Sports
Friday, Dec. 6, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Swim teams to end fall seasons at NU
The Kansas men's and women's swim teams will conclude their fall schedules this weekend at the Nebraska Invitational in Lincoln, Neb.
The women's team last competed on Nov. 16 and defeated Wyoming 64-39. On Nov. 15 they defeated fifth-ranked Southern Illinois 67-46.
The Nebraska Invitational, today, tomorrow and Sunday, will be the last meet for the women until the Collegiate Invitational on Jan. 9 and 10 in Austin, Texas. The men's next competition is Jan. 24 against Southwest Missouri State in Springfield, Mo.
The men picked up their first two wins of the season against Drury and Wyoming in a double dual meet on Nov. 16.
This will be Kansas' first meet since All-American Tammy Pease was killed in a car accident Saturday. All-American swimmer Karen Dionne, who was driving the car when it hit a patch of ice and collided with an oncoming car, is still in a coma and in critical condition at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., a nursing supervisor said yesterday.
Gophers name coach
MINNEAPOLIS — John Gutkunet, Minnesota's defensive coordinator for the last two years, was named head football coach of the Gophers yesterday.
G耿unkelt succeeds Lou Holtz, who left Minnesota last week to replace Gerry Faust as the head football coach at Notre Dame.
For days, reports circulated that Maryland Coach Bobby Ross was Minnesota's first choice, since he is a proven Division I winner, while Gutekunst has never held a head coaching job. But yesterday morning, Ross removed his name from Minnesota's consideration when he announced that he would stay at Bobby.
Vandy gets coach
HOUSTON — Rice head football coach Watson Brown resigned last night to coach Vanderbilt, his alma mater.
"I'm resigning, effective immediately, to go to Vanderbilt." Brown said at an evening news conference. "It's the toughest decision of my life. But it (Vanderbilt) is home. It's what I've always wanted.
"Rice is a class institution. It stands for everything I believe in," added Brown, who was in the second year of a six-year contract as coach and athletic director of the Southwest Conference school.
Brown will replace George MacIntyre, who resigned Monday as Vanderbilt's head coach. Brown said he would ask his assistant coaches to move with him to the Tennessee school.
Brown, who was offered the Vanderbilt job Wednesday by Commodore athletic director Roy Kramer, said his decision was made more in a positive way towards Nashville and his family than in a negative way towards Rice.
Colorado ski report
DENVER — Colorado Ski Country USA reported the following conditions at major Colorado ski areas yesterday:
Arapahoe Basin — 0 new, 54 depth, 315 acres, packed powder.
Ason Highlands — 0 new, 32
depth, 455 acres, packed powder
Aspen Mountain - 0 new, 24
depth, packed powder.
Beaver Creek — 0 new, 39 depth,
670 acres, packed powder.
Breckenridge — 2 new, 90 percent snowmaking, 308 acres, powder, packed powder.
Copper Mountain - 0 new, 42 depth, 900 acres, powder, packed powder.
created Butte — 0 new, 50 depth,
275 acres, powder, packed powder.
512 acres, packed powder.
'Keystone-North Peak' - 0 new,
4$ depth, 575 acres, packed
powder.
Snowmass - 0 new, 40 depth, 968 acres, packed powder.
Purgatory — 0 new, 52 depth, 595 acres, packed powder.
Steamboat Springs — 0 new, 54 depth, 1,400 acres, powder, packed powder.
Telluride — 0 new, 38 depth, 640 acres, powder, packed powder.
Vail — 0 new, 40 depth, 1,760
Mary Jane — 0 new, 49 depth, 292 acres, packed powder.
Winter Park - 0 new, 31 depth,
330 acres, packed powder.
Brant Creek — 0 new, 95 depth,
500 acres, powder, packed powder.
(Snow depth, in inches refers to
unpacked natural snow at midpoint.
No depths are given when any snow-making equipment is in use. When snow-making equipment is used, the percentage of artificially produced snow is given.
From staff and wire reports
Report says Gottfried to talk with Pitt
PITTSBURGH — Kansas head football coach Mike Gottfried will be interviewed for the vacant University of Pittsburgh coaching position, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported yesterday.
From staff and wire reports
The Pitt position became vacant Nov. 25 when Foge Fazio was fired.
"When I got down to the bottom line, it was simply, 'Hey, we've won. We're graduating players. We're succeeding. We're doing it within the rules. We're winning.' Why change?"
Gottfried is among the list of candidates whose names have been rumored to be in the running to replace Fazio. However, Ed Bozkil, Pitt athletic director, has refused to name any of the candidates he has interviewed or those he plans to interview.
Monte Johnson, Kansas athletic director, said. "I wouldn't be surprised if the school is interested in Coach Gottfried because he is an excellent coach."
Johnson would neither confirm nor deny that Pitt had asked Kansas for permission to talk with Gottfried.
