University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 20, 1990
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Bonds selected as league MVP
The Associated Press
PITTSBURG — Berry bonds someday can tell his kids what his father could never tell him — that man in League's most Valuable Player.
Like teammate Doug Drake, who won the Cy Young Award last week. Bonds was one vote shy of unanimous selection yesterday, outpelling Pittsburgh Pirates' teammate Bobonilla.
Bonds completed a near sweep of top NL awards by the Pirates, receiving 23 of 24 first-place votes and 331 of a possible 338 points in the World Championship Writers' of America Association. Two writers in each NL city voted.
Bonilla, who teamed with Bonds in leading the Pirates to their first NEast Lake in 11 years, had the other first-place vote. Darryl Strawberry, the New York Mets' slugger who recently signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, placed third.
"I wish I could split it and give half to Bobby." Bonds said. "I wish I could share it. To me, he's just as much the MVP as I am."
In addition to Bonds and Drabek winning awards for the Pirates.
Jim Leyland was voted Manager of the Year. The only NL award the team did not win was Rookie of the Year, went to Dave Justice of Atlanta.
Motivated by his father and angered by losing his salary arbitration case last winter, Barry Bonds became the first player to bat .300, hit 30 homers, drive in 100 runs and steal 50 bases. His final numbers were .301, 33 homers, 114 RBI and 53 stolen bases.
Bonds has been compared to his father, Bobby Bonds, since he pulled on his first uniform. But Bobby Bonds, the former San Francisco guard of Barry's godfather, Willie Mays, won a MVP award despite enjoying a record five seasons with 30 homers and 30 stolen bases.
"I think I had an MVP season.
"This was just an unreal year."
Bonds said. "I don't know if I can ever do this again, but I can tell my kids and grandkids that, for six years, I'll up there with the best of them."
His previous career highs were. 283, 25 homers, 59 RBI and 36 steals.
Men's team finishes 16th at NCAA meet
By Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
Cross Country
The Kansas men's cross country team finished six places below where it finished last year, but Coach Gary Schwartz said he was not dispaired with the team's performance at the NCAA Championships.
"I thought we ran well, but not exceptional." Schwartz said. "I was pleased given the fact of how young we are. The young people on the team ran well. There is no reason for us to feel bad about our performance."
Kansas placed 16th in a field of 22 at the championships in Knoxville, Tenn. Arkansas won the men's competition for the fourth time in seven years. Defending NCAA champion Terry Dame was third. Dame was second.
Junior Donnie Anderson led the Jayhaws with a 75th-place finish in the 10-kilometer race. Anderson's time was 30:48. Anderson and senior Stewart Gillin are co-captains of the team.
"I thought we ran a solid race," Anderson said. "I think it was a great experience that these guys will be able to grow off of in the future.
Gillin was the second Kansas finisher, placing 79th with a time of
"Placing 16th is nothing to be ashamed of. They had higher expectations because of what we did last year."
30:51. He said he was disappointed with Kansas' finish.
"It just kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth because I'm not going to be here next year," he said.
of third next year. he said.
Third across the finish line for Michigan from提摩德Cox, who placed 8th overall with a time of 30.57. Freshman David Johnston was next for Kansas in 31:13 for 103rd place.
Junior Jason Teal was the fourth Jayhawk to finish. He finished in 31:46 for 136th place. Sophore Ladd McCain finished sixth for Kansas and 158th overall with a time of 32:25. Sophon Jorge Hays rounded out the Kansas harriers in 165th with a time of 32:41.
All of the times posted were personal bests for the Jayhawks, who have qualified for the NCAA Championships the last two years. Last season, the Kansas men finished 10th.
"Everybody is shooting for the top "10 when you get to nationals". Schwartz said. "We talked about finishing in the 10th to 15th range. We asked them how they look ahead and want to do a good or better than the last year."
The Kansas men's times were faster than those at last year's NCAA meet. The top finisher for Kansas ran 103.89, compared to Anderson's 103.48.
"We got good experience and hope it pays off in the future. Schwartz said. "We plan to be back
Luring the best to KU
On the level of Kansas basketball, recruiting is a business that eats up hundreds of thousands of dollars and requires thousands of hours of work each year. Fans soar to euphoria or sink to depression based on the success or failure in one brief week in November, the early signing period.
Coaches across the nation do everything in their power to make each of a hundred high school junior seniors feel like a gad in his own right.
Kansas assistant coach Kevin Stallings can see why.
By Derek Simmons Kansan sportswriter
"Recruiting is expensive and time-consuming but important to success of the program," Stallings said. "We are fortunate to be playing basketball at the highest level because that success will help us in Conversely, good recruiting will help us maintain the quality of play.
"It's really a circle. Some schools can't get in the circle, and the rest can't afford to get out."
