Kansan Summer Weekly
Wednesday, July 8, 1987
Sports
Coach Brown starts selection process for U.S. team
Rv L.A. RAUCH
Special to the Kansan
Practice sessions for the selection of the 1987 U.S. Junior World Team begins today at Allen Field House. Kansas Coach Larry Brown will lead the team, which will compete during the last week of July in Borto, Italy.
Eleven other national teams will be competing in the Junior World Game.
Assisting Coach Brown is Gary Williams, a basketball coach at Ohio State, and Marshall Hamilton, Broughton High School coach from Raleigh. N.C.
There are 19 players trying out for 12 positions on the U.S. team. Final cuts for the team will be made Sunday. The players were invited by a selection committee to try out for the team.
"I'm not necessarily looking for the best players. I'm looking for the players that get along," Brown said, referring to the selection process.
Brown said that his practice philosophy will remain simple because the team was starting from scratch. He will be holding a-a-day practices, beginning today and continuing until next Tuesday in the field house. Practices will run from 9 to 11 a.m. and will resume at 5 p.m. and continue until 7 p.m. The afternoon sessions will be open to the public.
"We're going over to win," Brown said. He also said that this team was going to be unselfish, play hard and have a strong defense.
He said that being chosen head coach was an honor because he always had wanted to get involved
coaching national teams.
"It is a stepping stone to the Olympics," said Nolan Richardson, head coach at Arkansas. Richardson said he was attending practices for the next few days to watch the team, and his player, Arkansas guard Ron Huery, who is trying out for the team.
'I'm not necessarily looking for the best players. I'm looking for the players that get along.'
Larry Brown KU basketball coach
Kansas player Kevin Pritchard and new recruit Lincoln Minor are competing for positions on the team.
"There's so much talent out there," Pritchard said. "It's incredible. I don't think there is a guy out there who puts himself above winning. I want to go to Italy."
The athletes chosen for the team will play former Kansas players in an exhibition game at 7 p.m. next Wednesday in the field house. Former Kansas forward Ron Kellogg is one of several former players returning to play against the Junior World Team.
"This is my house," said Kellogg. "I'm looking forward to playing against these talented players."
Brown's team leaves July 16 for Frankfurt, Germany, where they will play two more exhibition games. The teams arrives July 23 in Italy, the tournament finishes July 30.
A. Junior World Basketball Team candidate goes down in the first work out of week long series of practice sessions.
Joe Wilkins/KANSAN
Cleveland beats Royals 6-4 in ninth
CLEVELAND (AP) — Joe Carter hit a two-run home run just inside the left-field foul pole of reliever Dan Quisenberry with one out in the ninth inning last night, giving the Cleveland Indians a 6-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Carter had tied the game 4-4 with a two-run single off Quinberry, 4-1, in the seventh. Carter's 18th home run of the season came on a 2-2 pitch and followed a lead-off single by Tony Bernardaz and a fly out by Julio Franco. Doug Jones, 2-1, pitched $2\%$ bitterness for the victory.
After retiring the first two batters
in the bottom of the seventh, Royals starter Mark Gubicza gave up singles to Bernazard and Franco and then three a wild pitch, allowing the runners to advance a base. Quisenberry relieved and gave up Carter's two-run single.
Cleveland went ahead 2-1 in the fourth when Pat Tabler tripped and scored on Meil Hall's ground out, but Sam Tolka took a 4-2 lead in the seventh.
throwing two balls to Juan Benijose,
and Mark Huismann came on and
finished the walk, which was charged
to Schrom and forced home Jackson.
Singles by Bo Jackson and Angel Salazar and a walk to Larry Owen loaded the bases. Cleveland starter Ken Schrom then was removed after
Kevin Seitzer then walked, giving Kansas City a 3-2 lead. Ed Vande Berg came on and yielded a run-scoring single to George Brett.
The Royals took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a pair of walks and Danny Tartallbuff's run-scoring single before Cleveland tied the game in the second on Hall's single, a walk, and Cory Snyder's RBI single.
Royals center fielder Willie Wilson was ejected from the game in the
third inning, Schrom threw an 0-2 fastball to Wilson inside and high, causing Wilson to duck the pitch. After Wilson flied out on the next pitch, he charged the mound and tackled Schrom, causing both benches to clear.
