University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 3, 1989
Sports
13
Hawks to face Cowboys Coach says chances good for last home game
By Gene King
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas can establish itself as a contender for the best of the rest of the country.
The best are Colorado and Nebraska, who tomorrow will play for the top spot in the conference. The rest are the final six, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Iowa State, Kansas State and Missouri.
Kansas, 3-5 overall, will battle Oklahoma State, 3-5 overall and 2-2 in the conference, at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
At 1-3 in the conference, a victory would give the Jayhawks a 2-2 record and fourth place in the Big Eight.
The Jayhawks have not defeated the Cowboys in 17 years, but Oklahoma State coach Pat Jones said that this year's Kansas squad would have its best chance of several years to upset his team.
Coach Glen Mason agrees.
"This is the best Kansas team since 1985, when they had Willie Pless and Mike Norseth," he said. Coach Chris Hirschfield
"We have a better opportunity than a year ago," Mason said. "I wasn't here before then, so I can't comment on that."
Mason said Oklahoma State's streak of defeating Kansas was "unbelievable." Kansas last defeated the Cowboys 13-10 in Lawrence in 1972.
"That's the year I was married. (I got married) that were born in the year," he said.
Last week, Oklahoma State narrowly escaped a 1-3 conference record when Missouri scored in the final minutes against the Cowboys, closing the point spread to 30-31. The Tigers went for the two-point conversion but failed, and Oklahoma State won the game.
"We have had a lot of close ones," Jones said. "But we have gotten better the last couple of weeks.
"Kansas has gotten better, too. They moved the ball well against Colorado and should have beaten Iowa State."
Kansas had more than 350 total yards against the Buffaloes and lost 24-20 in the closing minutes against the Cyclones.
Last year, the Cowboys had one of the best offenses in the country, but it was combined with one of the worst defences.
"Theoretically, Oklahoma State could have played for the title with the best offense and the 99th worst defense," Mason said. "Those two things don't coincide."
Oklahoma State's star players, Heisman trophy, winner Berry Sanders and wide receiver Hart Lee Dykes, are gone. But tailback Gerald Hudson has stepped in to take their place.
"There is about $2 million worth of backs," Mason said. "He is no Barry Sanders, but he is a big-time back."
Hudson has rushed for 685 yards, averaging more than 135 a game this
Quarterback Mike Gundy, a preseason Heisman candidate, will face back be back
tomorrow against Kansas.
"He has been banged up," Jones said. "But, if we can protect him, give him time, he can be an effective player."
In the first eight games, Gundy threw for 1,265 yards. Last year he threw for more than 2,160 yards and completed almost .650 percent of his passes.
"He's just dangerous," Mason said. "We all know he can drop back and pass. He's a winner.
"A Missouri player said he is like Fran Tarkenton because it is hard to get him. And when you do get him, he will the ball go, and it is a completion."
Donohoe has thrown for 1,496 yards this season. He averaged 187 yards a game with a completion percentage of 54.6.
Tomorrow will be the last home game for seniors Donohoe, tight end John Baker, place-kicker Brad Fleeman, offensive tackle Bill Hundelt, running back Jay Littkeen, wide receiver Quinnin Smith, defensive tackle Mark Koncz, punter B.J. Lohsen and linebacker Dan Newbrough.
The team practiced at the stadium
tuesday because the practice field
was empty.
Kansas Jayhawks Coach Glen Mason 3-6 Conference 1-3
Game 9
Oklahoma State Cowboys Coach Pat Jones 3-5 Conference 2-2
WR-85 Kenny Drayton, 8-0, 175, So.
LT-77 Chris Perez, 8-2, 283, So.
LG-66 John Fritch, 8-2, 250, So.
OC-61 Chip Budue, 8-2, 285, Jr.
RG-63 Ginni Mavido, 8-2, 245, So.
RT-76 Bill Hundell, 8-6, 280, Sr.
RT-76 John Baker, 8-3, 245, Sr.
GB-6 Kelly Donohoe, 9-6, 180, Sr.
FB-26 Maurice Douglas, 5-10, 187, So.
TB-24 Tony Sands, 5-6, 175, So.
WR-29 Quinn Smith, 5-11, 175, Sr.
PK-93 Brad Fleeman, 8-5, 172, So.