The Kansas basketball program has an annual budget of $952,000, of which 12 percent — $115,000 — is allocated for recruiting.
Stallings said it was easy to see where that kind of money went.
where that kind of money was spent.
"A lot of it probably goes to travel," he said. "I don't have the numbers, but with three coaches on the road for a month at a time, that will add up."
Campus visits are another expense.
"You could spend $400 for a plane ticket, another $210 for two nights in a hotel, $50 to $60 for meals and $40 for the student host." Stallings said.
If he's from California or someplace that far away, you could easily spend seven, eight, nine hundred dollars for a kid's campus visit.
More, if a staff isn't careful
Living under NCAA law
The Kansas basketball program is serving the last year of a three-year probation for recruiting violations that occurred when San Antonio Spurs coach Larry Brown was at Kansas.
Kansas was convicted of providing a recruit with monetary inducements worth more than $1,000, including $350 for an airline ticket, $250 loan and payment of $297 for work not performed.
Less expensive violations included giving a recruit free tennis shoes, lending a recruit money for clothes and bringing a recruit money for more than 30 miles from campus.
Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director, said Kansas had taken several steps to prevent violations from occurring again.
Kansas hired a compliance auditor to review travel and recruiting expense reports, tightened the reporting procedure, and implemented rules testing for coaches. Passing the test is a condition of employment.
Recruiting guidelines in the 1990 NCAA manual are 26 pages long and technical.
"Even with the book in front of you, the rules are subject to interpretation," Konzem said. "What really tests the knowledge of a recruiter is
By Derek Simmons Kansan sportswriter
Ben Davis, a 6-foot-8 power forward from Mouth of Wilson, Va., signed a letter of intent with the University of Kansas yesterday, Kansas coach Roy Williams announced.
Davis averaged 11 points and 11 rebounds a game while leading the Oak Hill Academy Warriors to a 29-0 record as a junior last season.
In the team's first game this season, Davis scored 33 points and pulled down 24 rebounds while playing just over half of the game.
Power forward to play for Kansas
Davis is the 18th-ranked high school player in the nation according to recruiting analyst Bob Gibbons. He chose Kansas over Pittsburgh University, Temple, Florida and Florida State. He played his first two years of high school at Fort Pierce High School
Williams said he was excited about Davis.
Kansas has one of its six scholarships remaining after signing four players last week.
The others who have signed are Greg Ostertag, 7-1 center from Duncanville, Texas. Greg Gurley, a 6-5 guard from Overland Park, Sean Pearson, a 6-5 guard forward from LaGrange Park, III., and Calvin Rayford, a 5-8 guard from Milwaukee.
"He is also the type of young man who will represent the University in a first-class manner," he said.
in Florida before transferring to Oak Hill last year.
"Ben is a power forward, an excellent rebounder and the type of young man who can give us some help on the boards," Williams said.
his response in a hypothetical situation."
For instance, a recruit can visit a campus at the school's expense. Can the school provide lodging for his parents if they want to visit? Can the school reimburse the parents for travel expenses? How about a high school coach? Can the school pay for the family to go out to dinner?
A school can reimburse parents for food and lodging for the 48 hours of their son's official visit. If the parents drive, they can be reimbursed for travel expenses, but if they don't drive, the school cannot reimburse a high school coach for transportation to the campus.
A testing procedure similar to the one Kansas uses is expected to be adopted by the NCAA at January's annual convention.
The answers are yes, maybe, no and yes.
"The other thing we've done is we took the Illinois and Missouri cases and pointed out to our coaches the importance of accounting for every student." We can learn from the mistakes of others as well as from our own."
Chris Lindsey was a freshman at Raytown South High School in Kansas City, Mo. when he fell the first time he had been a torrent of recruiting interest.
Just before his junior year, Notre Dame coach Digger Phils called his high school coach to get permission to call Lindley at home. Kansas Roy Williams came to his school and watched the team practice.
He got a couple of letters from Kansas Coach Lorry Brown, just letting him know about the University of Kansas, and a letter or two from the rest of the schools in the Big Eight. During his sophomore year, he coached teams from most of the Big Eight schools called Lindley at home.
You win some . . .
But after he attended the Nike summer basketball camp after his junior year, and recruiting analyst Bob Gibbs rated him among the
top 51 high school players in the nation, then the REAL recruiting started.
"All the schools were there," he said. "I got hundreds of letters, some days 15 or 20 letters a day. And phone calls."
"The worst part of recruiting is the phone calls. It got so I would leave Sundays night. For some reason, I missed calls in America calls on Sunday night."
Coaches and assistant coaches from Rhode Island, California, North Carolina, Connecticut — nearly every school in every state with a basketball team — called or sent letters, Lindley said.
"You change your mind about a hundred times," he said. "At one time, I was sure I wanted to go to North Carolina State. Then another coach called, and I changed my mind."
