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Mason makes big changes
in coaching staff at Kansas K
By Mitch Sherman
Senior Editor
From the lodes of the off-season
changes made by Kansas football
coach Glen Mason, one would think
Kansas is completely overhauling its
program.
The Jayhawks have modified their
3-4 defense to resemble a 4-3, the
defensive alignment run by Nebraska
and adopted last spring by Colorado
and Oklahoma.
With two new quarterbacks, one of
whom is Ben Rutz, a former Nebraska
signal caller, Kansas’ powerful run
ning attack will become a much more
balanced offense, Mason said.
Mason hired two new assistant
coaches in the off-season, Mike
Hankwitzand David Gibbs. Hankwitz,
who will coach outside linebackers,
and Gibbs, the Jayhawks’ secondary
coach, are both leftovers from Bill
McCartney’s staff at Colorado.
Five of Mason’s eight other assis
tant coaches have switched duties since
last season.
“We’re not making wholesale
changes,” Mason said. “I think it gave
that appearance because I made staff
changes and technical changes at the
same time. But I would have made
those technical changes regardless
because I think it better suits our play
ers.”
Vie Adamle, formerly Mason’s
running backs coach, is now the wide
receivers coach. Mitch Browning, who
has coached tight ends since 1991, has
taken over coaching the outside line
backers.
“Ifyou can’t stop us running the football, we are
going to run the football. ”
GLEN MASON
Kansas football coach
Former Nebraska recruiting coor
dinator Dave Gillespie, who was hired
last season as Kansas’ tight ends coach,
will coach the Jayhawks’ defensive
line.
Reggie Mitchell has switched from
running backs coach to defensive ends
coach, and Tim Phillips, who has
coached Kansas’ wide receivers for
the past year, now handles the outside
linebackers.
“For all intents and purposes, I
have a whole new defensive staff,”
Mason said.
Rutz, a 6-foot, 190-pound junior,
left Nebraska after two years in 1993.
He was in the same recruiting class as
Tommie Frazier and is listed second
on the depth chart behind Mark Will
iams, who has backed up Ashieki
Preston fot the past two seasons.
Mason said Rutz, who transferred
to Kansas from Northeastern Okla
homa A&M last winter, looked im
pressive when practicing with the
Jayhawks in the spring.
“I was very pleased with the way he
played,” Mason said. “He came in at
mid-year. Mark Williams is listed No.
1, but I think it’s just a matter of time
before Ben is even more competitive.
He performed well enough in spring
practice, where if Mark wasn’t play
ing well, I wouldn’t hesitate to make a
change in a game.”
Mason said the presence of Rutz
and Williams, who completed 21 of
3 0 passes for 336 yards and two touch
downs last year, gave Kansas its best
one-two punch under center in years.
“Right now on offense,” Mason
said, “we’ve got quarterbacks who
can throw the ball a lot better than any
quarterbacks I’ve ever had.”
But the Jayhawks, whose rushing
attack ranked eighth in the nation last
season, will still run the ball, Mason
said.
“We want to be able to run the
football,” Mason said. “But we have
to be effective throwing the ball, so
we work a lot harder on the passing
game.”
Senior L.T. Levine and junior June
Henley headline Kansas’ backfidS§ss>
The duo combined to run for 1,403
yards and 15 touchdowns last year.
“If you can’t stop us running the
football,” Mason said, “we are going
to run the football.”
| Jayhawks want to get back
I on track after being derailed
By Mitch Sherman
Senior Editor ! '
When Kansas won eight games in
1992 and beat Brigham Young in the
■HBHEEMMHi Aloha Bowl, the
Jayhawks ap
peared to be a
football program
on the rise.
Two months
later, Tony
Blevins, a heavily
recruited defen
sive back from
■ Kansas City,
Blevins signed a national
letter of intent to play at Kansas.
Blevins, who attended Rockhurst
High School, one of the most notori
ous football factories in the Midwest,
was accustomed to winning. He has
started since the first game ofhis fresh
man season, andnow. as ajunior, he is
one of the most experienced members
of the Kansas defense.
But Blevins still hates to lose.
Beginning with a 42-0 loss to
Florida State in the first game of
Blevins’ freshman season, Kansas has
been a disappointment. In 1993, they
won only five games, and last year, the
Jayhawks posted a 6-5 record.
“We were awfully close to being 8
3,” Coach Glen Mason said. “We need
some fine tuning. We need to do a
better job, but at tne same time, we’ve
got a program that’s on solid ground.
We’re not so far off that we can’t be
where we want to be.”
Blevins said the Jayhawks’ atti
tude needed a little fine tuning at somef
points of the 1994 season.
“Toward the end of the season,”
Blevins said, “there seemed to be
some people getting accustomed
to losing. I’m not used to it, and I
don’t want to get used to it. I don’t
like to lose. I can handle it, but I
don’t like it.”
But this spring, Blevins said he
noticed a spring in the step ofmany of
his defensive teammates, in part be
cause of slight adjustments Mason
installed.
“There is a new enthusiasm, and
we are all looking forward to the sea
son,” Blevins said. “Everyone is work
ing a little harder because we have to
prove ourselves again.”
Vmm%
WR86 MattVandree 6-0 185
LT 54 Rod Jones 6-4 300
LG 62 Chris Banks 6-2 285
C 55 Jim Stiebel 6-2 270
RG 77 Cleve Roberts 6-6 290
RT 79 Scott Whittaker 6-6 290
TE 89 Jim Moore 6-3 245
QB 15 Mark Williams 6-1 180
RB 20 June Henley 5-11 205
RB 22 LT. Levine 5-10 210
WR6 AshaundaiSmith 5-6 160
PK 36 Jeff McCord 5-9 215
OLB 16 Keith Rodgers 5-11 205
LT 83 Dewey Houston 6-4 245
NT 70 Brett McGraw 6-0 225
RT 57 Kevin Koop 6-3 235
OLB 59 Derrick Fairchid 6-1 225
LB 60 Steve Bratten 6-1 215
LB 38 Jason Thoren 6-2 232
CB 17 Dorian Brew 5-10175
SS 24 Maurice Gaddle 5-9 185
FS 28 Tony Blevins 6-0 175
CB 26 Avery Randle 6-0 178
P 19 Darrin Simmons 6-1 205
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Kansas
1995 Schedule
Date: Opponent
Sept 2 Cincinnati
Sept 9 at North Texas
Sept 14 Texas Christian
Sept 23 Houston
Oct. 7 at Colorado
Oct 14 Iowa State
Oct 21 at Oklahoma
Oct 28 at Kansas State
Nov. 4 Missouri
Nov. 11 Nebraska
Nov. 18 at Oklahoma State
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