SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 1, 1993
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Kansas schedule set by coach, directors
Jayhawk football opposition lined up until 1997-1998
By Gerry Fey
By Gerry Fey Kansan sportswriter
Forming a college football schedule may seem like a difficult task, but Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director, said that it was a fairly easy job.
Konzem, along with Bob Frederick,
athletic director, and Kansas coach
Glen Mason, decide on the teams that
will ultimately be out on the schedule.
"Coach Mason decides who we're going to play from an opponent standpoint," Konzem said. "Frederick
looks at the ticket-selling aspect. My part of it is the negotiations and setting up a date for the games."
Setting up the schedule was not difficult, Konzem said, because Kansas only had to worry about four nonconference games out of an 11-game schedule each year. The seven other games are in the Big Eight conference and are always on the schedule.
Jim Epps, Kansas State senior associate athletic director, said that when Kansas State scheduled its non-conference games, officials were not looking for the elite teams in the nation.
"We look for a team that has some name recognition. "Epps said. "We're not interested in a Miami or Notre Dame. You know that scheduling them would be like scheduling another Nebraska or Colorado."
Konzem said occasionally Kansas
would look for teams that would play only one year at Kansas, such as Western Carolina. The Catamounts will play at Kansas 1 p.m. Saturday.
Although the Jayhawk schedule appears to be set for the future, with games scheduled into 1997-98, there is still one date open for next season.
Being locked into a schedule too far in advance is something Epss said he didn't like either. A problem that arises during scheduling is whether a team will maintain its caliber in five years.
"Right now we're looking at some made-for-TV games." Konzem said. "You don't want to be too locked in."
"There are some schools we want to play, but their availability won't be for five years." Epps said. "It a roll of the dice. Maybe a school has struggled for a couple years, but the year you play them they do well."
Konzem said Kansas looked at four key factors when determining opponents: quality of the opponent, attractiveness to fans for ticket selling, travel expenses for fan games, and a good location for recruiting in the case of an away game.
"For us, it is going to Texas or Ohio," Konzem said of the states where Kansas traditionally like to recruit. "That is why TCU (Texas Christian University) and Michigan State games make a lot of sense. But that is one of many factors."
Last year, Kansas played at Oregon State, a team with slightly different ideas on scheduling Hal Cowan, Oregon State assistant athletic director, said that travel cost was a major factor in scheduling an away game, and recruiting was of lesser importance.
"Being in the Pac-10, we're involved in four states already, so we don't
really consider recruiting that much when picking away games," Cowan said. "Travel cost is a big concern. We had a home-and-home contract with Rice, but they had to get out of it because of travel cost."
The Big Eight and other conferences' strength also has to be considered, K-States' Epps said. He said K-State tried to balance the tough conference games with less difficult opponents.
"It is tough for a team to play at peak for 11 games," Epps said. "In the Big Eight, your looking at a dog fight. This year, Colorado plays tough nonconference games, but they're a good team."
Colorado coach Bill McCartney said having tough games on the schedule was good for college football. Colorado plays top-25 teams Stanford and Miami this season.
Planning Ahead
1994
The Kansas football schedule is set through the 1997-1998 season. Some of the notable nonreference players in the season play in the next few seasons include:
At Houston, Sep. 3
Michigan State, Sept. 10
At Texas Christian Sept. 17
1995
Texas Christian, Sept. 16
Houston, Sept. 23
Kansas 'games against Houston are scheduled, but no contract has yet been signed by either Kansas or Houston. The team, assisted athletic director, said.
KANSAN
Rugby club member Doug Martin passes to senior Jorge Reyes yesterday at practice at Shenk Complex.The club plays host to Missouri State and the St. Louis Ramblers this weekend
Top 10 Kansas rugby team ready for play
Rv Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
Ranked as a top-10 team in the United States, the Kansas men's rugby team won first place in the Heart of America tournament last spring and took second in the Western division last year.
From that winning team three players — graduate student Phil Olson and seniors Colin Gotham and Joel Foster — were selected as all Americans by the United States Rugby Union. Only 40 rugby players from the United States are selected to that all-American team.
