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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008
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Letter from the editor
OCTOBER 13,2008
How do you defend a title?
How do you climb Mt. Everest
— two times in a row? How do
you defend a title when your best
player sprints off to the NBA?
How do you defend a title
when fans need to buy a program
for the actual purpose of
figuring out who's on the team?
"We had no idea what to expect," Barry now says.
All-American Danny Manning was gone, off to play in the NBA. And maybe the biggest change was the guy on the sideline. Larry Brown, the architect behind the NCAA title, had skated off to coach the San Antonio Spurs, and in his place was a dark-haired, fresh-faced assistant from North Carolina named Roy Williams.
Scooter Barry may be able to answer those questions. Barry is 42 years old. Lives in California. But in 1989, He was a starting guard on a Kansas team coming off a national championship. Barry thought his senior year would be about defending the title he helped win in 1988. But then the NCAA told Barry and his teammates they wouldn't be defending their title. They were getting banned from the NCAA tournament for recruiting violations, and it was all very confusing because nobody on the team had anything to do with any of it. Not the coach, not the players, not anybody.
And things got real complicated when, just weeks after Williams replaced Brown, Barry found out Kansas was banned from the 1989 NCAA tournament because of some improper benefits given to former recruit Vincent Askew two years earlier.
That 1989 team didn't really look anything like the 1988 team.
So Barry, a captain on the '89 team, was stuck trying to defend a championship he couldn't defend.
But Williams ralled his team. They won some games to start the season. But then came a rash of injuries, and it didn't help that Manning was gone. Kansas finished 19-12. They missed the NCAA tournament, of course. They were the first defending champs to be banned from the tournament.
So Barry would like to answer the questions about defending a championship. But he can't. He never got the opportunity. But he can feel for the returning players on this year's team. And the new ones.
That's the story of this season. How will Kansas respond after finally cutting down the nets?
"They're starting over and they have to carry the burden of a title," Barry says.
How will those seven newcomers respond?
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SELF-CONTROL
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REMEMBERING MARIO'S SHOT Where were you for The Shot?
PREVIEWING THE BIG 12
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5 MARIO'S MIRACLE
6 BIG 12 PREVIEW
7 BIG 12 (CONT.)
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Editor Matt Erickson
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10 WOMEN'S PREVIEW
11 THE BIG 12 WOMEN
12 JAYHAWK PROS
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