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Identity: Players not bothered
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this," said Jake Letourneau, junior strong safety. "That's not for me or the players to decide and not something we really think about."
quartered and then Kansas State poured 40 on Kansas last week.
plays with a Top 10 defense; Kansas is still looking for something on which to hang its hat.
It seems Kansas' identity is that of a team that lacks identity, but it hasn't bothered the players.
Seven games into the season, only Baylor ranks below Kansas in total offense and defense among the Big 12 teams.
Kansas now ranks 109th in the nation in rushing defense.
"That's the fans or the writers saying they have a good this or
Senior offensive lineman Kyle Grady said Kansas' identity should be a hard-working team.
"We'll fight you to the end," Grady said. "I hope people can see our competitiveness. We've struggled at times — but I think all teams do — but we'll play as hard as we can every play."
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Allen said that, while he wants a team identity, only a handful of teams have distinctive reputations and identities.
Still, while Texas Tech can live on Kliff Kingsbury's arm and the nation's seventh-best passing offense; Iowa State plays behind the seventh-best pass defense and Kansas State perennially
Hill: Allen supports return
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away from becoming Kansas' all-time leader in receptions, the 5-foot-11, 200-pound captain was shoved out-of-bounds on a punt return by a UCLA player who used his helmet to spill Hill's left shoulder.
The tackle crushed four separate bones in his scapula and cloued his chance of returning to the field this season. The initial prognosis was that Hill would be sidelined six to eight weeks.
In the beginning of his absence from football, Hill was not interested in coming back for another season.
"For a long time, I just felt that a sixth year would not be an option," Hill said. "I had been in Lawrence awhile and that it was time to move on. But the more I thought about it and the more I looked at my options, the more I thought that this probably happened for a reason.
The decision was supported by Kansas coach Terry Allen, who said a prompt NCAA ruling would benefit Hill the most.
After wearing a supportive shoulder brace for five weeks. Hill received 24-hour bone stimulation from a pair of electrode patches hooked to his shoulder blade. The healing has come
"If they make a quick call on it, then it would be easier for him one way or the other." Allen said.
"Maybe I was supposed to stay in Lawrence for another season to keep on playing and get my master's. I had to make a smart decision."
along slowly, Hill said, but two weeks ago he was able to begin lifting weights. In the past week, he has been running routes with Kansas quarterbacks in Kansas' closed practices.
Though Hill is ready to play, his body is not.
"There is a good chance that if I took a hit on my shoulder like that then it would break again and shatter." Hill said. "I haven't been cleared to play yet, but I can do everything fine but take contact."
Kansas has gone 1-4 without its most experienced wide receiver. But Hill, who will be 23 when Kansas begins play next season, said he would have no problem being the old man around a young offensive arsenal featuring freshman quarterback Mario Kinsey and sophomore wide receiver Derick Mills.
"I think that the offense has struggled this year, but I think that next year we will have a great opportunity with our schedule to win games," Hill said. "I think that we will come back with a lot of promise next season. We definitely have a lot of guys who can make plays."
Linebacker Willie Pless, 1982-85, holds the Kansas career tackles record with 633. Quarterback Nolan Cromwell, 1973-76, starred at safety before moving under center and was also an All-American in the 400-yard run in track. Fullback
Five Kansas football legends were inducted into the KU Athletic Hall of Fame yesterday.
Kansas football note:
HILL AT A GLANCE
Name: Harrison Hill
Height/weight: 5-11, 200 pounds
Birthdate: July 9, 1979
40-yard-dash: 4.48 seconds
Vertical jump: 34.5 inches
High school: Wichita Collegiate
Career catches: 108 (third all-time at Kansas)
Career yards: 1,535 (sixth all-time at Kansas)
Career touchdowns: 7
■ Hill led the state of Kansas with a 610 batting average in baseball during his senior year of high school.
Curtis McClinton, 1959-61, was a member of the 1969 Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. Running back John Riggins, 1968-70, led the Jayhawks in rushing three straight seasons before a stellar professional career. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992. Offensive lineman Mike Mccormack, another Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, starred at Kansas from 1968-70.
