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her store ordered have been sold.
“We sold some this weekend and
we also had a booth out at the fair and
we sold some out there,” she said,
‘ ‘(but) we sold far fewer on Saturday
than I expected.”
Some vendors still are waiting to
receive their shipments.
Nebraska Bookstore employee
Joyce Foster said she expects the
book to arrive any day.
“We expected it last week, but it
didn’t show up,” she said. “It’s sup
posed to arrive sometime this week,
but I don’t know what day.”
Vendors in Norman, Okla., the
home of the Oklahoma Sooners, also
are awaiting shipment of the book.
Among those included in the wait
are the university’s campus book
store and Waldenbooks.
Mark Adkinson, manager of the
Waldenbooks store in Norman, said
he has “been getting a lot of feed
back.”
“Everybody’s been kind of gloat
ing,” he said.
He said the demand for the book is
not as high as when former Sooner
linebacker Brian Bosworth published
his book, but there is a waiting list
Adkinson said when the book ar
rives he plans on displaying it in a
window.
“It’ll be interesting to see how it
sells,” he said.
Waldenbooks in Lincoln also is
awaiting shipment, said Jen Wattles,
manager.
“We’ve had a lot of requests,”
she said. “It just seems like the ship
ments were varied.”
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letic department, Fischer said, which
is suffering financial losses because
of NCAA sanctions against the foot
bull programs at Oklahoma and Okla
homa State.
The probations of those two
teams means the television and post
season bowl game revenues from
those games are cancelled.
In addition, Fischer said, Ne
braska’s athletic department has a $3
million deficit due to the cancellation
of state legislation that ensured funds
for maintenance of the Bob Devaney
Sports Center and for women’s ath
letics at Nebraska.
Also, the athletic department has
assumed responsibility for paying
about $1 million a year for the com
pletion of Phase III of the new student
recreation center.
“Obviously, we’re hoping to keep
raising money the way we have been
for so many years,” Fischer said.
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Big Eight has problems, but improving
The Big Eight is back — sort of.
Last weekend, the Big Eight
flexed its football muscles as five
conference schools posted victo
ries. That’s an impressive feat,
considering the shape of the Big
Eight in the past
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It used to be that the conference
was made up of two good teams in
Nebraska and Oklahoma, four
mediocre teams in Colorado, Mis
souri, Oklahoma State and Iowa
State and two terrible teams in
Kansas and Kansas State.
But no more.
This year, the conference is
comprised of three good teams
with the addition of Colorado to
the Big Eight’s best, and has a
fourth team in Oklahoma State that
should be better than it showed in
its season-opening loss to Tulsa.
Missouri — with new coach Bob
Stull - showed promise in its vic
tory against Texas Christian, and
Iowa State coach Jim Walden said
earlier this year that it was just a
matter of time before his Cyclones
seriously could challenge Ne
braska and Oklahoma.
Thai leaves Kansas and Kansas
State, the two teams that are keep
ing the conference from gaining
the national respect it’s seeking.
Kansas’ problems are a mys
tery. The Jayhawks have an excel
lent school, a strong basketball
program and a commitment to
excellence. They also have a coach
— Glen Mason — who is known for
turning programs around by em
ploying a work-until-you-drop at
titude.
Mason’s get-tough strategy did
not pay any dividends during his
first year, but this season, the Jay
hawks look like they are better.
Kansas opened its season by
bombing Montana State, a Divi
sion I-AA opponent with even less
tradition than the Jayhawks. They
then narrowly lost to Louisville - a
team which opened its season by
beating a highly regarded Wyo
ming team.
With a schedule that still in
cludes Kent State and Baylor,
Kansas should get out of its non
conference season with a 2-2 rec
ord. Throw in a game against
Kansas State and one upsetin the
conference, and Kansas should
escape with a 4-7 mark this season.
While that may not sound like
much.that’squitean improvement
for a Kansas team which went 1-10
last season with its only victory
against, you guessed it, Kansas
State.
Kansas State’s problems lie
much deeper than Kansas’. The
Wildcats also found themselves
looking for a coach this year, and
they found Bill Snyder.
At first, it appeared Kansas
State had made a good move, as
Snyder brought a long list of cre
dentials with him from Iowa.
But upon his arrival in Manhat
tan, Kan., Snyder announced that
he only would meet with the press
once a week - a bad move consid
ering how few press members want
to discuss Wildcat football any
way. Snyder also announced that
Kansas State would employ the
annoying turkey trot that was made
famous by the Iowa Hawkeyes,
and closed all practices to the
public.
While these moves may seem
hard to understand, Snyder obvi
ously thinks they are necessary to
turn around the losingest program
in NCAA history. It’s good to see
Snyder has brought a wealth of
enthusiasm and interesting ideas to
Kansas State, but it remains to be
seen whether they will pay off.
The Big Eight has other prob
lems - Kansas, Oklahoma and
Oklahoma State all have programs
on probation, and rumors of an
NCAA investigation into the Mis
souri men’s basketball program
began last year - but it is getting
better. It never will match the
strength possessed by independent
programs, but with a little luck it
could rival the balance and power
of the Pac-10.
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