University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 16, 1987
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CU coach disappointed in team's performance
By CRAIG ANDERSON
Staff writer
Colorado football coach Bill McCartney does not sound like a man whose team has won two more games at this point in the season than they had after five games last year.
"Last year we weren't winning games early in the season, but we were improving every week," he said. "This season, we haven't played a good game yet."
The Buffaloes have a 3-2 record this season, compared to their 1-4 start of the 1966 season. Colorado rebounded from its slow start to win six of its last seven regular season games before losing to Baylor in the Bluebonnet Bowl.
Kansas coach Bob Valesen will be hoping he can get an effort in tomorrow's game in Boulder, Col., which begins at 2 p.m. like his teammates. The Iowa State Coyotes take TheJayhawks lest to the Buffaloes 17-10 in Boulder. Valesente called it one of Kansas' best performances of last season.
This season for Kansas, good team efforts in the eyes of the coaches have not resulted in many points on the scoreboard or many victories. The Jayhawks lost by 52 points at Nebraska last week, but Valesette said for the most part that he was satisfied with the effort of his team.
"We played hard for all but about four minutes in the fourth quarter," he said. "That's the first time since I've been here at Kansas that we've played Nebraska and not been intimidated."
With a strong performance last Saturday against Nebraska, junior punter John Brehm has solidly entrenched himself this week in a battle for playing time with senior Riich酯.
Brehm punted in the second half against the Huskers and kicked the ball out of bounds on five of his six punts. Kansas coaches had him do so to avoid long returns by highly regarded Husker returners Rod Smith and Dana Brinson.
"We've got to get him an opportunity to punt in a game," Valesen said. "Performance is the key and he turned in a good performance against Nebraska."
Brehm will have a little added incentive to go to Colorado and play against the Buffaloes. He graduated from Greenwich University in 1983. Brehm said he was looking forward to returning to his home state.
"I'm really excited about going back to Colorado and playing," he said. "It means something to play in front of your friends and family."
Should Valesente go ahead with last minute depth chart changes, freshman tailback Frank Hatehiet could gain his first collegiate start tomorrow. Hatchell played well in the second half of the Nebraska game, rushing for 40 yards on 12 carries. The speedster has been competing with junior Arnold Snell during this week's practices for the top spot on the depth chart
"Frank Hatchett is going to get more playing time than he's ever gotten before this week. Valesente says he'll work on his defense, he's moving in the direction of becoming a great running back."
Hatchett's physical skills, Valesente said, would make him a force to be reckoned with in the future.
the future.
"I was watching the Nebraska films and he made a play that really jumped out at me," he said. "He made a cut when he saw he was going to get hit and broke to the outside quicker than any back I've ever seen at Kansas."
only back 1. The possible move of Hatchett to a position of more playing time will probably be the only change on the offensive team, but the Kansas defensive unit has been forced to make several changes.
Junior free safety Clint Normore quit the team yesterday before practice, which means junior Rob Newson will start tomorrow in his place. Injuries to strong safety Marvin Mattox and freshman cornerback Bill Sutter have also forced the Jayhawk coaches to shuffle their lineup. Stellar will probably start against Colorado, but Mattox will not play.
auo, but Mattox will help him. As a result, freshman cornerback Michael Page will start and senior Milt Garner will move from cornerback to strong safety to replace Mattox. Wide receivers Rodney Harris and Peda Samuel moved to the defensive backfield this week in practice to bolster Kansas' depth in the secondary.
Valesente said he expected Colorado to challenge the unsettled Jayhawk defensive backfield. The Buffalooes run from the wishbone formation, meaning the Kansas secondary will be pressured to contain the Colorado option plays.
In addition to the Colorado running game, which ranks fourth in the country with 314 yards a game, sophomore quarterback Sal Aunese leads the Big Eight Conference in passing efficiency.
