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Kansas may have solved its quarterback question, but whether Iowa State's Seneca Wallace can be contained remains up in the air.
Wallace threw for 313 yards in Iowa State's 31-38 loss to Florida State in Saturday's Eddie Robinson Classic. He was stopped just short of the goal line on the last play of the game.
"We've thought about welding the locker room door shut before the game and see
if we can keep him in there, but I don't think they're going to allow us to do that," Mangino said when asked about Wallace.
Mangino said Kansas could
"He can run and pack a punch. When he puts the pads on, he can knock it out of you," Mangino said. "He's the type of guy you can build your defense around."
One of the players charged with slowing Iowa State's air attack is sophomore cornerback Johnny McCoy. Mangino said McCoy was an aggressive, intelligent player who has a bright future at Kansas.
not expect to stop Wallace, but they would try to make him less of a factor by making sure everyone knew their defensive assignments.
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"I have a lot to learn, but the opportunity to coach under Price outweighed being the coach at Division III," he said. "I might be a volunteer, but I'm going to be working 50 to 60 hours a week or whatever it takes."
"I think both these guys have
"For the immediate future we are going to use the Wood Valley Racquet Club in Topeka," coach Kilmeny Waterman said. "They are excited to have us play there so we will try to make the most out of the situation."
"We have been supporting the teams for 25 years and hopefully the community can step up and help the situation," Billings said.
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Billings said he feels that it's time for somebody else in the community to help the team find a place to play.
Price said Christiansen's enthusiasm makes him glad to have the new coaches in the dugout in February.
Christiansen, 27, said the chance to work with an up-and-coming coach like Price made it easier to come to Kansas.
Gary Kempf, director of student-athlete life, thinks finding a location for the team is going to be a difficult process.
Price said he had been impressed with Christiansen's hunger to reach one of the upper-echelon conferences in college sports by working as a volunteer coach.
"Not many guys would give up a full time job to be a volunteer," Price said. "He wants to be a coach at a Division I institution. I was impressed with his desire to coach at this level."
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"There are a lot of irons in the fire in terms of interest," he said. "We've just got to make sure we put the pieces together. It's a daily topic here trying to figure out how to help any of our athletes. This is obviously not an ideal situation, but I will say our team and coaches have made the best of the situation."
Kempf said issues such as parking, location and whether to open the facility to the public are currently being discussed.
"Unluckily, right now there are no indoor courts in town, so we're trying to look at all the different options and see what's available," Kemp said. "It's a stair step process, trying to make sure that we can find somebody who will help us build the facility financially."
The Jayhawks are coming off their best season in three years and finished with a 16-6 record and 9-2 in the Big 12 Conference. However, the team could suffer recruitment setbacks without a permanent location.
"We were second in the Big 12 and first in our region," Lorenz said. "I think we deserve some locker rooms and a place to play."
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"We are trying to get something done soon." Waterman said, "so I can tell recruits we will have a sufficient place to play."
"It's probably not a real good option because the gyms are busy. And laying down a surface that athletes can play on is another issue," Kempf said. "We don't have a real mobile surface that you can just roll on and roll off, and practicing in a gymnasium when there is already a shortage of gymnasiums is difficult."
The change for the Jayhawks has impacted veteran players such as Omaha, Neb. senior Kim Lorenz.
The first practice is scheduled for Sept. 5 at the Wood Valley Racquet Club and the first tournament is Sept. 25 against Tulsa University and Indiana University in Tulsa, Okla.
The possibility of using the gymnasiums in Robinson Center does not seem to be a viable alternative for the team, Kempf said.
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The Jayhawks will begin practicing as a team on September 28. Individual workouts with four players at a time will begin this Saturday.
what it takes to help a team at the bottom of the Big 12," Price said. "It's going to take incredible work ethic, energy and desire."
Reggie Christiansen volunteer coach
"I have a lot to learn but the opportunity to coach under (Price) outweighed being the coach at Division III. I might be a volunteer, but I'm going to be working 50 to 60 hours a week or whatever it takes."
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Francis sees Brothers and Gilfillan's different styles as an advantage for the team.
"It's good to have a bit of a mixture," he said. "They compliment each other well."
Not only are Brothers and Gilfillan different players, but this will be a different season for the team without Rantala.
Both Brothers and Gillfillan agreed that teams will probably approach them differently and that the Jayhawks offensive
style would be different, but they do not believe it will change their success.
"I feel really good about this season," Gilfillan said.
"We have a power offense this year. That's going to be a good thing."
Although not pressured by
the task ahead of them, Brothers and Gilfillan are not completely forgetting about Rantala.
"I'm hoping we can make her proud," Gillifan said.
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Chiefs closer to signing first round draft pick Sims
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs officials were having "a late lunch" Tuesday with the agent for Ryan Sims, raising hopes the first-round draft pick may soon end his long holdout.
"At some point,enough is enough,or enough is all you can
However, Chiefs president Carl Peterson insisted he won't budge far from his present offer no matter how much the team needs the 300-pound defensive tackle.
do," Peterson said. "We only have so many (salary) cap dollars. It's a finite number. We can't go beyond that."
Assistant general manager Denny Thum, who handles most player negotiations, was meeting with Hadley Engelhard, Sims' agent.
The Chiefs thought they were on the verge of an agreement right before opening training camp, but struck an impasse that centers mostly on escalator clauses that could increase the value of the contract in the later years.
Engelhard could not be reached for comment.
The Chiefs' salary cap situation worsened this week when six-year veteran free safety Jerome Woods was placed on injured reserve after breaking his leg in an exhibition game at Seattle.
The Chiefs might also have to put wide receiver Sylvester Morris, the 2000 No.1 pick, on injured reserve with a knee injury.
"It's going to affect our cap. I guarantee you that. It's a problem we're having to deal with," Peterson said.
Head coach Dick Vermeil, increasingly frustrated over Sims' holdout, has said he would not expect him to be of help in the Sept. 8 opener at Cleveland even if he comes in this week.
"He needs to get his tail into camp," Vermeil said. "He's hurting the team."
"We'd like to have Ryan Sims in there in the rotation," Peterson said. "And whenever he comes in, he's going to have to earn that, earn it from the coaching and the respect of his teammates."