University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 23, 1990
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Cold worsens Allen's dribbles
Kansan sportswriter
by Molly Reid
Only an igloo could have escaped unscathed.
Days of exposure to subzero temperatures can damage almost any structure, and Allen Field House, already plagued by a leaking roof, has been hit hard by this winter's frigid weather.
"The latest on Allen Field House is we have an extensive roof problem," said Floyd Temple, assistant athletic in charge of facilities. "The team below zero weather also has caused contraction and expansion problem."
The recurring problems are mainly in the exterior roofing membrane, which sheds water from the building, and in the deteriorating six-foot area drains, which direct water away from the building.
Although expansion joints were installed two years ago to reduce the number of splits, Temple said that no life remained in the roof's brittle
exterior membrane.
Richard Kozem, assistant athletic director in charge of administration agreed.
"The bottom line is that Allen Field House needs a new roof." he said.
Temple said that problems with the 35-year-old building began four or five years ago and that extensive floors were made last summer and fall.
Repairs in 1989 cost $65,000 and were paid for from repair and improvement money for facility operations.
A $799,000 proposal to replace the roof has been presented to the Board of Regents, Temple said. If the Regents and the Legislature approve the proposal, work on the roof will begin July 1.
Temple said Regents approval would immediately set the plans in motion. He said he hoped money would be available to begin the first stages of planning this spring. The state assigns projects exceeding
$250,000 to a selected private consulting firm.
James Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said that many of the existing improvements, such as the expansion joints, were complimentary to the new roof and would not be a waste of money.
"It is like sticking a cork in a boat until you get the right plug. But when you have that plug, the cork is no longer necessary."
Konzem said he remembered an incident last year that illustrated the need for a new roof on the field house.
"These are an investment toward the new roof that will remain," Modig said. "The Band-Aid repairs of the splits are to buy time.
Before the Jan. 28, 1989, Kansas State basketball game, a heavy rain-storm hit Lawrence. Although the rain stopped before game time, water flooded seating areas in the field house. Employees mopped to dry the seats before spectators arrived for the game.
"It was running into the seats like buckets, and the concentration (of water) was on the east side about midway down, right about where the chancellor sits," Konzem said, referring to Chancellor Gene A. Rudig.
Offices in the field house also have fallen victim to the leaky roof.
Konzem said that the offices flooded often and that one or two inches of water drenched the academic support office during hard rains.
Despite problems with the roof, Modig said, the historic field house, named for former Hall of Fame coach Phog Allen, will remain the University's basketball arena for many years. The field house, with a seating capacity of 15,800, is the largest basketball arena in Kansas.
"It is considerably old, but we think we can take care of it with spot checks and spot repairs." Temple said. "For fans and home court advantage, there is no better in the country."
Ice hockey club seeks recognition
Growing young team will play new opponents this semester
By Brent Maycock Kansan sportswriter
Kansan sportswriter
For the past three years, the Kansas ice hockey team has played in almost complete anonymity.
"Most people at the University don't know about it," said Brian Krenning, St. Louis senior and president of the hockey club." But by day has he people hear about it, and there has been more interest every year."
Now in its fourth season, the team is trying to emerge from the shadow of the bigger sports at the University of Kansas and to make a name for itself. In doing so, the team is generating more interest from students.
Krenning said that the club, which originated in Fall 1986, had more than 30 members. Most of the members are from the St. Louis, Chicago area, but some come from Oklahoma, Minnesota, Canada and Iowa.
The team allows anyone who is interested in the club to sign up, but
only 25 people are allowed on the traveling squad. The players who do not make the traveling squad still may participate in team practices
Mark Levine, Glenview, Ill., senior, said that in the team's first year, it played only one other university team, Washington University in St. Louis. Other games were played against senior men's teams in Kansas City. But since being invited to the club nationals in Arizona last year, the team has played only clubs from other colleges.
Krenning said, "We are trying to get more clubs from other schools to plav us."
Kansas' opponents this semester will include Drake, Washington, Colorado and Iowa State. Kansas also will compete in a tournament at Drake, where it will meet South Dakota State in the first round.
The team ended the fall semester with a 6-1 record. Because the team had no coach, Krenning and former president Brian Farrell, who
graduated in December, took on the duties of player-coaches. But managers of King Louie's Bowling Centers in Kansas City, where the team practices, contacted Al Valdívia of Kansas City, Kan., as a possible coach for the club.
Since Validia voluntarily took coaching responsibilities at the beginning of the semester, the team has split its first two games of the spring season. The team lost to Missouri and the team won to defend the Tigers 5-4 on Sunday in Columbia. The team's next games will be Feb. 3 against Drake at Bode I Air Crena in St. Joseph, Mo.
