SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1994
JAYHAWK FOOTBALL
SECTION B
Under the lights
Kansas opens its home season at night against a tough Big Ten Conference foe
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Kansas football players raise their helmets as they watch from the sidelines in a kickoff against Houston last week. The Jayhawks defeated the Cougars 35-13 in the Astrodome and seek to continue their success under the lights when they meet Michigan State tomorrow night at 7 in Memorial Stadium.
Richard Devicki / KANSAN
Two lighting banks have been set up on top of Memorial Stadium's press box for Saturday night's game.
Jayhawk Football Listed are the starters for Kansas' offense and defense
By Matt Irwin
Kansan sportswriter
No, the Kansas football team is not going to Broadway. But it will have plenty of chances to be in the spotlight this season.
The Jayhawks play four of their first five games under the lights, including their home opener at 7p.m. Saturday against Michigan State.
The Jayhawks opened their season by defeating Houston 35-13 last Thursday night. Kansas also will play night games Sept. 17 at Texas Christian and Oct. 6 at home against Kansas State. The Kansas State game will be televised on ESPN.
The last night game the Jayhawks played was during the 1992 season against California, an idea Kansas coach Glen Mason said he liked.
"I thought it was a great setting, and it was very positive," Mason said.
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Tomorrow night, the Jayhawks will play a Big Ten Conference team that only finished seventh in their conference last season but played in the Liberty Bowl.
The Spartans ended last season 6-6 overall and 4-4 in the conference. They defeated Kansas 31-14.
The Spartans are 5-0 against the Javahawks all-time.
"I don't think we played very well last year," Mason said. "The story of the game was five turnovers. That really hurt us."
Mason said the Jayhawks did not capitalize on opportunities during that game.
One change from last season is that senior quarterback Asheil Preston has more than half a season of experience now. He did not play in the game a season ago.
Mason said he was impressed by Preston.
"Asheiki is a much improved quarterback," Mason said. "He got better last year as he had the opportunity to play. He was improved during spring practice, and he's improved now."
Mason said that already having played a game had helped his quarterback and the rest of the team.
"As a coach you worry about what happens in first games," Mason said. "You see mistakes from teams that you never would see."
Getting that first game under their belt would be an advantage for the Javhawks. Mason said.
However, he said that it could also help the Spartans.
"They get a chance to sit and watch some film, evaluate the players we have and figure out where they're going to attack us," Mason said.
Michigan State's new starting quarterback will be 6-foot-6-inch junior Tony Banks.
The Spartans' base defense will be a 3-4 instead of the 4-3 that Michigan State coach George Perles helped make famous as a defensive coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
While Perles was with the Steelers, he helped form the "Steel Curtain" defense that led to four Super Bowl victories during the 1970s.
"My first look at their defense is going to be your first look when you see them come out there," Mason said.
Despite Perles' reputation for having good defensive teams, Michigan State hired a new defensive coordinator, Hank Bullough, to change the defensive system.
Bullough, nicknamed the "Doctor of Defense," has coached professional teams since 1970. His experience with National Football League teams included a stint with the Cincinnati Bengals where he took the league's worst defense in 1979 and transformed it into the No. I defense in 1983.
Michigan State's passing attack features All-Big Ten candidate Mill Coleman who had 48 receptions last season.
Along with this new look, the Jay-hawks will face an offensive line that may be the biggest in any league, professional or college.
Coleman said Kansas would be a challenge for him.
"They have a good secondary," Coleman said of the Jayhawks. "We expect a hard-hitting game."
Turn on the lights, Kansas is home
Tough Road Schedule: The lights are being set up by Musco Mobile Lighting. Crew chief Mike DeMeyer said the crane-truck was at a Western Michigan game on Thursday and would travel to Kansas today. DeMeyer said that those lights had spent the two weekends before that in Los Angeles and Victoria, British Columbia.
The Spotlight: The Jayhawks will have three banks of lights set up for Saturday's 7 p.m. game against Michigan State. Two banks have been set up on top of the press box and another bank will be on a crane-truck on the east side of the stadium.
Packing heat: Each bank contains 15 lamps. DeMeyer said each is a 6,000 Watt lamp. DeMeyer said he and his crew have to stand 15 to 20 feet from the lights because of the heat the bulbs created. DeMeyer said he has had nylon baseball jackets burnt because of standing too close.
Easy road schedule: The two banks of lights on the press box, will remain there for the Kansas State game, DeMeyer said.
Weekend tournament allows 'Hawks no time to regroup
Kansas junior outside hitter Jenny Larson spikes a ball past two defenders in a match Tuesday against UMKC. The Jawhaws won that match and will play in a tournament today and tomorrow.
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Young volleyball team 'concentrated on basics in practice to prepare
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan sportswriter
They will compete in the Southwest Missouri State Tournament this weekend, opening with a game against Southwest Missouri State at 3 p.m. today. Kansas will round out the tournament tomorrow with matches against Montana and Tulsa.
Although a young Kansas volleyball team gained experience in its season opener last weekend, today's match may not give the Javahigha chance to catch their breath.
The Jayhawks are 2-3 entering the tournament.
Last weekend, Kansas competed in the Colorado State Volleyball Tournament. The team left Colorado with a 1-3 record, winning a match against regionally-ranked
This weekend's tournament will be very similar, except the competition will be a level higher, Kansas volleyball coach Karen Schonewise said.
"There will be a stronger overall level of play at the Southwest Tournament," Schonwise said. "Southwest Missouri has a very strong team returning. They have a great coach who continually holds one of the top winning percentages in the nation."
After facing the Bears, Kansas will still have two tough matches to follow on Saturday. Schonewise said Montana was returning from a very strong season last year, and Tula would not be easy either.
Santa Clara. However, the Jayhawks failed to defeat Colorado State, Wichita State, Northwestern Illinois and Northern Arizona.
To prepare for the tournament,
Schonewise said the team had gone back to concentrating on the basics in practice this week.
Freshmen Kendra Kahler and Maggie Mohrfeld will start in the middle blocker positions, along with Leslie Purkeypile, and setter Trisha Lindgren.
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"We're still undisciplined in the basics," she said. "The fundamentals we're doing on
The lineup might change for Kansas today. Schonewise said tournament play would begin with the four freshman who played well in Tuesday's home opener against UMKC.
the court are not precise yet. We need to go back to the beginning until we're disciplined in that phase of the game."
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Sophomore middle blocker Kaie Walsh and junior outside hitter Jenny Larson will direct the freshmart on the court.
Schonewise said the team would use this tournament to emphasize the importance of fundamentals.
Larson said that the Jayhawks would work on their attitude going into each match.
"We're still up and down," she said. "We need to find consistency. We need to start playing with more intensity. That's hard to do in the game of volleyball."
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