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Jan 29, 2008 15:10:15 GMT -6
Post by BBFran on Jan 29, 2008 15:10:15 GMT -6
Bet I'm the only board member who ever interviewed J. Martin. Jimmy, if you guys have archives it must be in a Post in about 1972 or 1973.
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Jan 29, 2008 15:23:04 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 15:23:04 GMT -6
I'll look. I'm bored.
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Jan 29, 2008 15:33:50 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 15:33:50 GMT -6
Didn't take long for me to find something you wrote.
"Broadcasts could boost interest and attendance" By (BBFran's name) of The Post staff
After suffering through several years of well done but irregular and virtually unpublicized basketball broadcasts (over WUWM), the Athletic Department here has received a shot in the arm -- a privately sponsored, broadcasting contract on a top local station for both basketball and football.
The article goes on about how Hank Stoddard and Bob Uecker were to team up for football, and Jim Irwin and Ueck would do basketball. Schlitz poured in the money for the operations.
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Jan 29, 2008 15:50:11 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 15:50:11 GMT -6
Here's the big one. Answers a few questions.
Sept. 6th, 1972
Klotsche clarifies athletic future By (BBFran's name) Sports staff
"UWM ought to have a good athletic program," retiring chancellor J. Martin Klotsche said in an interview Tuesday.
Klotsche made the statement only hours after announcing his retirement, effective June 30th.
While Klotsche will be leaving, he did note, however, that "most athletic policy questions will be decided this year."
Klotsche also said that this year, a greater emphasis than ever before will be put on athletics here.
And in addition, Klotsche will be a very significant factor in the decisions next year by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to review and perhaps restructure UWM athletics. Klotsche's primary goal this year is to achieve construction of a building for sports and student recreation. That is "our most pressing problem," he said. "UWM has, without question, the worst physical education building in the entire UW system."
"The construction of a new physical education building is absolutely the No. 1 UWM building priority this year," he stated. Money has already been appropriated for planning, and the location problem according to the Chancellor, has been virtually eliminated.
The fate of the new building now lies in two places, Klotsche said. The first place is the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting next month, where, due to the extreme need UWM has for new facilities, Klotsche is confident the Regents will place the new building in a favorable place on their own priority list.
But things may be different in the State legislature, where funds are appropriated for university expansion. Klotsche expressed hope that when the question arises in the Capitol, UWM students will help in getting legislation approval.
Klotsche also would like to see Engelmann Field turfed, lighted and generally improved, not only for the football team, but for intramurals, and as a general recreation field for students, especially Sandburg residents.
In the area of intercollegiate sports, the Chancellor pointed out that next year the entire athletic program will come under review. He intends, he said, to spend a great deal of time considering that review this year.
Among other things, the review will decide the future of football at UWM. While the Chancellor says he will depend heavily on the advice of the Athletic Director and Board, the football program's longevity will depend on demonstrated student interest, or lack of it, this year.
(The Chancellor, by the way, encourages student support, especially since "there is no doubt but that this will be a winning season in football.")
Klotsche said that he considers UWM to be "very fortunate to have Tom Rosandich as its new athletic director. He will bring new insights and new concepts."
Klotsche summarized his position on athletics Tuesday in saying, "We won't be a UCLA or a Michigan State, but our students have a right to a good program, both intramural and intercollegiate."
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Jan 29, 2008 15:52:12 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 15:52:12 GMT -6
I'm not changing anything. Klotsche Krazies we are. We can reside in the Cell Block, but I'm not changing the name of the students.
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Jan 29, 2008 15:53:33 GMT -6
Post by famouspnthrfan on Jan 29, 2008 15:53:33 GMT -6
God bless you J. Martin Klotsche...
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Jan 29, 2008 15:59:33 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 15:59:33 GMT -6
Rosandich met in mid-September 72 in Detroit with representatives of Akron, Buffalo, Chicago State, Cleveland State, Illinois-Chicago Circle (Now UIC), Missouri-St. Louis, Wayne State, Wright State, Youngstown State, and Oakland University. The meeting was to discuss a conference.
"Rosandich has earlier said that conference affiliation, at least in football, was a necessity for UWM."