"Wow," coach Terry Allen said as he thumbed through the sheet of the five football players. "It's a good who's who of Kansas football."
Each player will be honored individually for his achievement. Pless will be recognized first, at halftime of Kansas' Nov. 3 home game against No. 2 Nebraska.
Match: Team wants home win
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Nebraska had 20 more kills,19 more digs and seven more blocks than Kansas.
Coach Ray Bechard said Kansas State's two losses were no reason to think the Wildcats would be an easy target.
"I'm sure they're going to try to get healthy real quick with us," Bechard said. "I'd rather that they had won their last three and were feeling a little bit good about themselves. I'm sure they're going to be ready to get there act back on track."
Sophomore outside hitter Abbie Jacobson will play in her first home match in eight total matches after returning to the rotation on the road last weekend. Jacobson missed six
matches with a dislocated shoulder.
"We're really excited about playing K-State at home," she said. "We went down to Manhattan this year and didn't have a really great match. We feel like we can play with them, so I think it'll be really exciting."
Bechard said Jacobson was not 100 percent, but would be soon.
"You take three weeks out and then come back, it's going to take a little time," Bechard said "But, she's extremely emotional, enthusiastic and intense."
Although the 'Hawks haven't beaten the Wildcats in seven years, the teams are tied in the series 32-32. Bechard, in his
fourth year at Kansas, is looking for his first win against Kansas State, and one of his former Barton County Community College players, Suzie Wiemers. Wiemers, who was an assistant under Bechard at Barton, is in her first year as coach at Kansas State.
The Wildcats are fourthplace in the Big 12 Conference standings. Senior outside hitter Liz Wegner leads the Wildcats offensively, averaging 4.82 kills per game. Senior middle blocker Jayne Christian leads the Wildcats with 11 solo blocks this season.
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Negotiations near end for NFL contract
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — NFL owners are expected to ratify a three-year extension of the collective bargaining agreement with the players union today, although they now want the players to help pay for the fast-growing cost of additional security.
The terrorist attacks Sept. 11 forced the NFL to greatly increase security at all games, and commissioner Paul Tagliabue said yesterday that one of the several remaining unresolved issues with the CBA extension deals with paying for that security.
The NFL Management Council and the NFL Players Association agreed in June to the extension, which would assure the league of labor peace through the 2007 season. It would be the fourth extension of the original CBA reached in 1993, and it would give the NFL labor peace for 20 years since its last labor-related interruption, the 1987 strike.
The extension would push the salary cap through 2006 and would carry two years beyond the NFL's $17.6 billion television contract, giving the league additional clout in its next TV negotiations.
"There's a lot of support for it, subject to getting these anywhere between one and four remaining issues resolved," Tagliabue said last night, following day-long owners meetings. "Mostly, they're about where we are going to be in 2006, how we deal with the cap that year based on TV and the considerable added expenses the teams are going to have and the league is going to have in terms of security."
Tagliabue would not estimate the cost of additional security, but suggested it would be substantial, especially during the postseason. The owners will hear a detailed presentation today on Super Bowl security.
Under the proposed extension, players could receive an increase in salary to as high as 65.5 percent of designated gross revenues in 2005. Veteran players also would have a portion of their salaries paid out of a league-wide fund instead of counting against the salary cap.
One of the prime criticisms of the current agreement was it gives too little security for higher-paid veterans to hold on to their jobs.
Minimum salaries would increase to $225,000 for rookies, and will go up to $300,000, $375,000 and $450,000 in subsequent seasons. A $525,000 minimum would apply through six seasons, with players in their seventh through ninth years guaranteed $650,000. For ten years or more of service, the minimum would be $750,000.
the owners also talked about the NFL's TV contracts, which have four more seasons to run past this season. Tagliabue said there was no discussion of any givebacks to rights holders CBS, Fox, ABC and ESPN despite a downturn in TV advertising revenue since the terrorist attacks.
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