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The University Daily Kansan
RECRUITING
Friday, April 30, 2004
5-and-8 rule revoked
NCAA overturns rule, allowing Hawks three scholarships
By Joe Bant
jbant@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas men's basketball team has three more available scholarships. The NCAA's 5-and-8 rule is no more.
rule is no more. The association's Division One Board of Directors met yesterday and voted to revoke the rule.
The rule placed limits on the amount of scholarships men's basketball teams could award over one and two-year periods.
The rule stated a team could not award more than five scholarships in one year and eight in two years, even if the team remained below the total 13- scholarship limit.
Kansas has 10 scholarship players three below the limit. But with four scholarships awarded last year and
three this year, the team was only one away from the two year eight scholarship limit imposed
More home games could be added to the men's basketball team's schedule. Sepage 28.
mit imposed by the five and eight rule. With the rule removed, however, Kansas has all three of its scholarships available for next season.
available for next season. The board's vote comes after a similar response to the rule from the NCAA's Division One Management Council.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway is chairman of the board of directors that decided the issue yesterday. After the management council's vote last week, he expressed his reservations regarding the rule.
Hemenway said the criticisms of the five and eight rule were legitimate. He said the rule, which was enacted to
punish schools that lost players for academic reasons, also punished schools whose players transferred or left for non-academic reasons.
More specific legislation that the board of directors approved yesterday would continue to hold schools accountable for their athletes' academic performance without hurting the programs that enjoy academic success.
programs that enjoy asteris the reform is known as the incentives/disincentives program and uses criteria such as graduation rates and an NCAA-calculated academic progress rate to determine the academic strength of a school's athletics programs.
sports athletics programs.
If programs are too weak in academies, the schools could face a variety of different punishments, including scholarship restrictions and postseason inelegibility.
- Edited by Danielle Hillix
By Ryan Greene rgreene@kansan.com Kansan sportwriter
'Kansan' analyzes three prospects
After the NCAA eliminated the 5- and 8 rule yesterday, Kansas can now sign as many as three players this spring. Kansan sportswriter Ryan Greene breaks down the three top prospects to join Kansas in time for the fall.
Alex Galindo
24 quadrants
6-foot-7, small forward
Newark, N.J.
Newark, N.J.
St. Pauli's High
St. Benedict's High School
Possible schools
Rutgers, Pittsburgh, Kansas
Galindo visited this weekend and will
weekend. The swingman is out of his commitment to UTEP, but Kansas could still have a tough time pulling Galindo. Rutgers and Pitt both offer better opportunities for him to play right away. However, Kansas could provide a better basketball learning experience. The talk on the top-100 recruit has been mild, but everyone from Duke to Baylor has called him. Galindo could be a true hidden gem, but digging it out will not be easy.
Odds of coming to Kansas --- 11:1
C. L. Giles
visit Rutgers and possibly Kansas next
6-foot-11, forward-
center
Seattle, Wash.
Ranier Beach High
School
possible schools Kansas, Miami, Washington
Possible schools
Athletes release culinary masterpieces
SEE PROSPECTS ON PAGE 6B
By Joe Bant
jbant@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
As a frequent consumer of frozen pizzas, SpaghettiOs and canned soup — really anything that can be microwaved — I felt out of place in the canned vegetables aisle at Dillons.
anned vegetables also are needed.
I was just a couple hours away from gloating in my kitchen in triumph, but for now my cart was stocked with unfamiliar such as vanilla extract, diced tomatoes and beef broth, and I was on the lookout for ranch-style beans.
I peered down at beans of all sorts — green, refried and lima — but ranch-style was not to be found. More purposeful customers swerved around me. I stood and stared, uncertain.
I stood and sailed, threecorners On the child's seat of my cart was Rock Chalk Recipes, the cookbook recently released by the University of Kansas Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. It was why I was at Dillons, the reason I was looking for the beans. Containing recipes from past and present Jayhawks, the book would be the source of that night's dinner.
The book was open to a recipe for Southwest Soup from former baseball coach Floyd Temple. In my cart were the ingredients for Danny Manning's cheese dip. Still on my list were Mexican Casserole from Charlie Gruber, track and cross-country runner from 1997 to 2002, and Kansas Mud, a tasty-looking dessert from Kara Pierce, senior pitcher on the softball team.
senior pitcher on the bench.
Those were the recipes I had picked after a night of pondering and advice from friends. I had considered lasagna by sophomore soccer forward Caroline Smith, but at the urging of my girlfriend and mom, decided not to follow TexMex appetizers with an Italian entrée.
Colorado Pine Nut Salad was another possibility, from Brad Barnett, golfer from 1995 to 1998. The state was cool, I reasoned, and so the salad probably was too, but I found toasting pine nuts and emulsifying oil intimidating.
and emulsifying on it. And of course I smiled inwardly at "simple grilled cheese," from senior football right tackle Danny Lewis.
which used only the microwave and toaster "for those unable to use the stove because bad things happen." Bad things normally do happen when I use the stove, such as burning dish towels and all-around crappy food, so I could relate.
relate. But I wanted a challenge, an opportunity to prove myself as a cook, and upon finishing at Dillons, I drove home with a trunk full of promise and eager expectations. I cleaned my messy kitchen, rinsed a dirty skillet and pot and got to work.
I started with Danny Manning's cheese dip, which I found to be much like his game was back in the day — smooth and bold. It had an excellent inside game but could still wow from the perimeter as well, and it was heaven on Tostidos.
My friend Holly Benjamin and my roommates promptly grabbed the bowl and headed into the living room. Kill Bill ensued on the TV. The feast had begun. All praised Manning for his excellent dip.
