THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2005
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DANCING NACHOS
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
mpphilips@kansan.com
Reid my lips: Step up, offense
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Forget winning one for the little boy in the stands.
Forget winning one for the Gipper.
No, the Kansas Jayhawks should win one for Nick Reid.
The senior linebacker led the defense in nearly every statistical category Saturday, racking up 15 tackles and two sacks.
"I was exhausted," he said. "I felt like we were out there the whole game."
Losing is never fun, but losing with Reid on your team adds an extra level of frustration.
They almost were. The defense was asked to play for about twice as long as the offense, but you never would have guessed that by watching Reid's play.
This year's Kansas defense should be contending for a Big 12 North championship. Instead, it watched helplessly from the sideline as Oklahoma's defense outscored Kansas' offense 7-3.
Reid is every cliché in the book. He gives 110 percent, takes it one play at a time and doesn't have an ounce of quit in him.
“It's getting kind of old now,” Reid said. “I really thought we had a chance to win the game.”
This was a big game to win, too. The Jayhawks were supposed to march into Kansas City, Mo., and proclaim in front of a national television audience that they could hang with the big boys of the conference.
Instead, a half-filled stadium saw a half-complete effort from Kansas.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
Late Night convinces KU recruit
After attending Late Night in the Phog last weekend, Sherron Collins decided Kansas was the school for him.
Collins, a 5'11" guard from Chicago, told The Chicago Sun-Times that he informed Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self of his intention on Sunday
"I've never seen anything like it," Collins told the SunTimes about his visit. "I never knew people could be that crazy about a basketball team and its players.
"Everybody from the coaches to the players and the fans went out of their way to make me feel important," he said.
Ryan Schneider
He is currently rated as the fourth-best point guard in the nation, according to recruiting Web site, Rinals.com. Collins chose Karsas over Illinois, where he was scheduled to visit this weekend.
He averaged 25 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds during his junior season at Chicago's Crane High School.
FOOTBALL
Woeful offense
Mangino says blame on line, self
BY RYAN COLAIANNI
rcolaiani@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The Kansas defense ranked among the Big 12 elite last season, and was expected to be the heart of the 2005 squad, but the offense wasn't supposed to be completely helpless.
After averaging 350 yards of total offense during the team's three non conference games, the offense has struggled in conference play. Since Big 12 play
began, the offense has averaged 201 yards of total offense.
While much of the blame has been directed at the quarterbacks, the offensive line has struggled as well. The line specifically had troubles in Kansas' loss to Oklahoma last weekend.
"My focus right now is primarily offensive line play and quarterback," Kansas football coach Mark Mangino said. "Those two areas have to improve and improve dramatically."
The line gave up four sacks on Saturday and was unable to get any running game going. The rushing attack averaged half a yard per carry against Oklahoma.
Mangino said Sunday that the offensive line has taken a step backwards since the first few games of the season.
It was solid in the first two games, opening up holes for the running backs and helping the team rush for more than 200 yards.
Since that point the line has struggled to protect the quarterback, and the running game has also suffered.
"There's been missed assignments, and they've gotten beaten, flat out beaten, on some plays," Mangino said. "Too many plays."
Mangino said that much of the problem up front was because of fundamental errors.
"Fundamentals have not been what they want it to be. Not staying on blocks, not finishing blocks," Mangino said.
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Junior running back Jon Cornish breaks through the middle past Oklahoma junior linebacker Zach Latimer for a short gain. The Jayhawks managed a net gain of 11 yards on the ground. The Kansas offensive line struggled to contain an Oklahoma defense that totaled four sacks Saturday night at Arrowhead Stadium.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
The changing of the garb
BY RVAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
For the second time in four seasons, the Kansas men's basketball team will sport new uniforms when it takes the court this fall.
The design change was made because adidas became the KU athletics department's official supplier of equipment and apparel earlier this year. Nike was the previous supplier.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the uniform design was a joint decision between the athletics department and adidas.
A new contract provides a new look for Jayhawks
The team will have three different uniforms - white for home games, blue for away games and alternate red uniforms.
The team last changed the design of the uniforms in 2003 which was Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self's first season
Adidas provided the uniforms without charge because of the apparel contract.
The jerseys still feature the tional script font with "Kans arching across the chest. The words and numbers are blue and outlined in red.The collar has a red and blue stripe. Previously, the collar was blue.A blue teardrop, outlined in red, runs down the side of the jersey. Last season, a red and blue stripe appeared on the side
The back of the jerseys includes the player's last name in a small, blue block font above the number. The last name and number were both the same script font before.
FOOTBALL
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Missouri quarterback Brad Smith, right, escapes the diving tackle of Oklahoma State safety Quinton Moore on Oct. 8. Smith was injured in the fourth quarter of Missouri's victory over Iowa State last week.
Mr. Smith not missed Mizzou freshman steps in,steps up in victory
BY DANIEL BERK
dberk@kansan.com
KANSAN SENIOR SPORTWRITER
The Missouri Tigers got a glimpse into their future on Saturday when freshman quarterback Chase Daniel came into the game in the fourth quarter and helped the Tigers overcome a 10-point deficit at home against Iowa State.
Daniel entered the game midway through the fourth quarter after Iowa State linebacker Tim Dobbins knocked
out Missouri quarterback Brad Smith.
Smith compiled only 94 yards of total offense in three and a half quarters of play.
Daniel led the Tigers on scoring drives of 80 and 87 yards, and led them on a drive that culminated in the game-winning field goal in overtime.
"Chase was pretty impressive," Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel said. "He has good poise and a good release. It didn't even surprise me that much because he has so much
Pinkel said there was no controversy about who the starting quarterback would be, but Daniel might see some more time against the Huskers.
Pinkel said Monday during the Big 12 coaches teleconference that Smith was okay and he would start Saturday's game against Nebraska.
confidence in himself."
Daniel finished the game with 185 passing yards and one touchdown.
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