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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, August 30, 1990
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Dressed to beat the heat, Tim Sadiq, Wichita freshman, takes a shot at the men's golf practice
Redshirt policy improves golfers and lifts morale
Johnsen expected to lead young squad into fall season
By Chris Oster
Kansan sportswriter
The only other senior on the team is Dave Koeen. Randall said Koenen played minimally for the team last year.
"That's just my style," Johnsen said. "I take the summer to work on my fundamentals. We play in so many different ways, year that it takes a lot of out of me."
Kansas golf coach Ross Randall is starting to look like the Tom Osborne of his sport. Like Osborne with Nebraska football, Randall has made his redshirt policy the cornerstone of his program.
Joining Johnsen this season is a group of golfers that Randall said would be competing for the five travel spots.
Randall said Johnsen took the summer months easy, playing in only a few tournaments.
In the past five years, the 12th year coach has had only one team member who has not taken the redshirt route. This year he thinks the program should pay healthy dividends. All but one of the members of this year's team are products of the redshirt system.
Leading the team is one of Randall's first red-shirt golfers, senior Len Johnson, the only returning team member who saw extensive playing time last season. Johnson also helped Johnson to perform well this year.
Johnsen said he thought he would be able to lead the Jayhawks with his experience in tournaments situations and knowledge of the courses the team will play this season.
"He may step up and earn a starting spot," Randall said. "He did well in a couple of big summer tournaments."
Two sophomores are looking for spots on the team. Sid McKnight and Jim Young both saw limited action for the Jayhawks last year.
"We're hoping that their experience will help them this season," Randall said.
he did not play there, Gogel will immediately be eligible at Kansas.
That is good news for the team. Gogel is the reigning Oklahoma amateur champion and Randall Wesley is in immediate impact on the team.
The other four players competing to make the team are sophomore Brad Bruno and freshmen
'That's just my style. I take the summer to work on my fundamentals. We play in so many tournments during the year that it takes a lot out of me.'
— Len Johnsen
The rest of the team consists of one sophomore and four freshmen who sat out last season. Randall said they had a legitimate chance to make the decision.
senior on men's golf team
Randall said the redshirt program was not necessarily to make better golfers.
"It really ensures that they become adjusted to their surroundings. From my point of view, that makes better players."
"We get some kids in here whose hometowns are smaller than the University." Randall said. "We want them to do well in school.
Johnsen said that the year off helped his game.
"I think it's a good thing," Johnson said. "The year off might hurt at first, because of a lack of money. It really pays off down the road."
The only member of this year's team who was not redshirted is Matt Gogel, who is among the four who did not compete during their freshman year. He is a transfer student from Oklahoma. Because
Casey Brozek, Breek Moeller and Aaron Searls. Randall said all of the players had strong summers and a good chance to make the squar
"This fall we'll try to establish who plays, he said. "We literally have eight or nine guys who are for spotts on the traveling crew."
"Having 10 of 12 guys out there trying to make the team makes you work harder," Johnsen said.
Johnsen sees that as an advantage.
Randall thinks the competition will prepare the squad for the spring.
Kansas sophomore captures decathlon
This year's redshirt freshmen comprise what Randall said was his best recruiting year ever. He credited this to the continued effort of the program, which he was in the top 20 to 25 in the nation.
"They all need competition," he said. "We're young this year, but we should be a good team by April."
Kansan sportswriter
Bv .Juli Watkine
Walters, 19, scored 6.454 points, edging out Joe White of the Canadian team by two points to win the competition.
Chris Walters, Lawrence sophomore, won the decathlon in the 19 and under age division at the USA Olympic Meet Sunday in Leuven, Texas.
Third place went to Frederick Herbert, Canada, 6,452 points; fourth, Lake Meyer, Canada, 6,233 points; fifth, Rob English, Canada, 6,112 points; and sixth, Kanon Van-Derhoff, United States, 6,568 points.
Walters had personal bests in the shot put and high jump. He made improvements in the 100 meters, javelin and pole vault to improve his overall best point total by more than 100 points.
Walters was invited to compete in the USA Canada meet after qualifying in the Junior TAC Championships in late June. He had qualified for the TAC meet by totaling over 5,900 points last season. The championships were held in Fresno, Calif., and Walters placed fifth.
His results are as follows: 100 meters, 11.28 seconds; long jump, 21-1/2 ft; shot put, 35-4/3 ft; high jump, 6-3/4 ft; 43-0, 37; 110 hurdles, 15-9, 4 ft; pole vault, 15.2/3 ft; javelin, 153, 7 ft; 1,500 feet, 76 seconds.
