close to home.
Despite the program's on-court success, Kansas hasn't attained the nationwide recognition of similar programs like Syracuse. Sustaining a successful program, however, requires good national recruiting.
"The ultimate goal is to get players who are better than what you have in the program already," Gentry said.
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