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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004
Mangino regrets outburst, waits for consequences
BY JONATHAN KEALING
jkaling@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTWOMEN
Just 48 hours after denouncing the Big 12 and its officials, Kansas coach Mark Mangino was on the Big 12 Football Coaches' press call explaining his remarks.
his remarks.
Mangino was irate after his football team gave up a 10-point lead to the No. 6 Texas Longhorns on Saturday in the closing minutes of the game. When he came out to face the media, he wanted the whole world to know what he thought of the game's officiating and the sinister motives behind it. But after going home and talking to his family, he changed his mind.
"No official, and no entity cares about the outcome of the game," Mangino said. "No one is trying to influence the outcome of the game."
So instead of waiting until Sunday, or even then the press call yesterday morning, Mangino called Athletics Director Lew Perkins that night and told him he wanted to make amends.
He and Perkins decided that he should issue a statement expressing his change of heart immediately. Mangino carefully emphasized that the apology was his idea, and he was not pressured in any way to do so.
pressure Perkins stood behind Mangino after the outburst, calling him "our coach," and saying that Mangino knew what he was doing. He also reaffirmed that
stance in Mangino's statement.
"I support coach Mangino as our football coach, and I also support the integrity of all of the individuals associated with the Big 12 Conference." Perkins said.
Big 12 Conference. In yesterday's press call, Mangino tried to explain the difference in his comments. While he did not discuss whether he had come to agree with the official's call, he did say that he did not in any way believe the officials purposely influenced the outcome of the game.
He said that he now believed that the Big 12 and BCS system had no preference for one team or another to win the game.
"When you make a mistake, you have to be man enough to correct it." Mangino said.
No word has come from Big 12 officials, who Mangino called on Sunday and apologized to, on what, if any, disciplinary action Mangino will face for Saturday's comments.
Finding funding
Kansas Athletics has secured another donation for a footballonly facility to be built in the Memorial Stadium.
The Anderson family made a large donation to the Anderson Family Strength Center and planned to donate an additional $10.5 million through the family's estate. Earlier this year however, Dana and Sue Anderson decided they would sell $3.5 million worth of securities for an immediate donation.
Of the $3.5 million that has been pledged, 90 percent will go to
the football facility, and 10 percent will go to the School of Business.
The new football-only facility is tentatively slated to be built at the base of Campanile hill, directly south of Memorial Stadium. It should also include practice fields, built somewhere near the stadium.
Another one down
the game.
Senior John Nielsen led the Kansas offense until midway through the second quarter, when he had to leave with an injury to his leg. He was replaced by junior Brian Luke.
For the third straight week, one quarterback started the game for the Jayhawks, only to be replaced because of injury by a different one midway through the game.
replaced by jayman Nielsen's status for this weekend's game with Missouri is unclear, unlike the status of the other injured quarterbacks, sophomore Adam Barmann and junior Jason Swanson, who are both expected to be unavailable. Luke is the only healthy quarterback on the Jayhawk depth chart.
In the event that all three injured quarterbacks are unavailable, backup duties could fall to sophomore all-purpose player Charles Gordon, or perhaps even junior linebacker Nick Reid.
Nick Reid.
Reid rewild a pass on a fake punt on Saturday and drew a pass interference call, giving the team a much-needed first down.
Edited by Steve Vockrodt
LISTEN: Soccer's success deserves new facilit
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administration knows it's something that needs to be improved.
I think where it probably hurts us most is in recruiting, because now that we've established ourselves as a top-10, top-15 program, we're competing for better players, and the people that we're competing with have top-notch facilities. — Kansas soccer coach Mark Francis
Francis The most frustrating part of all this has to be that the soccer program is now the most successful fall sports program the University has. The Jayhawks have made three NCAA Tournament appearances in the last four years, and took home a share of the regular season Big 12 Conference crown this year.
Of course, the football program has the top spot on the marquee in the fail, and raising $30 million for this new, state-of-the-art facility would help in recruiting, but come on. Is it really necessary at this point? A
project like this should come after the team has seen a good four- or five-year stretch of consistently winning and getting bowl bids.
It's not like a new soccer complex would break the bank. In comparison to costs for the football facility, it would barely be a blip on the radar screen.
Here's what the soccer team should get:
1) New turf. Have you ever walked on the field there? There are dips and patches all over the place. Not acceptable.
2) More stands. All you have to do is extend the bleachers the entire length of the field and maybe add a few more rows. No major surgery.
3) A new locker room. I think Monica's quote said it all. Well, maybe not. The women's locker room is all the way in Allen Fieldhouse, and is used by visiting basketball teams. Let's get the soccer players their own room.
4) A new sound system. Not necessarily top-of-the-line, just
improved.
What would all of this cost? Two or three million, maybe? I know that if enough lobbying can be done to raise millions for a still-growing football program, there has to be a way it can be done for what is on the brink of being a dominant soccer program.
5) Lights. Night games could attract a larger fan-base.
