University Daily Kansan, February 18, 1981
Page 7
Basketball preparation is an all-day event On the Record
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
When Cochac Floyd Temple leaves his cleats in his locker after baseball practice, changing shoes often means another six or seven hours in Allen
Especially on days like today basketball game days.
Temple, a 1966 inductee into the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame, is physical plant director of the field house and KU athletic facilities.
HE AND THE 12 maintenance crew are responsible for setting up, tearing down and cleaning up for each athletic event.
Temple said it took a full 14-hour day to hang flags, set up bleachers, platforms and tables and otherwise get the building ready for basketball games.
He said it took at least two days to clean up after them.
"After having 13,000 to 15,000 people there, you can imagine how much debris and dirt there is to clean up," he said. "But we try to get the entire building presentable to the public by the next morning."
"This isn't an 8-4-5 job. But who cares? Saturday and Sunday don't really mean a lot to anyone in athletics. You have to know what you need, sometimes you work seven days."
Despite the long hours, there is not a lot of employee turnover on the crew. Temple's assistants, Tony Ice and Norm Stuart, have been with the athletic department for nine and 13 years respectively. Many other employees have been there five years or more.
BEFORE GAMES, the crew scrubs all the decks of stationary bleachers
and cleans all the windows in the building.
The day of the game, crew workers start coming in at 8:30 a.m. to set out bleachers with pulleys and forklifts. A platform is placed along the court, and carpet must be laid before chairs can move on it for the visiting and home teams.
Fourteen tables are set up along the east side of the court with 68 chairs for the press and an additional 70 chairs for the crowd. The back wall be run for press phones and radios.
Curtains surrounding the basketball court must be taken down and folded. They usually come down more than 40 times a session—ice says he's counted—and then they've all got to be put back up.
TEN FLAGS—the American, Kansas, and Big Eight flags—are hung before each game by a pulley.
For today's game against Kansas State University, an additional 150 chairs will be placed at each end of the floor to accommodate the expected sell-out crowd.
This is all to be done by noon, so the crew can go home for a few hours. When they return at 5 p.m., more work will ensue.
Theatre seats for alumni are each dusted by hand. Trophies are cleaned and case dusted. All leagues, or at least those within reach, are dusted.
IMMEDIATELY BEFORE and after each game, about 48 doors must be unlocked and unchained, then relocked during During the game, the crew is on call.
"Then we get to watch the game," I said, "unless something happens. When the game's done, we tear it all down and start over."
Conference champs enjoy little notorietv
By ALVIN A. REID Staff Reporter
A Big Eight championship team doesn't usually starve for attention, but the University of Kansas has a conference champ that does.
It is not recognized as an official Big Eight champ, and it is not part of the KU athletic department or NCAA. It is the KU rifle team.
Rick Faflock, Wichita junior and member of the team, said his team's accomplishments warranted more exposure.
"Last year we won the Big Eight title for the first time in 28 years, and it wasn't in the newspapers," he said. "Every match we shot in last year we took some kind of award and placed two shooters on the all-conference team."
FAFLIK AND Shawn Moe,
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According to the team's adviser, Serguee Major Frank Strong, Army ROTC, KU's rifle team is nationally
known and highly rated by other rifle teams.
"Through a lot of dedication and hard work our squad excels," he said. "We were ranked in the top 10 out of 386 teams by the National Rifle Association."
Strong said the team couldn't travel long distances but could compete with any university rifle team in the United States.
"Since we don't have the money to visit every school, we have postal matches," Strong said. "We shoot our part of the match here and mail results to the sponsoring school. The results are given to the winner is declared in about two weeks."
THE TEAM, which practices three times a week, with its first weekly session at 6 a.m. Monday, travels to the school for "shoulder to shoulder" matches.
Last weekend the team went to Lincoln, Neb., to face the University of Nebraska and six other teams. KU won the match.
A rifle match consists of firing .22
Strong said that when the team traveled, the Army-affiliated National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice paid for transportation, weapons and equipment, and that the budget will contain $444,000 for the continuation of the program.
rifles at targets 50 feet away. Shooters fire from prone, kneeling and standing positions, and total scores are figured.
HE SAID the rifle team was a varsity squad and not part of the ROTC. He said anyone who was interested was interested too, because there are men's and women's divisions.
effort to this team, and that includes women." Strong said.
"Several universities have very good women's teams, and we're interested in developing one also. I see no reason why we couldn't have an excellent women's team that is just as good or better than other schools."
KU had a rifle team until the early 1970s when lack of interest dissolved it. The squad was reactivated four years ago.
KU will have an advantage in trying to retain its conference crown this year. The Big Eight championships will be on the KU campus April 10-12 in the Military Science Building. Spectators are welcome.
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The barrels, belonging to Layton Oi Co., Wellville, had been laid up along a gravel road for delivery, according to reports. The oil was valued at $6,000.
The robber threatened the clerk with a pocket knife and demanded all the money in the cash register, police said. He also with $5. Police have no suspects.
Vandals knocked over and drained 150 barrels of crude oil in southeast Douglas County Friday, the county sheriff's office said yesterday.
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AN AM/FM CASSETTE stereo was taken from a car at Lawrence Toyota-Mazda, $230 W. 25th Terrace, over the endcage. The stereo was valued at $250.
High school and community college officials from around the state will converge on the KU campus today for the 32nd annual Principal-Counselor-Freshman-Community College Conference.
They took a .357 magnum handgun,
Carla Rasch, assistant director of databases and records, said that more databases were being created.
The program gives high school and community college administrators the opportunity to meet with their former students who were enrolled at the University of Kansas.
college transfer students had been invited to attend the conference to meet with their former counselors and to discuss the effectiveness of their former schools' college prepartory programs.
"The program gives the various high schools a chance to meet with their former students and get feedback on how well they are doing." The students for college work," she said.
POLICE ARE STILL investigating an armed robbery that occurred Monday at Owen's Liquor Store, 910 N. Second St.
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