Junior linebacker Rick Clayton said the key to stopping the wishbone offense was good discipline. He said members of the Kansas State defense helped him assignments on option plays to be successful.
"It'll be tough, but it's nothing we can't handle," he said. "We have the ability to shut down their offense, and if we do we'll win the game."
A victory against Colorado would help boost respect for the Kansas football program. The Jayhawks have lost 12 of their last 13 games against Big Eight competition, a slide that spans over three seasons; Kansas has lost four of its lost five games against Colorado.
Recently, Big Eight coaches and players have been taking verbal shots at the Kansas
Kansas Jayhawks
Coach Bob Valesente
Record: 1-4/ 0-1
Game 6
Last Week: The Jayhawks were outmanned by Nebraska, losing their Big Eight opener 54-2 in Lincoln.
Colorado Buffaloes
Coach Bill McCartney
Record: 3/2/0-1
Probable Starters:
Offense:
Last Week: The Buffaloos had a three-game winning streak snapped with a 46-17 loss to Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
WT — 2 Quinn Smith, 5-11, 75, Iso
LTW — 70 Jim Davis, 6-280, Sr.
LGW — 88 Jay Alam, 6-235, Jr.
LCG — 51 Chip Burger, 6-225, Jr.
LCH — 60 Heyward, 6-258, Fr.
RTL — 71 Bob Pearson, 6-280, Fr.
TEB — 88 John Baker, 6-230, Sr.
KBK — 13 Kevin Verdugo, 6-420, Fr.
TB2 — 12 Arnold Snell, 6-200, Fr.
TBC — 92 Bill Burr, 6-225, Fr.
RL4 — 34 Ronnie Cadwell, 6-180, Rsr.
PR9 — Louis Kemp, 5-10, 195, Rsr.
SE- 25 Drew Ferrando, 1-5, 11; 185,
LT- 79 Pat Raty, 6, 185, Sr.
LG- 82 Joe Garten, 6-1, 225,
LG- 83 Karen Kubel, 6-1, 270,
JR- 71 Chrysomimba, 6-2, 255,
TE- 41 Chrysomimba, 6-2, 255,
DT- 63 Darner Mullenburg, 6-2, 800,
TE- 41 Troy Wolf, 6-4, 220,
GB- 84 B.A. Aunseen, 5-10, 195,
QB- 85 J. Flannigan, 5-10, 195,
RB- 29 J.F. Flannigan, 5-11, 185,
RB- 48 Enie Beniamin, 5-6, 185,
RB- 29 Ken Curbelton, 6-4, 175
LE— 108 Extidge Avery, 6, 235, 285
LE— 91 Tim Adams, 6, 255, 285
RLT — 97 David White, 6, 245, 285
RLT — 73 Ted Newman, 6, 240, 285
RLT — 63 Mary Eicke, 6, 210, 285
MLB — 19 Curie Moore, 6, 210, 285
RLB — 25 Rick Bredenbeck, 6, 210, 285
RCB — 12 Michael Page, 6, 185, 285
LCB — 27 Bill Sutter, 5, 118, 285
RLB — 58 Rob Newton, 5, 119, 285
RCB — 48 Rich Rethh, 5, 119, 285
Defense:
DT - 90 Lee Brunelli, 6-2, 820; BRD
MT - 91 Kyle Rapid, 6-0, 245; BSR
DT - 69 Curt Kuch, 6-8, 270; SRL
RT - 87 Tom Reinhardt, 6-0, 255;
DBS - 82, 225; BSR
LD - 32 Enc McCrary, 6-1, 230; DBL -
DBS - 39 Tom Stone, 6-2, 835; JRS
BCB - 23 David Tate, 6-1, 160; RCB -
10 John Marn, 6-1, 160; JSR -
16 Mike Perl, 6-1, 185; SS -
16 Mike Perl, 6-1, 205; SS -
9 Barley Henton, 6-4, 200; RS
Series: Colorado leads the series with Kansas 25-18-3 and has won four of the last five games with the Jayhawks. For games played in Boulder, the Jayhawks have a record of 7-14-0. They also lost a game played in Denver.
