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6B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAIRY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Despite a first-round loss to Bradley in the 2006 NCAA tournament, Self led that group of mostly freshmen and sophomores, which included freshmen Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush, on to capture the NCAA National Championship in 2008.
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SELF (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
his ability, Matt Kleinmann, a red-shirt senior center who has played for Kansas for five years, said he had seen Self bring too many teams together to think this season would be any different.
"Say what you want about how great of a leader Russell was last year," Kleinmann said. "I think coach Self will always be the soul of the team because he gets these guys where they need to be."
It was a quicker process, however,
last season. Take last Wednesday's
practice, for example. Self decided
it was time to implement the team's
press offense.
With last year's team, Self said it would have taken five minutes for him to explain and the Jayhawks would be able to run it. It took about an hour with this season's team.
"On our play card last year for the national championship game, we had 53 plays that we could run — 53 different things we could do." Self said. "We've got in two right now, and we can't remember those two."
Self isn't upset. This is what he expected. He laughed with reporters after sharing the anecdote about the number of plays, but he wasn't
He said it was "so much fun" coaching this year's Jayhawks because no one understands what's going on. It's certainly a change from the past two years when Kansas returned all of its starters.
joking.
The veterans have noticed. Guys such as Collins, Kleinmann and red-shirt sophomore guard Brady Morningstar have all been around long enough to notice the difference. They might already know the plays Self is trying to teach, but they can enjoy watching him pass it on to the new players.
Morningstar said he thought this was the way Self preferred to coach.
"He teaches the game as well as anybody I've been around," Morningstar said. "He knows how to teach the young guys and stay on them."
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich — who is second among returning players in minutes and in points
— realized the coaching method had changed from his first year, Aldrich, however, also recognized a similarity between this year's team and last year's.
He said no matter how far along
the players were last season, they were never resistant to coaching from Self. Likewise, no matter how much this year's players are struggling, they remain eager to learn.
"We were all open and said, 'Coach, we want to be the best we can. Help us get there,' Aldrich said. "That made us really good last year, and that helped us win it last year. This team has the same trait."
The question is if this year's team can catch on fast enough to be elite. Self said talent wasn't an issue. He said this year's team should be able to compete for the Big 12 Conference championship like every other Kansas team for the past decade.
A lot is going to come down to the coaching. Self is prepared.
"It's going to be a roller coaster. I know that. I just need to be patient with them." Self said. "As long as they hard I can live with anything, because they are going to be good over time."
If all else fails, Self can always turn on the 2008 national championship game tape and skip to the part he wants to see.
Edited by Becka Cremer
NFL
Coaches get tough at Giants-Steelers game
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In his first game as an NFL head coach, Mike Singletary did what other coaches long to do but usually don't. Singletary sent a "me-first" underachiever to the locker room while the game was still going on.
In his 213th game as an NFL head coach, Tom Coughlin repeated what he's done what seems like 213 times: Coughlin sat down Plaxico Burress for nearly 20 minutes after he failed to show up at a physical therapy appointment.
following a traffic stop.
And in that giants-Giants-Steelers game, the Pittsburgh owner and coach, Dan Rooney and Mike Tomlin, deactivated Santonio Holmes after marijuana-filled cigars were removed from his car
Maybe those developments Sunday will have an effect on some of the NFL's showboats and miscreants. So might the two-game benching by Chiefs coach Herman Edwards of star running back Larry Johnson, who was charged Monday with simple assault for spitting a drink in a woman's face and faces suspension by the NFL.
Most likely not.
Why not? Because NFL players seem bound to showboat and misbehave — on the field and sometimes off, especially guys who earn their living catching the ball. Despite commissioner Roger Goodell's crackdown on the likes of Pacman Iones and the actions of Singletary, Rooney, Tomlin and
Coughlin, some players never get it. Every week, someone else goes over the line.
Still. Singletary's dismissal of tight end Vernon Davis and the coach's postgame rant on the subject — making public what coaches usually say in private — has already made it to YouTube, where a lot of players will undoubtedly see it.
Davis, the sixth overall pick in the 2006 draft, is not a "Chad" or a TO or even a Jeremy Shockey, in part because he hasn't achieved enough to attract the notoriety they get. He's simply an underachiever who speaks to the fraud called the Scouting Combine, where he wowed a number of team in tests with speed, strength and agility rare in a 6-foot-3, 250 pounder.
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