Doug Vance, Kansas sports information director, said Gottfred had five more years on his contract, which runs through the end of the 1990 season. His three-year record at Kansas is 15-18-1.
Gottfried is out of town recruiting and was unavailable for comment.
The Jayhawks finished this season 6-6 and sixth in the Big Eight Conference with a conference record of 2-5.
After rumors circulated that Gottfried would be a candidate for various coaching jobs around the country, he said that he planned to stay at Kansas, especially if the football program received support from the public and within the athletic department.
Among other names that have been mentioned for the Pitt job are Bobby Ross, Maryland coach, Pat Jones, Oklahoma State coach, Jerry Berndt, Pennsylvania coach, and Chuck Klausing of Carnegie-Mellon.
Ross, 48, was the head coach at The Citation for five years and an assistant coach with the Kansas City Chiefs for four years before taking the Maryland coaching job in 1982.
Ross, however, has removed himself from any possible contention for the Pitt job or the head coaching job at Minnesota. Yesterday he agreed in principle to a guaranteed contract for at least four years to remain as head coach at Maryland, which he has rebuilt into a nationally prominent football program.
a crowded news conference in College Park, Md. "I do like it here and I do like the area."
He has compiled a four-year log of 34-14 since inheriting a 4-6-1 program at Maryland, including three straight ACC titles and four straight appearances in bowl games.
Ross said he was offered the vacant head coaching post at Minnesota after meeting with Minnesota officials Tuesday in Napoleon. He declined the offer at 6:30 a.m. yesterday.
"I feel very happy, I feel very comfortable, and I feel very excited." Ross told reporters at
The Terrapins, No. 19 in the nation, are 8-3 and play Syracuse Dec. 21 in the Cherry Bowl at Pontiac, Mich
Track teams set for indoor meet
By Frank Hansel and Heather Fritz Of the Kansan sports staff
The Kansas men's indoor track team will need strong performances for its freshman runners if it is to improve on last season's sixth place finish at the Big Eight Conference Championships, head coach Bob Timmons said yesterday.
"Basically we are young and inexperienced, and it is going to take some time to find out just where we are," Timmons said.
Timmons will get his first opportunity to see his young team compete at 6 p.m. today when the men and women open the indoor track season in Anschutz Sports Pavilion. The women will compete against Central Missouri State, Ottawa and Kansas State. The men will compete against Central Missouri State.
"This just opens up our season," said Carla Coffey, women's head coach. "We'll get to see whether we're on the right track in terms of conditioning. But it should be a good meet."
Coffey said the competition would be good, especially Kansas State, which will bring several All-Americans to the meet.
Steve Kueffer, the assistant coach who coaches the men's sprinters and throwers, said this year's team would be stronger, even though it was a younger team.
"We think that we've been blessed with a fine freshman class and are anxious to see how they run," Kuefer said. "I think they have a shot at the freshman mile relay record."
Kansas finished the indoor season fourth in the Big Eight last year, and Coffey said the team's goal was to move up one notch every year.
Most of the women will be able to compete in tonight's competition, with the exception of Rosie Wadman and Kim Johnson, who have been out with injuries. Coffey said Melissa Satterfield, the freshman who broke her foot during a cross country meet this fall, would be red-shirted for the indoor track season.
The freshman indoor mille relay record of 3:20.7 was set in 1967. The
Basically we are young and inexperienced, and it is going to take some time to find out just where we are.'
— Bob Timmons
Head man's track conch
Head men's track coach
Orrin Gaines, freshman, said the freshman mile relay team had a superb chance at breaking the record. Gaines will be joined by his twin brother Ornette, Ron Moore and Brent Fuller.
Kansas indoor relay record is 3:11.9 and was set in 1981.
— Bob Timmons
"It'll take some time for them to adjust to this level." Kueffer said. "In high school they were used to being the stars and now everybody can run with them."
While Kueffer is optimistic about his freshman runners, he said that it could take time for them to develop into high quality collegiate runners.
"I'm starting off now where I peaked last year in high school, so I can only get better." Gaines said.
Ornette Gaines, who will run the 60-yard, 300-yard and freshman mile relay tonight, said the college training was more intense, but that it was making him a better runner.
Last year, Gaines was ranked first in the 60-yard dash in Oklahoma and fourth in the nation in the 300-yard.
Kuefer said that John Creighton, junior, was the team's only upper class sprinter. Last year, Creighton placed fifth in the 600-yard run at the Big Eight Championships.
Now Washburn has completed his hours of service and is back on the team. Manning has been touted as a possible All-American and is considered one of the most talented collegiate basketball players in the nation.
"Most of these runners ran in high school last year where there is no indoor season," Timmons said. "They have just finished running 10K races, and now they have to adjust to the mile and two-mile races."
Timmons, who coaches the distance runners, said it would take them awhile to adjust to the indoor races.
Manning expects game to be rough
Washburn ruined his freshman season when he was caught stealing a student's stereo, an act that he described as a practical joke. The courts thought otherwise, however, and placed Washburn on probation and gave him 320 hours of community service. He was suspended from the team after having played only seven games as a member of the Wolfpack.
