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Playing ball with a bare budget
Krause pitches
for top players
by taking slow
road to success
Coaching baseball at Oregon is like
fighting Sugar Ray Leonard with one
hand tied behind your back — there’s
only so much you can do.
Such is the task for Oregon’s coach,
Mel Krause.
He faces not only a thin budget but a
scholarship limit that makes competitive
college baseball in Eugene difficult.
In 1974 Oregon won the baseball’s
Northern Division title. Krause had 19
full-ride scholarships to offer prospective
players, six of them for out-of-state ath
letes. But most important was that
Krause had the financial means to stave
off Oregon State, Washington and Wa
shington State.
In 1975 the University cut funds to the
tennis, golt, swimming and baseball pro
grams. For Krause, that meant 10 partial
scholarships and no out-of-state
scholarships. The team's record
dropped to 19-21 in 1975 and to a dismal
14-27 in 1976.
Krause could no longer scoop up all
the high school talent he wanted. He had
to take the fast route to success by
dipping into the junior college ranks and
hope some transfers could blend with
high school recruits to form a respecta
ble team.
It has been a struggle, Krause says.
Only now, he feels, does Oregon have a
team that can compete for talent in the
Northern Division.
But that still means careful and stra
tegic recruiting.
"Financially, I recruit the skill positions
first," says Krause. "Pitchers are the
most important product, and then I go
after the guys in the middle of the field.
"If a person is an outstanding hitter in
terms of power and RBI, then I qo to
him."
But a kid who had a good high school
career and wants to be rewarded with a
full scholarship is not likely to get one at
Oregon.
“I just have to tell them that there’s
only so much I can do. I might be able to
give them tuition and room and board,
but not books. But my personal feeling is
that if you can’t buy your own books you
shouldn’t be in college, anyway.”
One thing Krause has been able to do
is reward the player who produces.
Shortstop Rick Moonitz came to
Oregon as a walk-on and now has a
partial scholarship. Pitchers Dean Kegler
and Jim Givens came here on partial
scholarships — now they just buy their
books.
”1 try to reward players on perfor
mance,” Krause says.
But money woes have affected things
other than scholarships.
Each year, Oregon goes on a spring
road trip to prepare for its league season.
The trip costs $6,000 — Krause gets
$1,500 of it from the University.
Revenue from two years of baseball
alumni reunions helped make up the
difference for this year's trip. But they
were planned far in advance, and getting
the extra money for next year is a serious
concern.
"We haven’t had an individual (ba
seball) fund-raiser since Lou Cryer,”
says Krause. Cryer left in 1976 to become
commissioner of the Pacific Coast Ath
letic Association.
“And we’re not allowed to go raise
funds as individual coaches.”
As far as any additional money, says
Krause, ‘Til just have to wait and see
what the athletic director says.”
With similar financial situations at
Oregon State and Washington, the
talented high school player in the North
west might choose to skip college and go
right into the minor leagues.
It’s a big mistake, Krause says. “Most
high school players, unless they are
offered a large sum of money, are better
off going to college. They get years away
from home, an educational foundation
and a higher level of competition than
they had in high school.”
Which returns Krause to square one —
recruiting.
Krause has to get some of those high
school players, along with some junior
college transfers to fill his immediate
needs.
Currently, the Ducks have 14 junior
college transfers and 12 recruited from
Mel Krause and Eric Martinez watch the
game (left), while Dean Kegler (right)
earns his scholarship by pitching.
high school, so Krause is accomplishing
his objective.
Six of the transfers are pitchers, giving
Krause the kind of pitching experience
he needs to compete at the Pac-10 level.
This team has the talent to challenge
for the Northern Division title, despite the
setbacks, Krause says.
Oregon is 10-7 and has lost both its
league games, but most observers still
feel it is a vastly improved squad from last
year's 19-21 team.
‘‘I think we should be better than our
record indicates,” says Krause.
The Oregon coach knows, however,
that the Ducks will be hard-pressed to
approach the glory year of 1974,
"All I ask as a coach, financial-aid
wise, is to be competitive with Oregon
State and Washington.”
By Doug Levy
Photos by David W. Zahn
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