"This is one of the best teams that
Kremning said the reason for the turnaround is success so far was the experimentation.
"This is one of the best teams that we have had," Krenneng said.
Jim Biggs, St. Louis junior, said that Levine, a center, was having a great season, leading the team in scoring with an aggressive attitude toward the puck. Biggs plays wing
The club never has had a losing season, despite problems acquiring sponsorship.
for the team.
"Levine has been really productive," Biggs said. "He is the ultimate playmaker."
Krenning said that the team received $7,000 from Student Senate each year. That helps pay for ice time for practice and games. In addition to money from the University, each player pays $100 upon entering the club to cover road trip expenses.
Krenning said that the club was seeking more sponsorship from local businesses and would like Lawrence to build a multi-purpose rink owned and operated by the city.
"I think a rink would be beneficial to both the University and the city of Lawrence," Krenning said. "It could serve as a hockey rack in the winter and an indoor soccer field in the summer."
Pay negotiations could end in a lockout
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Paul Molitzer, who is helping negotiate a new collective-bargaining agreement with the baseball's team owners, said he couldn't predict whether there would be a lockout before spring training.
"I've been close to the negotiations and I can't tell you yes or no, yes it is or no it's not going to happen." Molitor said. "The meetings have been ampleable but not progressive."
Molitor said negotiations go to the week before spring training, which opens the middle of next month. The owners have threatened a lockout if a settlement is not reached by Feb. 15.
"If we don't respond positively, I think there is a good chance training won't start on time," Molitor said.
The owners have presented a revenue-sharing plan and a pay-for-performance proposal in which salaries would be weighed heavily on games played. That method for determining salaries would eliminate the arbitration system, in which an arbitrator settles salary disputes. Players now are eligible for arbitration after three years in the majors.
Molitor one of the most difficult responsibilities for the negotiating team was informing 625 major league players of the specifics of revenue sharing, a new concept in baseball.
Molitor said he respected the position of smaller-market teams — especially because he plays in Milwaukee — who didn't have the revenue sources of larger cities. But he said he didn't see revenue sharing as the necessary course of action in this bargaining session.
Owners have proposed a revenue sharing plan in which 48 percent of revenues from tickets and broadcast contracts would go toward player salaries.
"I don't seen enough reason to change the current system. It needs justification. It's not explained enough that this needs to be done." Molitor said.
During negotiations, Molitor sits across the table from Brew vs owner Bud Selig, who is chairman of the owners' Players Relations Committee.
Molitor will attend the next meetings, scheduled tomorrow and Thursday in Tampa, Fla.
"He sits on the other side and that makes it difficult. But we have enough respect for each other to see what the other side is trying to accomplish." Molitor said.
Kansas defender will sit out season
By Paul Augerl
Kansan sportswriter
JoJo Witherspoon, a 5-foot-8 guard recruited last year by Kansas women's basketball coach Marvin Washington, has been declared academically ineligible for the spring semester and will sit out the remainder of the season.
Witerspoon, a freshman from Inglewood, Calif., averaged 6.7 minutes and 1.5 points in the 15 games she played.
Richard Konzem, assistant athletic director, said that specific Big Eight Conference guidelines state that freshmen and newly-entering student-athletes, such as junior college or transfer players, have to pass eight credit hours in the spring to become eligible to order to continue play the next semester. NCAA regulations stipulate that students must follow individual conference eligibility rules.
Konem said that Witherpoon must earn 24 credit hours and no less than a 1.6 grade point average by next semester or by the end of summer school to regain her eligibility.
Wtherspoon is allowed to continue practicing with the 14-4 Jayhawks.
"R's a shame it happened," Washington said. "It will be tough for her to be watching games, but her attitude is positive. This is her first experience at the collegiate level."
Witherspoon said she had difficulty in an English class but did not expect to lose her eligibility.
"It came as a shock," Witherspoon said. "But I had to accept that fact. That's the ruling."
Washington said her first priority as coach was to make sure Witerspoon improved in the classroom.
"We probably have one of the best tutorial follow-up programs in the Big Eight, if not the country," Washington said. "Young people are being trained to make progress. It's a shame this happens."
Washington said that Withersoon's absence would force her to fill a reserve spot in the Kansas lineup.
"Fortunately, I've got Geri and Lisa," Washington said, referring to Kay Kay Hart and Lisa Bradby. "Obviously, I have to consider working another at the position to protect us."
