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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2001
Al Bohl arrives at Kansas with boy-band ideas
It was just a few days ago when my roommate tapped me on the shoulder. After 468 straight hours (ballpark figure) of playing Playstation, he wanted to go buv books.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Buy books? For what? Was it the end of the summer already?
He also informed me he went to Europe for two months — I didn't notice — and that I had just completed my last summer of freedom.
I guess playing Playstation for 22 hours per day is called freedom when you're in college. After you graduate, it's called "unemployment" and you actually get paid for playing Playstation, as long as you prove to the government that you've made some effort to leave your house in the past 10 years. Funny how that works.
Michael Rigg
Sports
columnist
Of course, the biggest surprises of the past three months were the hiring of Allen Bohl as athletics director and the continued dominance of boy bands as they brainwash the minds of the world's youth. Not surprisingly, they're related.
A turn in my chair brought me to my computer, where a check of my e-mail told me about the news events of the summer. Did you know Kansas has a new athletics director? And that somebody was embezzling money from the Kansas University Athletics Corporation?
Boy bands were built on the premise that you can take an obviously inferior product, market it and build a fan base. The same task awaits Bohl when it comes to his No. 1 goal: finding people willing to watch a Kansas football game.
Also, Bohl embarked on a tour around the state to every small town just to let them know their favorite university also has a football team, by the wav. and that football team needs fans.
Small towns that have never seen a boy band.
Small towns who think "dirty pop" is what Old Man Hadley drank before the county last month, shortly before doing handstands on top of the Ferris wheel.
Even more amazing is the fact that Bohl has only been on the job for three weeks and he already has a deep understanding of the one-tracked minds of the Kansas fans.
I can see it now.
"Hey Timmy, wanna go to the football game? I hear Southwest Missouri State is in town?"
"Why the &##$ would I do that? N'Sync is have an Internet concert!"
"Well, Jeff Boschee will be there!"
"Oh! Why didn't you say that sooner? Let me just grab my wallet! And a beer!"
Speaking of boy bands, football coach Terry Allen accompanied Bohl on his barnstorming tour, trying to sell his program and -to some extent- himself. The only problem was, Allen didn't go on these trips - at least the Allen you and I know.
He now looks a tad closer to Justin Timberlake after losing 20 pounds thanks to the famous protein diet. He also got a new haircut and a tan. After five years of tense and fidgety meetings with the media, Allen was relaxed and secure at the preseason media day at Memorial Stadium.
"I didn't sit on the hot aluminum out there (at Memorial Stadium) just because I can see the caption now." Allen said after wilting in the 98-degree heat. "Allen on the hot seat."
Insert rim shot here.
Only time will tell what the changes will mean for Kansas athletics. If anything happens, let me know. I'll just be on my Playstation, drinking dirty pop. Rigg is a Greenwood Village, Colo. senior in Broadcast News.
Frederick's pay leads school
By Jay Kraill Kansan sports editor
Bob Frederick, former Kansas athletics director, became the highestpaid faculty member in the School of Education this fall.
Frederick will make $116,000 for teaching in the school's graduate program in sports administration. The average salary for full professors in the School of Education is $69,000.
According to a five-year contract signed this summer, Frederick will continue to earn the same salary he had as athletics director - $166,303. The additional $50,303 beyond his teaching salary is considered compensation for public relations work he will perform for the University.
"The School of Education and the department are delighted to have Dr. Frederick on our faculty," she said. "Some people out there might think there's something else going on, but we're delighted to have him."
He will teach two courses this fall and three in the spring, said Angela Lumkin, dean of education.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said half of Frederick's salary would be paid by the athletics department
for the first year of his contract, while the other half would be paid out of state funds allocated to the University. After that, half will be paid from state funds and the other half will come from "private funds at the discretion of the chancellor," Hemenwav said.
While those private funds are held by the Kansas University Endowment Association, they won't be pulled from any trust or fund in which money is banked for other purposes, Hemenway said.
Although his base salary remains the same, Frederick has lost benefits associated with the athletics director position that Hemenway said could be valued at between $50,000 and $60,000. As athletics director, Frederick was provided with a car and a country club membership, along with other perks, Hemenway said.
"Dr. Frederick is probably taking somewhere in the range of a $50,000 to $60,000 salary cut to work in the School of Education," Hemenway said, referring to the loss of the benefits.
Hemenway said any comparison of Frederick's salary with that of other education professors should
note that Frederick is on a 12-month contract, while most faculty members are contracted only for the length of the school year. That means he would not be paid additionally for
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teaching summer school as other faculty members would.
Young roster heads volleyball team
SEE FREDERICK PAGE 11A
By Steve Laurenzo Kansan sportswriter
Though setter Molly LaMere is the only senior on the Kansas women's volleyball team, she won't be the only leader.
"It's a unique situation," she said. "There will be several others leading from below, each helping in different wavs."
Coach Ray Bechard said he liked his team's chances despite the young roster, the loss of three great offensive players and playing in one of the most competitive women's volleyball conferences in the nation.
"I think we will be extremely competitive in all of the positions this year." Bechard said. "We will have four or five players challenging for court-time at nearly every spot on the floor."
The Jayhawks will count on returning standouts such as sophomore outside hitter Sarah Rome, who collected 185 kills in 84 games last year. Junior defensive specialist Jennifer Kraft is back as the team's leading server. LaMere racked up 1,295
of 1.445 sets for the team last season.
Bechard said he thought he could change his team's approach to winning. For the last few years the team has been offense-oriented.
Departed players like outside hitters Amy Myatt, Nancy Bell and middle blocker Danielle Geronymo led last year's offensive attack with 4.57, 3.59 and 2.96 kills per game. The approach this year is different by necessity.
"There's a lot of offense that we lost and that's the one thing that jumps out," Bechard said. "But we feel with the players we brought in we can emphasize other areas like ball control and defense, which these new players can provide."
Kansas has plenty of opportunities to prove itself against solid teams in a conference stacked with talent. Several teams in the conference could be ranked in the Top 25 by the time Kansas matches up with them. Kansas State, Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and the defending national champion Nebraska field outstanding teams almost every year.
Overall, the team is striving to achieve a regular season record of .500 or above. Kansas volleyball
hasn't been to the NCAA tournament since the inception of the Big 12 Conference.
The ladies maintain two distinct relationships on and off of the court.
"Chemistry is important on the court," LaMere said. "We keep our relationships off the court separate from those on the court."
Rest assured that the team is in good hands. Bechard's record since coming to Kansas in 1998 is 47-45 after last year's 15-14 finish. From 1985-97 his teams at Barton County Community College achieved a record of 716-60. His winning philosophy involves developing individuals while making sure that what each player is doing accommodates what the team wants to accomplish.
"Our motto this year has been 'Contribute more than you consume.'" Bechard said.
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Renita Davidson, freshman outside hitter, stretches long for an attempted save during Friday afternoon practice at the Horesji Family Athletic Center.
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