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Sports The Sallna Journal Saturday, March 28,1987 Page 13 New KW coach ready to develop winners Frltt Nebraska native Brad Jenkins was introduced Friday as the new head football coach at Kansas Wesleyan. ByKENCORBITT Sports Writer Brad Jenkins wants to build winners, on and off the football field. Jenkins, introduced at a Friday afternoon press conference as Kansas Wesleyan's 13th head football coach, said developing a well- rounded person is his primary objective. "You're not going to win the KG AC or the Big Eight or the national championship year after year after year," Jenkins said. "You are going to deal with young lives year after year after year.

When championships become more important than those young lives, then you belong at a different level or in a different business. The people, ultimately, are more important than the That's not to say, though, that Jenkins wouldn't mind seeing a bit more hardware in the KW trophy case. "My goal as a football coach is to win championships," he said. "My goal as an educator is to make sure my kids, whether we win a championship or not, have made themselves productive citizens in the four or five years they spend here. If you don't want to win championships, I'm not sure you belong in coaching.

"I want to win the championship but I want to do it with people committed to furthering themselves academically and socially. My overriding goal is to produce quality people. My primary coaching goal is to win Jenkins, 34, comes to Wesleyan after spending the past two years as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Nebraska. He is a native of North Platte, and a 1971 "I want to win the championship but I want to do It with people committed to furthering themselves academically and socially. My overriding goal Is to produce quality people." Jenkins graduate of Poudre High School in Fort Collins, where he was a two-time all-conference selection in three sports.

He played collegiately at Nebraska, lettering as a tight end on the 1974 and 75 Cornhusker squads. He was a 13th-round selection by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (their eighth overall pick) in the 1976 National Football League draft. At the conclusion of his college playing career, Jenkins became a student assistant for two years at Nebraska. He spent the next seven years as a high school head coach, compiling a 9-11 record at Los Alamos (N.M.) High and a 34-30 mark at Scottsbluff (Neb.) High. His 1983 Scottsbluff team won conference and district championships.

"We believe Brad can develop a program around students who can succeed academically by pursuing a degree to completion, even while they're enjoying college level participation in football," Wesleyan President Marshall Stanton said. "He brings a Christian commitment to his profession, which fits in with Kansas Wesleyan's mission to achieve academic and athletic excellence in a Christian atmosphere." Jenkins replaces Jack Welch, who left KW after two years to become athletic director and head football coach at Fort Scott Community College. Under Welch, the Coyotes won their last four games last season to finish with a 6-4 record. Jenkins said he will incorporate some of the principles he acquired through his association as a player and coach with the highly successful Nebraska program. "I have certain football philosophies that I believe are paramount to success," Jenkins said.

"I'm going to require that the kids believe in those things as well. But they need to see it will work for them, because I'm not going to convince them just by saying this worked for us at Nebraska. 'That doesn't mean I'm going to do everything Nebraska does; that doesn't mean I'm going to do anything Nebraska does, except to line 11 guys up at a time. "You will see some option football, you'll see some passing football. I need to examine the football material here and look at films from last year before I can make any commitments as to what we want to do.

But I think I bring the opportunity to run an exciting brand of offensive football, as well as defensive football, and to win, which is why we keep score." Jenkins said he'll meet early next (See KW, Page 14) Royals deal Cone for Mets' catcher FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) The Kansas City Royals sent David Cone, a highly regarded pitching prospect, to the New York Mets Friday in a five-player trade designed to bolster their catching and middle-relief corps. The Royals obtained Ed Hearn, a back-up catcher; right-handed pitcher Rick Anderson, and minor league pitcher Mauro Gozza. The Mets also received minor league catcher Chris Jelic in the deal. "David Cone is a fine prospect, and we didn't want to trade him," Royals' general manager John Schuerholz said Friday.

"But we felt it (catching) was an area we needed to strengthen. There are people in our organization that think he will evolve as the No. 1 catcher. We're going to get a 26-year-old guy who can catch for us for many years." Last season, Hearn hit .265 in 22 games at Tidewater of the International League and .265 with four homers and 10 RBI in 49 games for the Mets. He is expected to be a backup to Jim Sundberg, who has been the Royals' starting catcher the past two seasons.

But Schuerholz indicated some members in the Royals' organization feel Hearn may replace Sundberg as early as this season. "From all our reports, Ed Hearn is not just a backup catcher. Some felt that the Mets' pitching actually was better with him behind the plate instead of Gary Carter," Schuerholz said. With the addition of Hearn, the Cone Hearn future of reserve catcher Jamie Quirk was put in limbo. "I know this doesn't help me, let's put it that way.

