SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 4, 1993
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Program's aim is to make top athletes
Photos by Irene Lanier / KANSAN
Above. During a training session for the Kansas football team, strength coach Fred Roll helps Guy Howard, junior defensive end, stretch out in the weight room at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
At right. Jim McDonald, assistant strength coach,center, and Roll watch Don Davis, sophomore linebacker, lift weights.
By Brian James Special to the Kansan
Alongside assorted plaques and posters on Fred Roll's office wall hangs a framed, autographed picture. It reads: "Thanks for all the time you spent working with me. Tony Sands #24."
For Roll, Kansas' head strength and conditioning coach, the essence of Sands' message is the essence of his strength program: Dedicated strength training is the difference between an average athlete and a top athlete in any sport.
Sands is the Kansas football team's all-time leading rusher.
Roll and Bill Maxwell, assistant strength coach, are responsible for strengthening and conditioning Kansas athletes, both during the season and off-season.
Roll works with the football teams year-round and oversees strength programs for all varsity teams except track. Maxwell is in charge of conditioning the men's basketball and baseball teams.
Roll said he hated the term "weight coach," because it applied to only one area of the training program.
"We're not trying to make people weight lifters. We're trying to make people better athletes by using all the things we offer," he said.
Roll's strength program includes conditioning, speed training, weights and plyometrics to improve quickness, flexibility and nutrition.
Roll said he and his assistants worked alongside each coach to help make an effective team-conditioning program and to learn about individual players.
"Before we start a program, we sit down and tell the player what we think his weaknesses are, and how he can work within the framework of the weight program and get better." Roll said.
A few days after the Kansas second-round defeat in last season's NCAA basketball tournament, 6-foot-10 senior center Eric Pauley began working out again — but this time in the weight room. Pauley met with Maxwell and devised a workout program. Extra hours in the weight room were part of the plan.
“If the team would go in and work three days a week, I would usually go in and work a couple other days.”
Panley said, "When the team worked out, I would stay for about an extra 30 to 40 minutes to work."
However, the type of off-season work in the weight room varies for each team. Roll said.
Maxwell said Pauley's off-season program included both upper-body and leg conditioning.
"We can try to make things we do in here as specific to the sport as we can — a lot of the movements in the sport," he said.
Roll said that with conditioning tennis players, for example, the program emphasized speed and power over endurance.
"We require them to do a lot of movement in quick, power intervals," he said. "At the end of a match, you still need to be quick."
Tennis coach Michael Center said that he was enthusiastic about his team's off-season workouts.
"The conditioning is critical for the season, especially when some of the new kids have not lifted much before," Center said. "I've seen the freshmen come here and develop their strength and flexibility a great deal."
"in the off-season, we want to train as much and as often as possible."
Part of Roll's philosophy is to never let a player get out of shape.
Once the season begins, the workouts change. Roll said he emphasized maintaining a player's peak level of strength.
Gayle Luedke, assistant softball coach, said the high fitness level the team had at the beginning of last season helped them in getting to the NCAA Softball World Series.
"We want the workout intensity to remain high, but we don't want it to last long because there are so many energy demands from practice," he said.
Ex-Jayhawk ready for the NFL
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"He's got the size and the athletic ability," he said. "He's got the ability to penetrate through blocks. He's got good speed."
Football analyst Mel Kiper of Draft Publications Preview has predicted on CNN and ESPN that Stubblefield will go as high as the ninth pick in the first round. Atlanta picks ninth.
If former Kansas defensive tackle Dana Snubblefield is drafted in the National Football League's first round as many experts have projected, he will be only the seventh player in Kansas history — and the first since wide receiver David Verser in 1980 — to achieve that honor.
"I've got both," he said. "I've got power and a lot of athletic ability. My athletic ability will get me into the first round, if I go."
Kiper said that Stubblefield, who was a second team AB-American, is one of the top four defensive linemen in the 1963 draft. What makes him so valuable is his speed and strength, Kiper said.
It would be a dream come true if he were selected in the top 10, regardless of who picks him. Stubbfield said. However, playing with his idol, Reg.
The 6-foot-3, 290-pound Stubblefield has added 70 pounds to his frame since he came to Kansas in 1980. He was recruited as a fullback out of Clevee, Ohio. Stubblefield said a lot of players had his size, but not many have his potent combination of strength and speed.
gie White of the Philadelphia Eagles, would be the ultimate
Dana Stubblefield
"If we could pick and choose, I would love to go to Philadelphia," he said.
Exactly where Stubblefield goes will be
determined on draft day, April 25. He will be waiting by the phone with dozens of friends and family members at the Montgomery Inn in Cincinnati.
That was no surprise to Kansas defensive coordinator Bob Fello, who said that, based on Stubblefield's entire career at Kansas, he should go high in the draft.
"It's the combine you have to get ready for," he said. "If you impress scouts at the combine, you help your position."
