University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 29, 1987
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Sports
KU defeats rivals for highest prices on concessions
By DAVID BOYCE
Assistant sports editor
At a Kansas home football game, fans pay $1.75 for a 20-ounce plastic cup of soo drink. At the University of Missouri, they pay $2.25 for a 22-ounce plastic杯 of soft drink.
In fact, when comparing concession stand prices with Missouri and Kokoto University, KU prices are higher in nearly every food category.
At K-State, a 22 ounce plastic cup of soft drink costs $1.50, and a 32 ounce cup costs $2. A king-size candy bar sells for $1 at K-State, while it costs $1.25 at Kansas' Memorial Stadium. Popcorn costs 75 cents at K-State, $1 at Missouri and $1.25 at Kansas.
son, and making money is the name of the game."
The good news about concessions prices here is that they did not increase from last year. However, even though the cost of a 16-ounce cup is up by more than $2 this year it comes in a throwaway paper cup instead of a plastic cup.
Brent Jones, concession manager at the University of Kansas for Marriott Corporation, said the difference in concession prices depended on how much of the profits went back to the school's athletic department.
“Prices here are about the same as other schools around the country.”
“They are not trying to gouge the students but trying to get the maximum out of them.
Marrison is in the third year of a five-year contract with Kansas. The company also handles concessions on Michigan and California-Berkley.
"Each year we have a seven-month down period which there are many different opportunities we need to make as big a profit as we can during football and basketball season."
Jones would not disclose how much of the gross profit Marriott had to pay the department, but he did say it was not unreasonable.
"I think the prices are fair for the rent we pay," Jones said.
"People think we make a lot of money, but once everyone gets their slice of the pie there are only pennies left," Jones said.
All prices submitted by Marriott must be approved by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board.
Last year the athletic department made $185,909 from concession sells, an increase of about $26,000 from the previous year when the athletic department made $160,000, said Susan Wachter, assistant athletic business director.
Last year prizes increased 25 cents on nearly all food items. A $1.50 drink during the 1985 football season went to $1.75 last year.
Wachter said the athletic department made $5,000 more in 1986 on concession sales at football games than in 1985 partly because there was one more home game. She said she didn't know why basketball profits increased $21,000 during that same time span.
Jones said concession stand workers received 12 percent of total sales. The remaining 88 percent was
divided between Marriott and the athletic department, he said.
Scott Paul, Overland Park senior, who worked at a concession stand during Saturday's game against Louisiana Tech, said he thought the profit the University received was very high.
Paul, who compared the prices here with those at movie theaters, said we would buy a soft drink at a football game if he was thirsty enough.
Jones also said he would buy a soft
"I guess when you are in a closed environment you try to get away with as much as you can," Paul said.
drink and food items at the present prices.
"I pay these prices every time I go to a Royals game," he said.
to a Royals game, he said.
Although many fans will buy a soft drink, that doesn't keep them from complaining about the prices.
"Not only are they putting a sub-pair product on the field, but they are putting sub-pair products in the stands," he said.
Tom Fagan, St. Louis, Mo., junior,
said he was particularly outraged
with prices after two weeks in the
stands.
He said that Saturday when he went to buy a large soft drink it
tasted watered-down, was filled with ice and was two inches short of being full.
"I asked the concessionman to fill it to the top and he said, 'I feel bad about the prices, but we have no control over it.'" Fagan said.
"A friend of mine buys nachos for $1.50, which is a fair price, but the chips were stale." he said. "When you get $0.50 you expect some sort of quality."
"When you are only putting 25,000 people in the stands, I guess you need to get all you can out of the people
But Fagan said he understood the reasoning behind the prices.
who come." he said.
Jones voiced some of the same sentiments.
"Football hasn't been the money producer we thought it would be when we took the contract," Jones said. "But basketball makes up for it. I would really like to see the football team start winning."
Jones said he would also like to see the temperature rise.
During last year's first home football game against North Carolina, temperatures were in the upper 80s, and although North Carolina beat Kansas, 20-0, more than 11,000 large cups were sold.