I'm going to talk to John (Schuerholz) and see what's going said. Larry Owens, a free-agent catcher trying to land a spot with the Royals, said Friday that he planned to retire. Cone was ticketed to be the Royals' No. 5 starter and a long reliever at the start of the season. "The acquisition of Anderson gives us a pitcher who is ideal for the role we need to fill immediately long relief and spot starter," the Royals' GMsaid.

Anderson, 30, was 2-1 with a 2.72 ERA and one save in 15 appearances for the Mets last year. Cone spent most of 1986 with Omaha of the American Association, where he posted an 8-4 record with 14 saves and a 2.79 earned run average. He made 11 relief appearances for the Royals last year but was not involved in a decision and had an ERA of 5.56. The Mets had been trying to obtain (See Cone, Page 15) KU officials laud former AD By HAROLD BECHARD Sports Editor Accolades poured in from the University of Kansas athletic department Friday after it was officially announced that athletic director Monte Johnson had resigned. "He's an incredible person," associate athletic director Gary Hunter raid during a telephone interview Friday.

"In time, when people look back on what he accomplished, it will not only be amazing, but in the phenomenal category." "I'm certainly disappointed to see him leaving," said assistant athletic director and sports information director Doug Vance. "His leadership and direction pushed the athletic department forward in the right "It's very sad to see the University of Kansas lose such a fine leader," Jayhawk head football coach Bob Valesente 'To me, he's the best. He always had the university and athletic department first and foremost in all his business dealings. It's a very big loss for us." KU chancellor Gene Budig, in a prepared statement released by the KU sports information office, said he accepted the resignation 'with profound Budig said a search for Johnson's successor would begin immediately. He said he hoped to name a search committee by early next week.

"We will move with dispatch," he said. Budig praised Johnson's work, saying he was "a proven friend to all the sports and a splendid administrator." "In a short period 1 of time, Monte has established an enviable record of success. He has given the university a return to national recognition in men's basketball," Budig said. "Monte has laid a solid foundation with improved facilities and support for football, basketball, baseball and track." Johnson, 49, resigned after spending nearly years as his alma mater's athletic director. He had attempted to resign two months ago, but HI.

Photo Monte Johnson's reign as the KU athletic director officially ended Friday. according to the Lawrence-Journal World, was encouraged by Budig to remain until the conclusion of KU's basketball season. Johnson was in New Orleans at the NCAA Tournament's Final Four and was unavailable for comment. "He is exactly what was needed at the time (in November of 1982)," Hunter said. "We had a year or two of non-leadership and our athletic department was definitely wandering.

Monte picked it up right off the Johnson's first major move was to fire football coach Don Fambrough after the 1982 season and hire Mike Gottfried, who has since moved to the University of Pittsburgh. He hired Valesente as Gottfried's replacement in December of 1985. "He was a man who wanted things run in proper fashion," Valesente said. "Our philosophies are similar in a lot of areas." But Johnson's most notable and far-reaching decision came in March of 1983 when he fired long-time basketball coach Ted Owens and hired Larry Brown a month later. Brown has since led the Jayhawks to four consecutive NCAA Tournament berths and a spot in the 1986 Final Four.

Brown, in New Orleans for this weekend's Final Four, was surprised with the announcement. "I knew absolutely nothing about it," Brown said in an Associated Press story. "I had heard rumors to that effect, but that was a while back. I saw him on Tuesday and he was great then." Speculation about Johnson's successor centered on Hunter and Bob Frederick, executive director of the Williams Fund at KU before taking over two years ago as athletic director at Illinois State University. Hunter, however, said he was not a candidate.

"I love this place and the two years I worked under Monte, but I'm not a candidate," Hunter said. "I'm looking forward to working with whoever replaces Johnson, a native of Kansas City, was a member of the KU basketball team in the mid- 1950s. After leaving KU, Johnson worked for an oil company, a bank, an investment and land development company and as an assistant athletic director before being named to succeed Jim Lessig as KU's athletic director. "I want to get this program in shape so that I turn it over to somebody with the confidence that it will continue and not fall back," Johnson said earlier this year. "It's not perfect today, but it's a whole lot better than it was four years ago." That could also be said of the Williams Educa- (See Johnson, Page 15) Final Four shootout unfolds today Gittiam key to UNLV-Indiana game NEW ORLEANS (AP) Stop Armon Gilliam, says Iowa coach Tom Davis, and Indiana will stop Nevada-Las Vegas and be a step closer to its third NCAA basketball title under Coach Bob Knight.

