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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.69
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Bowl games mean more than fame and a vacation
Schools profit from bowl bids
By Kristi Fogler Kansan staff writer
Today, post-season college football now 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.
Hadd estimated that the department wont spend about $277,000 on air fares.
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 Jawahays 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.
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 cruiting."
The trip to Honolulu is not about money, Hall said.
ing to cost anything. That is the oking at it as a reward."
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Former Kansas coach says sport has changed
Kansan sportswriter
By David Dorsey
As basketball enters its 101st year, the sport's concept remains the same. Putting the ball through the hoop and preventing the opponent from doing the same is how the game always has been played.
But in the past 25 years, basketball has become more physically demanding and at times violent, leading to an increase in injuries.
"The size, the ability and the speed of the players, and the way the game is played now is much more aggressive than it used to be," said Dick Harp, who coached the Kansas men's basketball team from 1956 to 1965. "I don't like the way that the game is played in terms of the contact. I think that takes away from the skill."
Harp said that when he coached, injuries among his players were rare.
"It used to be when you got hurt playing basketball, you might sprain your ankle," he said. "Now, for instance, there's the stress fracture. No one ever heard of the stress fracture until recent times. Part of that comes from the fact that people are playing all the time."
Harp said that when he coached, players were encouraged to participate in different sports, not just basketball, throughout the year. Now that players play basketball
outround the entire year, he said, the skill level had improved, but might not continue to do so because of the constant pounding the players received during games.
"Most players who end up at KU as players play year round, and they play harder year round because of the endurance that they build," Harp said. "So why shouldn't we have better basketball players? But I really wish the rough part of the game would end."
Greg Ostergat, sophomore center on this season's Kansas basketball team, said that the game's roughness was something he accepted.
"It's just something you can't get rid of," he said. "Don't let anybody tell it it's not a physical game, because it is."
Although the NCAA officials will call the obvious fouls during games, Harp said that a lot of fouls are seen but not called.
"I think that this would be a better game all around if the roughness stopped, but backing off of that is really hard," he said. "And maybe the officials don't want to back off it because it's easier not to call a foul than it is to call one and get hollered at by the crowd."
Basketball is beginning its second century as it ended its first. The ball still goes through the hoop, but a few bodies might be lying underneath the basket.
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