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Walker's 'canning' another dismal chapter
Letters have been coewng to toe Emerald a£
toe week concerning the ds^ssa of semor posit
guard Barry W after from toe University s men s
basketbaf team The majority of toe esters sup
port Wafter and condemn Coach J*m Haney The
Walker incident ts certainly an appropriate
chapter in toe tragedy of another dsapoomt-ng
season tor toe University s bas«etba: sc-ad
Waiters remarks toiowvtg toe stunning oss
to Oregon State University Saturday were unfor
tunate If Wafter had t to do a> over aga n no
doubt he would tone down has comments
But Haney's response was equally unfor
tunate He remarked in toe press to a? his main
concern was wito toe 'wet-beng of toe team and
that wei-beang must come firs! ft s posstote that
'canrvng' Walker mil have an opposrte effect on
toe we#-beng of toe team and Haney s effechve
ness as a coach
There are toose who w>’- recaH Haney s past
seasons and murmur. Haney never has beer an
effective coach That may be true * you use the
win oss column as the grounds on which to
evaluate a coach Haney has for the past three
seasons, stressed collegiate ato-ebcs as some
thing other than the training-ground for big-feme
basketbai where winning ss everything
Haney's strength as a coach has beer ms
commumcatjon wrto: and concern for his p ayers
He has put as much emphasis academe as or
athtebc performance
But the Wa^e’’ nefoern shows little com — un
reason wto a disgruntled pays’’ by Haney and no!
much comoass»on for toe senior Walker The
ncident •’■ay have bee'- m bgated by the a -
around fojstrator with toe seasor Gena n?y this
be* derment at toe basketba team * poor
snowmg s causing many tc wrack the r brans *or
something or someone tc blame
The Walker dismtssa points tc a sour situa
tion *r tne coac- player relationship Respect s
an oh-so-mportant element sr m s relationship
~ne "espect goes boto ways A coac" car be as ar
aggressive anc oe" andmg mentor — or a pee' o‘
soms involved persona *y wit'’ the .es of
ft*s ptayers
Haney s styfe as a coach es reputed to be as a
concerned coach and not necessarily a dtsci
phnanan Haney gave his piayers freedom to
deve*op setf-confidence n the hopes they would
take a measure of this self-confidence onto the
court The days Haney sa*d of h«s coaching
stv*e ci a Register-Guard interview of being a
dictator are over There are better ways of mo
bvattog people than having them operate out of
fear "
Haney's coaching philosophy may have been
a contributing factor in Walker feeling free to
express h« frustrations to the press
Walker s dismissal' transformed a laissez fa ire
Haney to the uncompromising disciplinarian Is
that an inconsistent response?
Does this indicate Haney no longer has the
rapport with the players he had at the start of the
season?
Haney s dismissal of Walker hasn t earned
him much respect from his players and the fans It
remains to be seen how this will affect the players
in the final games of the season
Rick Bay has promised. "Haney will be our
coach ' We question Bay s use of the pronoun
"our " Haney may have lost his effectiveness as a
coach — the record notwithstanding The Walker
dismissal is seen by many as the next to the last
chapter in the University's basketball tragedy in
which the University, coach, players, and fans
lose
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etters
Dominos
Deja Vu
Bflown oodies
sprawted around the v age
perimeter
Evening newrs
showng fc ood-spar?ered
paten Tees
Eyes of agony
tea's strea- ng down the
♦ace
A foreign tongue
speaks of par the -oss
As the news commentate'
translates the ■ scene mto
English
foreign advisors
are invited to help the
government under setge
The Domino Theory
rs mentioned again and aga-r
and
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SALVADOR tgg2
Caro/S. Bostick
Precipitated
university pasketba Coach
J ~ Haney was Quoted as saying
that senor guard Ba^y /* a>-er s
co-e^ts 'n The Sunday
Oego'- a- precipitated - s
d<sm ssa from the tea"'
Pe^aps Goacr nar-e* s no?
aware the the word
precipitate *nea^s to hasten
the occurance of ft is dune
obvious that Haney was 100V ng
for the opportunity to dismiss
Walke*
As a student at the Umve-sTy
for the past 3 and a half years I
have supported the bas*etba‘
p,-ograrr ho^ oeing one of the
tew who remain m Mac Court for
the ast few seconds of the
game tc enduring the end»ess
speculations o# Haney s aPsiity
as a coach I ha ve smce con
c uded that they are no longer
speculations Haney remarked
that he had thought about the
decision for a tong time The
fact that the announcement to
A a «er o* his dismissal came
ess than two days after the
detrimenta rerrarks were
published eads to further
specu at>on about Haney s
decison-n.atong ability as well
as hs impartialiry
Perhaps Haney should take a
long hard took at his coaching
philosophy hts mabdrty to deal
with ptayers who are oewiidered
by his tactics and his auickness
to take such drastic action
against a player who was only
trying to understand why he was
singled out for such humiliation
r tij opinion Haney reacted
merely to Waiker s untimely
remark that the coach was ig
norant It is unfortunate that
such a fine player would be
punished so severely for speak
ing the truth
Kim Maree Joharmessert
junior. poHUcai science
Grasswalkers
Hey. you grass-walkers' That
pathetic little sign between
Susan Campbell and Gerlinger
Halls has a point Let the
campus lawns recover from a
hard winter by staying oft them
Who wants to see our beautiful
grounds reduced to mud in
rainy weather and bare hard
packed dirt in dry weather by
marching hordes of
shortc utters7
You say you d like to change
the world7 Here's your chance
to save the beauty of a small
part of it You say you d like to
do something about the
University's woes7 Then help its
depressed areas Walk and ride
on the surfaced roads and
paths
Glen A. Love
English
Eating habits
I am just curious as to a cou
ple things I heard this weekend
It concerns our men s bas
ketball team and oddly e
nough their eating habits My
questions, which l may add I
would appreciate answered by a
qualified source are 1) Do the
members of our basketball team
eat a meal at Oh Susannah s
restaurant daily’ If so then 2)
Why do they eat there instead of
possibly another place of lesser
expense’ Providing the above
two questions are true my third
and most important question is
3) Where does the money to
feed a number of six foot eight
inch appetites daily at an ex
pensive restaurant in Eugene
come from’
Tim Schmidt
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