For us to continue to get better from where we are now, we've got to get more blue-chip recruits, and that's probably the area that makes it the toughest.
We've done a pretty good job recruiting around it, but you know, if it's close between us and somebody else, then obviously that doesn't weigh in our favor. It's the cards that you're dealt, and right now, we're doing a pretty good job dealing with it. — Francis
Greene is a Vernon Hills, Ill. senior in journalism.
Why should they have to?
Sincerely,
Brian Greene
Fall ball
Chris Miller/KANSAN
Pat Flor, San Francisco senior attempts to regain the ball from Patrick Nuss, Lawrence resident, in a game of field crumpets. The crumpets team plays every Sunday in front of Allen Fieldhouse.
SOCCER: Nationals bound
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everybody was starting to look to the next game."
stopping two goals.
The next game gave the Jayhawks an opportunity to avenge their first-round loss. They again faced Oklahoma, this time for the regional championship title. For the second consecutive game, the Jayhawks were forced into sudden death overtime. The game came down to penalty kicks and the Jayhawks came out on top, 1-0. The Jayhawks' goalie, Mike Kutz, St. Louis junior, was named team MVP after
stopping two goals.
"Everyone was very focused and we played the best game of the tournament," Siebert said. "I think we played more like a team and everybody knew we were going to come through, we just didn't know how we were going to do it. It was this incredible, overwhelming joy when we won."
But the Jayhawks' regional title and 17-7-5 record now mean nothing. But the 27-member Jayhawk squad has a national title to win.
Edited by Steve Vockrodt
FOOTBALL
SUA sponsors student football trip to Columbia
SUA is sponsoring a bus trip to the Kansas football game against Missouri this Saturday in Columbia. The trip costs $50 for students with a KUID and includes a T-shirt, ticket to the game and a KU spirit pack. Non students can take the bus for $65.
The bus will leave at 9:30 on Saturday morning from the Kansas Union. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.
Saturday
The deadline to sign up for
this weekend's trip is Friday at
the SUA box office on the
fourth floor of the Kansas
Union.
SUA has sponsored bus trips in the past, Megan Wesley, SUA Cultural Arts Coordinator, said. Wesley also said that SUA planned to offer trips to basketball games in the spring. She said that plenty of spaces were still available for the game this Saturday.
Ryan Colaianni
Kansas athletics calendar
TODAY
Women's basketball vs. California All-Stars, 7 p.m.
TOMORROW
Volleyball at Texas, 7 p.m., Austin, Texas
Swimming at North Carolina Invite, all day,
Chapel Hill, N.C.
THURSDAY
BROTHER: Mother says Jones a good friend
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gone through more traumatic events. He kind of has the mind of an adult, but still he has fun."
am verv busy."
Lawrence's mother, Tiffany Hubbard-Finch, has been a big positive influence on his life. Jones said, by always making time for him despite having seven other children to raise and 12 young kids to look after in her daycare.
"I always get to spend time with all of my children, usually in the evening." Hubbard-Finch said. "We might watch a movie, or sit down and talk about how the day was. But I
"He already has a positive male role model," she said. "He just needed someone to call his friend."
It was Lawrence's mom who signed him up for the Big Brothers Big Sisters program four years ago along with three of his siblings. She said she signed her kids up for the program not for parental-type guidance — he gets plenty of that at home from Hubbard-Finch and her husband, Paul Finch — but rather for something fun to do outside the house.
And Jones has been perfect in that role, she said.
"He can trust Chris," she
A few months back, Jones took Lawrence on a trip to his parents' home in Iowa City to meet his family.
said. "He can tell him his darkest secrets."
meet his family.
"Lawrence talked about that all the time," Hubbard-Finch said. "It made him think that Chris really likes him."
Jones said he has enjoyed the opportunity to get close to someone so different from himself, yet with so many similar interests.
"He's kind of like the little brother I've never had," Jones said.
Edited by Johanna M. Maska
TEAM: Henrickson taking All-Stars seriously
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afterward, we knew we had a lot more to do. The celebration didn't last that long because everybody was starting to look to the next game."
The next game gave the Jayhawks an opportunity to avenge their first-round loss. They again faced Oklahoma, this time for the regional championship title. For the second consecutive game, the Jayhawks
were forced into sudden death overtime. The game came down to penalty kicks and the Jayhawks came out on top, 1-0. The Jayhawks' goalie, Mike Kutz, St. Louis junior, was named team MVP after stopping two goals.
ping two goals.
"Everyone was very focused and we played the best game of the tournament," Siebert said.
"I think we played more like a team and everybody knew we were going to come through, we
just didn't know how we were going to do it. It was this incredible, overwhelming joy when we won."
But the Jayhawks' regional title and 17-7-5 record now mean nothing. But the 27-member Jayhawk squad has a national title to win.
The national tournament is scheduled to begin today and conclude next Monday.
— Edited by Steve Vockrodt
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