"I don't usually eat sausage," said Will Lamborn, Colorado Springs, Colo. junior. "But if Danny Manning likes it, it must be good."
The Southwestern Soup found itself in the unfavorable position of following the dip.
Submitted to the book by Floyd Temple, I thought it unlikely that the soup would live up to the man. Temple is the winningest baseball coach in Kansas history with a 437-396-7 record from 1954 to 1981. He also played baseball for Kansas from 1949 to 1950 and was a running back for the football team in 1949. He was assistant football coach from 1966 to 1974 and served for 11 years as assistant athletics director.
A combination of beef, beans, noodles, tomatoes and other vegetables, it meshed to create an ideal blend that Holly and my roommates gulped down once it was finished. Sean Hatfield, Salina junior, came back for seconds.
His soup proved to be similarly eclectic and a complement to the disappearing dip.
"I really liked the shelled noodle
SEE MASTERPIECES ON PAGE 6B
Joe Bent, Kansas staff writer, prepared seasoned hamburger for Mexican Casserole from Charlie Grouper, a track and cross country runner. The KU Student Athlete Advisory Committee published a cookbook filled with recipes contributed by former and current KU athletes.
Softball ballpark to be dedicated tomorrow
By Jonathan Kealing
jkaeling@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
The softball team will officially dedicate its new ballpark at tomorrow's game against Texas. Arrocha Ballpark will be dedicated to the father of Kansas businesswoman Cheryl Womack, Demostenes Arrocha.
Womack dedicated $2 million to the Athletics Department to build a new softball stadium. About $1.3 million went to building sunken dugouts for home and visiting teams, as well as the construction of batting cages. The playing field was the most significant improvement to the park.
"What we have done, I think we've done as well as anyone in the country," coach Tracy Bunge said. "What I and
surfaces in the countrys. The infield is constructed of a dirt and synthetic compound. The material is designed so the field handles rain without tarps or a drying agent. After the rain stops, the water only needs to be pushed off the infield. Bunge said the outfield grass was like a putting green.
The ballpark incorporates some of the latest in technology and is maintained to the highest level. This confuses visiting teams who often do not know what to expect from the infield. The players said they were also often unprepared for how slow the outfield rolls.
many others who've seen it think is that we have one of the best playing surfaces in the country."
According to players and coaches the grass is smooth and allows the players to keep from being surprised.
had to get used to it, so its kind of a home field advantage for us," sophomore shortstop Destiny Frankenstein said.
stop Desity Frameham town and Arrocha Ballpark was built to replace Jayhawk Field, which was constructed when Bunge was still a pitcher on the Jayhawk team 20 years ago. Bunge is in her eighth year as coach.
The future of Arrocha includes another phase of development. While no price tag has been set, it is expected to cost several millions.
"Knowing how great our fundraisers and endowment are, I'm sure there are prospects that have been identified," said associate athletics director Sean Lester.
"There was a period of time when we TALK TO SPORTS: Contact Henry C. Jackson or Maggie Newcomer at SPORTS@KANSAN.COM
Future improvements include seating to supplement the bleachers. A press box, permanent restrooms and a permanent location for concessions and the KU Store will be constructed.
In addition to those improvements will be the installation of lights and perches for television crews.
the players, who have already experienced two darkness-shortened games this season, want lights as well.
his season, want lights," freshman pitcher Kassie Humpheys said. "But we do like what we have, so we're not going to get greedy."
Lester indicated that construction could begin this off-season; but, he said that the department does not begin projects until complete funding is found. He indicated that when funding is acquired, ground could be broken in as short of a time period as 2-4 weeks.
"As soon as we get the money," he said, "we'll start."
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sports commentary
Keith Langford klangford@kansan.com
Payment should be a privilege
Writing this column today was totally out of the blue. To be honest, I'm sitting in class — I won't say which one—and just finished reading The University Daily Kansan reporter Joe Bant's April 28 article "Royalites Rumble" on athlete's compensation for merchandise with their name on it.
Lately there has been much talk and argument about this issue. Obviously, my opinion is biased, but both the NCAA and athletes make valid points.
I know this won't happen while I'm in school, but for the future elite athletes, compensation should become a privilege. If a school makes money off a player's jersey, he or she should get a cut of that money.
When this argument comes up, the NCAA always comes with the same line, "Education is your payment," or, "Being a student-athlete is a privilege, not a right."
Yeah. right.
Yean,right. Sure, I understand that equality among everyone is the goal, but there is a difference in "people" treatment and financial" treatment.
If making it to the pros is supposed to justify the NCAA not giving jersey profits to players, then what does every other player whose put on that uniform have after they've stopped playing? What is their legacy? Getting talked about by anonymous fools in the Free For All and on the Internet?
and financial treatment.
If college is supposed to be any kind of simulation for the real world, then 19 and 20 year-olds should be able to understand that being fair is not what we're in school to learn. It's not just here at Kansas. If you go down I-70 to Manhattan, I'm sure there are more Kendra Wecker and Darren Sproles jerseys being sold than any other ones. I look at it like this: Athletes cannot work during the season, nor is every athlete going to be a professional. During the past five years, the basketball program has put only three players in the NBA.
You could say we get an education and that's our payment. I agree, but when you miss nearly two months of the school year because of travel, it makes it a bit harder to get in that extra hour of studying.
So, as an athlete, I'm not getting the full academic experience. Especially when professors (none that I have now, I might add), feel that we need to be treated like everyone else. I'm not everyone else.
SEE PRIVILEGE ON PAGE 6B