UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 9,1996
5B
Kansas coaches want kicks
Special teams vital for victory in football games
The Associated Press
LUBOCKK, Texas — Selected comments from Big 12 Conference North Division coaches during their weekly conference call Monday:
KANSAS (3-1, 1-0)
Next game: Saturday, Texas
Tech
Coach Glen Mason said he was happy with his special teams performance in the Jayhawks' 52-24 romp at Oklahoma last Saturday, though he said he believed Kansas
fall short of playing a complete game.
"I was not very pleased with the way we played offensively or
defensively," he said. "We made far too many mistakes from the standpoint of the number of penalties in the game by both Kansas and Oklahoma."
The special teams play that keyed Kansas' victory is no accident, said Mason, who always has stressed the kicking game.
Offense and defense need to be combined with a strong kicking game to win football games, he said.
Mason said Kansas must improve this week to prepare for Texas Tech on Saturday. The Red Raiders beat Baylor 45-24 last week.
"We're going to work on a lot of things. They play a very aggressive defense that gives you a lot of problems," he said. "I think us playing Oklahoma, who had hired their coordinator, was a pretty good prerequisite to this game."
KANSAS STATE (4-1, 1-1)
Next game: Saturday, at Missioni
Coach Bill Snyder said Nebraska showed everyone it still was among the cream of the crop in college football after beating the Wildcats 39-3 last Saturday.
"They have rebounded quite well since their trip to Arizona State," Snyder said. "I thought we
really were inep in a number of different ways."
Snyder pointed to the kicking game and a virtually non-existent offense as being among the culprits for the loss.
"I thought our defense played well in the early stages," he said. "Then, we started wearing down and becoming part of the ineptness as time wore on. We got beat by an outstanding team."
The Cornhuskers blocked one punt and rushed another one so quickly they tackled the kicker. Snyder admitted Nebraska's special teams success might have spurred others to concentrate on that aspect of the Wildcats' game.
"I think in the kicking game we probably invite people to block punts now," he said. "I think we probably will get tested to find out whether or not we've gotten things shored up."
MISSOURI (2-3, 0-2)
Next game: Saturday, Kansas
State
Coach Larry Smith said the Tigers' 27-26 victory at Southern Methodist was a major relief for a program that has had its struggles recently.
we lost that game, it probably would have torn our heart out. I don't think we played our best
football for 60 minutes, but we played hard football."
The Tigers blocked two SMU extra points, running one back 97 yards for a two-point score that proved decisive. Kansas State, meanwhile, lost largely because of an inability to protect its kicking game, though Smith said it's not something Missouri necessarily will emphasize.
"I think one of the real keys of the game is special teams; it's going to be a real important factor in the game," he said.
Coach Dan McCarney said having the weekend off would mean fresh minds and bodies for the Cyclones as they prepared to play Texas A&M Saturday.
IOWA STATE (2-2, 1-0)
Next game: Saturday, Texas
A&M
"They have some outstanding athletes, talent and players all over the place," he said. "We're expecting our third sellout in our first four games, so people are coming back and supporting this program."
Iowa State will have its hands full blocking A&M's front seven, McCarney said, and the Cyclones can't expect A&M, a 63-13 victory against Louisiana Tech last week, to turn the ball over like it did in three losses.
"Turnovers really seemed to be the problem on the team, but they seemed to get that solved in the last game against Tech, in which there were no turn-
overs," he said. "Louisiana Tech's been a pretty darn good football team in the first month of the season."
There's no surprise that Iowa State plans to aim workhorse tailback Troy Davis, averaging 229 yards per game to lead the nation, directly at the Aggies. The Heisman Trophy talk surrounding his junior is bittersweet for McCarney, he said.
"It's been great for us what Troy has done," he said. "He's brought national exposure and respect to this program. We've been on TV the first three of five games, and in a program that's been down like this one has, that's huge."
COLORADO (3-1, 1-0)
Next game: Saturday, Oklahoma
State
Coach Rick Neuheisel said his Buffalooes were coming off a fairly healthy stretch and entering a six-week stretch of consecutive games, including this Saturday's home game against Oklahoma State.
Oklahoma State, a 71-14 loser to Texas last weekend, is led by former Colorado assistant coach Bob
Simmons, who was passed over for the Buffalo job when Neuheisel was hired. Neuheisel said he anticipates a little more fire than the normal OSU-
CU game.
"Certainly they are disappointed about their loss this past weekend," Neuheisel said. "We know they will be more than excited to play this game, and we know we're going to have to improve."
