Georgia Tech
not looking past
this Saturday
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Geor
gia Tech coach Bobby Ross says
he’s not looking beyond this Satur
day’s grudge match at Georgia,
even though he did join Nebraska
coach Tom Osborne at the Citrus
Bowl for a news conference.
With his 9-0-1 team ranked
second in the new AP poll, Ross
said Tech was delighted to be play
ing “one of the most successful
programs in all college football” in
the New Year’s Day game.
“It’s a real pleasure for us,”
Ross said. “We’ve been on a whirl
wind season and our kids are play
ing very, very hard.”
Florida is a major recruiting area,
Ross noted, and his surprising team
is delighted to play in the Citrus
Bowl.
He wouldn’t talk much about
Tech’s move past Miami in the
latest poll, saying, “Right now, we’re
very much focused on the Univer
sity of Georgia.”
And he’s not worried about his
players being ready for the 4-6
Bulldogs.
“It doesn’t matter,” he said.
“When we play Georgia, it really
makes no difference whether we ’re
last or first. It wouldn’t make any
difference to our players. Obvi
ously, there’s some added signifi
cance because we haven’t lost...
obviously, with us being in the
position we are in.”
Ross said his team did scout
Nebraska’s 45-10 loss to Oklahoma
last Friday and despite the Com
huskers’ showing he was “tremen
dously impressed with overall team
speed.” He said Nebraska hurt it
self with seven turnovers.
Osbome, whose team fell to a
19th ranking, bristled a little when
a reporter asked whether the Citrus
Bowl gives his team a chance to
“clean up (a) mess.”
He said at some schools, a 9-2
record “isn’t a mess.”
“We played a good football team
in Norman . . . We lost our Mo. 1
quarterback,” Osborne said, add
ing that turnovers hurt badly.
“Anybody can interpret that any
way they want,” he said.
With five weeks left before the
Citrus Bowl, Osbome noted, his
team has plenty of time to prepare.
The quarterback position is unde
cided at this point, he said. Starter
Mickey Joseph’s right leg was cut
badly and he leYt the Oklahoma
game early in the first quarter.
Osbome said he hasn’t had a
chance yet to watch Georgia Tech
films, but said any team that’s
unbeaten at this stage of the season
has to be respected.
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4Wait until basketball season’
refrain of Husker from Kansas
Wait until basketball season.
If I’ve heard those words once,
I’ve heard them a million times. You
see, I grew up in the heart of Kansas
basketball country. Living only 30
miles from Lawrence in a Kansas
City suburb, I had to live a life of
terror, constantly having KU alums
breathing down my neck, almost suf
focating me with Jayhawk basketball
propaganda.
“Yeah, you guys beat us 345-0 in
football, but just wait until basketball
season,” they would say.
It grew tiresome, year after year
listening to everyone from my best
friends to the local media jam Jay
hawk basketball down my throat.
“Well, the Jayhawks lost all 12
players from last year’s team, but
look out, because they’re going to be
awesome again this year.”
I was always a Nebraska fan, but I
liked basketball better than anything
else. I’ve always wanted the team to
be great. Even though the Comhuskers
had mild success until recently, they’ve
never been given much notice. For
sure not in Kansas.
The last few years really have been
a nightmare for me. Larry Brown
came in and rebuilt a program that
was right where I liked it, down and
out. And to make matters worse, the
Comhuskers have been struggling since
Danny Nee’s first year.
This season things seem to be turn
ing around. Nebraska returns three
starters, and have added several other
players to give the Huskers the most
depth they’ve possibly ever had. But
do they get any credit? Of course not.
Almost all the preseason polls have
Nebraska picked eighth.
Unfortunately, the polls are based
almost entirely on what a team did
last season.
Kansas is one of those teams being
hyped based on last season, despite
losing four key players, one of which,
David
Moyer
point-guard Kevin Pritchard, was the
heart and soul of the team. Without
him, the Jayhawks would have been
nowhere near the team they were.
Preseason polls mean nothing how
that the season has begun, and Thanks
giving break provided a few people
with crow to eat instead of turkey.
After arriving home, all I heard
was how good Kansas was going to
be. I tried to reason with them, ex
plaining how the cupboard is rela
tively bare not only in Lawrence, but
elsewhere in the Big Eight. No one
would listen to me.
“Are you people ignorant, or just
plain stupid? If you want to talk about
teams with some talent, just look at
Nebraska or Oklahoma State. They
both are going to be improved, very
good teams,” I told them.
Laughter would fill the room. If I
was at a comedy club, all I would
have had to say was that statement
over and over and I would have had
people rolling in the aisles.
Then came Friday night, and the
Huskers stomped on St. Louis, last
years NIT runner-up. But what’s this?
The mighty Jayhawks lost to Arizona
State. This can’t be right. They must
have gotten the scores mixed up.
It happened. And I was so happy.
Then they tried to tell me that Ne
braska would lose to Illinois.
Didn’t happen. And I was so happy.
Even though the Huskers lost the
championship game to a good Mur
ray State team, they opened a few
eyes around the nation. Nebraska
received five votes in this week’s AP
poll, and playing their biggest game
in years against Michigan State on
Wednesday, they can set themselves
up for a shot at the Top 25 with a win.
More importantly though, as the
Jayhawkers were giving me the busi
ness for Oklahoma’s thrashing of the
football team, I was able to say: “Wait
until basketball season.”
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columnist.
