Thursday, May 5, 197
University Daily Kansan
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Floyd Temple
Floyd Temple-perennial head of Temple's troops
Floyd Temple is proving that longevity in coaching isn't a myth.
By GARY BEDORE Sports Welter
This season is Tempte's 24th as head coach of the KU baseball team, and in his tenure, the coach and University have gotten along just fine.
Temple, who wears lucky number 13 on the back of his uniform and who often chews on a wad of tobacco, recently reached a coaching milestone when he won his 500th game at KU. Going into this season, Temple had led the Jayhawks to 369-280 career records, and after 40 games this season, the Hawks are 21-18.
"There's no secret for success," he said. "You've got to have good players to win a championship. You can teach fundamentals and discipline and blend kids to play as a team, but you need good players in order to win."
Temple says there is no simple formula for winning.
Temple's players are encouraged to have fun playing baseball. His practices are designed to take some of the monotony out of the sport.
"We try to maintain a relaxed at-
mosphear a practice," he said. "Players can have catch, funching, hitting, or throwing. It's not like football where you knock heads two or three times a day."
For 16 years, Temple also was an assistant football coach and scout at KU. He said coaching two sports had some disadvantages.
"I enjoyed coaching football, but I could never work with the baseball team in the fall," he said. "Now, I've been able to the last few years, and it's helped us. To get things accomplished, you need the head coach around."
Temple gives players advice about signing a professional contract before graduating from KU. Temple said as long as a player makes his own decision, he exerted no extra pressure on the player to stay.
"I never hold a grudge against players who leave KU before they graduate," he said. "Playing in the major leagues is the ultimate. That was my desire, but I knew my glove and bat wouldn't take me that far." The answer was $90,000 just to sign, I tell it ridiculous not to sign. The players leave with my $10,000.
Thoughts and rumors as the semester ends
UPON HIS resignation from KU's basketball program, Duncan Reid received many phone calls congratulating him on becoming head coach and assistant athletic director at Dodge City Junior College. But Reid couldn't tell his well-wishers much about his destination. When asked the school's nickname, Reid had to hesitate before replying, "Conquistadores, however you speak it," he said. "If your students are the school's arentors are," purple and gold—I think "Purple" "I like it," he said, "'it my mom's favorite color.'"
Notes and quotes while wondering why Kansas State's football team, which infatuates players with its jock image, didn't have any players selected in the NFL draft.
MARK  VIICENDESE  Cromwell's roommate, alleged that his top rival for the starting quarterback role, Brian Bethek, purposely broke his hand during spring training because he wanted to see me suffer and twice as hard in practice," Vicedean said.
SKIP SHARP, who was drafted in the fifth round by Philadelphia, had given up on being selected on the first day and had taken off for dinner when his call came. "I stayed around all day, until five," Sharp said. "That when I thought it was over, he sent me a phone started ringing, and David Smith pulled door—came over and carded my door to get and answer it for me. When I came home I found the message he'd left."
NOW WHERE will Sam Miranda go after
SMITH ALSO had a tale to tell concerning
Fifth Quarter
13 years as KU's top assistant basketball coach? Chances are, nowhere. Miranda has grown some deep roots in Lawrence, and he might accept a position within the physical education department or with an area business.
RUMORS AROUND about Lafayette Norwich of Westwood Heights High School being a top candidate for a position on KU's coaching staff, Ted Wonsen won't say whether Norwood is being considered "out of the box" as it names confidential." But Owens was at the Derby Classic in Louisville, Ky., over the weekend and Norwood was there with his star player, Darnell Valentine. Norwood was quoted concerning the staff opening at KU in the Wichita Eagle and Beacon. "If the situation is ideal I think I would entertain application. If I was hired by KU one of my jobs would be to pursue Valentine."
"I certainly can't retire," Miranda said. "I'm looking into several things—both coaching and business possibilities. At this point, I'm ready to early to tell. There's nothing definite yet."
IT SEEMS that Florida basketball fans are upset at 6-2 guard Mow Fowler signed with Kansas and didn't stay in the Sunshine State. Just how good is he? Well, part-time assistant coach Walt Wesley, who scouted Fowler over Christmas break, said, "From 1984 to 1987, he was a Darnell. Together they'd have to be rated two of the top guards in the country."
NOLAN CROMWELL, who was picked by Los Angeles in the second round of the NFL draft, was commonly referred to as a "draft date." He is now called "date" last season. Now what does the profootball candidate think of all that: "The Heisman Trophy and all that was made up of him was not an uneasily but basically it was just good FR for the school and flattery for me."
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the draft. It seems that being the leading receiver the past two years on a team noted for ignoring the pass doesn't draw a player down. He was one of Kansas City Chiefs was in Allen Field House to talk to Chris Golub, Smith sauntered over the football jersey, and introduced himself.
"ironically, K.C. never would have drafted me if I hadn't been playing basketball in the field house," Smith said. "I was very disappointed." There was there he had someone throw to me."
APPARELENTLY SAN Francisco thinks one Gene Washington isn't enough. Although the 48ers have one Gene Washington, they chose another Gene Washington, a 5-10 and 185-pound wide receiver from Georgia, in the ninth round yesterday. They won't have a monopoly of Gene Washington. Minnesota Vikings have one of their own.
LARRY JONES, who replaced Lance Van Zandt as defensive coordinator on KU's defense in the tour, brought a different defensive alliances and strategies to Tennessee. But Bud Moore gets ranked if anyone calls the 4-3 alignment the "Tennessee defense." Moore said, "We call it the defense."
ALTHOUGH TENNIS coach Kirkland Gates says he is pleased with the amount of funding his sport receives at KU, he said he wanted the athletic department to know he expected improved facilities—namely additional courts-so-sure. "It's not that I'm going to lose all my playing job," Gates said, "because I don't get paid enough to worry about that."
WAS AL OERTER honored to return to Lawrence to compete in the Al Oerter Disc Threat at the Kansas Relays? Not hardly. "It feels terrible," the 40-year old former KU great and four-time Olympic champion said. "They should take the name away from it this year, then put it back in 1981 (after the 1880 Olympics)."
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