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Volume 128 Issue 37
kansan.com
Wednesday. October 29, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY & SANSA
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COMMENTARY Allen Fieldhouse anniversary honors coaches
Monday night featured one of the most impressive non-basketball events Allen Fieldhouse has ever seen. Kansas' four living coaches reunited to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Allen Fieldhouse.
Throughout Kansas' long and storied history, they have had only eight head coaches. That is the fewest of any program that has been around for 100 years. In contrast, Kansas has reached the Final Four under six of those eight coaches, which is the highest number in the nation.
Four of these eight coaches — Ted Owens, Brown, Roy Williams and Bill Self — were in the fieldhouse to celebrate what it means to be a Jayhawk.
Since 1964, these are the only four men that have coached the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team. That's 50 seasons divided among only four men.
Current coach Self invited the other three to Lawrence to celebrate this special event. After Owens, Brown took the stage to address the crowd. Brown is known for having held numerous coaching positions in his storied career. To reiterate his love for Kansas, he repeated arguably his most famous words.
"There is no better place to coach, there is no better place to play, there is no better place to go to school," Brown said.
One of the most powerful moments of the evening was a story Roy Williams told. He explained in detail the day he had his interview for the North Carolina head coaching job. Williams told the crowd he showed up to the interview in a red and blue tie with a Jayhawk sticker on the bottom.
Fighting through the loud and thunderous applause from the crowd, Williams continued his story. At the interview, he was asked to take off his tie and replace it with a Carolina blue one, and he refused.
Williams said good players have always played at Kansas but it's the fans that make them great.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be here," Williams said. "I know that tonight is not about me, it's about this building, and all of you."
Williams returned to his seat after his speech to one of the loudest standing ovations of the night. He sat down as the camera caught him wiping tears out of the corners of his eyes. It was clear to the thousands of fans in attendance just how much Kansas meant to him.
Williams brought closure to 10 years of uncertainty. Last night he realized the Kansas fans appreciated him as much as he appreciated them.
- Edited by Jacob Clemen
Canaan Campbell swims the 200-meter butterfly during this past weekend's meet in Lawrence. Campbell swims for Missouri State, while his father is the coach at Kansas.
FRIENDLY COMPETITION
Kansas coach cheers for son swimming at Missouri State
AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just
Not every day do you find a son competing against his father, but the rare occasion presented itself last weekend.
The Kansas swimming and diving team hosted Denver and Missouri State in a double dual meet. There were several people in the stands that day sporting Missouri State shirts paired with Kansas hats. Those people were the friends and family members of Clark and Canaan Campbell.
Clark is the head coach for Kansas and has held the position since 2003. He started his collegiate coaching career in 1992 as an assistant for the University, just four years before his son Canaan was born. Canaan, now 18, is a freshman and swims for Missouri State.
Kansas didn't competed against Missouri State for years, even though Clark said it was in the works for a little while. Once Canaan signed to swim for Missouri State, Clark
pushed the idea even harder.
"I had been talking to both Denver and Missouri State coaches about doing a meet like this," Clark said. "I just really worked hard on getting it done this year. Really after he committed last fall, about a year ago, I was working pretty hard to do this."
Canaan grew up in the Robinson Natatorium pool and started swimming when he was 5. He was happy to be back in Lawrence again and to swim in a familiar pool.
"I'm really hoping I can come back," Canaan said. "Maybe bring in another men's team, make it a bigger meet. Either way, I hope we can continue to do it because it's really fun."
For Clark, this meet was different for him. The two don't get to be at the same meets most of the time.
Clark's chance to see Canaan swim last weekend was in
"I was definitely more interested in the men's meet than I normally am," Clark said. "Getting to see him swim was really good."
limbo a few weeks ago.
Canaan fell victim to a common college illness — staph infection.
"I wasn't allowed to sweat for a week and a half, but I'm getting back in the swing of things," Canaan said. "I'm probably a lot harder on myself than I should be. It's nice to be back in the water racing again."
"it's just nice to have a dad that's knowledgeable in swimming,but he's not always there trying to coach me."