Union head asks to televise strike talk
Four more cross picket lines as NFL players' walkout enters its second week
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The NFL strike entered its second week yesterday with the two sides locked into immovable positions, no negotiations in union head Gene Upshaw suggesting that the next talks be televised.
Upshaw, who met with players from six teams in Los Angeles on Sunday, made the suggestion in Cleveland, where he talked with the former Rangers and the area. He later went to Chicago where he met with members of the Bears and six other teams and backed down some about the televised negotiations.
Upshaw plans to meet with the Atlanta Falcons and the New York Giants today.
"We have nothing to hide by putting them on television," Upshaw said. "We think the public should see that we are making movement at the table and they could really see what the owners think and do at the table."
Later in Chicago, Upshaw said that when serious talks resumed and the union presented its new offer, the proceedings would be held in a closed meeting room and not before the media.
spokesman, said such a televised meeting would be defined as an unfair labor practice by the National Labor Relations Board. Each side has already filed complaints against the other with the NLRB.
John Jones, a Management Council
"We are prepared as a union to stay out as long as it takes," Upshaw said in Chicago.
However, four more players crossed picket lines yesterday.
Veteran linebacker Reggie Williams, who said he will play for the Cincinnati Bengals against San Diego on Sunday, and two members of the Indianapolis Colts, wide receiver Walter Murray and defen-
side back Jim Perryman, all went back to work despite the strike Seattle Seahawks center Stan Eisenhooth also crossed the picket line yesterday, joining his brother John, who had done so earlier.
"I hope they are playing with the guys who are on this field today." Williams said as the striking Bengals worked out at a high school. "But if I them I will play with whatever players we wearing the Bengals uniform."
But most coaches seemed resigned to playing without regular players like Williams. Many likened it to running rookie mini-camps.
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Take me out to the ball game
James Stines, Olathe junior, knocks the ball into left field for a triple. Stines played in the international软球 tournament, sponsored by Recreation
Coaches pleased with golf teams
By DARRIN STINEMAN
Staff writer
Services yesterday afternoon on the fields behind Robinson Center.
Stines' team, Delta Chi, beat Alpha Epsilon Pi, 7-2.
Oklahoma State won the tournament with a score of 917. Duke took second with 925, followed by Oklahoma with 935; North Texas State with 953; Southern Methodist with 960; Texas Christian with 966; Texas &M with 923; Lair with 985; Texas &M with 1005; and Nebraska with 1002.
The Kansas women's golf team finished seventh out of 10 teams at the All-College Classic at Edmond, Okla., this weekend.
Senior Tina Gnewchw led the Jayhawks with 83-78-77 — 238 at the 54-hole, par-71 event. Senior Susan Pekar had 83-78-70 — 240; sophomore Donna Loven had 80-83-84 — 247; sophomore Sherri Atchison had 89-81-78 — 248; and sophomore
"We tried to have a little attitude adjustment after the first day because we weren't trying to have good things happen," Weiser said. "I was really proud of the way they turned things around."
"Our kids played a lot better," he said. "They played better, but they expected better things to happen, and that paid off."
Kansas coach Kent Weiser said he was pleased with the way things went at the tournament.
The men's golf team after the second round is in sixth place out of 18 teams in the Butler National Invitational. The tournament is being
Suzanne Mossberg had 88-87-91
266
The team shot 334 on the first day of the tournament and followed with 319 on the last two days.
Arkansas has the lead after 36 holes of play with a team total of 595. Arkansas State share a second place tie, Kansas. The out of second place with a 600 total.
Individually for the Jayhawks at the end of the second round, junior Jon Bruning is tied for 11th with a one-off 150. Rudy Zupetz, also a junior, is one off Brunning with a 151. Close behind are sophomore Clay Devers, who has a two-day total of 153, and senior Brian McGrevy with a 153. Junior John Erickson finished the second day shooting 175.
played at Cog Hill Country Club in Lemont, Ill., with Illinois playing host.