"Jo Jo's defense was great, she provided sparks off the bench and she's smart. But I think having a point on her ear," the point on her ear."
Witherspoon averaged 16.8 points, seven rebounds, 10 assists and five steals as a senior at Morningside High School in Inglewood. Ranked No. 2 in USA Today's year-end Super 25 poll, Morningside High finished the year at 32-1 and captured the Southern Section 54A state title.
Arkansas names Crowe to top coaching position
The Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Jack Crowe was as surprised as anyone when he was named to replace Ken Hatfield as football coach at Arkansas.
"I always knew I would be a head coach," Crowe said, "but it was a big surprise how it happened, where it happened."
The 41-year-old Crowe said yesterday that he had his bags packed and was ready to return to Clemson as an attacking lineattief, hired Sunday by the Tigers.
Crowe had spent three seasons as Clemson's offensive coordinator and quarterback coach under Danny Ford, who resigned Thursday in the wake of allegations of violations. Crowe was hired by Hattief at Arkansas in February 1989.
Crowe was named in some of the allegations, but Arkansas athletic director Frank Broyles said last week that he had reviewed the charges and thought there was no wrongdoing by Crowe.
tee made its decision without hesitation.
Crowe has been an assistant coach throughout his career, except for a two-year coaching job at Livingston, where he is a graduate. Broyles said that the search commit-
"He's a great signal-caller," Broyles said, referring to the record 4,926 yards the Razorbacks accumulated in a 10-2 season. "I always thought that Lou Holtz was the No.1 signal-caller in the college game today." Broyles said, but Crowd "is his equal."
Crowe said that any of Hatfield's assistants who wanted to stay were welcome to do so, but it appeared that only offensive line coach J.B. Grimes would accept the offer. He hoped the continue calling offense up, but sively, we're going to act like we've never played defense before."
With the national signing date on Feb. 14, Crowe said that many of the prospective recruits already had been contacted.
"I think the majority realizes that the University of Arkansas hasn't changed; history says this has happened before."
Under state limits, the football coach, the basketball coach and the athletic director can receive no more than about $75,000 in salary. There is also a $10,000 housing allowance and other perks.
Sports briefs
HIGHEST PAID: Will Clark, San Francisco Giants' first baseman, signed a $151 million, four-year contract on Monday that makes him the highest-paid player in baseball history.
"Fifteen million dollars is an unbelievable number, and I don't think you can feel any better than I feel right now." Clark said.
He batted .333 for the National League West-champion Giants in 1988, with 23 home runs and 111 RBIs, 104 runs and 161 hits. He was second in batting to San Diego's Tony Gwynn, third in RBIs behind teammate Kevin Mitchell and St. Louis' Joey Keys. York's Howard Johnson and Chicago's Ryne Sandberg for the ML in leads scored.
"With the signing of this contract, the demands aren't necessarily going to be easier, we're going to be tougher," Clark said.
Clark's contract includes a no-trade clause, which the New Orleans native who received more than 1.5 million All-Star votes in 1983 said mattered more to him than money.
His contract includes a $2 million signing bonus, $1.75 million in 1960, $3.25 million in 1991, $3.75 million in 1992 and $2.45 million in 1993. Clark can make $100,000 if he is named the NL's MVP, $50,000 each for being named MVF of the playoffs or World Series and $25,000 for making the All-Star team.
"First of all, I love the organization I'm in," he said. "I love the Bay area and the fans."
It also calls for him to donate
$20,000 to the baseball program at Mississippi State, where he attended college. He also is to give Jesuit High in New Orleans $10,000 for its baseball program, and will contribute $100 to an undetermined Bay area charity for each homer he hits in the next four years.
The Rams wouldn't announce contract terms, but both Everett and his agent, Marvin Demoff, indicated the average yearly salary was in line with the NFL's top quarterbacks.
EVEREST STORNS: Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jim Everett, coming off the best season of his four-year NFL career, has signed a six-year contract with the team. It was announced yesterday.
The value of the contract in estimated at about $15 million, or eight percent of the year. It makes Everett the highest-paid player in Hanna history.
Everett, 27, would have become a free agent Feb. 1 if he had chosen not to sign a new contract.
They also indicated that the contract was lucrative and portions were guaranteed, but that it was unlikely to be paid quarterback in the NFTs.
"I'm so happy with the way things turned out," said Everett, who guided the Rams to a 13-6 record and their first NFC Championship appearance since 1985 this season.
Everett became the Rams starting quarterback late in his rookie season and blossomed in 1968, his second year under offensive coordinator Ernie Zampese. Everett completed 94 of 118 passes for
3,964 yards and 31 touchdowns with only 18 interceptions, and the Rams went 10-6.
