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North, South look for edge
Opening of conference play to showcase playmakers
BY DANIEL BERK
dberk@kansan.com
KANSAN SENIOR SPORTWRITER
Missouri will open its conference season with a home game against No. 2 Texas.
Conference play begins this weekend and teams in the North division will get an opportunity to distinguish themselves.
The game will feature two versatile and similar quarterbacks in Texas' Vince Young and Missouri's Brad Smith. Smith has had a good start to the 2005 season, racking up 343 yards rushing and 748 passing yards and has accounted for 10 touchdowns.
Young is being mentioned as
one of the favorites for the Heisman Trophy and has amassed 202 yards rushing and thrown for 544 passing yards in Texas' first three games.
"I don't like to compare Brad Smith and Young, but they both have a lot of talent," Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. "They are both great athletes, and Young will become a better trooper the more he plays."
Last season, Young threw three interceptions against Missouri and was knocked out of the game with a bruised sternum. Smith threw for 185 yards and two interceptions last year. Texas won 28-20.
Another key matchup for
Big 12 North leverage will be in Lincoln, Neb., when the 23rd-ranked Iowa State Cyclones play the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Iowa State enters the game 3-0 and is coming off a come-from-behind victory at Army. Nebraska also enters the game 3-0 after a bye week last weekend. In Nebraska's last game, the Cornhuskers defeated the Pittsburgh Panthers at home 7-6.
"Nebraska is a tough team to overcome," McCarney said. "Frankly, we have been embarrassed over in Lincoln several times. The great tradition and environment at Nebraska should bring out the best in our team, and it will be a challenge."
Iowa State coach Dan McCarney said he knew how important this game was to the Bi2 race.
Vince Young, then Texas sophomore quarterback, looks to pitch the ball during the second half of the game last season at Memorial Stadium. The Texas Longhorns, one of just three Big 12 teams in the top 25, are ranked No. 2 in the country behind the USC Trojans.
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FOOTBALL
Televised rivalry returns
For the first time in seven years, the battle for the Governor's Cup between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Kansas State Wildcats will be televised.
The Oct. 8 game in Manhattan will kick off at 11 a.m. and the Jayhawks will try for two consecutive wins over their in-state rival.
Fox Sports Net regional cable will televise the annual rivalry.
It will be the Jayhawks first live television appearance of the season.
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Change in tradition not always negative
Kansas basketball is going through an array of changes in tradition, such as the appearance of the fieldhouse, the loss of the scoreboard that was home to the famous "dancing nachos" sequence, and the rescheduling of Late Night in the Phog.
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Some of these changes will actually add to the experience of watching a basketball game in the fieldhouse but they also beg the question? Should these areas be left alone for the sake of tradition?
The Booth Family Hall of Athletics is going to be the best thing to hit Kansas basketball since Dr. Naismith invented the sport. If there's anyone out there
ing that the new building will take away from the look and feel of the fieldhouse, ask them again after the Hall of Athletics is completed in November. The hall will boast 26,000 square feet of historical memorabilia of the best Kansas athletics programs, players, and coaches. It will also house a new merchandise store, ticket office, and a lounge for players and recruits. If anything, it will add to the
tain an 8-by-12-foot TV screen on each side of the board. Along with the video board will come a state-of the art sound system.
This new video board will do everything the old board could do and much more. Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self even likes it.
"It looks to me like it will be consistent with the feel of the
This is the one big flaw in the Kansas basketball changes. How can it be "late night" if it begins
As an avid fan of live sporting events, there is one thing that the fieldhouse never had the ability to give—instant replays. How many times have you missed a dunk in the fieldhouse because you were still cheering about the previous play? Say goodbye to those days, because Daktronics Inc., of South Dakota, has come to the rescue. The new scoreboard will con-
Kansas basketball tradition
Kansas basketball tradition.
The amazing thing is that HOK Sport + Venue + Event Architecture, the company contracted for the construction, matched the new bricks identically with the existing bricks on the 50-year-old fieldhouse. Not only will this building guarantee the University another visit from the ESPN Game day crew, but it will look like it has been there for 50 years. Maybe they could have figured out a way to build this Hall of Athletics without extending the fieldhouse, but hey, the finished product will be awesome.
at 7 p.m.? They should rename the event "Early Evening in Daylight." The University has celebrated the midnight madness tradition for 20 years, and now it's gone.
building," Self said
One tradition that will be missed is the loss of Late Night in the Phog The NCAA is to thank for this one. They are allowing teams to practice at 7 p.m. on Oct. 14 in stead of the usua midnight on the
It doesn't look that much different than the old one, but it's better. If being frustrated because you can't see an instant replay is a tradition, then it's a tradition that won't be missed.
Friday closest to Oct. 15. This is the one big flaw in the Kansas basketball changes. How can it be a "late night" if it begins at 7 p.m.? They should rename the event "Early Evening in Daylight". The University has celebrated the midnight madness tradition for 20 years, and now it's gone.
The NCAA thought that the late nights were a concern for the travel of fans, students and coaches. This is such a ridiculous rule, how can you even respond to a statement like that?
But hey, Kansas basketball still has its traditions that make it great for the fans. It still has the inventor of basketball, it still has the fieldhouse, it still has the rock chalk chant, and hopefully will have a new high-tech version of the dancing nachos on the new video board.
Now Kansas basketball fans will have to cut out of work early to catch the first KU practice
- Hall if a Woodbridge, Va., senior in journalism
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Two members of the Kansas University Lacrosse Club participate in a passing drill during practice last night at Shenk Field. The team will travel to Manhattan Friday for a game against Kansas State.
ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
All clear in the lower-level seats
Select-a-seat helps please faculty, staff
Seating in Allen Fieldhouse
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Staff and faculty members and the Athletics Department have eased tensions following last season's debate about seats at men's basketball games.
FACULTY & STAFF SEATING
Faculty and staff were warned this year that they may have difficulty seeing the court in certain sections because of standing students, said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director.
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"They were very well-aware of where the students sit." he said.
Many faculty ticket holders last season had difficulty seeing the court in several sections because of standing students.
The department asked students to stand on the floor; rather than on the bleachers, in response to the complaints.
Students will be asked again this year not to stand on the bleachers.
Despite this warning, Mar-
chiony said he was not aware of any faculty or staff members returning their tickets for a refund.
Susan Twombly, education professor and faculty ticket liaison, said she had heard of at least one faculty member who was upset about the seating situation.
The faculty member was informed of the ticket policy, attended the select-a-seat program and was able to choose seats he liked. Twombly said.
"We have had numerous people tell us how happy they
were to be able to select a seat." Twombly said, "even if they did not get the exact seat they wanted."
Marchiony said the order of faculty seat-selection for members who ordered a full-season package was based on longevity at the University of Kansas. Faculty members who ordered partial-ticket packages selected
The ticket policy states that faculty and staff members could ask for refunds if they could not find acceptable seats when it was their time to choose, Twombly said.
Faculty and staff were warned this year that they may have difficulty seeing the court in certain sections because of standing students, said Jim Marchiony associate athletics director.
Faculty members who ordered basketball tickets were able to select their seats last week during the select-a-seat program held at Allen Fieldhouse. Faculty and staff are allotted 1,600 to 1,800 tickets to men's basketball games, Marchionny said.
Their tickets are in the lower level of the southwest, southeast and northeast corners of the fieldhouse.
their seats based on the results of a previously-held lottery.
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