Seattle beats Kansas City
"I am very pleased with our showing so far," said Coach Ross Randall. "These are some of the top teams in the Midwest."
The Associated Press
Lee Guetterman pitched a four-hitter for six innings, and Phil Dawson gave in two runs as the Seattle Mariners beat Kansas City 5-1 last night.
The Royals were eliminated from the American League West race earlier last night when the Minnesota Twins clinched the championship with a 5-3 victory over the Texas Rangers.
Guetterman, 10,4 made his first start since Aug. 15 when Mark Langston was sidelined because of the flu. Jerry Reed, who provided relief at the start of the seventh, allowed two hits over three innings for his sixth save.
Valesente says team needs consistency
By CRAIG ANDERSON Staff writer
Despite the recent downturns in the Kansas football fortunes, there will be no major changes of strategy, but Coach Boles Valese said yesterday.
Valeseng, speaking to about 40 people at the weekly meeting of the Kansas Quarterback Club, said his team needed to reach a level of consistency if they were going to be successful this season.
The Quarterback Club is a group of alumni and supporters of Kansas football that meets every Monday to watch films of the previous Jayhawk game and discuss the game with Valesente. The group meets in the Summerfield Room of the Adams Alumni Center.
The quarterback and the head coach of a football team, Valesente said, are in some ways similar.
"When things start to go wrong for a team, the quarterback always in a lot of the heat," he said. "I know I feeling that they sometimes have."
For the season, Kansas quarterbacks Kelly Donohoe and Mike Orth have combined to throw for one touchdown and seven interceptions. Donohoe who had started the Jayhawks in three games, was replaced by Orth in game six Saturday against Louisiana Tech He had thrown interceptions on two of the Jayhawks' first three possessions. Orth came in and complete
six of 29 passes for 117 yards and threw three interceptions.
Valesente said he had been disappointed in the performance of his first two quarterbacks. He said some of the decisions they had made during games, such as throwing the ball to the wrong receivers and not throwing the ball away to avoid a sack, were things that the quarterbacks needed to work on to become consistent.
"They've both had chances to move the offense." Valescent said. "They need to keep working hard in practice. We want to keep the competition open for who will play at quarterback. It'll probably go right up until game time before we decide who will start."
Other areas of the offense started to show some progress against Louisiana Tech. Valesente said he was happy with the time the offensive line was giving the quarterbacks to throw the ball. He said he also was happy with the return of senior tackle Bob Pieper.
"Piper was coming off the ball with a vengeance," he said. "He was really sticking some people out there."
Valesente said he was happy for the most part with the way the defense had been swarming to the ball. He said freshman linebacker Kyle Schenker, in particular, would be getting more playing time after his strong performance Saturday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs expanded the team's roster to 48 yesterday by signifying eight player players, including former Kansas wide receiver Richard Estell and ex-Chiefs backup quarterback Sandy Osiecki.
Sports Briefs
Former KU receiver Estell is among eight signed as replacement Chiefs
Estell, who played for the Jayhawks from 1982-1985, is Kansas' all-time leading receiver with 1.997
The Chiefs also signed last year's second team all-Big Eight quarterback, Alex Espinoza of Iowa State.
yards on 117 receptions
The eight new players join the 40 replacements signed last week as the team prepared for Sunday's against the Los Angeles Raiders
Correction
Because of an editor's error, Walt Houk of Maupintour Travel was misidentified in a photograph of the dedication of Hoglund-Maupin Stadium, which was published in Monday's Kansan.
Those shown in the photograph are John Trombold; Forrest Hoglund; Houk; baseball coach Dave Bingham; Chancellor Gene A. Budig and athletic director Bob Frederick.
Scoreboard
American League
Baseball
New York 9, Boston 7
Baltimore 3, Detroit 0
Milwaukee 6, Toronto 4
Seattle 5, Kansas City 1
National League
Cincinnati 6, Atlanta 5
New York 1, Philadelphia 0
Houston 11, Los Angeles 5
San Francisco 5, San Diego 4