COACH REASSIGNED Texas A&M's Shelby Metcalf, the winning coach in Southwest Conference basketball history, was relieved of his duties yesterday and reassigned within the athletic department.
This year, Everett completed 304 of 515 passes for a club-record 4,310 yards and 29 downhouses with 17 interceptions. His passing was the key to six come-from-behind victories for the Rams.
Metcalf, 59, who coached at the school for 27 years, met with his attorney Head Davis, then had a closed-door session with athletic director John David Crow, who gave him the bad news.
"I'm shocked, I couldn't believe what I was hearing," Metcalf said. "I gave that my life to this piece." He went on, "and why of life for us. It wasn't a 'kb.'"
Metcalf's assistant, John Thorton, will take charge on an interim basis.
"John David said I called him a har in the newspaper, and I never did that," Metcalf said. "That was the only reason he gave. He didn't say anything. My graduation rates or anything. My graduation rates have been good."
Metcalf left the meeting, and Thornton worked with the team at practice, preparing for tomorrow night's game against Rice.
Motifault had one year remaining on a four-year contract he received after winning the 1907 SWC Pont-Sason Classic.
Victory against Georgetown propels Connecticut into poll
The Associated Press
STORRS, Conn. — University of Connecticut basketball Coach Jim Calhoun said yesterday that it was nice to be ranked No. 20 in the country but that it was a little late in coming.
The Associated Press sports writers gave Connecticut a ranking for the first time since 1988, when the team was No. 18.
"It's a nice reward for a team that's worked its way up." Calhoun said in an interview on WTIC radio in Hartford, Conn. "The kids should be really applauded for what they have done."
He said he was disappointed the ranking wasn't higher.
"If you don't have control over something, there's nothing you can do about it." he said.
Students had hung banners around the campus and even out of town, proclaiming themselves No. 1 after the team's upset against Arizona in February. Earlier last week, it knocked off No. 5 Syracuse.
Connecticut is now 15-3 on the season, and 5-2 in the Big East conference.
The excitement the team has generated was clearly demonstrated when the school had to turn down 800 requests for season tickets in the new Gampel Pavilion, where the first Husky game will be played Saturday against St. John's. About 1,100 season tickets have been sold.
Monday, 1,895 students picked up tickets for a lottery that will distribute the 1,600 tickets available in the
student section for Saturday's game.
Calhoun said he had hoped to see his team in the top 25 after beating the University of Pittsburgh earlier in the season. Since then, the Huskies have won five straight, including victories against Villanova and Seton Hall.
it's a nice reward for a team that's worked its way up. The kids should be really applauded for what they have done.'
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The Huskies were low-key as they practiced in their new home.
"Two weeks ago I thought we deserved it," Calhoun said. "The kids aren't talking about it much. They are more concerned about getting back to school. It's a young basketball team and they've done surprisingly well so far."
"After we beat Syracuse and Georgetown, we knew we had taken a very big step," said freshman Nadav Henefeld, named co-patient of the week in the Big East after Saturday's 70-85 victory. "We beat two very good teams in one week and we just have to continue to work hard."
Joan twynny, who came off the bench Saturday to score 15 points, including two clutch free throws in the final minutes of the game, said the team's success was "a dream come true."
Rec. Previous
1. Missouri (56) 17-1 4
2. Kansas (4) 19-1 1
3. Georgetown (3) 14-1 2
4. Louisville 12-1 10
5. UNLV 12-3 9
6. Arkansas 14-2 12
7. Michigan 13-3 6
8. Duke 13-2 8
9. Oklahoma 13-2 3
10. Illinois 13-3 7
11. Syracuse 13-3 5
12. Indiana 13-2 14
13. Georgia Tech 13-2 11
(tie)Purdue 12-2 24
15. St. John's 16-3 15
16. LSU 12-3 13
17. Oregon St. 14-2 18
18. La Salle 12-1 17
19. Arizona 11-3 23
20. Connecticut 15-3 ---
21. Minnesota 12-3 22
22. Loyola Marymount 13-3 21
23. UCLA 12-3 16
24. Alabama 13-4 25
25. Xavier, Ohio 13-2 20
Others receiving votes: North Carolina 132, N. Carolina St. 98, New Mexico St. 64, Michigan St. 62, Colorado St. 19, Providence 16, SW Louisiana 14, Texas 11, Stanford 9, Clemson 7, Idaho 7, Tennessee 10, UAB 3,
*First place votes in parentheses