SOB-17 Lence Fleabachar, 6, 25, 3S, So-
ST-79 Gary Ota, 6, 125, Jr.
MG-72 Gilbert Brown, 6, 2-32, Fr.
RT-82 David Gordon, 6, 3-250, Jr.
ROL-84 Dan Newbrough, 6, 1-25S, Sr.
RIL-34 Roger Robben, 6, 2-23S, So,
SIL-58吴 Swinton, 6, 1-220, Fr.
CC-7 Hassen Bailey, 5, 11, 192, Fr.
WC-10 Dong Tery, 5, 11, 177, So.
WS-14 Paul Friday, 6, 195, So.
SS-Bold Denbyk, 5, 10, 190, So.
P-97 B.J. Lohen, 6, 3, 218, Sr.
Probable Starters:
Offense
FL-19 Jarrod Green, 6-1, 198, Sr.
LT-54 Joah Arrott, 8-5, 265, So.
GL-71 Brent Davenport, 8-3, 268, Sr.
C-61 Surairete, 8-2, 255, So.
RG-63 Scott Webb, 8-4, 275, RT-
RT-6 Keith Roller, 8-2, 286, Fr.
TE-90 Vance Ice, 6-5, 254, Sr.
CB-12 Mike Gundy, 6-0, 198, Sr.
FB-26 Cecil Wilson, 5-10, 220, TB-
TB-23 Greg Hudson, 5-9, 198, SE-
17 Curtis Mayfield, 6-0, 172, PK-
PK-25 Bianchard, 6-1, 195, Sr.
Probable Starters:
Defense
LE-37 Bobby Raynor, 6-29, 130.
LT-91 Brandon Colbert, 6-32, 724.
NT-55 Ruben Oliver, 5-11, 142, Jr.
RT-52 Sacyte Sattawire, 6-6, 202, SoL
E-BL2 George Bright, 8-15, 163,
MLB-M3 Sim筑 III, 6-1, 124, Sr.
WLB-M7 Wake Moodridge, 6-1, 215, Fr.
LCB-I Mike Clark, 5-10, 195, So.
JS-48 Jay Flein, 5-10, 196, Fr.
FS-45 Rod Smith, 6-1, 203, Sr.
RCB-5 Joe Kring, 6-2, 200, So.
P-25 Cary Blanchard, 6-1, 195, Jr.
Coverage: The game will be broadcast live on KLZR 105.9 FM and KLWN 1320 AM.
Facts: Kansas has not beaten Oklahoma State since 1972 when Kansas won 13-10 in Lawrence.
Last year, Oklahoma State beat the Jayhawke 63-24 In Stillwater.
Last week, Kansas defeated Kansas State 21-16. Oklahoma State beat Missouri 31-30.
KANSAN Graphic
Swimmers to compete in Colorado
Sport briefs
By Andres Cavelier Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's swimming team yesterday went on the road for the first time this season.
"Kansas and Colorado State have had a real good rivalry for a number of years," Kemp said.
The Jayhawks began their bus trip to Colorado where they will face the Colorado State Rams, a team that swimming coach Gary Kempf described as comparable to Kansas.
For the 26 Kansas swimmers, this will be an opportunity to take a step forward and to show what they are worth, Kempf said.
The last time both teams met was November 1987, when the Rams beat Kansas 141-127.
The women Jayhawks, who beat Iowa State and Missouri last weekend in the Big Eight Invitational in Lawrence, are a young team ready to do well against Colorado State, Kempf said.
Both teams will swim today in a sprint meet followed by Saturday's regular dual meet.
SOCCER SEASON ENDS: The Kansas soccer club will play its last game of the regular season tomorrow against Pittsburgh State.
Kansas, 9-3-3, will face Pittsburgh at 11 a.m. in the field between the Computer Center and Robinson Center.
BASEBALL EXPANSION: Denver and Tampa-Ste. Petersburg, Fla., are ahead of New Orleans in the competition for baseball's two expansion franchiases, Kansas City teams co-owner Avron Fogman said.
"They are always at the meetings, and they are 'the ones you hear the most of,' Fogelman, a member of baseball's long-range planning committee, told a forum at Tulane.