Valesente said he wouldn't get into verbal warfare with Parrish. The Kansas State coach was quoted as saying that if the Wildcats had
"I'm fed up with people supposedly having a hard time getting fired up to play our team." Valente said. "It's an insult to our players and to our program. I'm sick and tired of people taking shots at us."
football team. Several Nebraska players talked last week of how hard it was to get excited to play a weak team such as Kansas, Kansas State coach Stan Parrish has seemingly been coming up with a Kansas Jayhawk slam quote of the week ever since the season started.
History: Last year's game between Kansas and the Buffalooses was the debut of quarterback Kelly Donohoe. Donohoe completed 25 of 43 passes in the game for a total of 192 yards.
Coverage: The Kansas-Colorado game will be carried locally by the Kansas Jayhawk Network. The game can be heard in the Lawrence area on KLZR (106 FM) and KLWN (1320 AM). Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. in Colorado's Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo. Radio station KJHK (90.7 AM) will also provide coverage of the game.
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only 11 players left after they played three straight games against Oklahoma, Nebraska and Oklahoma State, his team would beat Kansas.
Valesente said the Kansas-Kansas State game on Nov. 7 would be an important one, but he didn't want to look past tomorrow's game against Colorado.
we don't want anything to distract us from the Colorado game," Valescen said. "Let me just say this about (coach Parrish) comments. We'll take our 60 players up there and he can play his 11 if he wants to. We'll just have to see what happens."
NFL strike ends but teams miss payday
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The 24-day NFL strike ended yesterday when the union capitulated and went to court instead of trying to fight the club owners at the bargaining table.
Teams began reporting back en masse even without a new contract agreement, but they left after being told they had missed the deadline to play and get paid for this weekend's games. The players were taken off by nonunion players and their teammates who went in earlier.
By sundown, almost all the strikers
were back where they started the day
— on the street.
"It was unfair to the players to continue to sacrifice any more," union head Gene Upshaw said after player representatives from all 28 teams voted to end their strike. Many of the players agreed.
"The thing was falling apart," said Ricky Hunley, player representative of the Denver Broncos. "It was like being in a war and losing your team, not missing the fight with. The bottom was pulling out of the situation."
But Doug Allen, the union's assistant executive director, said: "This is not a surrender; it's a cease fire while we proceed in another direction."
The union's other direction was to pursue its aims in a federal antitrust suit filed against the league in Minneapolis, one of the courses that Marvin Miller, retired head of the baseball players union, said he suggested when he was called by union officials earlier this week.
The same court threw out the NFL compensation system 12 years ago, and although it was returned to the system in the 1977 contract, NFLAPA
staff counsel Buck Briggs said, "We got good law there."
Upshaw said, "Every effort ha been made to reach a fair and equitable collective bargaining agreement. The owners have refused to deal fairly with the players and have abused their monopoly powers to the extreme detriment of the players."
The suit asks that the court throw out the college draft as well as the league's system of free-agent compensation and right of first refusal for teams threatened with losing players. It also asks that it void all
player contracts signed after Sept. 16, 1987, most of which are the contracts with the replacement players.
"We tried bargaining, now we'll let the courts decide." Uswah saw.
The union statement came almost five hours after teams started reporting amid chaos and confusion.
The deluge started in late morning.
Many player representatives said they had been told by the union Tuesday night that there was a legal management probably would waive the 1 p.m. Wednesday deadline.
Soccer club set for action
By a Kansan reporter
The nine-team field has been split up into three-team groups. The Jayhawks, 3-2-2, will play the two games in their group tomorrow. They will play Iowa at 12:15 p.m. and Luther College of Decorah, Iowa, at 2:45 p.m. To fit in all of the tournament games tomorrow, the team must game 60 minutes in length. The normal soccer game lasts 90 minutes.