Walters said the top two finishes were invited to an international meet in Bulgaria, and third through eighth in Canada, and invited to the USA-Canada meet.
"It felt pretty good." he said in regard to his victory at his debut on the international circuit.
This was not Walters' first experience on the national level, but it was his first international competition
Doug Hedrick, graduate assistant track coach for multi-event athletes, said that although Walters was common among the top age group, the victory was a big honor. He said that Walter's lack of experience last year as a freshman may explain why he had not been a part of the season in the Big Eight Conference.
"At the Big Eight he was going against freshmen to seniors, and he was a freshman." Hedrick said.
"Although he PR ed at this meet, he really didn't train all that hard for it. Hedrick said, referring to Warrington, "He'll be PR ing big time this year."
"If you had toured the players' rooms in Bed Hall, you might well have thought them in an army." Charles Thompson said in published book "Down and Dirty: The Life and Crimes of Oklahoma Football."
Walters will not compete in the decathlon again until the outdoor track season begins next spring. Hedrick said that Walters may try to compete in a pentathlon outside the conference since the Big Eight did not have pentathlons for men during the indoor season. However, women can compete in the pentathlon during the indoor season in the Big Eight.
OVERLAND PARK — In a report released yesterday, the NCAA said that it would distribute $23 million to member conferences and another $23 million to member schools in the first payments from its basketball television contract.
Walters' track background includes the pole vault, hurdles and long jump. He attended Lawrence High School and was the GA state champion in the pole vault his junior year. He placed second his senior year and was the sixth-place finisher in the high hurdles.
Sports briefs
TV CONTRACTS SET:
Payments to the conferences will be based on the success of their teams in the men's basketball tournament from 1865-90. Money to the schools will be distributed through a formula that measures the number of sports each school sponsors and the number of athletic scholarships.
Money will be sent to conferences in April. Schools will get their money next August.
The Atlantic Coast Conference will get the most money – $4,977,500. The Big East must get $3.9 million, the Big Ten must get $1.6 million, Eight about $2.3 million and the
NORMAN, Okla. - A former Oklahoma quarterback serving time for cocaine violations says guns and drug usage were common sights during his stay at the school's athletic dormitory.
OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL:
The money came from the $1 billion contract the NCAA signed with CBS for rights to the basketball tournament.
The NCAA did not release an estimate of what would be paid to individual schools.
Southeastern Conference more than $2.4 million.
Jayhawks eager for Saturday's contest
By Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswriter
The new battle lines at Memorial Stadium have been drawn and are dry, and the players have replayed Virginia many times during practice.
After months of preparing for Saturday's home opener, head coach Glen Mason said he was eager to let his Jahways loose against a team ranked on the top twenty in the nation.
"We're no different than any other major college football team this time of year," Mason said. "We're tired of practicing and we want to get on with the season. We’re looking forward to Virginia."
Mason said he had faced Virginia head coach George Walsen when he was an assistant at Ohio State. He said Walsh was one of the most underrated coaches in college football.
"Walsh has not only made them winners, but consistent winners," Mason said. "The job he'd done at Virginia, a school that most people considered as one where you couldn't win in football, is really great."
Virginia in the Big Eight Conference, he would put them at least fourth and that the school would threaten the top three. He said Virginia had the most balanced offense he had seen and expected to always throw the ball.
"I think they can match up with anybody offensively, absolutely anybody," Mason said. "But I don't think they're as strong defensively as the likes of Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Colorado."
Mason said that if he had to rank
Mason said he thought one of the offensive strengths of the Jayhawks was at the fullback position.
He said two starters, Maurice Douglas and Roger Robben, would both play Saturday. Robben returned to the team for a conference in tackles last season.
Mason said he planned to play several true freshmen: running back George John, who will run kickoffs and play in the offense; linebacker Joshua Brown, who will linebacker Maulangaal and kicker Dan Eichloff, who boasts a 550-pound squat
and will tentatively start as punter.
True freshmen are players who enrolled in the University of Kansas this fall. Others players are listed as fall but were redshirted last season
The KU Weather Service forecasted temperatures reaching 97 degrees on game day, and a local television station reported a possible high of 101 degrees, but Mason said that the weather would be an advantage for Kansas.
"Obviously the weather could be a factor, but we've both had the opportunity to prepare in hot weather." Mason said. "I'm glad we had it."
