When you're losing...
By MARY ARNOLD
Kansan Sports Writer
Khalifa Sports Writer After last Saturday's Oklahoma State-Kansas game, a little boy came up to Head Coach Pepper Rodgers and said, "This
Perhaps this pressure has been an incentive to practice harder and win the last three games with Colorado, Oklahoma and Missouri.
Last year with the conference
'This isn't last year.'
championship and bowl bids at stake it was not hard for the players to get ready to play.
"When you're winning, the championship and bowl bids are incentive to get up for a game." Coach Travis said, "but when the team's losing, the individual player has to get himself ready to play. He has to contend with his own pride."
Sandy Buda, assistant coach, added that last year when the team was 7-0 they knew they could win, but now the coaches have to convince them they can win, and instill confidence in them.
"Football is a hard game to play, but we hope it is fun for the players and that they like it," Buda said and then added,
"Of course winning is more fun."
Last year football was fun—KU was winning. It was fun for the players, fun for the coaches and fun for the fans. Everyone was boasting "We're number one" and "Miami bound."
That was last year. It's 1969, and KU's not number one and KU's not bowl bound, but they do have a chance to spoil the records of the other Big Eight teams.
At this point in the season, Kansas has only one way to go and that's up.
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isn't like last year at all."
Travis added that he thought the players felt pressure from the student body.
"The players feel the student body is depending on them and they have let the students down." said Travis.
"When you're winning, there is pressure on you to keep winning and when you're losing everybody is pressured by their peers. Everybody wants to know what the problem is and why we're losed." Travis said.
But obviously this is a new season and the situation is different. The 'Hawks are 1-6 and are in the cellar of the Big Eight. They have lost four conference games, three by four points or less. A fact that emphasizes the balance of the Big Eight and perhaps that KU isn't all that bad.
"We just haven't had the right plays at the right times to win," Rodgers said, "and we've made errors that have hurt us."
isn't like last year at all."
"Son," replied Pepper, "this isn't last year."
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"We won't give up. We'll be out there ready to play, but," he added, "we might not whip, and then again we might."
The KU boss added that the Jayhawks have played strong teams this year and Saturday faces a tough Colorado squad.
No, this isn't last year, because at this time last season KU was 7-0. They were rated No.3 nationally and were optimistic about a major bowl bid and winning the Big Eight conference title. The football situation at Kansas looked better that it had for a number of years.
Larry Travis, assistant coach,
said there was a different type of
pressure involved in losing
and in winning.
The pressures on a football team are tremendous. The players and coaches must contend with the thoughts of the student body, alumni and other schools. Opinions on the degree of pressure on a winning team and on a losing team vary.
"It's like playing golf," he said,
"when you play and you're not good there's more pressure on you to play good and win."
Pepper said that he thought there was more pressure on a team when they weren't so good.
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