Neuheimer and Simmons both have said there are no hard feelings between the two, though each admitted he rarely spoke to the other.
Colorado must concentrate on making sure it plays its game without fretting about its opposition, Neuheisel said.
"Ive talked to him when we go to Big 12 meetings," Neuheisel said. "Have we sat down and actually talked about the situation that occurred here? No, that's water under the bridge."
"We want to just take things as they come and make sure we take care of our own product," he said.
NEBRASKA (3-1,1-0)
Next game: Saturday; Baylor Coach Tom Osborne said his Cornhuskers played one of the finest defensive games they had played in years in last weekend's victory at Kansas State.
Despite the 39 points, Osborne still has reservations when the Cornhuskers gain possession.
"Offensively, we've had our work cut out for us," Osborne said. "As the game went along we got some things generated, but a few times we didn't
had to settle for field goals."
"I think overall it was competitive and a nice game to win."
Visiting Lincoln Saturday
are the Baylor Bears, who lost 45-24 in their first Big 12 game last week in Lubbock. The Bears' speed at the offensive skill positions worries Osborne, he said.
"Baylor's throwing the ball quite well, and they're throwing more than they traditionally have in the past," he said. "They seem to be a balanced football team."
Winter games an Olympian effort
The Associated Press
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Two months after the dousing of the Atlanta flame, the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, is meeting to review the problems that plagued the Centennial Games.
Atlanta's commercial excesses, technology glitches and transportation problems will be among the issues assessed during the three-day committee executive board meeting starting today.
With 16 months until the winter games in Nagano, Japan, and four years until the next summer games in Sydney, Australia, the committee is determined to prevent the shortfalls that afflicted Atlanta.
Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch withheld his standard best-ever accolade for the Atlanta Games, referring to them only as exceptional.
Atlanta organizers are not attending this week's meetings. However, the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games is expected to report to the next International Olympic Committee meeting in Cancun, Mexico, next month.
"The Atlanta Games is on the
agenda," said Francois Carrard, the committee's director general. "There have already been a number of first assessments and reports prepared. We will begin to draw the lessons from the last games. It's quite a standard procedure."
The overall success of the games — the biggest in history — was tarnished by frequent reports of buses getting lost, running late or failing to appear, and by breakdowns in IBM's highly touted computer system for providing competition results to the media.
Committee officials already have initiated discussions with IBM, media groups and future organizers to ensure the system is corrected.
The committee also has moved to check the rampant commercialism that turned parts of Atlanta into what critics derided as a tacky flea market. The committee blamed the Atlanta city government for causing clutter by selling sidewalk space to private vendors.
"It won't happen again," said committee marketing director Michael Payne. "The Nagano and Sydney and Salt Lake City mayors were the first to run up to the IOC in Atlanta and ask, 'Why is the city doing this? Why is it ambushing its own image?'
Security issues, underscored by the pipe bombing in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, also are a high priority for the committee and future host cities.
The organizing committees from Nagano and Salt Lake City, site of the 2002 winter games, will be making progress reports to the committee board. Sydney organizers, who received a committee oversight panel last month, won't have to report until next month in Mexico.
Nagano and Salt Lake City officials also will brief leaders of the winter sports federations, who are holding a joint meeting with the committee on Friday.
Salt Lake City organizers are expected to report they have finalized, or are close to finalizing, a joint marketing agreement with the U.S. Olympic Committee. The two groups have until the end of the year to decide how to split the revenues from sponsorships, licensing and merchandising.
Nagano remains at odds with the international ski federation about the starting point for the men's downhill race.
According to a report last month in Salt Lake City's Deseret News, Salt
Lake City would receive 70 percent of all the cash earned from selling local and national Olympic sponsorships until the amount reaches $244 million. Then, Salt Lake City's share would shift to 30 percent, until organizers collect another $10 million. After that, the U.S. Olympic Committee would keep the cash.
The marketing deal, along with television contracts, should account for nearly three-quarters of the games' budget, which is expected to reach $1 billion.
"We hope and expect they will reach the marketing agreement fairly soon," Carrard said. "It has to be put in place contractually by December, and it's time this agreement is reached."
On other matters, Prince Alexandre de Merode, chairman of the International Olympic Committee medical commission, will report on the results of the drug-testing system in Atlanta.
Five athletes from the former Soviet Union — four Russians and one Lithuanian — tested positive for the controversial drug bromantan and were disqualified by the committee. But all were cleared after a special arbitration panel ruled there was inconclusive proof that bromantan was a stimulant.
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