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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VOL.102,NO.69
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 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, coaches, cheerleaders and band members to Honolulu, said John Hadl, assistant athletic director.
Hadi estimated that the department could
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 Jawahyers to Hawaii.
The department will net at most $288,000 for Kansas' participation, according to Hadl'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
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 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
Three Kansas seniors show maturity hope to lead team to NCAA Final Four
The trip to Honolulu is not about money, Hadl said.
By David Dorsey Kansan sportswriter
The men's basketball team, ranked No. 2 in the nation during the preseason, has a lot of expectations — ones that worry Kansas coach Roy Williams.
"One of my biggest concerns is just the tremendous expectations and the mental state of our kids," he said. "I don't want them to think that they have to do this or they have to do that. They just need to do their best and see what happens from there."
But the Jayhawks have three seniors that should provide leadership in fulfilling some of those expectations.
"Our greatest strength is our experience and our depth," Williams said. "And for what we do, there are no two guards in the nation better than Adonis Jordan and Rex Walters."
Senior point guard and floor leader Adonis Jordan is the Jayhawks' most veteran player. He has been a starter since his sophomore year and helped lead that squad to the 1991 NCAA Final Four.
Senior shooting guard Rex Walters is next in line, having transferred from Northwestern after his sophomore year. Walters could practice but not play with the 1991 team, and after the Jayhawks' loss to Texas-Eli Paso in the NCAA tournament last season, Walters said he wanted an NCAA championship ring more than anything.
trash-talking player in the past, said he concentrated last season on playing his game, not talking it.
"Once you get to this level, you have to have a high degree of confidence in yourself," he said. "Now I'm trying to tone it down to where the confidence is coming out of me. I feel that if I score some points on somebody and if I stop a guy from scoring, I really don't need to say anything."
Walters, who has been accused of being a
"I think I've matured to the point where scoring, stopping your man and getting the steal is more important than saying something to him. I hope to lead this team by example rather than by talking a lot."
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Sophomore guard Greg Gurley (right) tries for a steal against senior guard Rex Walters in practice. Walters and the two other seniors will lead the 'Hawks this season.
Jordan and Walters were the team's top two scorers last season and are considered by many preseason publications as the top backcourt in the nation.
Eric Pauley leads this season's front court. The 6-foot-10 center was named last season's most improved player by the team after overcoming a 2-for-19 shooting slump last January. He ended the season with a 52-percent field-goal percentage.
Pauley returned to campus this fall 15 pounds heavier, weighing in at 232. He said he talked to nutritionists during the summer about how he could add some bulk to his body while remaining healthy.
"It's a little bit harder getting up and down the court, but I'm happy with the change," he said. "I think I should be an improved player this season because of it."
Pauley was a junior college transfer from Cypress (Calif.) Community College and averaged nine points and four rebounds a
game last season, which was his first at Kansas.
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