Davis, whose Hawkeyes split both Big Ten games with Indiana this season and were beaten by UNLV in the tourney's West Regional final 8481 last Sunday, isn't discounting the Runnin' Rebels' 3-point shooters. But Davis said Friday, "The story will be whether Gilliam can be contained. Freddie Banks will get his points and so will Gerald Paddio. I don't think Steve Alford is the key for Indiana. They have enough good players, enough other weapons." Top-ranked UNLV, 37-1 and riding a 22-game winning streak, will play No.

3 Indiana, 28-4, today before a sellout crowd of 63,000 at the Super- dome in the second senifinal. No. 10 Syracuse, 30-6, meets Providence, 25-8, the tourney's surprise team, in the opening gajne. The title game is set for Monday night. Gilliam, a 6-foot-9, 230-pound senior who is nicknamed "Hammer," is averaging 22.9 points and 9.3 rebounds, leading the Rebels in both departments.

He was named second-team All- America, but his game is somewhat overlooked because of UNLV's image as a run and gun team which lives by the 3-point goal. "He's like the heart that pumps the blood," UNLV playmaker Mark Wade said. "He's the guy we go to when we're down. When we need a big rebound, he's there to get it. When we need two points, he's there to give it to us." Banks, a senior guard who averages 19 points, and Paddio, a 6-8 junior forward with a 13.3 average, have led the Rebels' 3-point barrage.

UNLV, perennial champions of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, has nit 40 percent of its 3-pointers (SeeUNLV.PagelS) Syracuse seeks third win over Friars NEW ORLEANS (AP) -Syracuse beat Providence twice during the regular season. Both coaches agree the games were close and that today's NCAA basketball tournament semifinal shouldn't be any different. "We scored enough points to beat them both times," Providence coach Rick Pitino said. "Our adjustment this time will be on Tenth-ranked Syracuse, 30-6, beat the Friars, 25-8, 89-85 at Providence and 90-81 when the teams met at the Carrier Dome. The Orangemen now have beaten Providence in each of the 15 meetings since the schools joined the Big East Conference.

The winner today faces the winner of the semifinal game between top- ranked Nevada-Las Vegas and No. 3 Indiana. "If I was here the other 15 times you could say the law of averages will enter into this game," Pitino said. "This style has been in effect only two years and that's not enough games to average out." "The games could have gone either way," Syracuse coach Jim Boehiem said of the two most recent meetings. "We defensed the 3- pointer well in both games and they hurt us inside both Defensing the 3-pointer is important against the Friars, who led the nation with 8.33 per game.

Two of Providence's long-range specialists, Billy Donovan and Ernie Lewis, each made more 3-pointers than the entire Syracuse team. Donovan and Lewis made 96 and 94, respectively, while the Orangemen made 93. How will Syracuse try to stop the 3- pointer this tune after holding the Friars to a combined 15-of-42 in the first two games? "We won't do anything special," said Greg Monroe, who led the Orangemen with 74 3-pointers. "We'll try to make them put the ball on the floor. If they go by, they have to contend with Rony and Rony is junior center Rony Seik- SEMIFINAL SEMIFINAL Providence (25-8) Saturday Tipoft 3.42 EST p.m.

NCAA Nevada-Las Vegas (37-1) CHAMPIONSHIP Monday 8.1 m. New Orleans (CBS) i Saturday Tipotf 6:00 EST p.m. (See Syracuse, Page 15) Indiana UNLV Providence Syracuse Points per Indiana UNLV Providence Syracuse 6 2 2 2 Indiana '40. '53. '76 '81 4 UNLV 0 Providence 0 Syracuse 0 Game Opponent's Points per Game 82 1 926 87 3 83.2 Indiana 70.2 UNLV 74.9 Providence 77.2 Syracuse 730 Leading Scorer Indiana UNLV Providence Syracuse Steve Altord 2 1 .7 per game Armon Gilliam 22 9 per game Billy Donovan 210 per game Sherman Douglas 17.4 per game Leading Rebounder Indiana UNLV Providence Syracuse Dean Garrett 8 3 per game Armon Gilliam 9 3 pf game David Kipfer 5 3 per game Derrick Coleman 84 per game.