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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 16, 2001
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As an alumnus (1982) and a long time football season ticket holder (23 years), I think we have a huge fan support problem, unless, of course, you are talking about basketball. All Kansas fans and alumni should be ashamed. I've sat through years of fan apathy, so now we have come to this. It is embarrassing to look to our west, to what we have always felt was inferior, and see how Kansas State has turned what was once a laughing stock, into a hyped, fan-loving football program. It looks like they are going to have a decent roundball program once their coach gets the recruiting going. We had better get behind football
Football could increase revenue for other sports
— if for no other reason than to get the revenue it produces to keep the other KU sports alive. Basketball can't do it by itself.
1982 graduate from Overland Park
I am writing this letter in support of saving the Kansas men's swimming and diving team and tennis team. Roughly $900,000 does not seem like a huge amount of money to cut. Surely there are other ways to do this instead of cutting two programs entirely.
Other options exist besides cutting teams
It seems to me that simple across the board cuts to the entire Athletics Department (including administrative cuts as well as cuts to all the athletic programs) would solve the problem.
I cannot believe that cutting these two programs was the only solution available. I agree with my son that it seems as though someone took the easy way out. Perhaps it was thought that these kids would just take the news and quietly go away.
Well, think again—they are fighting for what they know is right! I am behind them 100 percent and will keep fighting with them until a solution is found and these programs are reinstated.
Rose Howard Southbury, Conn.
Battered Clemson to begin tourney
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Clemson is feeling the stress going into the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Stress fractures, that is.
The Tigers are so beaten up that coach Jim Davis is wondering how they'll get through their first-round game today against Chattanooga in the Mideast Regional at Cincinnati.
Senior Andrea Gaines has three stress fractures, one in each foot and one in a leg, Junior Krystal Scott has a stress fracture and freshman Julie Aderhold is being treated for an Achilles'tendon problem.
Sophomore Heather Crowe has a bulging disk in her back and is not expected to play in the tournament.
"We're a little beaten up right now, and I don't know why, because we gave them almost all week off," said Davis, whose team is the No. 5 seed in the region. "We had one practice last week. You'd think those injuries would heal, but they haven't done so."
The Clemson-Chattanooga game is one of 16 being played today as the race for the national championship
gets under way.
Sixteen more games will be played tomorrow.
Clemson (20-9) had every right to anticipate a strong tournament run after finishing second in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tigers are ranked 22nd nationally and were one of just three teams to beat Duke, the ACC champion and No.1 seed in the West.
But the injuries leave Davis concerned about his team's preparation. He said the team had its worst practice of the season Monday, because it lacked enough healthy players to compete five-on-five.
Tennessee will be the only No. 1 seed playing today. The Vols, the top seed in the Mideast, play at home in Knoxville, Tenn., against Ohio Valley Conference champion Austin Peav.
Defending champion Connecticut does not play until tomorrow, when the Huskies, the No.1 seed in the East, meet Long Island.
Connecticut began the season as a favorite to repeat, but a loss at Notre Dame showed that coach Geno Auriemma's team could be beaten.
Then, injuries to stars Svetlana Abrosimova and Shea Ralph weakened the Huskies, although they haven't lost since Abrosimova went down on Feb. 1.
Tennessee, which lost to Connecticut in the championship game last year, also isn't the team it was at the start. The Vols lost Tamika Catchings, last season's national player of the year, to a knee injury Jan. 15.
All of which gives hope to others.
Notre Dame hosts Alcorn State toromorrow. Duke begins its title quest tomorow against Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"I think it gives it a little more parity," said Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw, whose team is the No. 1 see"d in the Midwest. "Before you could pretty much write in the Final Four teams. I don't think that's the case this year."
Austin Peay will be stepping into one of the most intimidating environments imaginable at Tennessee, what with those six national championship banners hanging from ceiling, the orange seats that reach almost to rafters and the large
crowd, not to mention all the talent the Vols put on the floor.
"We have not done anything differently than we have for any other contest," said Austin Peay coach Susie Gardner, who faced Tennessee while playing for Georgia in the 1980s.
"Perhaps the realization will hit us tomorrow 20 minutes before tipoff when we run out into a sea of orange and we hear 'Rocky Top.'"
Florida State is making its first NCAA tournament appearance since 1991, and it comes after a season of firsts.
The Seminoles, who play Tulane in the Midwest Regional at Ames, Iowa, beat Virginia for the first time in school history and finished over .500 in the ACC for the first time. They also won at Duke, handing the Blue Devils their only loss at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
"That was a huge confidence boost," guard Lakesha Springle said. "We were able to weather the storms. They went on a 13-0 run at the start of the second half and we found a way to win. We still look back on that and think if we can handle that, we can get through anything."
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