CANAAN CAMPBELL
Son of Kansas swimming and
diving coach Clark Campbell
Since Canaan was out of the water for two weeks, his performances were a little under where he could have been if he hadn't been sick. Despite that, things didn't turn
out too bad.
Canaan had two events on the first day of competition. He finished sixth in the 200-yard butterfly, finishing in a time of 1:58.63, five seconds shy of his career best 1:53.65. His 800-yard freestyle relay finished fifth. Canaan posted a 1:48.89 200-yard split to anchor the relay.
He had just one event the second day of the meet. Canaan finished sixth in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:56.29, four seconds slower than his career best from two years ago.
"We'll see really great stuff at the end of the year from him," Clark said.
Even though Clark has coached swimming for Canaan's whole life, Clark hasn't been the one on the side of the pool for Canaan's practices.
"Ive never coached him," Clark said. "I'm still Dad."
Canaan is appreciative they can bond over their love of swimming, but recognizes the benefits of not having him as a
coach.
"It's just nice to have a dad that's knowledgeable in swimming, but he's not always there trying to coach me," Canaan said. "We can have separate conversations at home that don't deal with swimming, so that's really nice. It's nice if I need advice, I can go to him, but it's also nice that he's not always there around me. I think we have a better relationship that way, not always being around each other."
Clark looks at his son's accomplishments and is happy with the way things have turned out for him.
"As a parent, you're really proud," Clark said. "He's done a great job, not only in the pool, but in the classroom as well. The opportunity [of] swimming [in] college is really the end-all goal. Just watching him, there's a lot of pride. It's definitely a different deal when you're coaching and your kids are doing their thing. It's a lot of fun."
Edited by Jacob Clemen
Kansas must control tempo to stop Baylor
@stelly_liang
I STELLA LIANG
Facing the Baylor offense can be a daunting task for defenses.
It is one that Kansas interim coach Clint Bowen, who is also the defensive coordinator, is neither shying away from or taking lightly.
Captain and linebacker Ben Heeney locks onto OSU's Otis Gates on Oct. 10. Heeney leads the team and the Big 12 with 12 tackles per game.
"You know, our emphasis every time we talk about it, as a defense you go out and you get a three-and-out," Bowen said. "You get stops. That's what you do on defense."
The Baylor Bears are averaging 49 points per game and lead the league in offensive categories such as total offense and first downs per game.
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Bowen said stopping the Baylor offense will come down to controlling the tempo and the clock. If the Bears are moving fast, the defense can't fall behind.
"The bottom line is their players have to get back to the line of scrimmage, as well, to run the next play." Bowen said. "If their players are doing it quickly enough, you have to match their urgency and their tempo."
Turn to page 7 to see how Kansas is adjusting to its new spread offense
To score as many points as they do, the Bears have to score fast and often. They run
an average of 89 plays per game. Thirty-one out of their 50 scoring drives have taken less than two minutes and only three of them have taken five minutes or more.
"So you always have to be conscious of the clock and managing the game accordingly," Bowen said.
While most people think of Baylor as an up-tempo, passing offense, Bowen said it is really a grind-it-out, running team. Baylor leads the conference in rushing offense, 229 yards per game, and
rushing touchdowns, 21. That is where the Jayhawk defense will have the opportunity to disrupt Baylor's tempo.
"Within their [rushing offense], I think you can be a tempo team and control the clock." Bowen said.
Bowen thinks his team will have no problem matching how quickly Baylor transitions from play to play.
"I think we've developed a system that ... the tempo stuff hasn't really been an issue for us," Bowen said.
He wants the team to focus
on individual performances. If each player does what he is supposed to do on defense, the team performance will come.
"Every game it comes down to individual battles. This obviously is the greatest team game in the world, but every play comes down to winning a personal battle," Bowen said.
"If you're a corner, you've got to win your battle against the wideout; if you're a D-tackle, you're the nose, you've got to win your battle against the center."
The Baylor offense will challenge every aspect of the Kansas defense, from the line of scrimmage to the secondary, from the passing game to the rushing game. Bowen is far from intimidated.
"Obviously it's the kind of game that our players, we tell them all the time, you're Big 12 football players," Bowen said. "This is the kind of game you came to Kansas to play in."
Edited by Jacob Clemen
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