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Jacobs Didnt Want To Be UK Footballs Savior
Basketball 'Cats Sign Pact With Notre Dame
Mr. Football and things. A major reason why Frank Jacobs, Kentucky's first ever Mr. Football, did not sign to play at the University of Kentucky, might have been the expectations put on his shoulders.
"Frank had a lot of pressure to go to Kentucky, be a savior and all that stuff," his coach at Newport Central Catholic High School Bob Schneider said last week. "I don't think he liked that. He didn't want to be anybody's savior, go down there under something like that."
Then too there was the Holtz Factor.
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Schneider: "One of the reasons Frank chose Notre Dame came the night before the signing date (Feb. 11) when he asked Lou Holtz: 'Coach, what's the worst thing and what's the best thing that could happen to me if I go to Notre Dame?'
"Lou told him straight out, 'The worst thing that could happen would be you'd become just another student,' " Schneider said. "And that impressed Frank. It really did, because he intends to be a good student first."
And the best thing?
"To become an AU-American football player of course," Schneider said, breaking into uncontrollable laughter. "He's going to be a great football player, wait and see."
Holtz is an impressive, charismatic man.
Jacobs: "Yes, he was really a big factor in my choosing Notre Dame. I liked Kentucky a lot and everyone who recruited me was great, but I just had this gut feeling about Coach Holtz, just something about him that was special. He told me how things were, straight out. Sometimes you just get a special feeling about a person, you know?"
A few days before Jacobs picked Notre Dame, however, a complication arose. He was named Kentucky high school's first-ever Mr. Football.
UK coach Jerry Claiborne, using his best "Uncle Sam speech," made a last effort to persuade Jacobs, beseech him not to be the first Kentucky Mr. Football to leave the state to go to college.
"Being picked Mr. Football was really somethingwhat an honor," Jacobs said. "Getting a prestigious thing like that just made it all the harder to leave Kentucky, because I love it here. But I feel good about my decision. Sometimes decisions like this come down to a gut feeling, just a gut feeling."
Now, Jacobs, all 6-4V2, 220-pounds of him is headed to Notre Dame.
"If the Lord is with me ... hey, I know he's with me, then I'm going to go and do the best I can and it'll all be fine. Right now feel good about everything."
As late as a mid-June however, Jacobs faced another option. He could have submitted his name for the baseball draft. After watching him hit .600-plus in the Greater Cincinnati prep league, the Cincinnati Reds wanted to get his name on a contract.
"But getting an education is too important to me," he said. Jacobs leaves for South Bend in August. What's doing this summer?
"Well, a lot of my friends are going to Florida, vacations, things like that," he said. "But I've got a job. Then I go home at night and lift (weights). Oh, I have some social life, but the way I see it, right now, for me, it's high time I start thinking about the future, time to get on with my life."
One more accolade came last week when Jacobs was voted Kentucky Athlete of the Year by The Associated Press Sports Editors Association.
Ky. (hoops) Hall o( Fame
Two ex-University of Kentucky basketball players were inducted into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame last month, Dwane Casey and Lea Wise.
 Casey was an all-stater at Union County High School, played at UK from 1976-79 and is now an assistant at UK.
 Wise led Lexington Lafayette High to second place in the 1979 Sweet 16. She went on to score 1,179 points at Kentucky. Wise is now women's head basketball coach at Centre College.
Wise is only the eighth woman inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Casey and Wise join some distinguished company. Some of the more recognizable names in the Hall are: Butch Beard, Ralph Beard, 'King' Kelly Coleman, Larry Conley, Dave Cowens, Cliff Hagan, Clem Haskins, Peck Hickman, Jack
Givens, Darrell Griffith, Jeff Lamp, Jeff Mullins, Johnny Oldham, Frank Ramsey, Gene Rhodes, Frank Selvy, Wes Unseld, Dwight and Greg Smith and Melvin Turpin.
Hall of Fame footnotes
While the list of names is impressive, using "contribution to the lore and ongoing popularity of basketball in Kentucky" as chief criteria, there are some gentlemen who deserve strong consideration for induction. A few of them are: William Kean (Louisville Central), Lawrence McGinnis (Owensboro), John Bill Trivitte (Pikeville), Earle Jones (Maysville), Hardin McLane (Elizabethtown) and Allen Feldhaus (Maysville).
Because basketball in Kentucky is so exciting, ever changing, sometimes deserving candidates get lost in the shuffle, their contributions forgotten, after they leave the sport.
McLane's contribution was twofold12 years in coaching, 10 at Elizabethtown Catholic during which the Knights enjoyed eight 20-win seasons and two 30-win campaigns. McLane's clubs were 264-66, better than 80 percent win ratio.
In 1968 he coached the Kentucky all-stars to a sweep of the Indiana series. Some members of that team were: (Mr. Basketball) Terry Davis of Shelby County, Henry Bacon of Male and Randy Noll of Covington Catholic.
