University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 24, 1988
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Station Breidenthal/KANSAN
First-year Kansas football coach Glen Mason, left, talks with freshman tight end Jason Stallam, Yorkville, IL, as they eat at the training table at Jayhawker Towers Apartments.
Associate sports editor
Players discover discipline in Mason's training camp
First year coach Glen Mason said he wanted his team to be the best-conditioned team in the United States and he expected Sept. 10 in Memorial Stadium.
"The kids that stay will have something to be proud of," Mason said of the 12-day camp that began last Thursday. "It takes a tough guy program out. We've diminished some of the program from this program."
It started at dawn March 22 at the bottom of the 14th street Hill, directly below the Wagon Wheel Cafe. It definitely didn't end during the six months that followed. The 'Kansas football conditioning program had begun and it peaked this week with training camp, or two-a-day workouts in 160 degree weather.
The "tourists" consisted of the 22 players that had left the team for various reasons since Mason took charge Dec. 30.
'Under Val (former coach Bob Valesse) we had a habit of going half-speed and going through the motions. linebacker Rick
Clayton said. "Now when we put the pads on, it's full go until the practice is over.
"Now, if you can make it, you can hold your head up high; if you can't, you just fall behind."
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Senior linebacker Mike Long said, "It this college career) started off with (former coach Mike) Goffredt and we all worked really hard Under Val it was easier. With Mason, it's a whole different story. I never thought I could do some of the things I'm doing now. Right now, we don't know if we've got to be in great condition."
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Training camp opened with three days of conditioning drills before a week of contact drills which began Sunday.
A player's daily routine consists of morning and afternoon meetings and practices and an evening meeting before an 11 p.m. lights-out rule is enforced. To keep distractions at a minimum, the players are living in Jayhawker Towers and no phones in their rooms until two-days end.
Mason and some of his staff have moved into the Towers to maintain a strictly disciplined camp and to get
**to know the players. Mason also lived with the team during two o-days at Kent State where he coached for two years before moving here.**
“Discipline is so important in football.” senior wide receiver Byron Hornung said. “The last couple of years we have looked like we been disciplined. It’s nice to have them and to respect again after we been disciplined.”
Clayton, Long and Hornung agreed the disciplined, business-like approach was needed to turn the football program around Kansas has been so successful in two years and hasn't won a Big Eighn Conference game since 1985.
"You could tell it was different almost immediately when he got here," Hornung said. "A lot of people were down. He brought new life to them. He was a young coach full of intensity and enthusiasm."
Speed and strength coordinator Brad Roll said, "The ones that stay with us through camp and the it that line up on the field in September will be important for them to play football for the University of Kansas."
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