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Goal posts safer, may end tradition
By John Domoney
jdomoney@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Whether Kansas wins or loses to Nebraska on Saturday, one thing is certain: the goal posts are coming down.
After the goal posts were torn down following Kansas' 35-14 win over Missouri on Sept.27, the Kansas Athletics Department replaced them with collapsible goal posts. The new posts are dismantled after the game in order discourage fans from tearing them down.
The department purchased the goal posts for $3,500 each as a means to keep fans and students safe.
"We've said all along the safety of students is our number-one priority when they reach the field," said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director. "We wish they wouldn't do that, but brains do not always out win out emotion."
If Marchiony has his way, the Missouri game will be the last time fans have the chance to tear down the metal structures.
"We think the important thing is no one will get hurt at a University of Kansas football game," Marchiony said. "We like to think words of warning about safety are enough of a deterrent. Unfortunately that's not the case."
The department warned students before the Missouri game about safety issues if they chose to charge the field after the game. Nobody was hurt in the postgame celebration, but this has not been the case at other campuses around the nation.
After West Virginia's upset victory over Virginia Tech last month, police officers sprayed mace into the crowd of fans headed toward the goal posts.
Marchiony said he did not want to turn the field into a military zone full of security officials and police officers defending the goal posts.
"You can have an infinite number of security on the field and it won't stop a mob of people from doing something," Marchiony said.
Kansan File Photo
Police have not been deployed to guard the base of the goal posts for years, said Schuyler Bailey, University police lieutenant. The campus police are only placed around the field to try to persuade students not to rush the field. The police also look out for safety concerns of the fans and students who do take their celebration to the field.
Bailey said the collapsible goal posts were a good idea,but said he did not think they made the police officers' jobs any different.
"What it does do is make it safer on the field," Bailey said.
After the conclusion of each game, KU event staff members collapse the goal posts in the endzones in a matter of seconds, a practice that began after the Baylor game on Oct. 18.
"We hope after awhile the fans will lose interest in rushing the field to tear down the goal posts," Marchiony said.
Marchiony believes this practice will eventually discourage fans and students from targeting the goal posts after exciting Kansas football victories.
Marchionchy said he expected the goal posts to remain in place
David Billings, senior general maintenance repair technician, pounded on the base of a new collapsible goalpost at Memorial Stadium. An anonymous donor gave the Athletics Department a check to cover the expenses of replacing the goalposts torn down after a football victory over Missouri. The posts cost $3,500 each.
for many years, but others wished a college football tradition would not be ruined.
"I think tearing down the goal posts and throwing them into Potter Lake is a part of KU's athletic tradition," Grant Thompson.
son, Leawood senior, said,
"Nobody got hurt after the Missouri game so I think KU students celebrating are much more safe than students at other schools."
- Edited by Scott Christie
FOOTBALL: Heaggans eager to make a difference
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18
from the offense and defense will be featured on the kick team this week.
One certainty is that sophomore Greg Heaggans will retain his position as kick returner.
Heaggans is feeling some pressure to wipe away all memories of last weekend, in which he could not break through any holes on his returns.
"It was crazy, I didn't know what to do, and I couldn't even get to the 20-yard line," Heagans said. "It seemed like they
knew exactly what we were going to do."
Players of the game Mangino announced yesterday that Adam Barmann was the offensive player of the game at Texas A&M, while senior safety Dan Coke took the honors on special teams.
For the first time this season. Mangino did not give the award to anyone on the defensive side of the ball. This comes one week after he did not name a player of the game on offense at Kansas State.
- Edited by Dave Nobles
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