Page 14 University Daily Kansan, November 19, 1981
Bowl bid may not be in Jayhawk forecast
The Jayhawks' bowl outlook has turned as bleak as the Kansas weather.
Dreary skies are forecast today and tomorrow. And the chance of KU receiving a bowl bld is dropping as fast as the chance of snow is rising.
Athletic Director Bob Marcum was confident Tuesday that Kansas was high on the list with the Tangerine and Hall of Fame Bowl.
THE HALL OF Fame Bowl, in Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 31, will feature Mississippi State and, possibly, a Big Eight school. Southern Mississippi is virtually assured a bid to the Tangerine Bowl.
While bowl bids cannot be issued until 5 p.m. Saturday, most bowls will have one or both teams locked in by that date.
The Hall of Fame committee has decided not to scout Kansas Saturday. That could be bad or just indifferent. The Hall of Fame Bowl rarely scouts at all. The Tangerine Bowl committee, headed by Charles McClendon, a smooth-talking, silky Southern and former football coach Jake Stats. She said me Tuesday that his committee was interested in Kansas. Last night, word came that the Tangerine wants Missouri.
"We plan to be there," McClendon had said Tuesday. "Kansas is one of our teams."
MCLENDON SAID that he might even scout the game personality but that he wasn't sure. The Tangerine will be eyeing South Carolina, Virginia
Tech, Houston, Washington, Brigham Young and Southern Mississippi.
But Missouri is at an advantage any way you look at it. The Tigers beat the Oklahoma Sooners. Granted, the Sooners are not the awesome Red Machine of a few years ago, but chances are they'll bowl-bound this winter. One bowl committee spokesman maneuvers the heckens on their bowl down because if they didn't get an Orange Bowl bid, the team and band would rather go someplace other than Florida because they've been there so often. Picky.
The University administration has thrown a monger wrench further into
the bowl workings by deciding that the team cannot attend a bowel during the final period. This problem surfaced several years ago in basketball season. Finals week always falls during the height of the preseason and teams must have to schedule the Jayhawks have had to schedule all games during finals week on Saturday night.
The bowls eliminated by this ruling are unacceptable. Holiday and Garden State bowls
we nad a meeting," Marcum said, "and looked at those three bowl games. We didn't really have a chance in the Holiday. They're locked into the
"With the Independence and Garden State Bowl we did stand a chance."
Western Athletic Conference and the Pac10.
"We never discussed the interpretation of the rule," Marcum said of the meeting between him, Chancellor Gene A. Budig, executive vice chancellor, Robert Cobb, and Del Brinkman. Big Eight faculty representative name, there are final exams, and number two would the eliminate a following?
"He has a view and I have one. On someone's behalf, I can. But no want to go more than I do."
ELIMINATING KANSAS from bowl contention among the three committees makes sense in several ways. During finals it would be hard to generate a large student following, and that would be unfortunate for students who follow the team regularly and would travel to a bowl.
Ted Wolff, Garden State Bowl assistive public relations director, said yesterday the committee was disap prolling Kansas had pulled out of the running.
"Isn't it something to do with finals?" Wolff asked. "That's what I was told. I guess it was more or less an academic decision.
"But it's kind of a shame for the kids. They've done a nice job, especially in the second half of the season."
IT IS A SHAME. The football team has pulled itself up by its bootstraps in the last few years. The Jayhawks came up on the road and they beat a team had a good start this year, but
when Kerven Bell got injured, most people expected the Jahways to lie down and die. Not a chance. They're 7-3 now, their best record since 1968.
What many in the administration fail to realize is that the football and basketball teams bring fame, prestige and, yes, money to the University.
If KU goes to a bowl game, chances are alums will jump out of their armchairs at halftime, leave the TV and beer for a minute, and at least think in a contribution in a contribution just contributions to the athletic department.
FROM ANOTHER angle, if the Jahyawks appear in a bowl this season, that bodies well for the future. Ticket sales for next season will undoubtedly increase. So, too, then, will the revenue generated by those fans in the city of Lawrence, many of whom are KU alums and boosters.
If Kansas doesn't receive a bowl bid, the blame will fall several ways. First, on the team, Second, on the topsy-turp season that made so many conference championship games, petition for bowl bids. And finally, on the administration, for a lack of commitment to the program. A compromise could have been reached. The Tangerine Bowl is in conflict with the league's official officials are trying to strike a bargain.
The first two are unavoidable, the result of fate. The third is not. As Wolff of the Garden State Bowel said, "Well, maybe its next year for the Jayhawks."
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Williams to manage San Diego
By United Press International
Williams, 52, has agreed to a multi-year contract paying him an estimated $150,000 a year.
SAN DIEGO-Dick Williams, one of major league baseball's most successful managers, is the new San Diego Padres manager.
As recently as two weeks ago, Williams had said that he was ready to hang it up. "I forget what happened," he accented, so club seemed particularly interested in naming him
"We want to have a man who had two qualities—one, a major league experience, and two, a proven winner," said Smith. "That is what we think we have."
its manager. He also said that if some club did offer him a managerial job, he would insist on a multi-year contract. He told them that he was at Montreal Expenses when they let him go.
With Williams, the Padres get a manager with 14 years experience in the major leagues. Before taking the Montreal job in 1977, he managed at Boston, Oakland and California, winning two World Series at Oakland and an American League pennant at Boston.
Williams, who had been reported in line for the New York Yankees management, said he was not offered that job when he met socially with Yankee owner George Steinbruner at a football game last Sunday in Florida.
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