KU coach looking for listeners
as questions surround Jay hawks
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - It’s
enough to make a basketball coach
think nobody listens.
Roy Williams predicted good things
a year ago for his second Kansas
team, but the Jayhawks were virtu
ally ignored in almost every presea
son poll. This time around, he’s say
ing opposite things but getting simi
larly ignored.
“Last year I said I thought we’d be
a pretty good team,” Williams said
with a wry grin. “Everybody else was
saying we weren’t going to be very
good. This year everybody’s saying
we’re going to be pretty good. But
I’m the only one that’s seen us prac
tice.”
Williams, however, knows as well
as anybody that a multitude of ques
tion marks surround his third term as
boss of the Jayhawks.
There is reason for both hope and
despair for the loyal followers who
flocked 242,225-strong to Allen Field
house last year and who enabled Kansas
to lead the Big Eight in total atten
dance.
On the plus side is Mark Randall,
a 6-foot-9 senior who may be ready to
emerge as one of the best big men in
the Big Eight. Randall was the con
ference’s most accurate shooter last
year, hilling .600, and he could be on
track to becoming the Jayhawks’ career
leader in field-goal percentage.
But one of the uppermost nega
tives is the loss of starters Kevin
Pritchard, Rick Calloway, Jeff Gucld
ner and Pekka Markkancn. Most
damaging could be the loss of starting
guards Pritchard and Gueldner.
Replacing them in all likelihood
will be Terry Brown and Adonis Jor
dan. Brown, a 6-2 senior, was the No.
4 scorer for the Jayhawks last season,
averaging 11 points. He averaged in
double figures despite not starting a
single game and averaging only about
16 minuies of playing time.
Jordan, 5-11, a contender at point
guard, averaged three points and 3.1
assists. Williams also will count on a
big year from Mike Maddox, a 6-7
senior who averaged almost nine points
and four rebounds in a mostly backup
role.
“For us to be the team we want to
be, we have to have Mike Maddox
healthy, and to have Adonis and Terry
make big contributions,” Williams
said.
Kansas will also be depending on
junior Alonzo Jamison, 6-5, to assert
himself. A muscular 235 pounds,
Jamison averaged almost five points
as a backup last year.
Randall and Missouri’s Doug Smith,
she Big Eight player of the > car, were
the only Big Eight athletes to make
the USA National Team last summer.
Williams said he is hoping the expe
rience will be all Randall needs to
reach his full potential.
“We’re looking for good things
this year from Mark,” Williams said.
“He’s a very confident, relaxed player
right now.
“I’m not saying the experience is
going to let him score 2.3 more points
and get3.4 more rebounds per game,”
he said. “But I’ve had Mark for two
years now and I’ve seen continual
improvement in his game. No doubt,
the experience was good for him.”
The big-game experience Pritchard,
Gueldner and Calloway had will be
sorely missed, though.
“That experience is going to be
impossible to replace,” Williams said.
“Those three guys had started in a
national championship game. Now
the three guys we’re asking to take
their place have never played in a
national championship game. All three
are good players, but there’s no way
to snap your fingers and get that valu
able experience.”
Kansas fans are hoping that, un
like last year, Williams’ crystal ball is
cloudy. A year ago when everybody
ignored his confident expressions, the
Jayhawks won the preseason NIT and
spent a total of four weeks atop the
national poll en route to a 30-5 rec
ord.
“Losing the people that we lost
will sure make it difficult to duplicate
last year,” said Williams, who has a
two-year log of 49-17 as KU coach.
“We need for some newcomers to
step forward and establish themselves,”
he said. “But we don’t have any way
of knowing how these players will
respond when they’re asked to de
liver more minutes. We must have
significant contributions from Adonis
Jordan, Alonzo Jamison, Terry Brown
and others.”
Patriots fined for alleged harassment
NEW YORK (AP) - Two New
England Patriots players and a former
teammate were fined a total of $22,500
and the team was fined $25,000 Tues
day by the NFL for involvement in
the alleged sexual harassment of a
female reporter.
Zeke Mowatt was given a $ 12,500
fine, while Michael Timpson and
Robert Perryman were each fined
$5,000. In addition to the team fine,
the Patriots were ordered to pay
$25,000 for instructional materials
on responsible dealings with the media.
No suspensions were given in the
incident, which involved Lisa Olson
of the Boston Herald.
The fines, levied by NFL commis
sioner Paul Tagliabue, came after
special counsel Phillip Heymann of
the Harvard Law School submitted a
60-page report on the incident. Tagli
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Professor Heymann’s
report is through and
balanced. It treats the
entire episode on a
factual basis, not with
speculation, rumor or
rhetoric.
Tagliabue
NFL Commissioner
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abue concluded that “a serious inci
dent occurred on Sept. 17 while Ms.
Lisa Olson of the Boston Herald was
interviewing comerback Maurice Hurst
in the Patriots’ locker room. The inci
dent involved misconduct of certain
Patriots’ players that was degrading
to Ms. Olson.
“Professor Heymann’s report is
thorough and balanced,” Tagliabue
said. “It treats the entire episode on a
factual basis, not with speculation,
rumor or rhetoric.”
Mowatt and Timpson are still with
the Patriots, but Perryman was re
leased on Nov. 6 and now plays for
the Dallas Cowboys.
Tagliabue called the players’ ac
tions and statements “completely
uncalled for and improper. Mowatt’s
conduct involved both verbal and
demonstrative actions. Timpson and
Perryman encouraged the misconduct.”