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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102, NO.69
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Bowl games mean more than fame and a vacation
Schools profit from bowl bids
By Kristl Fogler Kansan staff writer
Today, post-season college football bown 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, coaches, cheerleaders and band members to Honolulu, said John Hadl, assistant athletic director.
Had appropriated that th
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 Jayhawks 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 chair.
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.
The trip to Honolulu is not about money, Hadl said.
Washington nears 350th victory
"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
By David Bartkosk
Kansan sportswriter
Some coaches say that milestones really don't mean anything.
But Marian Washington, Karsas women's basketball coach, says that milestones mean something for her.
Washington is three wins shy of her 35th career victory coming into this, her 20th, year of coaching at Kansas.
"My life has been in a perpetual motion," she said. "Sometimes I have to make myself stop. The 350 wins will be important to me because I know I will have had to work hard for every one of them."
Twenty-five of her 347 career victories came last year, when the Jayhawks won the Big Eight Championship and earned an atlarge berth in the NCAA Championships.
Washington was named Big Eight Coach of the Year for her efforts.
onship basketball team in 1969.
She lived in Kansas City for the next two years, teaching physical education at a junior high school and playing AAU basketball for Alberta Lee Cox.
Washington came to Kansas, taking the advice of a coach who recommended that she work with former Kansas track coach Bill Easton. She had been an AU-champion discus thrower in high school and was competing in track and basketball when she came to Kansas.
She attributed some of Kansas' recent success to signing "blue-chip" high school players in the last two years.
In 1973, Washington became the fourth women's basketball coach in Kansas history and began serving as women's athletic director - a position she would hold until the men's and women's departments merged in 1979.
"I think people realize that over the last couple of years we have been able to recruit some real fine talent," she said. "It's been a real credit to the staff and to the hard work they've put in."
In addition to Washington's coaching duties, she serves as the president of the 3,000-member Black Coaches Association.
Despite all the work that Washington is doing this year, she said that her load was lighter now than when she first came to the University.
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Washington graduated in 1970 from West Chester State (Pa.), where she was a member of the first women's national champi
The following year, Washington served as the women's track and field coach. In addition, she was still competing nationally in basketball and the disc throw.
"In one word, she is the greatest," sophomore forward Caryn Shinn said. "I see Coach
"I think I made a complete commitment to the University and the women's program," she said. "My first three years as the women's basketball coach were probably the most devastating of my life."
Washington said that her former collegiate coach, Carol Eckman, along with Cox and Eastman, were three of the biggest influences on her approach to coaching.
"They all helped me to know how I would want to treat my players," she said.
One of the important things in coaching, Washington said, is for a coach to find positive things to say to the athletes.
Washington as one of my biggest motivators. She's a great example for young women."
Washington's athletes have many positive things to say about her.
The first Kansas players that Washington coached in the early 70s did not have some of the amenities that the current players enjoy. The teams traveled by cars and had bag lunches.
Even after Kansas began consistently recording winning seasons in the late '70s with the help of players like four-time All-American Lynette Woodard, Washington said, the team still had to prove itself to the rest of the country.
Kansas made its first post-season appearance in 1978, playing in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Regional Playoffs. The team finished fourth in the playoffs with a 2-1 record and then played in the National Women's Invitation Tournament, where it placed sixth.
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With Woodard on the team in the 1980-81 season, Kansas reached a No.3 national ranking. It is the highest ranking that any Big Eight team has ever achieved.
Washington said she had coached other Kansas squads that deserved to be ranked but were not.
"Even after Lynette's teams, we had teams that could have been in the top 20 or 25," she said. "But the polls were hard to crack."
Lately, Kansas has been able to crack the national nolls.
Last year's squad finished at No.17, and this year's squad was ranked between No.15 and No.19 in many pre-season publications.
But Washington said she did not always measure her success in team rankings or winning percentage.
"I think I've been reasonably successful," she said. "By that, I don't mean just games
Kansas women's basketball coach Marian Washington concentrates on her team's performance. Washington has started her 20th season as a coach at Kansas.
won or lost. I mean in making a difference in the lives of young players."
Kansas senior guard Jo Jo Witherpson said Washington's door was always open for any of her players.
"You can go into the basketball office and talk to her anytime," she said. "She's a friend."
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