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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 staff writer
Today, post-season 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.
Hadl estimated that the department could
The $750,000 that Kansas will receive for going to the Aloha Bowel may sound big, but it is not when compared to other bowels. 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.
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 $288,000 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. Kanser would
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 Fouraker, 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 VIP's 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 sept band of about 38 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
The trip to Honolulu is not about money, Hall said.
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Kansas aims to avenge season-ending defeat Hopes to defeat Southwest Mo. St. Kansas senior guard Stacy Truitt is one of several Jayhaw crowd at the F
By David Bartkoski Kansan sportswriter
When Southwest Missouri State comes to Lawrence to play the Jayhawks Dec. 8, it will be more than just Kansas' first home game.
The Jayhawks ended their season last year when the Lady Bears defeated them 75-59 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. A crowd of 7,652 fans watched the contest in Springfield.
Kansas junior guard Ericka Muncy, who played in that game, said this year's team was eager to return the favor on Dec. 8.
Muncy said Southwest Missouri's tenacious defense caused Kansas problems in the tournament game.
"All I remember is seeing a ball in my face every time I got the ball," she said. "I think that's probably the best defensive team we faced last year."
Besides having players' hands in their faces, the Jayhawks were hounded by the fans screaming in their ears.
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Southwest Missouri, under head coach and former Kansas player Cheryl Burnett, advanced to the Final Four before being defeated.
She said the players could not hear anything on the court because of the shouting. Muncy echod Truitt's remark
She said that the crowd noise drowned on point guard Kay Kay Hart's play calls.
"No one could hear," she said. "Kay Kay was screaming at the top of her lungs."
The Jayhawks hope for a big and noisy crowd of their own when Southwest Missouri State comes to Allen Field House.
Kansas' home game attendance last season averaged more than 1,000.The largest crowd was 2,500 for the Kansas State game.
Kansas senior guard Jo Jo Witherspoon said Kansas crowds had gotten bigger and better every year she has been at the University.
She would like to see that trend continue for the Southwest Missouri game.
"I hope we have a crowd for that game the wav they did down there," she said.
Kansas coach Marian Washington said the game would give her players valuable experience.
"It gives us an opportunity to play a Final Four team," said Washington, who is in her 20th season at Kansas. "It gives my young players a chance to play against top-notch competition."
Five Kansas players have yet to play an official game in a Jayhawk uniform.
The game will be the 13th meeting between the schools. Kansas holds a 7-5 edge.
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