THE UNIVERSITY HAIRY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009
SPORTS
3B
FOOTBALL
Briscoe, Greene suspended for spring practice
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR smontemayor@kansan.com
Sophomore wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe and sophomore defensive tackle Jamal Greene have been suspended for a violation of team policy and have not practiced this spring, coach Mark Mangino said Friday.
"I'll review (Briscoe's) case next week, him and Jamal Greene both," Mangino said.
Briscoe, an All-Big 12 Second Team selection last year, set a school record of 1,407 receiving yards off 92 receptions and a record 15 touchdowns. Greene started the final seven games and appeared in all 13.
Sophmore wide receiver Dermon Briscoe blocks against a Kansas State defender during the Jayhawks Nov. 1 victory in Memorial Stadium. Briscoe has been suspended for the spring because of an unspecified violation of team rules.
File photo by Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Usually reserved for assessing personnel and tweaking game plans, this spring has challenged
the Jayhawks with the always tough to scout Kansas weather.
"So far practice has been going well ... when we're on the field," Mangino said. "It's just that Mother Nature has been our biggest challenge so far
DETAILS
Wednesday's practice, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium, will be open to the public. Park on the east side of the stadium and enter the southeast gates. Cameras will not be allowed.
We've got positions we've got to get better at and areas of the game to improve"
Check back all week for coverage of spring football practices.
public.
Winter storm threats moved Friday's practice, originally open to the public, indoors to Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Wednesday's practice, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium, is open to the
"We're trying to get to a situation where Kale is really comfortable with the entire system."
MARK MANGINO Kansas coach
"it's that Kansas weather," junior wide receiver Kerry Meier said. "I've grown up in it and I've never known what to expect. It definitely affects practice. I try and relay to
other guys that were still going to practice, we're still going to bang."
Regardless of the venue, spring practices have offered a first glimpse of players transitioning to new roster positions. Before this offseason, Mangino announced
the moves of redshirt freshman Tanner Hawkinson from tight end to left tackle, freshman Jeremiah Hatch from tackle to center, junior Angus Quigley from running back to linebacker and freshman Isiah Barfield from cornerback to wide receiver.
Also on the agenda has been
easing Meier into practicing solely with receivers and moving freshman Kale Pick to the backup quarterback by spring's end.
"We're trying to get to a situation where Kale is really comfortable with the entire system and feels good about everything and to get Kerry full work at wide receiver," Margino said. "We won't do that until we're sure that Kale is ready to be that backup guy."
Mangino said Pick has practiced very little with the first-team offense but did rotate with Meier and junior starter Todd Reesing in drills toward the end of the day Friday. For much of the day he had little trouble locating open receivers and at one point took off upfield for a quick first down. Pick's teammates at the position have offered him perspective on the importance of experience
"Right now going through
spring ball and sitting with (Pick) in the film room, he knows what he's doing." Meier said. "He has the physical abilities to keep it going but that game experience is irreplaceable"
Meier set a school record with 97 receptions last season, doing so while splitting time between practicing at wide receiver and quarterback. At this point, Meier estimated his reps as being 70 percent wide
receiver, 30 percent quarterback providing extra incentive for excitement.
"That's what keeps me kind of excited and high about next year is that spending just half the amount of time at receiver I had that many catches and if I increase it," Meter said. "But that could be all talk."
Edited by Sam Speer
TRACK & FIELD
Missouri Relays canceled Saturday because of weather
First full outdoor meet will be this weekend at Arizona Invitational
MISSOURI RELAYS RESULTS
Man's 12-motor hyundai
BY JASON BAKER
jbaker@kansan.com
MISSOURI RELAYS RESULTS
Men's 110-meter hurdles
1. Keyen Porter
10. Lawson Montgomery
12. Jacob Breth
14.29 seconds
15.60
16.74
The track and field team was planning on competing in its first outdoor meet this weekend, but the weather stopped it halfway through. The 10th annual Missouri Relays canceled its Saturday events because of below-40-degree temperatures and the possibility of snow.
Men's 200-meter dash
11. Jarrell Rollins
12. Chandler Frigon
Women's 200-meter dash
7. Aubree Dorsey
"The decision was solely due to the weather," coach Stanley Redwine said.
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Redwine said that he was fine with the decision and that meet officials had canceled the events with the athletes' health in mind.
nika litttleton, senior hurdler, sprints toward her first obstacle during the Jayhawks Jan. 16 meet against Missouri in Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Kansas first scheduled outdoor meet was cut short because of bad weather.
"They gave us the choice if we felt like we were warmed up
Although Saturday's events were canceled, Friday's were held. Meet officials gave the athletes the option of competing Friday.
"We didn't want any of the athletes to be injured." Redwine said.
enough that we could run. If not, we didn't," freshman Keyen Porter said.
Porter decided to compete in the 110-meter hurdles and won his heat with 14.29 seconds in the preliminary rounds. "I was already there so I might as well run." Porter said.
Porter had the fastest time going into the finals, which were supposed to be held on Saturday. With Saturday events canceled, meet officials decided to use Friday's times as the final times, thus giving Porter the victory overall in the event.
run a decent time and that's pretty good," Porter said of his performance.
"I'm pretty happy. I wanted to
Porter said that the weather could have played a factor in his performance. "I know the wind helped, but the cold might have canceled it out," Porter said.
Having run the 60-meter hurdles during the indoor season, Porter said he preferred running the 110-meter hurdle event because he felt like he had a whole race. "Usually the beginning of my races are like my worst part," Porter said. "So after I get going, it gets better." Porter said he hoped that
he could build off his first outdoor race experience. The team as a whole will have its first meet of the outdoor season in Tuscon, Arizona, at the Arizona Invitational next
weekend and coach Redwine hopes for cooperative weather. "It would be great to have great weather but it's definitely out of our hands," Redwine said. "As for the team, I hope that the things we
weren't able to do last weekend, we'll be able to accomplish this weekend."
- Edited by Liz Schubauer
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