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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 23, 1998
Emporia State's Shay to break records
The Associated Press
EMPORIA — Four years ago, recruitors dismissed Brian Shay as too small and too slow.
Now, the Emporia State running back is fast approaching the biggest rushing career in college football history.
"I hate to be told I can't do something," said Shay, a 5-foot-9, 218-pound senior. "People don't realize how much that motivates me."
Shay is third on the NCAA's all-time rushing list, behind two other backs who also played in Division II. He needs 106 yards to break Johnny Bailey's career record of 6,320 yards from 1986-89 at Texas A&I (now Texas A&M-Kingsville).
Shay already has 1,522 yards through seven games, with an average of 217.4 yards per game. At that pace, the record will fall when Emporia State - 6-1 and ranked No. 19 in Division II — plays tomorrow at 10th-ranked Central Missouri State, also 6-1.
"He may get 7,000 yards rushing in his career," Emporia State coach Manny Matsakis said. "That's unheard of. That's just not supposed to happen."
Shay doesn't spend much time thinking about his numbers.
"After the game, maybe," he said. "I never think about that during a game."
Shay, whose 14,200-yard games are also an NCAA record, also is dangerous catching and returning the ball. He already holds the NCAA career record for all-purpose yards with 8,378.
"After you score, then you have to kick the ball off to him," said Pittsburg State coach Chuck
"I hate to be told I can't do something. People don't know how much that motivates me."
Brian Shay
Emporia State running back
Broyles, whose Gorillas were ranked No. 5 in Division II when they lost 38-28 to the Hornets on Sept. 19. "He returns the ball 60 or 65 yards and puts them in great field position, and that changes the whole momentum of the game."
Shay and Matsakis both came to Emporia State in 1995 after Shay led Paola High School to the 1994 Kansas Class 4A state championship — played, coincidentally, at Emporia State's Welch Stadium.
"I wasn't happy with the offers I got," Shay said. "He'd (Matsakis) just gotten hired a couple of weeks earlier. We gave him a call and sent him a tape, and he told me to come down. I signed the next day."
In the other recruiters' defense, Shay has gotten bigger and faster in college. He's put on almost 30 pounds, while taking nearly half a second off of his high-school time of 4.8 seconds in the 40-yard dash.
Shay rushed for 678 yards as a freshman, then exploded for 2,103 yards as a sophomore, earning a nomination for the Harlon Hill Award, Division II's highest honor.
But Shay doesn't gloat, on or off the field, about his achievements. When he scores, he simply hands the ball to an official.
A look at the accomplishments of Emporia State running back Brian Shay through Oct. 17 (year of single-season records in parentheses) and additional NCAA records he could toplease this season;
SHAY
NCAA records
Career all-purpose yards, 8,378
Career 200 yard games, 14.
NCAA Division II records
Career touchdowns, 76.
Season touchdowns, 32 (1997).
Career scoring, 472 points.
Season scoring, 198 points (1997).
Season 200-yard games, 6 (1998)
- Season 100-yard games, 11 (1996), ties Johnny Bailey of Texas A&M-Kingsville and Ronald Moore of Pittsburg State).
Season all-purpose yards, 2,738
That, and his success running the ball, have earned comparisons to another Kansan, the Detroit Lions' Barry Sanders, a Heisman Trophy winner at Oklahoma State.
Single-half rushing, 226 (1996) vs. Central Missouri State).
(1996) .
Career rushing (record held by Bailey, 6,320 yards; Shay needs 106 yards to tie).
But it's tough to compare Shay to anyone, North Dakota State coach Bob Babich said.
Shay would get more media attention, Matsakis said, if he played for a small college on the East Coast — like Gordie Lockbaum of Division
Career touchdowns (record held by Bender, 86; Shay needs 10 to tie).
"He really has his own style," said Babich, whose team — a perennial Division II power — lost 23-21 to the Hornets in the season opener. "Our players said he's the hardest guy they ever had to tackle. There's nobody that just sticks out to compare him with, because he's physical, but also very fast."
Career scoring (record held by Carey Bender, Coe College, 528 points; Shay needs 56 points to tie)
Consecutive 200-yard games (record of 8 held by Ricky Gales of Simpson and Arnold Mickens of Butler; Shary needs 3 to tie).
■ Season average per carry (record held by Anthony Gray, Western New Mexico; Shay currently leads, 8,2 yards to 8,01).
I-AA Holy Cross, who was fifth in the 1986 Heisman trophy balloting and third in 1987, or Joe Dudek of Division III Plymouth State, who was ninth in the Heisman balloting in 1985.
But, Matsakis said, Shay has a better shot at something Dudek and Lockbaum didn't have — a lengthy NFL career.
"I've had players that have played in the NFL, and he's better than most of those guys," Matsakis said. "I can see him being around in 10 years."
The reason, Matsakis said, is Shay's control ranged on the field.
"He's a quiet guy on the field, Matsakis said. "But when he plays, there's a controlled rage about him that really makes him special."
Kansas State coach admired for turnaround
The Associated Press
AMES, Iowa — Never has Dan McCarney seen a rebuilding job like the one Bill Snyder pulled off at Kansas State.
And rarely has the Iowa State coach seen a team as talented as the one Snyder has now.
"I don't see a solid starter on the field. Everybody we've looked at is above average to as good as we've seen this year," said McCarney, whose team plays at fourth-ranked Kansas State tomorrow. "There are no average guys. That's why I think they're a national championship-caliber football队."
years, the Wildcats have gone 49-11-1 and they're 6-0 this season.
McCarney coached with Snyder at Iowa for 10 years, and he still marvels at what his former colleague has accomplished at Kansas State, which might have been the worst major college program in the country.