In 1974 McLane was offered the job as game director for the Kentucky-Indiana series, but had to decline because of business interests.
Then McLane helped broadcast Kentucky high school tournament (and University of Louisville) basketball games on WAVE radio and television and later WHAS Radio for nine more seasons.
Feldhaus. Because he has emerged as one of the most successful coaches in high school history, "The Horse" ought to
Casey (Top), Wise Inducted To Hall Of Fame
be considered for induction now. His contribution spans three erasas a high school player, then as a popular member of the University of Kentucky teams, then as head coach at Russell County and currently at Mason County. Feldhaus' teams have won 463 games, ninth best among Kentucky's active high school coaches. His 1982 Mason County team took a 30-0 record into the Sweet 16. Under Feldhaus the Royals have been to the State Tournament in five of the last eight years.
UK roundball recruiting
Casey was in Georgia last month at the B/C Summer Basketball camp in Milledgeville, Ga. where, along with college recruiters from across the country, he was looking over the next wave of high school talent.
Best recruits in next year's crop? Some of those Casey mentioned were 6-8 Eric Anderson of St. Frances DeSales in Chicago; 6-10 Jarrod Mustaf of Hyattsville, Md.; 6-9 Shawn Kemp of Concord, Ind.; 6-10 Alonzo Mourning of Chesapeake, Md.; 6-11 Stanley Roberts of Hopkins, S.C.; 6-5 Andy Kauffman of Jacksonville, fit.; 6-8 Chris Mills of Los Angeles (Fairfax High); 6-7 Chris Jent of Sparta, N.J. and Chris Jackson, a 5-11 point guard from Gulfport, Miss.
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Todd Hallum's Around the SEC
One of the best rivalries in college football will be moved from Saturday to Friday afternoon to accomodate CBS television. For the next two years CBS will nationally televise the traditional "Iron Bowl" game between Auburn and Alabama. The game will be held in Birmingham's legendary Legion Field. This year's game is slated for Nov. 27 and on Nov. 25 in 1988. Both dates are the day after Thanksgiving. "The fact that CBS would give us a two-year commitment shows how important this game has become to the national football viewing audience," said Aubum head football/athletics director Pat Dye. "Moving the game to Friday may be a small inconvenience to some of our fans, but the guarantee of two national telecasts was too much to pass up." Last year Auburn defeated 'Bama 21-17 but the Crimson Tide still leads this heated series 30-20-1. . .One other mentionable Auburn note. The Tigers want a sell-out crowd to open the newly expanded Jordan Haire Stadium for the coming season. Auburn hopes to lure Texas to the plains on Sept. 5 but would have to drop Tennessee-Chatanooga from the schedule. The reason Auburn is able to schedule a big name school such as Texas is because the Longhorns are looking for an 11th opponent since SMU's season was canceled by the NCAA. If Auburn and Texas can't work out an agreement then the Longhorns will probably pick up North Texas State. . .Georgia punter Chris Carpenter is contemplating a career in professional baseball. Under SEC rules, should Carpenter sign a pro baseball contract then he would immediately lose his eligibility as a Bulldog football player. Unlike an NCAA rule which permits an athlete to compete in a sport while playing professionally in another sport, as was the case with Danny Ainge and John Elway, the SEC has a different rule and will not allow it. . .A glance at the Georgia Bulldogs' football roster reveals two SMU football players. Mark Vincent, a senior and starting coner-back, and Shelly Anderson, a second-team offensive tackle. Vincent had started two years at SMU before the NCAA disbanded the program for two years because of excessive rules violations. LSU is another SEC school that has benefited from the demise of the Mustangs' program. Several former SMU players are listed on either the Tigers' first-or second-team depth charts. . .The Miami-Florida series will take a four-year sabbac-tical following the Sept. 5 game slated this year in the Orange Bowl. The two schools will meet in 1992 and 1996 in Gainesville and in 1993 and 1997 in Miami. Florida has wanted to limit the series because of its SEC schedule and financial commitments that require six home games. Miami certainly wants the rivalry to be continuous since the only large crowds it has generated at home has been in games involving Florida, Florida State and Notre Dame. On the other hand Florida has no attendance problems for any of its home games since most of them are sold out. . .SEC football fans will once again have superstation WTBS as an outlet for televised games in the early afternoon time period. WTBS will televise 10 to 12 games per year for the 1987 and 1988 seasons. The superstation also will syndicate the games to over-the-air stations. . .The Sporting News is reporting that Auburn basketball coach Sonny Smith accused New Orleans coach Art Tblis of trying to entice talented forward Michael Jones to transfer because of the rumors that Jones might leave the basketball program. Tolis replaced Benny Dees who went back to coach his alma mater at Wyoming. Tolis used to be an Alabama assistant in the early 1980s. . .Alabama has not only lost 1987 SEC Player of the Year Derrick McKey, who entered the NBA draft, but another player as well. Seldom used forward Josh Gilbert has left the Tide program and plans to enroll at Delgado Junior Colleee in New Orleans. .