1993 FOOTBALL PREVIEW UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, August 27, 1993
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Kansas' nonconference foes
WESTERN
CAROLINA
Western Carolina coach
steve Hodgin, in his third season with the team, led the Catamounts to their best finish in eight years with a 7-4 record last season. Western Carolina's record was good enough for a second-place tie with Georgia Southern in the NCAA Division I-AA's Southern Conference behind Division I-AA champion Marshall.
Senior quarterback Lonnie Galloway returns as a starter this year, leading the Catamounts freeze option attack. Last season, he completed 61 percent of his passes, for more than 2,000 yards and 20 touchdowns.
Western Carolina earned an award as the NCAA-1 AA's most improved team. The Catamounts compiled a record of 2-9 in 1991. Hodgin was the conference's coach of the year in 1992.
Junior returning starters Kerry Hayes and Craig Aiken were ranked among the nation's top 20 receivers last season.
Defensively, Western Carolina will return eight starters, including senior All-American candidate Tony Johnson at noseguard
Western Carolina's unusual mascot originated from the variety of wild cats, or Catamounts, that have roamed the Appalachian Mountains where the university is located.
Kansas will play host to the Catamounts on Sept. 4.
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Losing only three defense and three offensive starters, Michigan State heads into the 1993 season with a veteran, but youthful team.
Coach George Perles is entering his 11th year of coaching the Spartans. The Spartans improved from a 3-8 finish in 1991 to 5-6 last season. The team
had a 5-3 record in the Big Ten Conference last season.
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"This team is more experienced and has greater depth than either of the last two squads." Perles said. "We expect this team to compete with everyone in the Big 10 and may be a factor in the championship race."
The offence will be led for the second consecutive season by quarterback Jim Miller, a senior. Miller is the Big 10's top returning signal caller, completing 122 of 191 passes last season, for a 64 percent completion average. He threw for 1,400 yards but only two touchdowns.
Senior place kicker Bill Stoyanovich, the Big 10's leading retURN for accuracy and brother of NPL place kicker Pete Stoyanovich, also will return to the Spartan lineup this season. Stoyanovich made 11 of his 14 attempts last season.
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Returning junior starters Juan Hammonds, left end, and Aaron Jackson, left tackle, will anchor the defense.
Kansas travels to East Lansing, Mich., to play the Spartans on Saturday, Sept. 11.
Last season, Utah recorded a 6-1 record, including a 31-28 loss to Washington State.
UTAH
Having lost two-year starting quarterback Frank Dolez, Utah coach Ron McBride will turn to junior Mike McCoy to run the offense.
Behind McCoy, the Utes are loaded.
Belinda swayed, one. McBride wrote both senior tailbacks Keith Williams and Pierre Jones, the Utes leading rushers in 1991 and 1992 respectively, returning to the line-up.
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Williams rushed for 511 yards last season with four touchdowns. Jones scored three times and ran for 317 yards.
Senior Chris Yergensen remains the Utes' starting place kicker for the third straight team. Last season, Yergensen hit on 13 of 20 field goal attempts.
McBride said Utah would have the best defensive secondary in the Western Athletic Conference. Seniors Mark Swanson, who made an off-season transition to free safety from cornerback, and cornerback Sharrif Shah will head the defense. Both were honorable mention All-WAC choices last season.
The Jayhawks will play host to the Utes on Saturday, Sept. 18.
COLORADO STATE
Lubick has a winning history. He spent the last four years as the defensive coordinator at Miami, which won national championship in 1989 and 1991. The Hurricane defense ranked first nationally in most defensive categories each of those years.
The Rams, 5-7 overall and 3-5 in the WAC last season, are scheduled to battle with seven teams this year that competed in post-season bowl games in 1992. In addition to the defending Aloha Bowl Champion Jayhawks, Colorado State will play Brigham Young, Fresno State, Nebraska, Oregon, Air Force and Utah.
The Rams will return 17 starters, eight on offense, including junior receiver Matt Phillips and senior halfback Billy Gonzales.
Senior outside linebacker Brian Schneider and senior returning safety Roy Williams will lead Lubick's 4-3 defense.
Another member of the Western Athletic Conference, Colorado State faces perhaps the most challenging season in school history.
If that were not motivation enough, fuel is added to the fire by the hiring of Sonny Lubick as coach of the Rams.
Previews complied by Kansan sportswriter Matt Doyle.
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