Wednesday, November 28, 1979
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Mokeski starts by sitting down
By GENE MYERS
Quante Wolter
KANAS CITY, Mö — A-lou roor, supported by a kurus of bakes, greeted Pral Makoes, formed KUA
"There must have been a few Missouri or Kansas players who had come to Kansas after the after Hawkroots and then to Kansas City last night in Municipal Auditorium." "It will take a little time, but I want people to know me as Paul Banks."
Tomorrow, the Rockets play Cleveland, with former KU center Dave Robish, in Houston. But last week Mokeski didn't plan on having too many tomatoes with the Rockets.
MOSES MALONE, THE NBA's Most Valuable Player and the man Mokeski was drafted to back up, played 43 minutes and had 24 rebounds and 29 points. Dwight Jones replaced him for five minutes.
"When Jones got in foul trouble I was ready to take the warm-up off," Mokeski said. "I thought they would give Moses a longer rest, but it didn't happen. Maybe tomorrow."
The clips and hisses were for Mokeski the college player. Mokeski the NA Houston Rockets has yet to appear. Last night, he was in uniform for the first game, still waiting to take his first post-game shower.
He thought he had made the team in September only to injure his back shortly before the season began. That injury kept him on the injured reserve list until last night. The Rockets had to decide if they would play at home weekend, but the decision was put off two weeks when starter Rudy Tomianovich hurt an aback Friday.
"RUDY T SPRAINING his ankle kind of gives me two weeks to make it or break it." Mokski said. "The general manager told me over the weekend that I would trade me, trade我我, I had no idea which one a
"I'm still confident that I can play in the NBA. A couple of teams, our general manager told me, were having a good time."
Pre-season rankings leave Jayhawks leery
Bv MIKE EARLE
Associate Sports Editor
LAST YEAR AT this time, some KU basketball fans were probably making their mural reservations for Salt Lake City, the team that could have been influenced by the numerous basketball polls that would be one of the best teams in the country.
The Cub Scouts' pretend pre-season poll may have been biased, but it might have been just as valid as any other list of its sort.
Sports Illustrated ranked KU 14th
Playboy had picked them as fifth in the country and Street and Smith's basketball
If the boys of local CUB Scout den 3095 has been polled yesterday afternoon to determine the No.1 college basketball team in the country, hawks would have beaten the overpriced bison hawks
The 9- and 10-year-old boys got a chance to visit the KU rocker room after practice, and were obliged with autographs and hand-skins from the players.
Yearbook figured they would be second-best in the country.
But the Hawks didn't live up to those predictions, along with a number of other teammates. The Blue Devils were eliminated in the early rounds of the NHL draft in the country, but t
THIS YEAR, KANAS isn't rated as high. The number of games KU in the No. 20 team Big Eight sportwriters picked the Jayhawks in conference, behind Missouri and Oklahoma.
These pre-season polls can give a team's tans reason to brag or to develop high expectations about their favorite teams. Built on the same model as the regular pressure to lift up the advance billing.
"I don't pay too much attention to them," Ki "unentirely forward John Crawford said. We had a strong backup, ranking. Pre-season polls don't take into account the ups and downs a team goes through."
After last year's rankings, the Jayhawks had their own share of ups and downs. Sophomore guard Tony Guy is well aware of the pressure the polls can generate.
"I THINK HERE was a lot of pressure from the fans as well as among ourselves last season. 'Guy said.' Judging from last week, poll evidence don't mean very much."
Along with the pressure season-poles can create, freshman guard Keith Doughlass said, a team's credibility also can be disrupted.
"THERE'S NO WAY they can pick a best team," one team says. "The best team always win the NGAA championships. The team that is playing the best together at the time of the tournament will win."
Junior forward Booty Neal, who offered to let a Cub Scout take up residence in his locker so he could sneak into games for free, and the rest of them could put extra pressure on a team.
Darrell Valentine, who will be featured in this week's Sports Illustrated college basketball edition, echoed Douglass' feeling about nolls.
"I've never seen a pre-season poll that's won anything for anybody yet," Valentine said. "The team that is playing well together at the time wins it."
"These rankings make a team feel like they owe something," we said. "I believe a team should be ranked if they work hard enough to get there and prove themselves."
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events, though, because it will bore people, and the fans are important. You should promote the meet in every way possible to draw the spectators.
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"I THINK AS MUCH effort should be made from the athletic department as is made for basketball and football. They have to deal with this in the business community especially."
Karnes said there were significant differences in the way KU and Drake organized and planned their track meets.
At KU, Timmons is aided by a student committee of about 30 persons and they organize and administer the entire meet.
Daurek's rarely committee, Karnes said, emphasizes the Missouri businessmen who have joined the committee to subcommittee handles specific parts of the meet, such as the marathon, meet publicity and media coverage.
"It is not necessary for people on our committee to be familiar with track and field rules, but it is necessary to get people involved to take the burden off the athletic department and to help them."
THESE THINGS PAY off for Drake every year with a sale-out 18,000 seat stadium. The athletic department makes about $30,000 per team. The salary of the meet director's salary is paid.
The Drake Relays are held the last week in April, one week after the KU Relays, and it coincides with the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Drake and Penn are the only meeters than the KU Relays and they are the most successful meeters of the number of competitors and schools involved and the quality of competition.
There is no one formula for a successful relay meets, however, because Penn, unlike Drake, sponsors no relays parade or any festivity of the meet (itself).
HERB HARTNETT, University of Pennsylvania sports information director, has been involved with the relays at Penn for nearly 20 years.
"The Penn Reliars are kind of all business," Hartnett said. "We handle everything through our own athletic department and the meet lasts six days and
draws more than 9,000 competitors—more than the Olympics.
"The relays is just a tradition that started in 1835 and one can sit down with a pen and piece of paper and figure out why it does. We just feel very fortunate that it does."
The Penn Relays averages 35,000 in attendance, Hartnett said, and people come to watch everything from high school races to features featuring Olympic gold medal winners.
**'WE GET THE big names because there are so many participants and they are just people.'** People come to meet us run and usually come back. Besides being a track coach, you can be a leader.
Though Drake and Penn differ in the way they organize their relays, the one thing they have in common is tradition. Hartnett said, which makes them successful every day.
If KU can no longer rely on the tradition of top athletes and universities, it will find to money pay the travel expenses for top teams and athletes to draw spectator tickets.
"CERTAINLY A LOT of the future of the meet will depend on the amount of money we can raise to pay travel expenses of some teams and individuals." Marcum said. "One idea we are pursuing is finding large companies to assist in sponsoring the few companies we have shown interest in giving money specifically for traveling expenses."
Marcum said he thought KU would eventually have to form a committee of people outside the athletic department to help with the relays. One individual, Marcum said, would probably be needed to work year around to head organization of the relay team.
"There is still a lot of support for the KU Relays among alumni and fans," Marcum said, "but they definitely want some things changed."
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