The Kansas men's soccer club will play in its first tournament of the season tomorrow and Sunday when it travels to the University of Northern Iowa tournament in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
"At this point, we have a couple players who are doubtful in terms of injuries," Shirtliffe said. "We're looking to take 18 players, that would be an optimum number. But right now, we're taking 17."
After the group games tomorrow, the teams will be ranked one through nine and will play a single-elimination tournament Sunday in the Uni-
dea, a 16,000-seat stadium also used for football and basketball.
"Iowa is a tough team. They beat
us 2-0 in this tournament last year.
We are coming back."
we're taking it. In addition to Iowa, Shirtlife said that Missouri should be difficult to defeat
"Last year, Nebraska ended up winning the tournament and they seeded seventh of eight after the first day," Shirtlife said.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
A gift for Ryan
Ryan Gray, KU basketball fan and honorary team mascot, tries out an basketball team. The team got together yesterday and gave the tricycle to electric tricycle with the help of his father, Cap, and members of the KU Gray for his birthday.
No more Normore for KU football
By CRAIG ANDERSON Staff writer
By CRAIG Staff writer
Kansas junior starting free safety Clint Normore quit the football team yesterday before practice.
An I can tell you is that it was not because of personal reasons at home," he said. "Nothing is final yet. I haven't told my mom anything."
"Clint Normore quit for personal reasons," he said. "That's all I'll say about it."
Coach Bob Valesente had little to say about Normore's quitting the team.
As a result of the loss of the 6-foot-1, 200-pound Normore, junior Rob Newton will become the starting strong safety. Freshman Jason Priest will move to the second team strong safety. Valesante said he had hoped to redshirt Priest before Normore quit the team.
in the Jayhawks' first five games, Normore recorded 25 tackles, recovered one fumble and had a pass interception. He accounted for the Jayhawks only points against Nebraska when he blocked a punt out of the end zone for a safety.
Normore transferred to Kansas in January from Wichita State when the Shockers dropped their football program for financial reasons. He had been named the Jayhawks' defensive officer of the year for the spring drills.
Normore had also been voted presen-
tate Big Eight Conference defense
newcomer of the year by the Big
Eight skyr writers. The skywriters are a group of sportswriters that travel to all the conference schools over year during their presession school and talk to players and coaches.
While at Wichita State, Normore played both football and basketball for the Shockers. He played 56 games at point guard for Wichita State, and averaged 5.4 points a game. He played two against Kansas, scoring four points both games.
Wichita State Sports Information Director Casey Scott said Normore was an intense competitor during his two years as a Shocker.
"He was a guy I know who hated losing." Scott said. "He was a hard nosed kid who always gave great effort. I know he was not pleased personally on the basketball court when the (1985-86 Wichita State) team finished 14-14. I am surprised that Clint Normore would quit at anything."
Netters travel to Ball State
By a Kansan reporter
The Kansas men's tennis team will be in Muncie, Ill., today to play in the first round of the Ball State Invitational tournament, its first team competition of the season.
rine tournament, which runs through Sunday, will include Western Michigan, Purdue, Northern Illinois, Miami (Ohio), Iowa, Wisconsin, and the host team, Ball State.
"There will be some good teams in the tournament with solid programs," Kansas tennis coach Scott Perelman said. "Wisconsin has much improved teams this year and Western Michigan is a top Midwestern team."
Perelman will be returning to his alma mater, where he played tennis for four years.
"Because I played there, going back is a tough thing to do," he said. "They (Ball State) have been the champions and are a good team."
But the important thing his players should remember is to be concerned with their own play, not the competition.
"I've been pleased with the way our practices have been gone," he said. "We're young, but we have a lot of things going for us. I think every single guy on the team is a better guy by far than they were a year ago."
Perelman said he was confident the team would do well in the tournament.