TENNIS: Team wins title in California. SEE PAGE 6A. VOLLEYBALL: Kansas drops three games to Nebraska. SEE PAGE 10A.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2001
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Commentary
Michael Rigg
Columnist
sportskaansan.com
Wanted: Kansas head football coach
POSITION TITLE: Football coach/Al Bohl's personal puppet.
STARTING DATE: The sooner, the better. In case you haven't noticed, Kansas has lost its last three games by a combined score of 150-13. Saturday's 59-0 loss to Texas was the worst Jayhawk loss in 14 years. In other words, we're only getting worse.
LENGTH OF APPOINTMENT. Until you are fired or find a better job — and that's a crap shoot. Of the five coaches, two — Mike Gottfried and Glen Mason — found better programs to coach. The other three were canned. So if you're a man of percentages, kiss your career goodbye.
SALARY: Willing to overpay for overrated big name. But historically, Kansas shows its football coaches the money about as often as Bob Knight controls his anger.
anger. DUTIES: Applicant must also somehow out-recruit the likes of Kansas State, Oklahoma and Texas. Applicant will be required to lead team to a bowl game in the next three years, or else applicant will find himself working graveyard shift at Burrito King.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicant must have strong understanding of inner workings of pre-game coin toss. Coach must not have desire to use unproductive gimmick offense. Applications that include losses to Southern Methodist or San Diego State will not be reviewed. Applicant must not have history of benching future Super Bowl Most Valuable Players while coaching at Northern Iowa. Applicant's name cannot be Terry Allen.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS An educational background in criminology preferred, or a strong knowledge of the legal process. Experience preferred in dealing with finicky and notoriously cheap Kansas alumni. Applicant should know that football at Kansas will never ever be successful. Experience with major miracles preferred, whether it's turning water into wine or parting seas. Applicant must be willing to sell soul to Satan in exchange for occasional win against Kansas State.
against Kelsey Moore
BENEFITS: Win six games per year and you will reach demigod/Roy Williams status in Lawrence. Also, winning teams should get you a one-way ticket out of town. Applicant will also be treated to occasional pizza parties with Jayhawk players.
CONTACT PERSON: Send letter of application and resume with names, addresses and current phone numbers of three references to: The Kiss Your Friends, Family and Career Goodbye Fund, University of Kansas Athletics Department, 1651 Naismith Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7538.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: If you are stupid enough to apply for this job, the Athletics Department will assume you are: A. Drunk. B. Homeless. C. Washed-up (we hear you, former Ohio State coach John Cooper and former Georgia coach Jim Donnan). Or D. All of the above.
Happy job hunting!
Rigg is a Greenwood Village, Colo. senior in broadcast news.
Senior leads Kansas as team defeats Fort Hays State
Jayhawks log first victory of the year
By Jessica Scott Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas women's basketball team discovered its offense but struggled on the boards Saturday afternoon against Division II Fort Hays State.
Although the Jayhawks lost the rebound battle 48-30 to the smaller Tiger team, Kansas pulled out its first victory of the season 72-56.
After a sloppy first half, the Jayhawks led 34-26. Senior KC Hilgenkamp led the offensive charge with 10 points at the break. Senior Nikki White added seven.
"I think the one area that I was really disappointed with for us was our lack of rebounding, particularly with them getting so many offensive boards," said Kansas coach Marian Washington. "That's just something we're going to have to work on. Rebounding is just something you either commit to, or it's going to hound you all season long."
"We really were kind of upset with ourselves with it being that close at halftime." White said. "Part of playing at KU is pride, and we have to take pride in not losing, no matter who it's to. We really needed to step up and pull together and try to settle down."
Kansas managed to calm its nerves in the second half as Hilgenkamp took over. She played nearly the entire 20
minutes, finishing with 18 points,
seven assists, seven steals and four
rebounds for the Jayhawks.
"KC is a go-to player." Washington said. "I'm just so glad to see her starting to look for her shot. She's got to this year."
Kansas' bench also provided a significant contribution. Freshman Blair Waltz scored 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting while dishing out two assists and grabbing two rebounds. Sophomore Leila Menguc added seven points, three rebounds and two steals in eight minutes of play.
eight minutes of play.
"Leila just really helps so much," Washington said. "She brings energy in any way she can. Leila found a way to score some. She and Selena (Scott) go to the boards probably as well as anybody we have."
"I put as many players out there as I could, but we're going to find our top eight and live with them." Washington said.
body we have Washington played all 12 players in the game, trying to find the best combination.
Kansas plays Grambling State at 7:05 p.m. Friday at Allen Fieldhouse.