Indians 6. Royals 4
Royals 100 000 300–4 7 0
Indians 100 100 202–6 13 0
Schrom (6) Huiusman (5), Djones (25%) and Vande Berg (3) Gubiza (6), Guisezberry (14%), W-Djones (2-1) L-Quisenberry (4) 2Bs-Snyder, Tbab-Taber, HC-Rater (18)
Recreational services official leaves KU
Special to the Kansan
By ELAINE SUNG
He calls soccer "the real sport."
He calls soccer the real sport. Hector Munoz, assistant director of recreational services and an ardent soccer fan, left the University of Kansas on Thursday after holding that position since 1983.
Munoz, who helped build the intramural soccer program, is going to be the assistant director of recreational sports at the University of Texas-El Paso.
He said he loved many of the things to offer, but he needed new challenges.
"After several years in a program, you grow to love it," he said. "But
after a while, you just would like to go somewhere else and face new problems and situations."
Munoz also wanted to be closer to his hometown in Chihuahua. Mexico
"I'm from that area," he said.
"It's close to my relatives, and I wanted to be near my parents down there."
His search for new challenges led him to Texas-El Paso, where interest in the intramural soccer team is declining.
"They are having problems with the soccer program," Munoz said. "Hopefully, I'll have a chance to straighten it out and try to develop the floor hockey program as well."
'Everyone laughs at me because I call soccer 'the real sport.' I enjoy it the most, and I have more experience in it than in any other sport.
"When I started out, we had 12 teams of seven players each. Now it's grown to 50 teams with 11 players on each."
Johnny Johnson, graduate assistant in team sports, said the growth of soccer at KU was due to Munoz's involvement.
the most enjoyment, Munoz said.
"He's always taken an active interest in the programs, to the point of coming out and officiating himself," he said. "I've improved because of that," he said.
Interaction with students gave him
"There's a socialization process that exists with team sport activities," he said. "We're in a process of training, and in interacting with students continuously. We try to make them perform at their best possible level in our activities."
Munoz was also successful in getting the best performance out of his assistants.
"He was really easy to work for," Johnson said. "He delegated a lot of power, and I had the opportunity to grow professionally. He never interfered until I asked for his help."
Bv IOHN MONTGOMERY
KU football shapes up
special to the Kansan
Jay Allen, offensive lineman for KU, lifts 285 pounds in the weight room at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Allen was work ing out yesterday afternoon preparing for fall football practice.
Ed Bilik, head speed/strength coach, said the program was divided into three four-week sessions. The sessions begin the third session next week.
The KU football team hopes to be in top shape for fall practice by building their strength, speed and endurance this summer.
About 40 Kansas football players currently are involved in an intensive 12-week summer weight training program.
The program is getting more rigorous, concentrating on speed and accuracy.
Bielik said he had divided the players into either a strength group or a skill group. The strength group consists mainly of offensive and defensive linemen and also some defensive quarterbacks, wide receivers, defensive backs, cornerbacks and kickers make up the skill group.
The first four-week session involved basic strength building, and the second session worked on speed.
Both groups run Monday through Friday, with Wednesday off. The strength group lifts weights the same days. The skill group, however, works with the weights only three days a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
The players can lift weights in the Shaffer-Holland Strength Center in Anschutz Sports Pavilion from noon to 8 p.m., but Bielik said most work out in the evening.
He also said there were other training devices, such as a 145-pound sled, which the linemen pull across the field.
"It's really rigorous, particularly with the running," he said. "With the heat and humidity, it's not uncommon to see a player drop to his knees."
Roger Finkemeier, assistant speed/strength coach, said the program was demanding.
Jay Allen, junior offensive lineman, said he lifted weights for about an hour and a half, starting around 4 p.m. He then spends from 20 to 30
minutes running, doing sprint work and pulling the sled on the indoor track in the Pavilion. The sled is loaded with weights.
"It's getting more and more intense as the season gets nearer." Allen said. "It's harder than if I was at home."
Allen is taking classes at KU in addition to his training this summer.
strict and effective.
Rick Clayton, junior linebacker,
said Bielik's weight program was
"It's one of the tougher programs they've come up with since I've been here," he said. "You come home dead tired, but you can feel it working and getting you stronger and faster."
Clayton, who took classes in June and now works full time, said he also took Taekwondo classes to help his flexibility.
