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Wednesday, February 20, 1980
University Daily Kansas
Asinine antics
JFFF HARRING/Kansan staff
A Kansas State fan (left) retrieves a chicken that was tossed on Saturday's Kansas State basketball game played in Manhattan. Throwing chickens onto the court were unusual and difficult to retrieve.
crowd. Students (right) also display manners, many of which, besides attacking KU head coach Ted Owens, were filled with vigilance. The Akamai Field House crowd also tossed their heads, shouting, "Thank you!" as they waited for the game to begin.
Fans' behavior at KSU disgusting
Kansas State may be ahead of Kansas to Big Eight basketball standings, but when it comes to class, the Wildcats are years behind.
It's not that K-State's basketball team lacks class, although Ricky Ross might argue the point after he was undercut at a driving layup by Jill Wills last Saturday. The Kansas State is the fans. They are booster. They are obscene. They are bushadee.
Wildcat bootboards displayed an incredible lack of class two years ago when Mike Evans, the team's captain and current all-time leading scorer in the Big Eight, pleaded with students on the public address game not to throw debris onto the floor. Fountain boys petting the court with hundreds of bananas, many of "such were rotted, like the fans."
THE BARAGE OF bananas was thrown in retaliation for a dozen hot dogs thrown in Allen Field House at former K-State forward Curtis Redding. He once cupped that the only time he saw a cow in his native New York and slapped it in his cow he just had to stroll across campus.
It took 30 seconds to clean up the hot dogs in Lawrence. The incident in Manhattan took 15 minutes to mop up and cost network
television previews air time. After the game, Kansas State coach Jack Hartman said the incident "set Kansas State basketball back 40 years."
Last Saturday's game at Kansas State didn't do much to get its program out of the dark ages or help its image in the eyes of the
Big Eight sports press. Television cameras showed only the game on the court last Saturday. Camera men purposefully neglected the game going on in the stands.
SOME KANAS STATE fans came to see the championship teams in cups or oners. Other group competed for the most obscene sign honor, with the winner be picked by the loudest roar of the crowd.
There's nothing wrong with displayinganners supporting a team of vulgar and annoying players, like the Jahewkyn and a Wildcat in various suggestive poses, were the most popular characters in the game.
The amazing thing is that Kansas State officials permitted students to display the banners. Only one sign, which was paraded in a carriage carried around the court was confiscated.
And what KU-K-State game in Manhattan would be complete without chipped painted crimson and blue being thrown onto the floor when the Jayhawks start five is not K-State students get their jollies by throwing only three chickens Saturday.
KU fans, however, are not without their faults. A rowdy group sits directly behind KU's bench and claims credit for throwing the hot dogs at Redding, who is now in Johns University. But they are generally well-behaved, as is the entire student body.
THERE MIGHT BE a few immature KU fans who throw debris onto the floor in Allen Field House, but at Kansas State, several others have threw debris out by throwing anything that is hardy.
“There are some dangerous people out there,” Darnall Valentine muttered as he made his way to the locker room after he had been released from jail during a past-game television interview.
look at themselves when it takes four policemen to escort a coach off the court through a hostile, trash throwing crowd.
It's time for Kansas State fans to take a
"I can handle chickens, but there was hard stuff-ice, apples, snowballs," said Tew Fonds, who was struck by objects while he was waiting for a TV interview. "We needed a net."
A NET SHOULD'T be required for a coach to avoid objects thrown at him. One should be used by Kansas State authorities and should not be out of the Ahearn Field House, docket catcher.
Maybe the thought of beating KU, whose teams have compiled the third highest victory total among major college teams, is too much for Wildcat fans to handle.
And regrettably, Kansas State is not the only institution where fans are giving the basketball program a bad image.
Along with the success Missouri has enjoyed this season has come the emergence of some radicals known as "The Anthers." The group does such important things as help the team to team, and all-hot dog team. But "The Anthers"队 for Kansas State fans in noun behavior.
Forget the records. KU is still the class of the Big Eight basketball scene. Missouri and Kansas State fans are years behind.
KU senior sprinters set record in finale
The relay team is the Big Eight favorite. They're probably the best in the nation.
By MATT SEELEY Sports Writing
Snorts Writer
But Saturday, during a nothing meet, against a nobody opponent, the KU men's mile relay team were still fired up.
"This is a going to be dedicated to Stan and Lester," Deon Hogan said. "We're really going to push ourselves."
Hogan, one quarter of the conference's primary relay team, finished some stretched exercises and joined the rest of the squad for psych-up exercises.
There, for the final time in Allen Field there was Whitehall with Mickens, Mickens, Michael Stone and Johnny. They exchanged hand shakes, pats on the rear and back, and acknowledged vocal cues.
"Come on, you guys, you can do it," one supporter shouted.
And they did. With a near perfect baton handoff from Ricks to anchor man Mickens, the Allen Field House record in the mile relay was about to come tumbling down.
When Mickens, hands raised high above the head, crossed the finish line and was not able to reach it, a 3:12:11 clock, two seconds faster than the previous mark. KU also had defeated Stavropoulos.
Lester Mickens and Stan Whitaker had just run their last race for KU in the field house.
Despite the record, one half of the record-setting team was bidding farewell to Allen Field House.
The race was a means for each member of the relay team to show how much they meant to one another.
"I've had a good time with these guys," Ricks said. "They really have worked me during the season, I wanted to run my heart out for them."
Hogan, a sophomore who was injured for most of last season, echoed Ricks' sentiments.
"Those two guys gave me moral support all year long when I was hurt," he said.
Whitaker, the lead leg of the relay, said the record was easy to snare.
“Coming around the second turn, I knew we had it,” he said after completing a victory lap. “It feels so good. Those guys wanted it and we got it.”
But Whitaker and Mickens are no strangers to the mile-relay record books. At
the NCAA final in Eugene, Ore., two years ago, the pair teamed with Cliff Wiley and Tommy McCall to record the amazing time of 3:05.39.
Last year in the NCAA Indoor Championships, Mickens and Whitaker ran on KU's second place finishing team.
However, it's easier to get up for the NCAA final than for a dual meet with a weak team. KU clubbed Colorado 111-28, a fact that bothered Mickens.
*This is a pretty boring meet, the same.*
*It seems they bring people in here to make us look good.*
"They could do better. We go to Nebraska all the time. Why not bring some of the good schools here?"
"Home学校."
Hogan agreed.
"It's really hard to get up for any event here," he said. "I just can't get excited about it at all."
And when it was over, a happy Whitaker called to Ricks and Hogan.
Whatever excitement was lacking Saturday was made up in the mile relay. The crowd of 100 stood and cheered every stride of the runners.
"Let it stand for a while, will you—at least a year," he said.
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