McCarney said he has never seen a more impressive rebuilding job.
Kansas State was winless in the two seasons before Snyder arrived in 1989 and 6-47-2 over the preceding five years. During the past five
"I've been a part of two of the best," said McCarrie, who also was
an assistant
at Wisconsin.
“But I d o n 't know that we had to overcome what he
nad there — losing forever and never, ever winning."
McCarney recalled a trip he made to Kansas State in 1988, when he was coaching the defensive line at Iowa. The Hawkeyes won the game 45-10, and Kansas State ended up going 0-11.
"It was absolutely one of the most depressing places I've ever been, just going into that football environment. We couldn't wait to get the game over, win it, get on the plane and get out of there," McCarny
said. "You go down there now, and as soon as the plane touches down, you feel the football fever in Manhattan."
Snyder was the offensive coordinator at Iowa from 1979 to 1988, and McCarney coached there from 1977-89. While he and Snyder were together, Iowa played in the Rose Bowl twice and made six other bowl trips.
"We shared a lot of great memories and bowl games and tough times and great times," McCarney said. "And with that thought, I think Bill ought to spot us 21 points before we start the game."
According to the odds makers, 21 points still wouldn't be enough. Kansas State is favored by 35 points.
One of McCarney's coaches, assistant head coach Nick Quartaro, was in Manhattan for the first five years of Kansas State's resurrection. Quartaro was the coach at Drake when Snyder hired him, and he remembers everyone wondering why he would go to a school that had just finished 0-11.
"If he didn't have that commitment, why would he have left Iowa and the success they were having?" Quartaro said. "Once he spelled out what they were going to do and how they were going to do it, as well as telling me about the quality staff he was in the process of hiring, I thought, 'My God, something seems right about this.'"
Quartaro said he trusted Snyder, who assured him he had received the commitment needed to upgrade the program.
McCarney said he and the other Iowa coaches thought at the time that if there was anyone who could make that program a winner, it was Snyder.
Snyder was hired by Kansas State shortly after the 1988 season ended.
"To say that was going to be a national championship-caliber program within a decade, I don't know if any of us would have said that at the time," McCarney said. "But could Bill turn that into a winner? There wasn't any doubt in our minds, no doubt in our minds at all."
Family name figures in Tulane's success
Son of Bowden makes own mark as football coach
The Associated Press
Tommy Bowden was wondering the other day what it would be like to replace his father, Bobby Bowden, as coach at Florida State.
"You replace Daddy and win nine, you're in trouble," Tommy said of the perennial national title contenders. "Now that's hard to deal with."
Thanks very much, but Tommy Bowden is quite content coaching at Tulane, where all he needed to be successful in his rookie '97 season were three victories.
The Green Wave won seven and posted its first winning record since 1981. And this season, Bowden's team is unbeaten in five games and ranked No. 22 entering Saturday's game at Rutgers.
Things are going so well for Bowden that his team has a strong shot at a perfect season — something his father hasn't accomplished in 33 seasons as a head coach
With games against Rutgers, Southwestern Louisiana, Memphis, Army, Houston and Louisiana Tech remaining, there's little doubt the Green Wave will produce back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1980-81.
"Believe me, I'm as surprised as anyone," the 44-year-old Bowden, the second oldest of Bobby Bowden's four sons, said of Tulane's turnaround. "My plan was to get three wins the first year and get players to play here and eventually get six wins."
"Once I win six games, I'm going to the beach," he said. "If we're 6-0, then somebody else is coaching the other five. Won't be me."
After serving as an assistant coach under his father and then working with Pat Dye, Bill Curry and then Terry, Tommy decided to run his own show. Baylor and Kentucky showed interest, but there were no offers. The more he looked at Tulane, the more he saw a chance to win.
"I looked at the schedule and the facilities and saw what others, like Larry Smith and Mack Brown, had done," Bowden said of the coaches responsible for turning Missouri and North Carolina.
respectively, into winners. "I felt the opportunity to win here was great, and the objective in this business is to win, to stay employed."
Bowden knew exactly what he was doing when he showed up for his first day of work.
"My father has a tried and true plan, and all I’m trying to do is Xerox it," he said. "Get the players to buy into what you’re doing, get them to give great effort and be fortunate enough to have a good staff that stays with you."
With the Bowden name, it made his pen talk easier.
"You hear the name Bowden and it's like, 'whoa.'" Tulane quarterback Shaun King said. "That name means something. Everybody in his family is a winner, so we expected him to be a winner, too."
And they are. Bowden installed his trickery, deceit and deception offense featuring King, a pair of small receivers — 5-foot-10, 164-pound P.J. Franklin and 5-5, 170-pound Jon Wilson — and 5-8, 186-pound tail back Jamaican Dartez.
Since his offensive tackles are in the 250-260-pound range — pipsqueaks by linemen standards — Bowden employs a no-huddle, spread offense that can score quickly and often. While Tulane averages 34.8 points and 433 total yards per game, the defense allows 21.6 points and 440.2 yards per game.
King is ranked 5th nationally in passing, completing 84 of 134 passes for 1,261 yards and 14 touchdowns.
"Our success is predicated on the forward pass," Bowden said. "We throw to open up the run, and Shaun is the guy that makes us go. We have no big linemen or wide outs so we have to spread out and use all 53 yards of the field. If we don't, we're in trouble."
The Green Wave is operating smoothly so far, with a Conference USA title and Liberty Bowl berth on the horizon. After that, Tulane will find it tough to keep Tommy around for next season.
Already, there's talk of him replacing coaches at Clemson, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
"That's just another positive for Tulane," Bowden said. "It means the program is OK. In this profession, you're six inches from a halo to a noose. So I take it all in stride. It's great for the school and a nice compliment to me."
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