WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2002
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Kansas will attempt to defeat K-State this Saturday when the teams play at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence. The Jayhawks hope the home-field advantage will give them an edge over the Wildcats, whose history away from home is less impressive than their record in Manhattan.
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ior Jonas Weatherbie would assume the reigns of the Kansas offense.
Weatherbie replaced Whitmore last Saturday against Missouri and was 1-of-6 passing, leading the offense to 12 fourthquarter yards.
Even with the poor performance of Weatherbie against the Tigers, Mangino said he had confidence in Weatherbie, whose father, Charlie Weatherbie, is a former Navy head football coach.
"Jonas is a guy that's been around for a while, but he's a very intelligent guy," Mangino said. "He's been around football his whole life."
The other candidate for the quarterback job is second-year freshman Brian Luke, who
received medical clearance Oct. 21 after his right hand was in a cast from an injury he suffered during two-a-day practices.
Mangino said he sees a bright future for Luke, but he and his staff told the freshman after the spring game in April that Luke had to work on his speediness to be effective in the Kansas offensive philosophy, which relies heavily on the quarterback being able to run with the ball.
Before the season started. Luke spent time trying to develop his quickness the old-fashioned way.
"It was a good opportunity for me to improve my foot speed, so I'd go and get a jump rope from the strength coaches and worked on that," Luke said. "It helped me to do different foot speed drills."
Weatherbie and Luke give Mangino options at the quarterback position, but Mangino said
"If he's not ready to go this Saturday then we'll just continue to monitor his progress, and if he's ready to go the following week we'll use him then."
Mark Mangino
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that Whittemore could still be back for the Nebraska and Oklahoma State games if he was not able to play against Kansas State.
"If he's not ready to go this Saturday then we'll just continue to monitor his progress, and if he's ready to go the following week we'll use him then," Mangino said.
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OSU brings balanced offense
Daily O'Collegian via U-Wire Oklahoma State University
By Katy Jones
STILLWATER, Okla. — The last time the Oklahoma State football team beat Texas &M, Barry Sanders led the way. Sanders helped the Cowboys to a 52-15 win on Lewis Field in 1988.
OSU will host A&M on Homecoming Saturday.
And the Cowboys (3-4, 1-2 Big 12), don't seem to have too much of a problem breaking losing streaks after the Oct. 19, 41-years in-the-making upset of Nebraska — 24-21. The Aggies lost to the Huskers Saturday, 38-31.
Cowboy coach Les Miles said the matchup against A&M (5-3, 2-2) will not be similar to the NU game.
"Just because we rushed the ball well against Nebraska, it has nothing to do with Texas A&M," Miles said Monday. "The matchup is totally different. We
enjoy the idea that we will run the football, we have success running the football — our ideal mix is 50-50 (pass and rush percentages) and 200-200 (yards on pass and rush offense). That's what we're shooting for."
Miles added that NU's running game is very different from OSU's. "Nebraska runs three different options, four different quarterback carries," Miles said. "They throw the ball when they have to, they put three backs in the backfield — that is so different than us in terms of our running attack and their running attack.
"We see and observe how Nebraska did it, but Jammal Lord (NU quarterback) will not be carrying the ball for Oklahoma State, and we'll attack them differently — our style."
And the Cowboys' style is a more balanced attack. While NU put up 381 rushing yards and 116 yards against the Aggies,
OSU had 195 yards rushing and 192 yards passing in the win over NU.
"Nebraska rushes the football as good as anybody in the conference, and they go in there and they attack A&M's defense rushing the football — that's Nebraska," Miles said. "Texas throws 70-of-90 snaps, and that's how they move the football. I think those are the widest extremes of the conference and I think we would fit very squarely in between there, and I think A&M's defense — there's some opportunities for us to attack them.
"I like our matchup."
OSU junior defensive lineman Greg Richmond said the week off for the Cowboys gave them a head start to get acquainted with A&M's game. "I was kind of hoping that we could have just went on ahead and just got to tee it up with 'em (A&M)," Richmond said.
Sooners hope to top Buffaloes
The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. — A victory this week by No. 2 Oklahoma would be the Sooners' first over Colorado since 1988.
That was nine meetings, five coaches and seemingly a lifetime ago for the Sooners, who have been among the nation's elite teams the past three years but for a decade prior to that were seldom much more than ordinary.
When they beat Iowa State two weeks ago, the Sooners (7-
"Our history there for a period of time wasn't real strong against anybody," coach Bob Stoops said yesterday.
0, 3-0 Big 12) improved to 10-1 against top-10 teams under Stoops. In the 10 seasons before he got the job, Oklahoma was 2-13-1 against teams in the top 10.
Colorado holds a 8-0-1 advantage over the Sooners since 1989. The nine straight games is the most Oklahoma has ever gone winless against any opponent.
Gary Gibbs spent six years as Oklahoma's coach, taking over in 1989 after Barry Switzer was forced out. Gibbs was 0-5-1 against Colorado. The Buffaloes were ranked in the top 10 four times during that six year stretch and won the national championship in 1990.
In Howard Schnellenberger's lone year as coach, 1995, the Colorado-Oklahoma game was a matchup of top-10 teams. Colorado won 38-17 in Norman, the first loss of what would become a 5-5-1 season.
John Blake coached three years at Oklahoma, going 12-22. Because of the rotation used in the Big 12, he faced Colorado only once, losing 27-25 in his final season.
"Since coach Switzer left in '88, we hadn't beaten much of anybody that was ranked," Stoops said. "We're a little bit different team right now in the last couple of years than we were through that time."
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