WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"It sounds like he wants to win and wants to win now, and that's what I'm all about. I want to win this season and not worry about years down the road. I was worried about winning right now."
Royals pitcher James Shields on Royals GM Dayton Moore
The Jayhawk football team hasn't made a bowl game since it made it four out of the six years between 2003-2008
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THE MORNING BREW No room for optimism with Kansas sports
Kansas City has recently been "blessed" with some of the most underperforming franchises in professional sports. With the exclusion of Sporting Kansas City—which, mind you, lost in the first round of the MLS playoffs this year—area franchises have been as underwhelming as it gets.
the problem, and mine sometimes as well, is that we all think with our heart and not our mind. I believed in Dayne Crist and Kansas football this year. I believed when the Royals said it was "Our Time," that it was actually our time I believed that when multiple so-called experts predicted the Chiefs could win the AFC West that they had a chance.
What do we get?
One win. 90 losses, two wins.
I am now convinced that we humans believe too much for our own good. I hate to play Debbie Downer, especially in a very public setting, but what good reasons do we have to truly be excited about next year? I'm not a pessimist but I'd love to caution our collective optimism.
Sure, Jayhawk football looks to be
making a turn. Charlie Weis found some high-quality junior-college players, even drawing the nickname #DreamTeam2013. Jake Heaps has a year in the system and will make an impact at the team's most important position as quarterback.
But do the 'Hawks really have what it takes to make great strides? The team gave away some games in the 2012 campaign, making one think that we may fall on the right side of the fence this time. The problem is no one gets a break in the Big 12. It simply is too good. Week in and week out, Kansas will have its hands full with the team on the opposing sideline.
It has been an eventful offseason for the Royals. Bringing in pitcher James Shield and pitcher Wade Davis bring help to the pitching staff, but at a cost of their best prospect, outfielder Wil Myers. Fixing the pitching and removing depth is most certainly the win-now, go for broke approach. Essentially, based on Shields contract, the men in blue have two years to make a run at the post season. This means no injury setbacks, upside performance from most of the players, and a continued weak American League Central division.
The Chiefs are actually the scariest of the three. So far, they've sucked us in with a coaching hire, GM selection and our first round draft pick. I love the Reid pick, and new GM John Dorsey has an incredible history with the draft.
To me, the biggest concern is that the team will change very little from last year's two-win squad. The number one pick isn't half what it was last year. Some experts even say there isn't a quarter-back worthy of a first round-selection. The Chiefs picked the wrong year to be awful.
Free agency could make or break
Sundays at Arrowhead. Wide reciever Dwayne Bowe and offensive lineman Brandon Albert would be key re-signs. But the Chiefs need addition from free-agent talent, specifically at the quarterback position.
Alex Smith appears to be the common desire from most fans. Drafting a signal caller to develop wouldn't be a bad move either. The time is driven by quarterback play, and the Chiefs just don't have it.
I'm all for being wrong on this, believe me. I just don't want everyone to get too excited and be let down again; a trend recently. Take caution in the upcoming seasons. Our local sports might not be ready just yet.
— Edited by Hannah Wise
This week in athletics
Wednesday
Thursday
Women's basketball
vs. Iowa State
7 p.m.
Lawrence
Friday
No Events Scheduled
Women's tennis
Denver
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Track
Armory College
Invitational
All Day
New York, N.Y.
Saturday
Women's swimming
vs. Arkansas
10 a.m.
Lawrence
Women's basketball
vs. Kansas State
2 p.m.
Manhattan
Men's basketball
vs. Oklahoma State
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Track
Armory Collegiate
Invitational
All Day
New York, N.Y.
Sunday
Women's tennis
vs Saint Louis
Noon
Lawrence
Monday
No Events Scheduled
No Events Scheduled
Tuesday
FOOTBALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bowl alignment discussed at Big 12 athletic directors meeting
IRVING, Texas — Big 12 athletic directors worked Tuesday to determine the league's preferred bowl line-up with the anticipation that the Cotton Bowl will become part of college football's new playoff system.
The 2½-hour discussion about bowl alignment took up a bulk of the agenda as the ADs wrapped up a two-day meeting with Commissioner Bob Bowlsby and other league
officials that also involved football scheduling.
Most of the first day was spent discussing the makeup of the 10-team league and "what-if" scenarios about staying at that number or eventually expanding.
"We feel very good about our current lot in life. We like our revenue distribution, we like our competition, we like our composition. We feel very good about where we are," Bowlsby said Tuesday. "Beyond that, wed be unwise
to be oblivious to all that is going on around us. We need to be constantly vigilant. I think in coming out of these meetings we're prepared very well for that vigilance."
The Big 12 had nine of its 10 teams to bowl games this
According to Forbes, the Big 12 will generate about $26.2 million per team this school year through network television deals, bowl games and NCAA tournaments. That's the highest per-team average of any conference.
past season. No other league had ever sent 90 percent of its teams to a bowl in the same season.
Bowllsby said Tuesday started with a quick recap of what was discussed the first day to make sure there was nothing else the ADs wanted to talk about after thinking about it overnight. There was none.
So they moved on to the primary agenda items of bowls and schedules.
While the first semifinal
games in the new playoff system at the end of the 2014 season will be played in the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl, the site of the first championship game hasn't been selected. Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where the Cotton Bowl is played, seemingly a front-runner for that title game and then to be in the rotation for semifinal games after that.
When all that is finally settled in the next few months, the Big 12 will be ready to
work on other bowls.
"Once we know the host bowls, we're going to be anxious after that to put some deals together and we've got to go to that bowl which we think we want to have first after the so-called system, and try and get a deal with them, and then go to the second one after the system," Bowlsby said. "This was just a way to sort of identify our priorities."
Under current arrangements through the 2013 season, the Cotton Bowl gets the top pick of Big 12 teams not in the BCS.
Bowlbsy said it would be a "fair projection" that the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, which now has the next pick after the Cotton Bowl, or the Meineke Bowl in Houston could move up in the picking order it the Cotton Bowl is in the playoff rotation.
The Big 12 already has a bowl agreement with the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.
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