UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 23, 1997
3B
Football team counting on youth
Players focusing on scrimmaging playing as unit
By Tommy Gallagher
Kansan sportswriter
After losing three starters from last season's offensive line, the Kansas football team will depend on offensive linemen Justin Glasgow and Dameon Hunt this fall.
Glasgow, who will be a junior,
started every game at right tackle
last season. Hunt, who will be a
sophomore, started the last five
games at left guard.
Kansas football coach Terry Allen said there was no substitute for Glasgow and Hunt on the team.
"I'd hate to go into a game without those two players," Allen said. "We have such an inconsistent mess and such youth in the offensive line right now that it almost isn't fair. I think that's going to be a huge question mark for us until we play our first game."
Glasgow and Hunt aside, Kansas offensive guard Michael Lies started two games at left tackle last season.
Lies, who will be a junior, is the only other player with starting experience on the offensive line.
Five lettermen will return to
Kansas next season — Glasgow;
Hunt; Lies, center Chris Enneking,
who will be a sopromohome; and center Pat Bishop, who will be a senior.
Among the Jayhawks who did not letter last season but will return this fall are one center, two guards and five tackles, four of whom were redshirt freshmen last season.
Allen tailored last Saturday's scrimmage to help the Kansas offensive line work almost exclusively on run blocking
The team ran 92 plays during the scrimmage, 62 of which were running plays.
"That had to be about as boring a scrimmage that I've ever been a part of," Allen said.
"We have to focus on run blocking and assignment
Glasgow said it was important for the offensive line to transfer what it had learned in practice onto the football field.
"The learning process was slow at the beginning, but I think the coaches have been really patient with us," Glasgow said. "We're starting to execute more efficiently in practice. We've been concentrating on the mental phase, but now it's time for it to carry over into the physical phase so we can really start getting things done."
"That had to be about as boring a scrimmage that I've ever been a part of."
blocking, and that carried over to the scrimmage. We have a lot of new faces, and a lot of it is new to them. They just need a little experience and a little confidence," he said.
Terry Allen Kansas head football coach
Hunt said the starting offensive linemen would make progress once they got used to playing with each other on the football field.
comfortable with the guy who lines up right next to you, that's when you become a unit. As a unit, you can do anything and beat anyone, but you have to come together as a unit first."
"We need to get a solid starting offensive line, five guys who feel comfortable playing with each other." Hunt said. "Once you get
GR Gordon-Ross / KANSAN
Offensive tackle Justin Glasgow works with a KU football offensive line coach during practice.
Chicago Bulls will dominate the playoffs, again
The NBA Playoffs begin Thursday night. Does anyone care? Is there any chance that anyone will beat the Chicago Bulls?
The Bulls will be healthy and ready, as always, and you can look for them to dismantle the Bullets easily in the first round. Whatever team they play after the Bullets, can just assume the position as the sideline in the Michael Jordan feature.
It has been that way since Jordan returned from baseball (at least in his first full season back), and it will continue to be that way until he is gone.
Which brings up the question: What is going to happen to the NBA when Jordan retires? The quick answer is Dennis Rodman and Phil Jackson also are going to retire. Another answer is we'll find out if Scottie Pippen is any good without Jordan's shadow.
There has always been a changing of the guard
in the NBA among its superstars. First there was Julius Erving, who did things no one else has ever done—including Jordan. It took Magic Johnson and Larry Bird together to replace the Doctor. During the end of their careers, Jordan started showing flashes of greatness and eventually made himself the best player of all time.
Who can replace him?
The next tie of players — John Stockton, Karl Malone. David Robinson.
Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, Pippen — is on its way out, and none of them have proven
charismatic enough to join Jordan as the ambassador for the NBA.
The younger players — Shaquille O'Neal, Shawn Kemp, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway and Alonzo Mourning — are all great players, but have been unable to make their teams win when it counted.
What about the rookies and really young players?
Guys like Allen Iverson, Sharif Abdur-Rahim, Stephen Marbury, Kevin Garnett, and Antoine Walker have proven their skills, but none of them are doing the kinds of things Jordan, Magic, Bird or Dr. J. did. None of them are transcending the game like the older stars.
Grant Hill is probably the closest thing to Michael Jordan's heir-apparent, but he's not transcending the game either. He is like Jordan but not quite as good. He is the person everyone
would like to have representing the NBA, but he is reluctant to fill that role. It's not his style.
All the NBA can hope for is another rivalry. Throughout the 80s, it was the Lakers and the Celtics. Then it was the Lakers and the Pistons and the Pistons and the Bulls.
Now it's just the Bulls. Who can take over?
In the East, the Pistons and Heat will finally be out of Chicago's shadow. In the West, the Lakers are building a contender. The Sonics are getting there, and the Timberwolves are four or five years and a player away from being a great team. The Knicks, Rockets and Jazz have some good years left, and many teams are a superstar away from contention.
The NBA will be more competitive and more fun to watch when the Bulls' domination ends.
Comments? E-mail John at sports@kansan.com
Michigan investigated by NCAA
The Associated Press
DETROIT — At least three convicted drug dealers received complimentary tickets to University of Michigan basketball games, the Detroit Free Press reported yesterday.
University records cited by the newspaper showed that free tickets were distributed by coaches to what were deemed friends of the program.
At least three people with criminal records received tickets through their association with Robert Traylor, who just completed his sophomore season at Michigan, the newspaper said.
Those who received tickets include:
Sidney Dorsey, 28, had been convicted twice on drug charges and was facing new charges of distributing cocaine, heroin and marijuana when he received tickets while Trayler was being recruited in 1994. Dorsey was given tickets to a total of 30 games from 1995 to 1997.
■ Gregory Shivers, also known as Wilfred Carter Jr., has cocaine possession and concealed weapons convictions dating back to 1985. Shivers, identified by the Free Press as a relative of Traylor's, had received free tickets to 10 games through August 1996.
Quasand Lewis, 27, was imprisoned about three years on a cocaine delivery charge. He later returned to prison for four months on a probation violation and then received a free ticket to an exhibition game in 1995 after he was released.
NCAA rules were not violated in any of those cases, but the Free Press said the ticket giveaways conflicted with the athletic department's guidelines for conduct by players and coaches.
The Michigan athletic department did appear to have violated NCAA rules when it allowed recruit Willie Mitchell to sit with a booster and another department associate during at least one game in 1994, the Free Press said.
The booster, Ed Martin of Detroit, is the central figure in the NCAA's investigation into the program.
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