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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Weis pushes for more improvement in upcoming games, one step at a time
STELLA LIANG
sliang@kansan.com
PASSING GAME IS MUCH IMPROVED
PASSING GAME IS MUCH TO
The casual Kansas football fan,
last week's offense might have
looked a lot like the offense from
last year. It was run-heavy with 280
total rushing yards and quarterback
Jake Heaps completed 10 out of 20
passes for 110 yards.
Coach Charlie Weis, on the other hand, did not see last year's offense. "It was nothing like any game last year," Weis said. "There was not one game that looked like that game."
According to Weis, those 10 incompletions by Heaps included four or five dropped balls, three throwaways and two or three clear incompletions.
Senior safety Dexter Linton chases down South Dakota quaterback Josh Vander Maten during the game on Sept. 7.
incompetitions.
"Regardless of how many times we throw it, I will take those percentages any day," he said.
Weis said there has to be improvement on the receiving end.
Wide receiver Justin McCay had a dropped pass on a play up the sideline, which, if caught, would have been a long completion. Weis is pushing the receivers to make those plays.
REVENGE IS NOT A FACTOR IN REMATCH AGAINST RICE
Kansas football will face a familiar foe Saturday in the Rice Owls. The Jayhawks lost to them 25-24 last season. Weis said revenge is not a motivational factor going forward this week; instead, the loss is a learning opportunity. In last year's game, Kansas led until the final seconds of the game, when Rice kicked a field goal to win from behind.
"I use that more as a teaching tool," Weis said. "I don't talk about getting revenge for what they did. We blew it. They deserved to win, because we didn't close out the game."
There are positives to facing a team again in such a short time frame. Linebackers coach Clint Bowen said knowing the opponent has its benefits and knowing the opposing team's personnel is the most crucial factor.
Last Saturday's victory against South Dakota was the team's first triumph in more than a year. This week, the team is looking to capture
GOAL IS TO REACH NEXT STEPPING STONE
the program's first win on the road in four years. Weis described the upcoming game as the second in a series of steps to break the team's losing streaks one by one. Witness the program winning last
"For the program, winning last week got the losing streak out of
the way," Weis said. "Winning this week would get losing on the road out of the way. Winning three weeks from now against Texas Tech gets the conference win out of the way. These are stepping stones you have to take to go ahead and move
up. It is an opportunity to get one of those put aside."
it is an oppo-
bate of those put aside."
Last week's game also provided
stepping stones for individual
players. Saturday's win was the
first playing time for Heaps in
about two years and McCav's
touchdown holds strong potential. Although McCay hadn't played in a competitive game in years, he can now put the first game aside and focus on the next step.
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Jacques Rogge, right, outgoing president of the International Olympic Committee, points to Thomas Bach of Germany, left, after Bach was elected as the new IOC president during the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 10.
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Russian leader reaches out to new Olympic president
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Within minutes of being elected to the top job in the Olympics, Thomas Bach got a phone call from a powerful leader he'll work with closely in the next few months: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Bach, the longtime favorite, defeated five candidates in a secret ballot for the most influential job in international sports, keeping the presidency in European hands.
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Bach and the IOC have been told by the Russians there would be no discrimination against anyone in Sochi, and that Russia would abide by the Olympic Charter.
The former Olympic fencer received 49 votes in the second round to secure a winning majority. Richard Carrion of Puerto Rico finished second with 29 votes.
"We have the assurances of the highest authorities in Russia that
Associated Press The buildup to the Feb. 7-23 games has been overshadowed by concerns with cost overruns, human rights, a budget topping $50 billion, security threats and a Western backlash against a Russian law against gay "propaganda."
One of the first congratulatory phone calls came
The Sochi Games are one of Putin's pet projects, with Russia's prestige on the line.
"We have to realize that our decisions at events like Olympic Games, they have political implications."
"We will work on our project now and then it will be communicated to the NOCs [national Olympic committees] and then athletes," Bach said. "It will be elaborated more in detail."
It remains unclear what would happen if athletes or spectators demonstrate against the anti-gay law. Rogge said this week the IOC would send a reminder to athletes that, under the Olympic Charter, they are prohibited from making any political gestures.
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"He congratulated and [said] there would be close cooperation to make [sure of] the success of the Sochi Games," Bach told The Associated Press.
trom Putin, who will host the IOC in less than five months at the Winter Olympics in the southern Russian resort of Sochi.
At his first news conference as president, Bach was asked about how the IOC would deal with human rights issues in host countries. The IOC has been criticized for not
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A former Olympic fencing gold medalist who heads Germany's national Olympic committee, Bach is the ninth president in the 119-year history of the IOC. He's the eighth European to hold the presidency.
"But in order to fulfill our role to make sure that in the Olympic Games and for the participants the Charter is respected, we have to be strictly politically neutral. And there we also have to protect the athletes," he said.
"The IOC cannot be apolitical," Bach said. "We have to realize that our decisions at events
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Of the IOC's leaders, all have come from Europe except for Avery Brundage, the American who ran the committee from 1952-72.
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He received a standing ovation for nearly a full minute after Rogge opened a sealed envelope to announce his victory. Bach bowed slightly to the delegates to acknowledge the warm response and thanked the members in several languages.
"I want to be a president for all of you," he told the members. "This means I will do my very best to balance well all the different interests of the stakeholders of the Olympic movement. This is why I want to listen to you and to enter in an ongoing dialogue with all of you. You should know that my door, my ears and my heart are always open for you."