"I showed I could move for a big guy," he said.
His three-sack performance at the Alaha Bowl in December, which earned him Defensive Player of the Game, may have already improved his stock for the NFL scouts.
He said it was not draft day that he was worried about as much as the NFL Combine, a tryout camp where players are evaluated by NFL scouts prior to the draft. The combine is Feb. 11 in Indianapolis.
'He's shown ability as an excellent nasal rusher and has shown he can
stop the run." Fello said
Stubblebush works out twice a day for a total of three hours in preparation for the combine. Former Kansas running back Tony Sands joins him in the workouts and gives Stubblebush pointers on how to improve his time in the 40-yard dash, which is a major determinant for scouts on draft day.
Stubblebush said that he ran a 4-9-4 last fall, but soaked form was terrible.
"I if can get my start down, I can get a better 40," he said.
"There's so many ways around it," he said. "I don't even see why they have it."
But regardless of his speed, it might be harder to catch Stubblefield by phone at his apartment than in a race. Agents have been hounding him for months, and he spends a good deal of time dodging them.
The labor agreement calls for a rookie salary cap, but Stubbleble said that a competent agent can get around the $2 million cap by arranging for incentive clauses in a client's contract. With incentives a rookie can earn an indefinite amount of money.
He said that not many of the agents understand the complexities involved in the NFL's new labor agreement, and others are downright shady characters.
Although Stubblefield is looking forward to playing in the NFL, he said he hoped to keep close ties to Kansas.
His proudest moments in a Kansas uniform were the victories against Oklahoma and Brigham Young University last season, he said.
The BYU game was the only bowl
game Kansas played in during his collegiate career.
"I told him he was going down," he said. "He was talking a lot of mess."
In the Oklahoma game, Stubblefield and linebacker Don Davis knocked Oklahoma's starting quarterback, Cale Gundy, out of the game. That game was Kansas' only victory over one of the Big Eight Conference's "Big Three" during Stubblefield's career.
1992 Aloha Bowl Defensive Player of the Game.
Stubblefield's stats
Dana Stubblefield may become Kansas' first NFL first-round draft pick since 1980. Kansas won six of its six first-round picks.
Stubblefield is second all-time in sacks at Kansas with 19.
All Big-Eight selection as a junior and senior.
Second-team All-American (Associated Press, Football News).
Ranked 2nd all-time at Kansas in sacks with 19.
- Holds Kansas record for sacks in one season with 10.
Played 588 snaps — more than any other defensive lineman this season.
Source: Kansas Sports Information
SPORTS BRIEFS
KANSAN
MANHATTAN — Anthony Beane canned two free throws with three seconds remaining in the game last night, giving Kansas State a 62-61 victory against No. 16 Oklahoma.
Kansas State fans poured onto the floor when Oklahoma failed to get a shot off in the final three seconds. Kansas State, 14-3 overall and 4-1 in the Big Eight Conference roared to a 21-8 lead as the Sooners missed their first seven shots from the floor. Askia Jones led Kansas State with 17 points.
The Sooners dropped to 14-6 overall and 2-3 in the conference.
Reds owner suspended
Wildcats nip Sooners
The suspension will begin on March 1, but Schott can apply for reinstatement on Nov. 1. if she attends and completes multicultural training programs. Schott's lawyer Robert Bennett said Reds general manager Jim Bowden would be proposed to run the team in Schott's absence.
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CHICAGO — Marge Schott was suspended as Cincinnati Reds' owner for one year yesterday and fined $25,000.
Baseball's ruling executive council, completing a two-month investigation of the 64-year-old owner, said it found evidence that overwhelmingly and convincingly supports the conclusion that Schott frequently used terms offensive to minorities.
Iowa State improved to 13-6 overall and 3-3 in the Big Eight Conference. Nebraska dropped to 14-7 and 2-4.
Cyclones rout'Huskers
Duke, 16-3 overall and 5-3 in the ACC, were led by Bobby Hurley's 20 points. Duke closed the game with a 17-8 run.
North Carolina dropped to 17-3 and 6-2.
AMES, IRELAND — Justus Thigpen scored 23 points leading Iowa State to a 96-69 victory against Nebraska last night.
Jayhawk tennis players to meet the nation's best
Junior Mindy Weiner is Jensen's doubles partner. The pair is ranked No. 13:
Sophomore Rebecca Jensen qualified for the tournament, which will showcase the top 32 ranked singles players and the top 16 doubles combinations in the nation, by winning the Rolex Central Regional singles and doubles titles.
Two Kansas women's tennis players traveled to Minneapolis to compete in the Rolex National Indoor Championships today through Sunday.
Duke tops North Carolina
From Associated Press and staff reports.
DURHAM, N.C. — The fifthranked Blue Devils beat No. 6 North Carolina 81-67 last night.
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