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Thursday, September 24, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Sports
Enthusiasm lagging on KU baseball team
By DARRIN STINEMAN Staff writer
Staff writer
Although the Kansas baseball team's enthusiasm for the fall season was sky-high at the beginning of practice, coach Dave Bingham said the Jayhawks were measurably closer and around going into their fourth game.
"Actually, I felt like we've gone backwards." Bingham said. "After we first started, I thought we had a great deal of enthusiasm and everyone was hungry to learn. I think we've just lost the edge a little bit. The newness is gone."
Bingham said he wouid much rather have the team hit a full now in the dress-rehearsal fall season than the real show begins in the spring.
spring.
"I'd like to think that fall ball is a
good time for us to go through some problems; to have some backseats," he said. "I think the challenge for our students is to find them a sense of enthusiasm we started with."
This week has been a better practice week for the Jayhawks, Bingham said, as they prepare for a home game against a community College at 3:30 p.m. today.
Although he described Cloud County as a "middle-range" junior college baseball power, Bingham said he wasn't taking anyone lightly.
Kansas will again be playing a 15-inning scrimmage-like game to allow the teams to use three starting pitchers. The system is designed so that a pitcher can be used as a starter at the beginning of each five-inning segment, and relief pitchers can be used at the end of each segment.
Bingham to be assistant coach on U.S. International Cup team
By DARRIN STINEMAN Staff writer
Kansas baseball coach Dave Bingham has been selected as an assistant coach for the United States International Cup team that will play in a two-week tournament in Havana, Cuba, next month.
As a former assistant on the 1984 U.S. silver medalist Olympic team and the coach of the bronze medal-winning U.S. team at the world championships in Cuba in 1984, Bingham will bring international coaching experience to the International Cup team.
"I think that it's a great honor to be involved with the U.S. team," Bingham said. "I think experience will be my biggest contribution because I've been on five other U.S.A. teams. It's not like running your own college program — international baseball is completely different from college
baseball "
The 20-member team, which will include Oklahoma State's Robin Ventura, will be headed by Stanford coach Mark Marquess. Ventura was college baseball's player-of-the-year last season.
Bingham is likely to be a coach on the 1988 Olympic team as well. He said the United States Baseball Federation decided last December that baseball coaches would be the Olympic team coaches, but nothing is official vet.
Marquess, who has twice coached with Bingham in international competition, said there was a "strong likelihood" that the International Cup coaches had needed be the Olympic winner and that a decision was expected in November.
"I feel very lucky to have him as a part of this team," Marquess said. "He's a very talented coach."
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