Note: Free State High School graduate and Fort Hays State freshman Katie Rhodes played five minutes for the Tigers, sinking two free throws and grabbing one rebound.
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Freshman guard Blair Waltz battles a Fort Hays State player for the ball. Kansas won its final exhibition game of the season Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
No. 5 Texas topples Kansas, 59-0
Kansan sportswriter
AARON LINDBERG/KANSAN
By Jeff Denton
AUSTIN, Texas — With 4:16 left in the fourth quarter, official J.C. Leimbach addressed what remained of the 83,111 people at Darryl K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. His voiced boomed as he spoke into the microphone.
Brandon Rideau and the Jayhawks were handed a devastating 59-0 loss by the fifth-ranked team in the county Saturday in Austin Texas.
"Timeout...Kansas," Leimbach bellowed.
"Whyyyyyyyyyyy," he screamed.
Moans and boos rumbled. Fans were restless. Suddenly, a burly man dressed in Texas Longhorn burnt orange cupped his mouth with his hands.
Whyyyyyyyyyy
His words ignited sounds of laughter from his section. The Texas faithful had stuck around to honor its seniors in their last home game, but the game between No. 5 Texas and Kansas had been won long before that.
The pounding began in the first quarter, worsened in the second, grew in the third and continued in the fourth. When the seconds ticked down to zero Saturday, the Jayhawks walked off the field dejected.
Not only had they lost. They had been clobbered, 59-0.
"This is about as bad as it gets," said senior defensive tackle Nate Dwyer, who was limited to just five plays because of a hip injury. "Fifty-nine to nothing. I think that score speaks for itself."
For the third straight week, Kansas' offense was stopped short of the end zone. It was bad Oct.27 when the Jayhawks compiled 212 total yards against Kansas State. Things did not get any better against Nebraska. The
SEE LOSS PAGE 7A
Latest football loss hurts the most
By Jeff Denton
Kansan sportswriter
After a one-yard touchdown plunge, Major Applewhite emerged from a bundle of bodies and trotted toward the student section.
Texas' all-time leading passer thanked his peers by rearing back and chucking the football deep into a sea of orange.
At that moment, the Kansas football team was not only lagging behind the No. 5 team in the country by 45
points, it was being belittled in front of a sell-out crowd on Texas' Senior Day. That helpless feeling stung Kansas as much as the 59-0 score.
"To see Applewhite throw the ball in the crowd, that was really an embarrassing moment for me personally," said senior linebacker Algie Atkinson, who moved into second place on Kansas' all-time sack list with 20.
Kansas senior offensive tackle Justin Hartwig made his 32nd straight start on Saturday.
He has seen his team get blasted 51-
7 by Nebraska, pummeled by Kansas State 40-6 and stymied by Oklahoma 38-10.
Kansas is no stranger to losing. But this game might be the hardest to forget.
"This is the worst loss of the year," said junior defensive tackle Brock Teddleton, who filled in on the defensive line for an injured Nate Dwyer. "Everybody is just down right now. This hurts more than anything."
Contact Denton at 864-4858
Cross country fails to qualify at Regionals
By Matt Norton Kansan sportswriter
Unless the Kansas cross country team is selected for an at-large bid into the NCAA championships later this week, it finished its season Saturday at the Midwest Regional championship in Carbondale. Ill.
The women finished eighth in the 23- team field, while the men were ninth out of 24 teams.
Oklahoma State and Minnesota earned the automatic qualifiers for the NCAA championships later this month by finishing in the top two places. Minnesota won the men's team title with Oklahoma State in second. In the women's race Oklahoma State won, followed by Minnesota.
towed by Minnesota.
Thirteen at-large bids will be announced later this week, but with 11 men's and 12 women's national Top-25 teams looking for at-large bids as well, the Jayhawk's season is all but finished.
Coach Stanley Redwine said he expected the Hawks to finish in higher places, but injuries hampered his team's chances.
"It went OK," Redwine said. "I was happy with our effort but I want more."
Assistant coach Doug Clark said the women continued to show improvement at the regional meet, improving their placement from 13th a year ago. They were 20th in both 1998 and 1999.
Freshman Diane Disher led the women, running the six-kilometer race in 22:07.4 for 33rd place. Sophomore Paige Higgins came through with her best performance of the season, setting a personal-best time of 22:10.5 and finishing in 35th place.
Senior Katy Eisenmenger, who led the team throughout the season, suffered a
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Texas A&M 10
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Oklahoma 31
Houston 10
Louisville 34
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Kansas State 21
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Nebraska 31
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Florida 54