Cost-containment plan killed at NCAA meeting; Kansas coaches happy
Bv ELAINE SUNG
The National Collegiate Athletic Association recently wrapped up a special convention that was held in Dallas, Texas. The cost of the convention was $1.8 million.
Special to the Kansan
Coaches at the University of Kansas sighed with relief when the NCAA defeated the majority of cost-containment proposals presented at its national convention.
One of the proposals was cutting scholarships for non-revenue sports. Several women's groups protested the cuts because the number of scholarships eliminated would have been higher in women's sports than men's.
Carla Coffey, KU women's track coach, said that the proposed cuts would have hurt KU's women's track team if the proposals had been adopted.
"I was glad to see them fail," Coffey said. "They would have affected our program drastically.
Women's basketball coach Marian Washington said that women's athletics across the nation also would have been hurt by the cuts.
"Fewer scholarships would mean fewer women participating. It would truly have been a step backwards," she said. "I can't imagine that anyone associated with women's athletics would support that large a percentage in difference (between men's and women's cuts)."
"Looking down the road at the future, if we don't have aid, we won't have anything to offer to our incoming athletes."
"The women have to have financial support in order to increase the attraction of women's sports. We've tried so hard to get to where we are, it'd be a real shame to lose it," she said. "It's only fair that we get our fair share."
Pat Collinson, administrative assistant of scholarships and women's athletics, said that taking away scholarships would hurt women's programs and that more scholarships were needed to recruit more women.
Cuts in scholarships to men's nonrevenue sports would have hurt as well. KU baseball coach Dave Bingham said.
"To get the blue-chip athletes, we'll need the aid," he said. "A lot of athletes will accept less aid in order to play in the warmer southern climates. That will affect our ability to compete."
Proposed cuts in the number of campus visits allowed to a sport's potential athletes would have affected the future for KU in general, said Gary Hunter, KU associate athletic director.
"We need to get the young student-athletes on our campus to show them what we have." Hunter said. "We need all the visits we can get."
Larry Brown, KU men's basketball coach, said that previously 13 scholarships had not been enough
Instead of cutting scholarships at the convention, the NCAA restored the number of scholarships from 13 to 15 in Division I-A basketball, reversing its January decision.
because it denied many athletes the opportunity to go to school.
"Some kids may not be able to afford school, and the reduction in scholarships prohibits us from giving them a chance," Brown said. "I hate to see kids not given the opportunity to go to school."
In another proposal, which was passed, non-revenue team sports were limited to a total of 26 weeks of practice and play. Previously, a limit for practice time was not set. Individual sports such as gymnastics, swimming, and track and field were not included in this proposal because coaches nationwide protested, saying that it would damage the development of Olympic hopefuls who were attending college.
"Swimming is a year-round sport, and 28 weeks is not enough time to generate the success for our Olympic hopefuls." John Christie, KU assistant swimming coach, said. "You need to keep a consistency in training, and if the season were to end after the NCAA and Big Eight Championships in April, we would have a big layover during the summer. You need to be in the water in May and June in order to do the best at Olympic trials."
"You can't judge the value of a sport on the money it brings in," Brown said. "You have to consider what other things they do for the University.
The 26-week limitation includes team sports such as baseball and softball.
"We (basketball) do well enough to support non-revenue sports. We'll do anything to help."
Washington and Brown both said that although revenue generated by a sport was important, non-revenue sports should not be sacrificed just because they do not generate money.
"Overall, it won't have too many ramifications, depending on how they read the rule." Bingham said. "We're not on the field playing and practicing much more than 26 weeks anyway. But if the rule includes off-season training, and if coaches aren't even allowed onto the field or in the training room in the off-season, then it will have an effect on us."
Division I football also is affected by a new rule limiting the number of practice sessions. Proposals regarding a cut in the number of assistant football coaches and scholarships for I-A football were defeated by the NCAA.
However, the degree to which KU baseball is affected will depend on how the rule is interpreted. Bingham said.
KU head football coach Bob Valesente and his assistants could not be reached for comment.
Most coaches agreed that a more extensive study was needed before any other cost-cutting proposals were presented to the NCAA again.
"They'll need to investigate further before bringing it to the committee again." Washington said. "They'll have to come up with other ways that won't have as alarming an impact. There must be areas we can go to first before taking away an avenue that allows the growth of sports."