"Sometimes you consider schools just because of an assistant coach. I would never have thought of going to college," she said. "Did after one of their coaches called
He visited Kansas State and Ohio State.
"KState was OK, but Ohio State really rolled out the red carpet for me," he said. "I stayed in a hotel that opened up to get to my suite. It was just plush."
"They sent me a tape with a radio announcer describing the end of a game, and in the final seconds the announcer said "Three . . . two — Lindley gets the ball. He drives and puts up a shot — one . . . It's good! Chris Lindley has won the game for Ohio State!"
"And they sent a newspaper clipping with a picture of somebody wearing a jersey with my name on it dunking over some other player. The story would talk about how I had 23 and won the game. It was neat. I救了它.
"I very nearly went to Ohio State. They have a class operation."
Lindley said that being recruited was a heady experience.
See RECRUITING, p. 10
Kansas football improved despite tough schedule
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas coach Glen Mason has kept his players motivated in the face of a murderous schedule this season and is focusing on focus of his goals for the program.
And Lee Corso, college football analyst for ESPN, said nobody knows that better than he does.
The Hoosiers faced Louisiana State, Nebraska, and Washington, in addition to their regular Big Ten Conference opponent. The biggest thing to accomplish was to
As a football coach for Indiana for 10 years, Corso and his team faced a 1978 schedule that would rival Kansas' 1990 schedule.
sustain the players' desire to play, and to not get discouraged about the program.
Corso is one of many people, from a variety of backgrounds, who will look back on the 1990 season and evaluate the progress Kansas made.
There is still a long way to go. Corso said, but the program is going in the right direction and has a big-time college coach guiding it.
"I still believe a program should be evaluated on the whole season and not on one game." Mason said. "We are a much improved football team and we'll pick up where we left off next year."
"Kansas got clobbered at the beginning of the season, but Mason has done an excellent job of bringing the team right back after each loss." Corso said. "I think if Kansas is going to keep improving, then the facilities of the school will have to improve, like a bigger weight room
Mason said that although he was unhappy about the loss to Missouri, he still believed in what the staff and players were doing.
"We were averaging more than 460 yards of offense our last couple of games." Ruel said. "When you gain
with more stuff in it. But right now the school is on the right track."
One thing offensive coordinator Pat Ruel said the Jayhawks needed to work on was scoring and turnovers.
477 yards of offense, that should bring in 35 points. We gained 410 against Nebraska and only scored nine."
Kansas had 10 times as many turnovers as its opponents, but Ruel said he saw good things rising from the program's foundation.
"Our first year here, we started laying a few bricks down, not really knowing how things would turn out," Ruel said. "The next year we started to see walls around us, and after this we've got the framework of a roof."
"Maybe the Missouri game gave us the slap in the face we needed to get us mad about next year, because we know we could have done better. Now
Freshman George White said he was hungry to get started on next season.
we'll be hungry to prove it."
Former player and two-time Jakehawk coach Don Fambridge said that the Okahoma State game stood on a turning point during the season.
"Winning a close game like Oklahoma State is better than beating a team by three or four touchdowns," Fambrough said. "It's better because it gives a team much more experience, and made tremendous progress. Anybody that watched the first half of the Nebraska game can tell you that."
KU defeats UTEP after error ruling but loses in semifinals
The KU soccer club was eliminated in the semifinals of the National Collegiate Club Soccer Association national championship last weekend in Austin, Texas, losing 2-0 to eventual national champion Texas.
Kansan sportswriter
By Derek Simmons
Kansas had been eliminated in a quarterfinal match against the University of Texas-Eli Paso on Saturday, but an officiating error caused the game to resume Sunday morning, and Kansas won after a shootout.
Gordon Kratz, KU sports club director and NCSA executive director, said the officiating error was the only one of its kind that would allow the referee's decision to be overturned.
KU ran a little too close to one of the UTEP guys while taking a shot, and the UTEP guy took a swing at him," Kraatz said. "The UTEP guy didn't hit but the referee yellow-carded and awarded KU a penalty kick."
"Apparently one of the guys from
"The UTEP goalkeeper broke the penalty kick straight back to the KU player, who then kicked the ball back into the goal for an apparent score," Kratz said. "But the official ruled that the ball was dead when the goalkeeper blocked it, nullified the call to the ball in UTEP for a goaleek ball."
"At the time this happened, UTEP was ahead 2-1. Nobody scored in the last five minutes, and UTEP was declared the winner."
Then things became confusing.
Kansas protested the referee's decision, and after deliberation among tournament officials and referees across the state, it was ruled that the judge should have been counted and that the game would be declared a 22 tite.
"The referees' consensus was that the game should have been played again in its entirety," Kratz said. "But it was 10:30 Saturday night, and the fields were shut down already. Your game couldn't be replayed Sunday morning because semifinals were scheduled to begin at 10 in the morning.