The National League said earlier this year that it would announce a timetable for expansion by two teams after a new collective-bargaining agreement was reached with the Major League Baseball Players Association. The current agreement expires on Dec. 31.
JOHN ANDRETTI: John Andretti will drive for the Porsche Indy car racing in 1980, joining Teo Fabb on the team.
"Too Felii can help me a lot," Andretti said in a telephone interview after the announcement yesterday. "He's been with the program since the 'budding stages. Besides, we're both short and
Italian. I think we'll have a lot of fun."
A major sponsorship from Moneyyron, a Belgian industrial financial management company, allowed Foresche to add a second car for next year, the automaker said.
Andretti, nephew of racing legend Mario Andretti, co-drove the winning car in two IMSA sports car races and was a first-day qualifier for the 1909 Indianapolis 500. He also won his first Indy-car race last season.
Porsche Cars of North America spokesman Bob Carlson said Andretti would begin testing cars this month in preparation for April's season-opening Phoenix 200 CART race.
Andretti called Ponche called him Wednesday, Carlson said a final decision was made yesterday. FLORIDA WOEN: Norm Sloan had hoped to reach a settlement that would have allowed him to coach the Florida basketball team through the 1980-81 season, but agreed to leave this week after learning he might face a federal indictment, according to published reports.
Several newspapers yesterday quoted unnamed sources as saying the threat of indictment played a role in Stoan's decision to retire Tuesday. He left behind a program that has been under NCAA investigation since June 30.
Nebraska officials were warned of 'war' with adviser, jury told
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — University of Nebraska officials were warned that they were "in a full scale war" involving a student adviser who raised questions about some football players' academic records, a U.S. District Court jury was told yesterday.
Mary Jane Visser is using the university because she said she was fired in 1988 for investigating student-athletes' records.
The university said that Visser was fired after 19 years because of poor job performance and that she began to investigate student records only after her work habits were criticized.
Her dismissal came less than a month after Martin Bradley Munn, the university's affirmative action officer, wrote to university officials.
"Colleagues, we are in a full-scale war, not just a battle," said part of Mann's Ang: 18, 1986, letter to Vice President James Griesen that was read in court.
In the letter, Munn said Visser was in touch with a woman in Georgia involved in a similar case.
In 1986, Jan Kemp, a University of Georgia instructor who claimed she was fired for protesting academic favoritism for athletes, won a lawsuit. She later settled for $1.08 million
in damages.
Court exhibits are sealed, and Munn's full letter isn't public record. In other testimony, David Wagner, chairman of a Faculty Senate committee said Coach Tom Osborne warned him that people could be fired for improperly publicizing students' confidential records.
Visser filed two grievances before she was fired, but university committees recommended that they be denied.
"No," Griesen said.
" isn't it a fact that the University of Nebraska declared war on her?" Thom Cope, Visser's attorney, asked Griesen.
When Cope asked whether Visser was fired for reviewing the academic records of athletes, Griesen said, "No, that's not really correct at all."
He acknowledged that Visser stopped looking at the records of student-athletes after he told her in May 1888 to stop reviewing records of students whom she wasn't assigned to advise.
Another letter submitted as evidence showed that university officials told Visser's attorney that they wanted to know about any irregularities involving student athletes. Visser's employment would in no way be jeopardized by revealing such information, the letter said.
Wagner testified that Osborne phoned him in February 1988 and was obviously upset because a football player's high school transcript had been sent to Wagner and other officials.
Because of what she thought were irregularities, Visser brought the transcript to him, along with a list of student-athletes who had attended a health course in summer school to boost their academic averages, Wagner said.
He said Osborne was upset about the transcript being copied. Osborne never said who he thought could be dismissed for violating a Board of Regents rule protecting the confidentiality of such records. Wagner said,
In her testimony, Visser said she took confidential information about athletes from university files to compile and present what she considered to be irregularities.
She said some players who participated in the 1988 Fiesta Bowl had flunked out the previous semester.
Under cross-examination, Visser said that she didn't know that NCAA rules allowed for such a situation but believed in the back of things that seemed irregular.
Williams predicts balanced Big 8 Conference play
When Buntain asked her to define "irregular" she said, "something that does not seem appropriate for a college."
Kansas basketball Coach Roy Williams gives pointers on a play.
