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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102, NO.69
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1992
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Bowl games mean more than fame and a vacation
Schools profit from bowl bids
By Kristl Fogler
Kansan staffwriter
Today, post-season college football bowl games mean more than national exposure and a trip for fans and players to some place like Florida, California or Hawaii. To many teams and conferences, it means big payoffs and more money.
The $750,000 that Kansas will receive for going to the Aloha Bowl may sound big, but it is not when compared to other bowls. The money might pay only for the cost to send the team, caches, cheerleaders and band members to Honolulu, said John Hadl, assistant athletic director.
Hadi estimated that the department would spend about $327,000 on air fares, about $125 a day for each hotel room and $49 a
es. The Athletic Department may run into additional costs if the almost 8,000 tickets given to Kansas by the bowl's organizers are not sold. It will cost at least $482,000 to send the Jahwaves to Hawaii.
The department will net at most $268,000 for Kansas' participation, according to Hadi's estimates. In fact, Kansas also will receive money from the Big Eight Conference's participation in the Orange Bowl. Each Big Eight school will get about $350,000 when the conference champion, either Nebraska or Colorado, plays in the Orange Bowl.
There is speculation that Colorado may go to the Fiesta Bowl. If Colorado does, the payoff is $3 million per team. Colorado would deduct team expenses from that amount and turn the rest over to the conference which would divide the remaining money equally among all eight teams, said Carl James, conference commissioner. Kansas would receive about $250,000.
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none of the other Big Eight schools will profit from from one team going to Hawaii because of the lower payoff.
Nebraska spent about $1 million just on travel expenses for the Orange Bowl last year, said Gary Fourier, assistant athletic director for business affairs at Nebraska.
Fouraker said the Orange Bowl was one of the more expensive bowls because of its national prominence. The bigger the bowl, the more university officials and VIPs a team needs to bring, he said. For example, the entire Nebraska football band, which has about 200 members, attended the Orange Bowl, but Kansas is paying only for a smaller pep band of about 30 Marching Jayhawks.
"It's really for the players, coaches and fans," he said. "It's for the people who made this thing happen. Besides it's prestige. It's national television on Christmas Day and it helps recruiting."
Williams finds sweet success
The trip to Honotulu is not about money, Hadl said.
Forget the pros! Kansas men's coach wants to stick to collegiate basketball
not going to cost anything. That is the
looking at it as a reward."
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Candy bars taste great. Peanut butter cups are out of sight. And, oh, how he loves those creamy, mouthwatering chocolate-covered macadamia nuts.
He craves them in the afternoon when candy practically spills out of his desk drawer.
Roy Williams, author of 104 victories in only four years at Kansas, craves sweets in the morning when he spots them there on the nightstand.
He craves them in the evening when he reaches for his car keys and accidentally pulls a Butterfinger out of his pocket.
And the more he craves, the better he feels after forcing himself to go a month or longer without so much as a nibble.
His favorite treats lie always within easy reach during these periodic self-imposed gut checks, tempting but unleashed during a will power marathon that reassures the 42-year-old coach he's fit to demand sacrifice from others.
Williams added: "Anybody can tell them, 'Too as I say, not as I do.'"
What Williams has done since inheriting an NCAA-wounded program in 1989 is elevate himself to the exclusive ranks of college basketball's elite. A virtual unknown assistant on Dean Smith's North Carolina staff in 1988, he stands now with Duke's Mike Krzewzski as the most-admired young coaches in the game.
"I always preach self-discipline to my players, so I'd better have some myself," said the man who forsook Los Angeles for Lawrence and has won more games in his first four seasons than any other Division I coach, save one.
"Kids today can spot a phony a mile away,"
"Roy Williams is a winner. He has proved without a doubt that he is truly one of the outstanding coaches in America," said Misu souri's Norm Stewart.
Not many men would turn the Los Angeles Lakers down. But earlier this year Williams managed to resist even that great temptation — twice.
The second time, the NBA's West Coast glamour franchise came back with a money package he called "mind-boggling."
"I'm not saying I'm not well paid here," he said. "But it was a huge, huge difference. I had to consider it. But I do love college basketball. I finally decided that this is what is right for Roy Williams."
Williams' 104 victories in his first four seasons are second in NCAA Division I history only to the 107 Everett Case won at North Carolina State in 1947-50.
This year with four returning starters,
including all-Big-Eight guards Adomis Jordan
and Rex Walters and a prized crop of heralded newcomers, Williams could put one of the greatest Kansas teams ever on the floor.
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"I think we could be very good," he frankly admitted. "I'm sure going to be disappointed if we aren't."
One reason for his meteoric success may be the reverence Williams holds for his job. Using himself as living proof, the Asheville, N.C., native believes his teaching responsibilities go far beyond the finer points of the half-court trap.
"My mom and dad split up when I was real young," he said. "I never had that male influence all the psychologists talk about being so important. My high school coach, a man named Buddy Baldwin, was the first person in my life to make me feel good about myself.
"The summer between the ninth and 10th grade, I decided I wanted to be a coach. Buddy Baldwin is the reason I'm in coaching."
Dean Smith is the reason he's at Kansas. A Jayhawk alumnus himself, Smith persuaded Bob Frederick, athletic director, to take a chance on his obscure assistant and ignore boosters demanding an established head coach.
His personal record is 44 consecutive days without biting into a treat.
A few people said some rather unkind things when Williams got the job. But their stuff disapproval proved no match for a candy-loving workaholic strong enough to stuff chocolate-covered macadamia nuts back in the drawer unopened
"I don't mean to sound all-wise and philosophical or anything like that," he said with a smile and a soft Southern drawl. "But the truly free person is the self-disciplined person. That's something I learned from coach Smith. The truly free person is the one who doesn't need to be disciplined by others."
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