THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
NEWS
3A
FOOTBALL
Business tactics affect schedule
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Florida International running back *A* mod *Ned* finds no room to run against the Kansas defense during Saturday night's game at Memorial Stadium. Florida International agree to make two trips to Lawrence for $500,000, and Saturday was its first.
BY THOR NYSTROM
tnystrom@kansan.com
"Unfortunately
The University of Kansas' 55-3 blowout victory Saturday night against Florida International almost never happened. The contest, as much a business transaction as a football game, took place only because of a shrewd decision by the University senior associate athletics director Larry Keating.
FIU was scheduled to travel to Lawrence last season, a game that would have paid a guarantee of $400,000. Two years ago the University of Miami contacted FIU, also located in Miami, about scheduling a 2006 contest. FIU's schedule was booked, but they were determined to play their bigger, in-city rival.
FIU called Keating, who arranges the football schedule, with news that it would accept Miami's request. The NCAA penalty for defaulting on a contest at the time was $400,000, and the Golden Panthers were willing to write the University a check for the full amount.
Keating instead informed FIU that he needed games, not money. Keating offered to pay FIU $250,000 for each of two games, one in 2007 and one in 2008, in return for the canceling the game. The going rate for a one-game FBS, formally known as Division 1-A, guarantee is generally $500,000 or more, and rising. FIU accepted.
FIU's sports administration turned over last year, with Pete Garcia named the new athletics director in October of 2006.
bargain-basement
Ironically, Garcia is the reason the Golden Panthers eventually
"The new AD at Florida International (Garcia) called," Keating said, "and say, 'Why are we doing this?' I said, 'Hey, you guys agreed to it. That was the deal.' I dare say he probably isn't happy about it."
agreed to the price with the Jayhawks. Before taking the athletics director job at FIU, Garcia served one year as the senior associate athletic director at the University of Miami. One of his jobs was constructing
"The new AD at Florida International called and said, 'Why are we doing this?' I said, 'Hey, you guys agreed to it.'"
LARRY KEATING Senior associate athletics director
the Hurricanes' non-conference football schedule. And one of his last acts in that capacity was calling FIU with a proposal of playing two games in the Orange Bowl.
FIU accepted and quickly canceled its deal with the University to open a date on its 2006 schedule.
schools in your own state, that is huge," Garcia said.
Garcia said FJU was eager to schedule the Hurricanes.
Keating filled the hole with Louisiana-Monroe, which he paid $500,000 plus expenses to play in Memorial Stadium last September, a 21-19 KU win.
The FIU-Miami game would go down in infamy. Played on Oct. 14
of last year, a frenzied brawl erupted in the third quarter. The melee included both benches emptying, several fist fights, and objects such as helmets and crutches being used as weapons. In total, 13 players were ejected — eight from FIU and five from Miami.
Garcia, who was in his first week as athletics director at FIU, issued an apology on behalf of the university shortly after the game.
After speculation about canceling the series, the teams decided to continue playing in the future. They played on Sept. 15, a 23-9 Hurricane victory, without incident.
The Golden Panthers return to Lawrence on Aug. 30 for the season opener of next year.
Edited by Darla Slipke
》RELIGION
BY RACHEL ZOLL ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — As Episcopal leaders consider barring more gays from becoming bishops to prevent an Anglican schism, the world Anglican family is already dying by a thousand cuts.
Theological conflict over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, is draining the Anglican Communion of its global influence.
Episcopal and Anglican conservatives who have been trying to maneuver collectively have instead been scattering in different directions, adding to a sense of chaos.
And while the number of Episcopal parishes that have broken with the national church is relatively small, observers say there's another threat that's harder to measure: that some parishioners upset by how leaders have handled the crisis are falling away from the church.
The 77-million-member Anglican Communion is a fellowship of churches that trace their roots to the Church of England. It is the third-largest Christian body in the world, behind the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, and is represented in the U.S. by the Episcopal Church.
"It's turning people off," said David Hein, a religion professor at Hood College in Maryland who specializes in Episcopal and Anglican history. "They never endorsed gay marriage. They never said ordaining gay bishops was all right. They just did this as an ad hoc thing."
After four years of emergency summits and failed talks over Robinson's consecration, Episcopal bishops are meeting here under enormous pressure to roll back their support for gays.
Anglican leaders, called primate
have set a Sept. 30 deadline for the Americans to pledge unequivocally not to consecrate another gay bishop or approve an official prayer service for same-gender couples. Episcopal bishops have dedicated their meeting here to crafting a response.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the Anglican spiritual leader, has tried to play down the significance of the date, saying "there is no ultimatum involved." However, he took the unusual step of attending the meeting on its first two days, warning Episcopal leaders behind closed doors that they must make concessions to keep the communion together.
No one expects the Americans to completely reverse course. Many Episcopal leaders believe biblical teachings on justice and acceptance are paramount. They celebrated Robinson's election. That means that the damage done to the communion by all sides in the conflict likely won't be repaired anytime soon.
The strain on Anglican relations with other Christians was clear at an ecumenical service in the Morial Convention Center here Thursday night with the archbishop of Canterbury and Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jeffers Schiori.
Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans didn't attend. A spokeswoman for Hughes said he had a scheduling conflict and that Baton Rouge Catholic Bishop Robert Muench was participating in his place. But Muench sat in the audience so far back from the stage that few people knew he was there until an Episcopal leader asked him to stair up and wave.
Anglicans and Catholics have been in negotiations for years to rebuild ties between their churches. Those talks have been complicated by Robinson's election and by the ordination of women in Anglican provinces.
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