By Dan Perkins Kansan sportswriter
"The Big Eight is even more balanced this year," Williams said. "Somebody may say, 'Well, more balanced means everybody has backed up.' But I think it's more balanced with six teams moving closer to Oklahoma and Missouri. And those were two of the top five teams in the country last year."
Coach Roy Williams has been through a lot in his one season at Kansas, but it doesn't look like this season will give him much relief — on the court, that is.
Williams, who made the best of a season plagued by injuries, ineligibilities and AAA probation, doesn't set the Big Eight Conference getting any easier.
"I don't think there is a conference in the country that's going to be as strong from top to bottom as we are." I think it's going to be a heck of a league, and I don't think anybody knows what is going to happen."
Williams thinks this balance makes the Big Eight Conference one of the toughest in the country.
Williams has great ambitions for his second season at Kansas.
"I hope we break the school record again, being honored." William said.
again, being honest," Williams said. Last season, the Jayhawks averaged a school-record 89 points a game, including a Kansas-record 127 points in one game against Iowa State. In that game, Kansas also set school records for most points in a half (71) and most players in double figures (9).
Senior guard Kevin Pritchard said he hoped that last season was a preview of this season.
"I hope so, because I really enjoy watching you go up and down the stairs."
Williams is planning on a fast season.
Despite the feelings Pritchard and Williams have, most preseason polls have picked the Jayhawks to finish anywhere from fourth to eighth in the Big Eight Conference, even though Kansas is returning five experienced players.
the polls, and he certainly isn't counting his team out of the conference race.
"We've been picked last by Inside Sports magazine and Basketball Digest. I'm hoping they don't know what they're talking about."
"I just look at them and put them down," Williams said. "The good thing about basketball is you get to play, not like football where the polls really decide something.
Guelkner said, "We're going to be a good team. We have several players who are untested, so a lot of our
I don't think there is a conference in the country that's going to be as strong from top to bottom as we are. I think it's going to be a heck of a league, and I don't think anybody knows what is going to happen.'
Roy Williams Kansas basketball coach
Pritchard, a second-team all-Big Eight selection last season, and Mark Randall, second-team all-Big Eight selection by UPI last season, are two of the strongest Kansas players returning this year.
Pritchard averaged 15.4 points a game last season. Randall averaged 16 points and a team-high 6.7 rebounds a game.
success will depend on how well they adapt to Big Eight competition. But we have a lot more depth than we've had since I've been here."
Williams doesn't put much faith in
The four players who practiced without being eligible to play last season were Calloway, Alonzo Jamison, Sean Tunstall and Malcolm Nash, but only Calloway and Nash are eligible this semester.
Also returning are Jeff Gueldner, Mike Maddox and Freeman West. Those five, in addition to Rick Calloway, who sat out last season after transferring from Indiana, give Kansas only six players who have played NCAA Division I basketball.
"You have to remember that at this time last year, I was trying to teach 10 new guys the system," Williams said. "This year, I only have five guys to teach because the other guys were able to practice with us last season."
The low preseason rankings are because of the addition of several newcomers to the team, but Williams said that coaching had been easier this season.
Both Jamison and Tunstall were ruled academically ineligible this fall, although Williams expects Jamison to be eligible in the spring.
The rest of the team consists of two freshmen, Adonis Jordan and Todd Alexander; two junior college transfers, Terry Brown and Kirk Wagner; and Peka Markkanen, a 6-foot-10 center from Finland.
The mixture of old and new has produced some tense moments for the artist.
Last Sunday at the Big, Eight Conference Media Day, Williams said that after a practice he had gone bowling for the first time in 13 years to take his mind off basketball.
"I do go back, I'll see reeferes' heads on the pins." Williams said.
Williams, though, isn't expecting to return to the lanes anytime soon.
Williams will get his first chance to see referees when Kansas opens its season with an exhibition game against the Brisbane (Australia) Bullets at 7:35 p.m. Monday in Allen Field House.
"We're ready to play to the point that we're tired of playing against each other," Gueldner said. "We're not ready for the meat of our schedule, but this will give us a chance to see where we at."
The Jayhawks play another exhibition game Thursday night against the Spirit Express before opening their regular season Nov. 15 at the Dodge NIT tournament against Alabama-Birmingham in Allen Field House.