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Monday, August 28, 2000
Defense saves Wildcats against Iowa Hawkeyes
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - David Allen's injured ankle was in a cast yesterday, but Kansas State coach Bill Snyder insisted he was not worried about his star kick returner and running back.
"Not a break," Snyder said. "He has been casted for precautionary measures."
After viewing films of No. 8 Kansas State's 27-7 victory against Iowa on Saturday in the Eddie Robinson Classic, Snyder also changed his mind about the illegal block call that nullified what would have been an NCAA-record eight touchdown punt return for Allen.
At the time the 86-yard return was called back. Snider was furious.
"There was no penalty," Snyder said. "And that's unfortunate. I feel bad for him (Dyshod Carter) because that had to rest on his mind."
The final score in the heat-drenched game might look respectable enough. But with five minutes left in Arrowhead Stadium, Iowa trailed the
heavily favored Wildcats only 17-7 and was driving.
Then came the interception when a pass bounced off the
receiver's head. A moment later, it was 24-7, but Kansas State had little to boast about other than a gritty effort by the defense.
But Jerametrius Butter picked Scott Mullen's pass off the helmet of Kevin Kasper and brought it back 32 yards to the 15. A few minutes later, senior quarterback Jonathan Beasley squeezed into the end zone
for an 8-yard touchdown run. The final score came with 1:38 left on a Jamie Rheem field goal.
"We played well defensively." Snyder said. "We gave up seven points, and those seven points came off the offense and the turnovers."
Iowa, coming off a 1-10 season,
managed just nine first downs and
158 total vards.
Mullen hit 10 of 26 passes for 76 vards and was intercepted once.
The Hawkeyes, who have to play at No. 1. Nebraska in a couple of weeks before plunging into their rugged Big Ten schedule, had nothing to be ashamed of.
"We didn't come down here to be a scout team," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. "That wasn't our goal at all."
"We certainly would have liked to move the ball better." Ferentz said. We also knew that Kansas State had a pretty good pass defense."
Bears' Cicero wants second quarterback, Big 12 chance
WACO, Texas — Greg Cleero had anticipated being a starting quarterback in the Big 12 Conference by now. He just expected the circumstances — and the team — to be different.
The Associated Press
Cicero would probably be in the battle to be the starting quarterback for seventh-ranked Texas, the league's South Division favorite, if not for a serious injury he suffered while with the Longhorns before the 1998 season.
Instead, he is about 100 miles north of Austin as a junior college transfer and the hand-picked starter for coach Kevin Steele at Baylor, which has lost 13 straight 12 game and has won just five games since 1996.
"I did expect probably different things when I first went to Texas," Cicero said. "I thought I'd be starting at least by my second year. I'm not worried about the Texas thing as much as I'm looking forward to getting back in the Big 12."
Cicero's chance to start at Texas, where he was a highly touted recruit out of California, never came. Cicero tore knee ligaments and fractured his left leg on the final play of a scrimmage just before the
1998 season. He was forced to sit and watch as fell redshirt freshman Major Applewhite — his friend and roommate the previous summer — settled in as the Texas starter.
Cicero will finally get his first Division I-A shot Thursday when Baylor opens its season at North Texas. Two months later, on the last Saturday in October, the Bears travel to Austin and he gets a chance to finally play a game there.
While Baylor was struggling to a 1-10 record in Steele's first season and Applewhite was setting records at Texas as a sophomore last season, Cicero was passing for 2,800 yards and 33 touchdowns at Palomar Junior College in California.
At that same time, Steele was looking in the junior college ranks for his next quarterback.
"We went out and canvassed the country to try to find a guy that we thought fit our system ... and be a starter immediately." Steele said.
Steele had a list of about six possibilities. Cicero became the top candidate, especially after the coach became aware of the Big 12 connection and the understandable reason for his departure from Texas.
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