The rugby team, a Kansas club sport, is divided into two sections, the club side and the collegiate side. The club side consists of graduate players and area residents and
the collegiate side is restricted to undergraduate players, coach Dominic Barnao said.
This year, both teams combined have about 75 players, with approximately 25 newcomers, Barnao said.
Senior Scott Collin said the team started practicing about three weeks ago, but that anyone would still be welcome to join the team.
To get the team ready for its first match Saturday, Collins said the team spent about 60 to 70 percent of its time doing conditioning drills. He said the team also had been doing a lot of technique drills, but they also involved conditioning.
Collin, a former football player, said this was the only contact sport he knew where a player could tackle his opponent and the
one tackled would still ask the tackler to have a beer afterward.
An old English saying about ruffian states,
"It's a sport for ruffians, played by gentlemen.
'Matter Delargy,' a London senior said.
Barnao, a former rugby player, characterized
rugby players as having strength,
speed and endurance.
Every two years, the team travels abroad to play rugby. Delargy said. He said each country played the game a little differently.
He said in America, the players were known for their harder tackles, probably because of many players' background in football. In England, the game was played with more finesse because the players had played longer, he said.
playing fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
Reserve side, the junior varsity team, plays
Southwest Missouri State 3 p.m. Saturday.
The varsity side plays Missouri State 2:30
p.m. Sunday. The club team takes on the
Saint Louis Rambers 1 p.m. Sunday.
Cunn said he hoped fans would come out in groups because it was a fun sport to watch. He also said having a lot of fans at games helped the players because it kept their adrenaline up and kept them fighting to the end of the 80-minute, nonstop game. It has been estimated that a rugby player runs approximately 12 miles in a game, Delargy said.
"Everybody is dead serious about representing KU," Collin said. "Rugby is athletics at its best."
The team plays its first games of the season this weekend at Shenk Complex, the
Kansas set to take rival Wichita State
By Gerry Fey
Kansan sportswriter
A volleyball match between Kansas and Wichita State is always a rivalry, but tonight's game will mean more for both teams than it has in the past.
Although Kansas holds a 24-10 advantage in this series, Wichita State won the season-opener at home last year 15-7, 16-14, 15-11. It was the Shockers' first victory against the Jayhawks in years and Kansas is looking to avenge last year's defeat. The teams will put their state pride on the line at 7 tonight at Allen Field House.
Phil Shoemaker, Wichita State coach, said he was not worried about the series record that heavily favors Kansas.
"KU has had a lot longer volleyball history than us," Shoemaker said. "It's only in the last five or six years that we've gotten things together."
Barb Bella, Kansas right side and middle player, said she was excited to open her senior season with this game.
"We play them every year at least once," Bella said. "It's definitely a rivalry. They're in-state, and in their conference they are very good. This time we have the home court advantage."
Kansas coach Frankie Albitz said her players would be excited for the game, but that right now, they thought the only thing in life was practice.
Shoemaker said he was sure that both teams would be ready for the game.
Albitz said she was worried about Wichita State's sophomore setter, Kori Rosenkranz. Last year, Rosenkranz was named Missouri Valley Conference freshman of the year.
"I don't think you'll have any problem getting players on either of these teams fired up," Shoemaker said. "It's the season-opener, and it's a rival."
"I was impressed with her," Albitz said. "She was the one that probably hurt us the most. Also, they were consistently hitting down the line."
This week, practice time has been set aside to work on covering the lines. Albiz said.
"That is something we always work on," Albitz said. "The diggers tend to move from the line. We want to keep diggers on the line since they used that against us last year."
One player who will not be in the front line tonight is junior Jauer Uher, Albiz said. Uer will be unable to play in the front line for a couple weeks because of an inflamed shoulder injury she suffered in practice.
As a result, Albiz said freshman Katie Walsh might see playing time in the front line.
Kansas senior Bella said that Wichita State's outside hitter confused Kansas last year but that Rosenkrantz did a good job of finding openings in the Jayhawk defense.
sne knows when to dump the ball and where," Bella said. "She was knowledgeable about her side of the court and our side of the court."
Kansas golfer works toward career on professional tour
By Kent Hohlfeld
Wichita State must pass the ball well and play good defense to win tonight's match, Shoemaker said.
