SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 28, 1992
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Chiefs concentrate on special teams
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It was special teams for the Chiefs. For the Raiders, it was turnovers, turnovers, turnovers.
Poring over playbooks and game films preparing for tonight's Los Angeles-Kansas City game, each coach had little trouble figuring out what the other would be concentrating on.
"We had some breakdowns that need to be corrected and quite simply will be corrected," said special teams coach Kurt Schotttenheime
The Chiefs are 2-1 instead of 3-0 because their special teams failed in Houston a week ago, turning a likely victory into a 2-20 overtime loss.
The reason the Raiders are 0-3 and facing their worst start in 28 years is even simpler but may be better. They simply can't hold the ball.
Three games into what may be a lost season, the team that prides itself on being the most successful in professional sports leads the NFL with a turnover ratio of minus-2. Raiders have out-gained their thirteen points almost 100 yards a game but have given the ball away 13 times.
In a 28-16 loss to Cleveland last week, when Todd Marinovich replaced Jay Schroeder and passed for 395 yards on a club-record 50 attempts, the Raiders' statistical
edge was overwhelming.
"We had 25 first downs to their six. You look at the stats, and you swear we won the game," said Eric Dickerson, who leads the Raiders with 108 yards on 38 carries. "But mistakes really hurt us."
It's not as though the Raiders haven't tried to figure out the epidemic of giveaways.
"The common thread is our decision-making process," coach Art Shell said. "We've got to stay away from simple mistakes."
Essentially, Schottenheimer espouses the same theory about his special teams. The kicking units turned ineffective in Houston, starting with the opening kickoff, which the Oilers returned for a touchdown.
Another breakdown included a long kickoff return in the final seconds of the first half that put the Oilers in position for a field goal and, amazingly, Nick Lowery's miss of a 20-vard kick.
The long returns were a matter of people being out of position.
"We understand what we did." Schottenheimer said. "Guys were not at the proper depth and level they needed to be at. It was a critical mistake in the ball game."
The usual sellout crowd of more than 76,000 awaits the 8:05 p.m. kickoff, hoping to see the Chiffs beat their old American Football League rivals for a sixth consecutive time.
Women's golf team finishes third
Kansan staff report
The Kansas women's golf team took third place in the Iowa State Golf Classic yesterday.
Kansas junior Holly Reynolds took first place in the tournament and shot three over par in two rounds.
Michelle Uher finished 10th overall and second for Jayhawks with 22-over par. Cathy Reinbeck, Lynn Williamson and Tracy Belise also competed for Kansas.
Kansas coach Jerry Waugh said the team had the potential to play better.
"I think our team's capable of hitting 320," he said yesterday. "We're just not playing as well as we can play at this point is our team, but it seems hard. It's that much difficult to play when you have a lot of pressure on yourself.
Iowa State won the tournament, followed by Kansas State. The Jayhawks play next weekend at the Yale Tournament in New Haven, Conn.
Former Kansas pitcher finds success in minors
Former All-Big Eight pitcher Curtis Shaw said that when he decided to walk on to the Kansas baseball team in 1988, playing professional baseball was the farthest thing from his mind.
By Brady Prauser Special to the Kansan
Three minor league seasons and many strikeouts later, Shaw's priorities have changed.
Shaw left Kansas after his junior year when he was selected as the first pick in the second round of in the 1990 major league baseball draft by the Oakland Athletics. He signed a contract to pitch in the A's farm system and did not return for his senior year at Kansas.
It does not look like he made a mistake
Shaw, a relief pitcher while at Kansas, was moved to starting pitcher by the A's He led their Class A Modesto, Calif., team in wins, innings pitched and strikeouts this season. He posted a 13-4 record with a 3.05 ERA. Starting all 27 games he pitched, including two in a California League division championship series, he led his team to a second-place finish in its division.
Shaw said he had to get used to becoming a starter.
Minor league team levels begin at Single A, go to low A, Mid A, High A, Double A, Triple A, and the Majors. Shaw spent the 1990 season with the Mid A Medford, Orde., team and joined the Madison, Wis., team for the 1991 season, where he was 7-5 with a 2.6 ERA. The Modesto team he played for this season was a High A队.
"The biggest adjustment was the work load," he said. "You're throwing every five days. All things considered, I'd rather start than relieve, but the goal is just to make it to the big leagues."
Shaw, a left-hander, likely will be promoted to the A's Double A Huntsville, Ala., team next season.
He said that the hitters he faced in the minor leagues were comparable to good Big Eight hitters, but the game
"Your desire to win doesn't change, but there is not as much emotion as in college," Shaw said. "I was an emotional pitcher in college."
itself was different from college.
The minor league season, which has 140 games, also is an adjustment. Shaw said, as opposed to the approximately 60 games that Kansas olavs.
Shaw said that his goal for next season was to win 15 game but that winning was not emphasized in the low minor leagues as much as the total number of innings a pitcher worked. He would continue to use the pitches that worked well for him this season.
"The fastball is my best pitch," Shaw said. "But I enet up getting most of my pitch."
The California League selects a mid-season All-Star team and a post-season All-Star team, and Shaw was named both.
Despite his success in the minors, Shaw said his greatest moment on the baseball field was making the Kansas team as a walk-on. He credited his development to Kansas coach Dave Bingham and pitching coach Wilson Kilmer.
"It's hard to describe how much they helped me, he said." I grew up a lot. They taught me a lot about more than just pitching."
Bingham said Shaw improved greatly while at Kansas, and he was, without question, the best professional pitching prospect the Jayhawks had developed in recent years. He said that Shaw's fastball and slider were of above-average major league caliber.
"He went from basically throwing 79 miles an hour to 89 miles an hour," Bingham said. "He has a great mentality for the game, he'a force competitor and he has outstanding stuff."
Shaw, from Bartlesville, Okla,
holds the Jayhawk single-season
record for appearances. He ranks second
in career appearances.
He is at Kansas this semester working on degrees in business and history and will report to spring training in March.
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