"Neither coach wanted to play it
gain, anyway, because whoever
won would have to play three games
sunday to win the championship."
Kansas and UTEP retook the field
at 8 a.m. Sunday to play the first of two 10-moment overtimes. Neither team scored, and the match went into the tournament's shootout format.
Kansas won the shootout and advanced to the semifinals, where it met Texas.
Mark Plakorus, Arvada, Colo.
senior, said that the game against
Texas was anti-climactic.
"We were going crazy after the UTEP game," Plakous said. "First we should have tied it and we protested, and then they let us play on Friday. That game just took so much of us, and it showed in the semifinal."
"Texas beat us 2-0 because we were too tired to get it into the net."
Dan Stoke, team co-captain, said Kansas and UTEP had a rivalry that
Kansas reached the quarterfinals of the 12-team tournament after it defeated Cal-Tech 2-1 in a shootout but lost 5-6 to Mankato State in a shootout. The top eight teams advanced to the quarterfinals.
dated back to 1988.
Kansas finished the fall season with a record of 21-5-3 and two tournament championships. Ties stand in the regular season.
"We beat them two years ago on their home turf and last year in the Jayhawk Classic, and they knocked us down last year in nationals," Stoke said.
"I will say this: The best team will be the first to admit when a team is better than us. Texas was in the second half of that game."
Bowl system needs to be redesigned
Brent Maycock Sports editor
Bowl season.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm just as much of a bowl fan as the guy who paints his face blue and stands in 30-degree weather without wearing a shirt. But the selection process is now of hand and has ruined any tradition the bowls might have once had.
As college football enters its final weeks, thus begins one of the maddest traditions that the sport must end.
More than three weeks ago, there were already teams that knew where they would be spending their Christmas Break. When the agreements for most of the bowl match-ups were made on Nov. 11, most of the pairings had been announced, and speculation of what was supposed to happen during the rest of the season.
Notre Dame wasn't supposed to lose to Penn State, or Stanford for that matter. The Fighting Irish were supposed to be meeting Colorado in the national championship, but the National Championship, instead, the Fighting Irish will be fighting to keep their championship hopes alive by beating the Buffaloes and praying for Miami, Georgia Tech and a host of other teams to be upset. And don't forget that Notre Dame still has a date with Southern California before 'the year is through.'
Likewise, Virginia was supposed to go undefeated once it beat Clemson. However, two losses in the ACC have eliminated the Cavaliers' shot at the No. 1 USF&S Gumball Sweetens' chances of hosting a game national importance.
With the bowls making their pairings so early, a lot of teams that are average at best seem to find their way into postseason play, making them less illustrious. I'll be sure to keep them in the Eagle Aloha Bowl, which pitches Arizona (6-4) against Syracuse (6-3). Or maybe the Anaheim Freedom bowl pairing Oregon, which beat mighty Oregon State 9-3, and Colorado State, which was pummed earlier in the year by a 2-8 Arkansas team.
The obvious solution to the problem facing the bowls is to install a playoff system similar to that used by the National Football League. This also eliminates the question as to who the No. 1 Team in college football is.
Dissidents of the playoff system for college football claim that it would take away from the traditions of bowl games. They say that they taken away a few years ago when they decided to "sell" the individual bowl games to corporations. Now instead of the Independence Bowl, they want an independent Bowl, Catchy, isn't it.
At least the sales could have been made to corporations that have something to do with the bowl name. Somehow the Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl and the Federal Express Orange Bowl just don't sound right.
Despite these shortcomings, the bowls have managed to arrange some games that will be very competitive and exciting. The Mobile Coulomb Cup is a unique-looking for its second consecutive national title, facing Texas, one of the hottest teams in the nation. This game could have serious importance as to who wins the national championship match-up also will be a great game.
And as long I'm on the topic of college football, it's time for me to pick this year's winner of the Heisman Trophy award. Trimmed down from the numerous people hyped to be contenders, there are five legitimate players who have a chance at winning.
My fourth runner-up goes to Shawn Moore. Had Virginia been playing for the national championship, he might appear higher. But to no avail. Third runner-up is Ty Detmer. Although he has been a tough team plays an extremely weak schedule and his stats aren't even close to touching my second runner-up, David Klinger of Houston. Klinger's NCAA record of 11 touchdowns that week opened the eyes of some voters, but I just can't vote for him.
The runner-up is Raghib Ismail, my preseason choice as the winner. He too has had an outstanding year, but he has disappeared in some way. The second-winner is winner as Colorado's Eric Bieniemy. All Bieniemy has done is lead the NCA in rushing for most of the year. Besides, anyone who can gain 178 yards and score four touchdowns Nebraska's defense is "reserving."
Brent Maycock is a Branson, Mo.. senior majoring in journalism.