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Jan 29, 2008 16:01:31 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 16:01:31 GMT -6
Apparently someone at the AD rubbed my predecessor Peter Radike the wrong way, because he wrote an angry column that the AD didn't feel the Post was giving football enough pub.
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Jan 29, 2008 16:07:28 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 16:07:28 GMT -6
Everything that I'm reading about football at UWM is that students didn't know or care about the team because they were bad for most of the sixties...but by the early 70s, when the guillotine decision was made, the football team was good - really good. But it was too late to save the program.
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Jan 29, 2008 16:10:31 GMT -6
Post by gopanthers011 on Jan 29, 2008 16:10:31 GMT -6
So how bout we get back to ordering those t-shirts...
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Jan 29, 2008 16:20:52 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 16:20:52 GMT -6
This Peter Radike is my hero...knocks the student association and the Post (his employer) for being far too critical of sports at UWM, how they had taken the status quo approach of the 60s in slamming sports and not supporting the radical improvement in basketball and football that happened from 69-72.
4,140 people saw the first game of the 72 season...Fran mentions it was his first game.
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Jan 29, 2008 16:48:08 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 16:48:08 GMT -6
I'm sad at all this...UWM looked like a powerhouse...it could have grown...but the powers that be cut the cord right when it began to look promising.
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Jan 29, 2008 17:03:42 GMT -6
Post by PantherU on Jan 29, 2008 17:03:42 GMT -6
Says here back in 72 that the basketball team lost 92-81 to sixth-ranked Ohio State, but Richard Cox (the team's best player) got his fifth foul halfway through the game...wonder if it would have turned out differently.
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Jan 29, 2008 17:16:51 GMT -6
Post by BBFran on Jan 29, 2008 17:16:51 GMT -6
Wow, Jimmy -- does that take me back! I can honestly say that I haven't read that stuff in 35 years. A couple comments. First, I must have had a pretty good editor, because that writing, while not exactly Pulitzer quality, is much better than I would have expected from me at 17 years old. I'm amazed that the roots of the Horizon Conference go back that far. I bet most or all of those schools also had football back then, and except for Akron and Buffalo, none do now. (And if you have seen Akron and Buffalo play, you might not be so sure about them either.) The football team was indeed pretty good, but UWM was swimming upstream to keep it. Those were different times. We didn't have a home field. We practiced at Engelmann but we played at Shorewood Stadium. The Badger program had bottomed out and there wasn't much enthusiasm for college football in general around the state. If you can believe it the Packers and the Brewers dominated the media even more than they do now, and the Bucks were new and exciting too. And UWM itself was a very different place. We had no real identity except as a commuter school. Very few students lived on or even particularly near campus -- the surrounding neighborhood was still almost entirely owner occupied at the time. Most of us showed up on the UBUS every day. Does the UBUS even still exist? School spirit? Are you kidding? I cannot recall ever owning an article of clothing that said "UWM" on it, or ever seeing any student wear an article of clothing that did. If the Bookstore even carried such merchandise I surely don't remember it. When I walk around the campus now and see so many kids wearing the black and gold proudly I am amazed and delighted. And Radike was right that in the late 60s/early 70s the whole attitude toward sports on campus was somewhat negative. They were seen as archaic and vaguely "establishment," like frats and sororities. It's also remarkable that in my interview of J. Martin he was talking about the building of what would come to be called the Klotsche Center to replace Baker Fieldhouse. I had graduated and moved on before the Klotsche's doors ever opened. All the on-campus basketball games I attended were at Baker, although even then we played a few at the MECCA (now the Cell). Now the Klotsche has been largely replaced for student recreational purposes by the Pavilion, which to my eyes looks like a four star resort. By the way, I specifically, clearly remember what a gracious man Chancellor Klotsche was. I was a college freshman in my first few weeks on Campus coming to interview him, probably for my first feature story, and I remember how he brought me into his office at Chapman, made me feel completely at ease and gave me as much time as I needed. Thanks Jimmy. P.S. Here's a link to a picture from a UWM basketball game of that era at Baker. Check out the socks. collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/uwmphoto&CISOPTR=620&CISOBOX=1&REC=16
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Jan 29, 2008 17:36:36 GMT -6
Post by gopanthers011 on Jan 29, 2008 17:36:36 GMT -6
That retro pict is straight ballin.
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