"One thing we worry about as coaches is having cool weather until game day, then having one of those 95 players that are not being able to prepare for it."
Starting quarterback Chip Hillary said he thought the weather might be one of the best advantages the Jay hawks would have. Either way, he said two-a-day practices have prepared the team for competition.
"When you play your own team
you sort of know what they're
going to do," Hilleary said. "You get
sick of hitting the same guys. You
gick
Linebacker and defensive captain Curtis Moore said he is also anxious to return to the field. He missed the entire 1898 season after knee surgery. Moore had been selected the defensive newcomer of the year by the Associated Press two seasons earlier.
want to hit somebody new."
Moore said although he was a little nervous about making his first start in a year, he was ready to try to candidate for the starting quarterback Shawn Moore.
"It's a big challange, but we've faced big people before," Moore said. ("former Oklahoma State running back Barry) Sanders, (Colorado's John) Hagan, and the rest. It will give us more confidence in our later games."
Mason said he hoped the Cavaliers would look past Kansas to their next game with Clemson, the only team to win in the last two games. But he said he did not expect them.
"Obviously that's what I'd like them to do, but I can't worry about that," Mason said. "The only thing I have a chance of affecting is our football team. We don't look past anybody."
Rangers trade All-Star Harold Baines to A's
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics, trying to add power for the postseason, acquired four-time All-Star Harold Baines from the Texas Rangers yesterday for two players to be named later.
The Athletics took a six and a half-game lead over Chicago in the American League West into last
Baines, 31, was batting 290 with 10 home runs and 44 RIBs in 103 games for Texas. He started 95 games at the outfield this season and two in the outfield this season.
night's play. Oakland won the World Series last year and has won two straight pennants.
Trading for more offense was made more urgent by the injury to Dave Henderson, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery last week and may not be able to play the rest of this season.
"we felt we were covered in center field, that we didn't need to add defuse if we added offense somewhere else," said Sandy Alderson, Oakland's vice president of baseball operations. "Harold Baines is the
perfect solution to our problems."
Postseason rosters must be set by Aug. 31. The Athletics had been searching for an extra left-handed bat, with Mel Hall of the New York Yankees being one of those under consideration. Baines was expected to join Oakland during last night's game. Aiderson said.
Baines is in Anaeim, Calif,
when he heard the news of the trade.
"To tell you the truth, I'm sur-
"To tell you the truth, I'm sur-
Asked if he was disappointed about being traded for the second time in
two seasons, Baines said, "No. I'm going to a good team with a good manager."
Oakland manager Tony La Russa managed Baines for two seasons in the minor leagues — at Knoxville in the midwest and for six seasons with the White Sox.
"Holdid for our club perfectly," La Russa said. "He is a veteran left-handed hitter who has always been a clutch run producer. He's an outfielder, and he's more he feels the pressure the better he plays and the better he hits."
History made as father, son play for Mariners
The Associated Press
SEATLE - Ken Griffie Sr. was signed by the Seattle Marinerers yesterday. joining Ken Jr. to become the second player to play on the same major league.
Last year, the Griffins became the first father and son combination to play in the major leagues at the same time.
The 40-year-old Griffey said the chance to play with his son was the highlight of his career
"This to me is No. 1," he said with a smile. "It's a dream come true being a father. It all happened
because he made it happen. I didn't think he would get to the big leagues as fast as he did
"I'm just very proud of what we've accomplished." Griffey said.
Ken Jr., 20, the Mariners' starting center fielder the past two seasons, attended a Kingdome news conference before last night's same with Detroit.
The father-son duo then took batting practice.
Griffey, an 18-year major league
The younger Griffey bantered with his father but said nothing to reporters.
Griffey publicly thanked Reds owner Marge Schott "for the opportunity to let this happen."
vetarian, was placed on wavers Friday by the Cincinnati Reds for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release yesterday, making him a free agent.
He also thanked former Reds manager Pete Rose for bringing him back to Cincinnati in 1988 after he was released by Atlanta.
Griffey initially retired Aug. 2, because the Reds needed a roster spot. But he asked for, and received, his release from the Reds last Sunday.
Seattle manager Jim Lefebvre said the elder Griffey would be asked to contribute down the stretch.
"A lot of people are going to look at this as a dog and pony show. He's going to be that way. He's going to play with he's going to make contribution."
Griffey said he wasn't ready to play last night, but Lefebvre he would put him in the lineup as soon as he's feels comfortable.
"We're shooting for this weekend," he said. "It may be sooner than that."