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Wednesday, february 4, 1976
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Incompetence encouraged
fans' 'sardine philosophy'
By Jim Zalewski
Even though the basketball team fell to an impressive
lOth-ranked Missouri University club last Saturday, they
can get back in the race by beating Kansas. University to
night But UNL ticket administrators can never recover
the respect they lost and explain the general incompeten
cy they displayed Saturday night.
As anyone in the mob (and jt was a mob) waiting for
the Coliseum doors to open could attest, mere was no
semblance of order. No lines formed. Bodies wedged to
gether at the sight of any opening, with most people dis
playing the sardine philosophy.
It's too bad Tom Osborne wasn't in one of the office
windows overlooking the crowd. When the doors opened
Huskers braced for KU attack
By Jim Hunt ,
Coach Joe Cipriano and the UNL basketball team to
night will try to accomplish something they haven't done
very often against a Kansas University (KU) basketball
team-win.
The Huskers will meet the Jayhawks tonight at 7:35 in
the Coliseum hoping to collect their first victory over KU
since the 1972-73 season. KU has taken seven straight
games from the Huskers, including a 69-66 victory during
the Big 8 Conference tournament this season.
The Huskers will try to bounce back from last Satur
day's 62-57 loss to Missour, which dropped them to
second in the Big 8 standings with a record of 4-1. They
are 13-5 overall.
"I think we can come back against KU," two-time All
Big 8 guard Jerry Fort said. "We just have to keep our
heads up."
The Jayhawks are coming off a 62-57 win over cross
state rival Kansas State University, which vaulted them
into a third-place tie with the Wildcats-with a 3-2 Big 8
record.
"KU is going to come in here fired up," Cipriano said.
"After last Saturday's win over Kansas State, they know
they are in a contender's role.
"KU is a big, strong and physical team, with a front
line that averages 6 ft. 10 in. We will have to play at our
best to beat a tall and talented KU team."
KU is led by 6 ft. 9 in. junior forward Norm Cook. Cook,
a member of the United States Fan-American team, is
averaging 14 points and seven rebounds a game. Cipriano
called Cook one of the finest players in the country.
Other KU starters are Ken Koenigs, a 6 ft. 10 in. soph
omore averaging 10 points a game, 7 ft. freshman center
Paul Mokeski, averaging 1 1 points a game and sophomore
guards Clint Johnson and Milt Gibson.
Leading the Huskers will be Fort, who has averaged
20.4 points a game in Big 8 play, and Bob Siegel, a 6 ft.
7 in. junior from Fairbury, whose conference average is
1 1 points and 5.6 rebounds a game.
The Coliseum will open for the game at 4:45 pan. with
an intramural preliminary -game starting at 5:15 plm.The
game is expected to be sold out, but radio broadcasts may
be heard on KFAB, KLIN, KFOR and KRNU-FM.
sports
The UNL Rugby Club will practice tonight and Friday
from 6:30 to 8 pjn. at Schulte Fieldhouse. Anyone
interested in playing is welcome to attend. For more
information, contact Larry Griffing, 432-2662.
Applications still are available at the Recreation Dept.,
1740 Vine. St., for a ski touring trip to Boulder, Colo.,
Feb. 12 through 15. Cost is $35. A meeting is today at
4:30 p jn. at the Recreation Dept.
UNL's swim team saw its dual record dip to 2-3 with
losses to Missouri University (MU) and Southern Illinois
University (S1U) last Saturday. Pat DiBiase, undefeated
in duals, defeated both MU and SIU in the 200-yard
breaststroke. John Dahir beat MU in the 200-yard butter
fly and Dave Watermeier took first against SIU and second
against MU in both the required and optional one-meter
diving.
at 6:30 pjn., he could have discovered numerous new
blocking and wedging techniques that might prove bene
ficial in a future goal-line situation.
Geritol power
And it wasn't just "crazy kids" doing all of the push
ing, as one man remarked after reaching safety inside. An
elderly husband and wife behind me must have hugged
Geritol all day, judging by the mighty shove they put
forth once the magic hour arrived.
Cattle travel through stockyard chutes in a more order
ly fashion. A man next to me remarked, "Don't fall down,
or you 11 never get in." If a person fell in that mob, he
would be more concerned about living than seeing a
basketball game.
Making matters worse, band members crowded to the
front and demanded early admittance. They had the best
seats in the house, but they had to be first.
And where were the men in blue? If you don't
completely halt at a stop sign, three cruiser cars appear
out of nowhere. But there was no evidence of anyone
with authority trying to organize the teeming mass.
More questions appear to have no reasonable answers.
Why wait until 6:30 pjn. to open the doors? If people
want to arrive at 5:30 pan. and sit down, why not let
them? And there was no preliminary game to entertain
the sellout crowd.
. Upbeat strains
Early entrants who jockeyed for strategic seating po
sitions were treated to musical strains from the crack
Missouri pep band. Reminiscent of a group one would see
at a Holiday Inn lounge or a cheap bar, they played such
swinging, upbeat tunes t$ Kansas City and love Will Keep
Us Together.
If there was a drastic time shortage because of that
afternoon's gymnastics meet, why couldn't the meet have
been moved up an hour or two? Noon is not an inordinate
time for athletes or fans.
The UNL Athletic Dept. attempted to handle a major
college basketball game and failed miserably. UNL never
will host the Midwest region als in the new sports center
with the crowd control policies displayed Saturday.
It's past time for the Athletic Dept. to escape their
football mentality and realize that a significant number of
people also care about other sports. Basketball fans and
other sports fans should be guaranteed the orderly en
trance and exit that football fans have enjoyed for years.
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