Kansan sportswriter
When Matt Gogel started playing golf on a lighted Tulsa, Okla, golf course at age 13, he didn't figure that he would someday find himself at the U.S. Open practicing with professional golfers Ted Couples, Tom Watson and Seve Ballesteros. Last June that is exactly where the Kansas senior golfer found himself.
He said that by the end of that championship freshman year he was sure that golf was the sport to which he was going to dedicate his time. Gogel said he liked the individual aspect of the sport. By the end of his high school career he had narrowed his college choices to Kansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana State. He decided to attend Oklahoma in Fall 1989.
He changed his mind his freshman year, when he decided to transfer to Kansas. He said the fact that he had lived in Lawrence as a child made the decision to come to Kansas easier.
Gogel said that it was a long road that led him from Tulsa to Kansas.
"The first thrill I had was when my high school team won the state championship." Gostel said.
He said that he thought he would be able to make a bigger impact at Kansas than he did at Oklahoma. That impact was realized his freshman year when he won the Big Eight championship.
"I just didn't fit in at Oklahoma," Gogel said. "I thought I'd be happier at Kansas."
His accomplishments on the course have continued throughout his college career. Last summer he competed in a variety of tournaments, including defending the
championship.
"I wouldn't say it was a revenge factor that year, but after that I didn't have to second guess my choice," Gogel said of his victory over the Oklahoma players.
Kansas Amateur Championship title he won in 1992. He also played at the U.S. Open amateur division.
Randall said that Gogel was one of 10 nonunees for the Dave Williams award for outstanding college golfers, which is given by the Intercollegiate Golf/Tennis Awards of Dallas. Randall said that preseason hype could add some pressure to Gogel's play.
Ross Randall, Kansas men's golf coach, said that Gogel had been named to the John Hancock Bowl All-American Classic for the top 24 returning college golf players in the nation.
Gogel said he hoped that his busy off-season golfing schedule would help prepare him for what could be the most important season of his young career.
One way that Gogel will try to deal with that pressure is by watching a healthy dose of other sports with his teammate senior John Hess.
"That's just a challenge that he'll have to accept," Randall said.
"You can ask anyone, we're extreme sports fanatics," Hess said.
Hess said that one of the friends' favorite past times was watching their favorite teams at a small tavern called the Sandbar on West Eighth Street.
Gogel said that he could not wait for college football and professional football to start and that he hoped to attend a lot of Kansas basketball games during his senior year. Gogel said he thought that those games would be temporary breaks from what was going to be a hectic schedule.
Gogel said that he hoped this year's schedule would help prepare him for the professional golfers tour and that his experience at the U.S. Open taught him that the professional scene required much more time than the amateur level he had become used to.
Gogel said he hoped to join the professional ranks after the collegiate season."
John Gamble/KANSAN
Senior Matt Mogel practices his drive before playing nine holes at Aviana Country Club yesterday. Gopher practiced with golf greats Tom Watson, Fred Couples and Seve Ballesteros at last year's U.S. Open.
French soccer scandal may keep team out of international play
The Associated Press
ZURICH, Switzerland — France could be suspended from international competition because of a bribery scandal, the head of world soccer's governing body said yesterday.
The president of the Federation of International Football Associations Thursday postponed crucial questioning of players and officials until Saturday after six of the eight people scheduled to appear asked for a delay.
French officials were openly scornful of the Union of European Football Association's Aug. 30 deadline and the delay in the hearing was seen as a direct challenge to UEFA's authority.
Noel Le Graet, the president of the soccer league, said French authorities could not impose "sanctions if they don't have evidence."
Marseille's former general manager Jean-Pierre Bernes and a player, Jean-Jacques Eydelie, face charges they bribed two players from the team Valenciennes to play badly in a league match. The match took place a few days before Marseille faced AC Milan in the European Champions Cup final.
The Marseille scandal has rocked both French sports and politics. The club's flamboyant owner, socialist lawmaker Bernard Tapie, has accused opponents of trying to destroy France's greatest soccer team and his own political ambitions. He denies any involvement.
Valencienne's former coach, Boro Primorac, alleges that Tapie tried to persuade him to take the blame in the scandal at a June meeting.