Wednesday, August 30,1978
University Daily Kansan
It's fun forecasting the Big Eight football race. People see what the sports editor of a respected campus daily has written and they think—at least until the season starts—that we have inside material and know what's going on.
They're right. We do.
These pigskin pick'ems will be correct. A wealth of information, four years of studying conference teams up close and a lot of luck went into lining them up this way.
Kansan picks OU to win Big 8
Feel free to wager a beer on them. Now, I could be wrong, but
Oklahoma will win the Big Eight.
Nebraska will win second Kansas will be
the winner.
OKLAHOMA-Last year's team was the nation's leader in rushing, the conference's leader in touchdown passes and the Orange Bowl's best loser. Fifteen starters will be selected to play at the wishbone quarterback in the country. There are three other returning All-Americans.
Don't plan on ON to change its style. It will still run hard and tackle as if its defense were a bullet.
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NEBRASKA-Big Red fan will still be burowning oranges onto their field, but the Cincinnati Reds have to win.
Besides, who could ever vote against God,
country and the Sooners?
INSIDE SPORTS Leon Unruh
seventh straight year. Without that victory, the season will be almost meaningless.
Nevertheless, NU will tear apart a lot of teams.
ISU's defense will be guarded at the ramparts by tackle Mike Stenarud and linebacker Tom Bookse. They're both candidate for positions All-American honors.
On comes, *rsaiah* Moses) Hipp, the conference offensive newcomer of 1977, will be back as I-back. His understudy, Rick Berns, got a starting position at fullback this year when the 'Huskers moved to a near first-round team whose their caliber should be nearly unstoppable.
IOWA STATE—Tailback Dexter Green has earned more than 1,000 yards in each of the last two years. ISU has had 8-3 regular-season records those years. Both strings will go to three, making Green the second player in Big Eight history to do that and be drafted. The team outperformed them couldn't win it all. ISU and NU have a good chance of truing for second.
The vaulted Black Shirt Defense will remain as such.
The OU-NU game, by the way, was moved
Their first six opponents this year had a combined record a year ago of 21-48-1.
to the 10th week of the season from the final
week. It will get better TV money that was
COLORADO—The Golden Buffaloes have the largest wild mascot in the conference. Two years ago it ran wild before the KU game in Boulder. If it does that this year, it will be the most exciting event in CU's first five games, which are easy ones at home.
Jeff Knapple, the league's best passer last year as a junior, quit the team and took his favorite receiver with him to Colorado State. Fullback James Mayberry (second
east in the league last year on the ground) is the biggest name returning.
MOSQUIER—Warren Powers, who is paying $5,000 to coach at MU, will help the Tigers make the most of their six home games. They'll beat their backer Pete Woods but return 18 starters.
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MU starts at Notre Dame, then plays Alabama and Mississippi in Columbia. The fourth game is at OU. Other than those, they might even expect a spectacle season. They might even beat KU.
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KANSAS-Lots of youthful enthusiasm and a dramatic revision of the offense should put the Jayhawks where they finished in 1977. An upset over preseason rivals Texa's AxM, Washington or UCLA would again bring joy to the only stadium in the Big Eight where the football field is surrounded by a track.
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Coach Bud Moore has promised to have his quarterback passes as much as three times as often as last year. He's got six of them willing to comply. The defense is strongest at linebacker and weakest in the secondary.
Gary Spani, the All-American linebacker,
and Paul Cofman, one of the conference's
best players.
KANSAS STATE—The team that has been down so long that its phone number is listed in the Yellow Pages under "cellars" will win a conference game this year. The team has used its reputation to shake and an enthusiastic new coach who might help his team do it.
The team K-State will beat to avoid the cellar is:
They didn't leave much on offense except for Dan Manuchi, who passes, Charlie Green, who catches, and Mack Green, who passes, the other teams do all those things well.
OKLAHOMA STATE—The Cowboys lost halfback Terry Miller; the Eight败 offender played the year, the conference's best scorer and the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy.
Harold Bailey will be back at quarterback, but there will be lot of new people playing offense. The defensive secondary will be in better shape and the line will be better balanced. Why all the other teams suddenly have the most talk about halfbacks in the league.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - Jim Stanley, whose football team is on probation and under investigation following a losing season, says he feels no pressure for his job.
Not surprisingly, Stanley's assessment of words like "enthusiasm," and "telling" feels
'Poke spirit may be key to survival
But he agrees that this year represents the team's first season in six seasons as Oklahoma State's head coach.
"Yea, sure. I would say we have a big challenge," he said. "But I don't feel any pressure to win. There is always internal pressure, as important as doing the best you can."
"We've got lots of people with narrow shoulders and skinny rearers who are out there trying their very best," he said. "We've had better athletes in lots of categories, but they're out there trying to be a good football team."
In five years Stanley has been to the top once; two years ago when the Cowboys Oklahoma and Colorado for the Big Eight Brigham Young in the Tangerine Bowl.
LAST YEAR the Cowboys, although
ranked sixth in the placed second in
the hustle and bustle of the hindquarters.
Then over the winter the NCAA hammered the Cowboys with a two-yearote
Now they are engulfed in another scandal. A Tulsa businessman triggered probes by the Big Eight and NCAA with allegations of a slush fund.
In addition, a Dallas newspaper story a month earlier had put the NCAA on the trail of charges that players had received for running of new cars in violation of NCAA rules.
None of the current allegations has been proven. Stanley says all those troubles will be over within a few months.
"No, I really don't think so," he said.
"And that may be premature for me to say.
But I don't think there is anything about the
business. So I can tell them. They can read and write."
1 may sound corny, but I am excited about the way these young men are approaching the season. I've never seen so many players try so hard to do so much. I've never had a team that I thought gave as much of itself."