Tomorrow, the two will meet for the first time in a college game when the Jayhavks meet the Wolfpack at 11:30 a.m. in Greensboro, N.C. The
By Chris Lazzarino Sports editor
Kansas sophomore forward Danny Manning and North Carolina State sophomore center Chris Washburn have long been hot topics in the basketball world.
They were two of the best high school players in the nation, and until Manning moved to Lawrence for his senior year, they were both playing basketball in North Carolina.
As high school seniors, they were two of the most highly prized recruits in the nation.
Sports illustrated published an article on North Carolina State's heavy recruiting of Washburn by head coach Jim Valano. Manning's decision to attend Kansas, where his father, Ed Manning, was hired as an assistant coach, also was scrutinized closely around the nation — especially by schools that lost out on the young sensation.
"That's kind of rough," Manning said after Wednesday night's game against Western Carolina. "Ever since we were sophomores (in high school), it's been Danny versus Chris and Chris versus Danny. We can't think about that, though. We just hope our team wins.
The Jayhawks are 5-1 this season, their only loss coming from Duke in the finals of the Big Apple NIT last Sunday in New York City. North Carolina State dropped to 3-2 after losing 76-67 Wednesday night to Florida State.
game will be televised nationally by CBS, which has advertised the game as a "matchup between the two superhomophores — Danny Manning of Kansas and Chris Washburn of North Carolina State."
"I've had two poor games in a row until tonight," Deiling said after he scored 21 points against Western Carolina. "I'll have a heck of a challenge with Chris Washburn, that's for sure."
"It's definitely going to be rough. I don't think it's going to be a lot of fun."
Last season the Jayhawks were beaten by Michigan 96-77 in Ann Arbor, Mieh", in a national televised game.
Kansas center Greg Dreiling will have the task of handling Washburn — a task he is not taking lightly.
"We know we're a better team than last year," Kansas forward Ron Kellogg said. "We don't want that to happen against North Carolina State, especially when it's Danny's hometown. It's definitely a big road game, and hopefully we can pull out a victory."
Kansas pole vaulter Scott Huffman sprints during his approach to the bar. The men's and women's track teams practiced yesterday in Anschüt Sports Pavilion in preparation for meets today at 6 p.m.
Coach criticizes officiating
Bv Heather Fritz
Of the Kansan sports staff
The women's basketball team has to be glad to be back in the Midwest.
The team returned yesterday from a disappointing trip to Louisiana with losses to Louisiana Tech and Northwestern State and immediately began practicing for Saturday's game at Oral Roberts University. Both games in Louisiana were plagued with questionable officiating, and KU head coach Marian Washington was still disappointed yesterday.
"The officiating was absolutely inexcusable." Washington said yesterday. "I think the South is really getting a bad reputation. It's getting to be a bad place to go."
Washington said that in the first game, which was against Louisiana Tech, officials took Kansas right out of the game by calling two quick fouls on center Kelly Jennings.
"There are areas where we might have done a better job," Washington said, "but it's hard to know when
you're frustrated with the obvious."
Against Northwestern State on Wednesday, forward Vickie Adkins was called for two fouls in the first three-and-a-half minutes of play. In the first half, Kansas had nine fouls and Northwestern State had four.
Kansas had 16 fouls for the game, plus a technical foul each for Washington and guard Toni Webb, compared with 13 fouls for Northwestern State. Free throws accounted for 15 of the Lady Demons' points in their 79-63 victory over Kansas.
"That second game was more frustrating," Washington said. "We were certainly capable of winning. The first few minutes we just made some errors and then the officials had a field day."
Kansas, now 3-2, faces Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday, then plays Avila College at 2 p.m. Sunday in Allen Field House.
Junior guard Sherri Stoecker is two assists away from becoming the sixth Kansas woman to score 100 assists in her career. Stoecker has 98 assists in 32 games.
"We're glad to be home for a while," Washington said. "We're not going to face anything any worse. They're a little tired, but we'll do all right."
Casillas deemed top lineman
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Oklahoma nose guard Tony Casillas was named last night as the 1985 winner of the Lombardi Award, which annually goes to the player deemed the nation's top colleague lineman.
Casillas, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound
had senior, 34 tackles. four for lesses
and two quarterback sacks in seven games this year for the Sooners, who play Southern Methodist tomorrow. He missed two games with an injury.
Other finalists for the trophy, presented in honor of the late National Football League coach Vince Lombardi, were Boston College nose guard Mike Ruth, Oklahoma State defensive tackle Leslie O'Neal and
Michigan defensive tackle Mike Hammerstein.
Lombardi, who coached the Green Bay Packers and the Washington Redskins, died in September 1970 of cancer.
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The Downtown Rotary Club of Houston presents the award at a benefit dinner, with the proceeds going to the American Cancer Society.