KU, Virginia Tech square off Wednesday, January 2, 2008 THE OBERLIN HERALD 5 By JIM MERRIOTT MENTAL HEALTH [email protected] The 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl PROFESSIONAL will kick off at Dolphin Stadium ‘Hokie’ started out as part of cheer CCS, a leading correctional health service provid- in Miami Gardens, Fla., at 7 p.m. So what’s a Hokie, anyway? University of Kansas man’s wages for a week at the time. er, is currently seeking a full time licensed Masters Thursday. football fans have been asking this question. So Hokie means “hooray,” or “yeah,” or “rah.” The University of Kansas Jay- As the Kansas Jayhawks invade the beaches of The school also became associated with the term Level Psychologist or Social Worker at the Norton hawkers (11-1) representing the Miami, they will play the Virginia Polytechnic In- “Gobblers,” which as been disputed over the years. Correctional Facility. Must have current license Big 12 Conference will be pitted stitute (Virginia Tech) Hokies in the Orange Bowl In 1913 a local resident chosen by the student body, against the Virginia Polytechnic In- on Thursday. named Fred Meade, had a large turkey pull him in a & BSRB certified. We offer great benefits & stitute Hokies (11-2) of the Atlantic The college changed its name from Virginia Ag- cart at a football game. competitive pay! Coast Conference Coastal Division, ricultural and Mechanical College in 1896, shorting The school president stopped the new tradition For immediate consideration, please email resume to: which includes Virginia, Georgia the initials to VPI, now Virginia Tech or VT. because he thought it was cruelty to the turkey. Tech, North Carolina, Miami, and A former alum, O.M. Stull (class of 1896), coined Meade continued to parade his mascot, which he [email protected] Duke. the word “Hoki” when he created the school fi ght had trained to gobble. or fax to This will be the fi rst meeting of the song for a competition, according to the college’s Sports writers and enthusiastic fans adopted the two schools on the gridiron, and the offi cial web page. “Gobbler” as the school mascot, which is now rec- (785) 234-2549 third Big 12 Bowl Championship Stull created the attention-grabbing cheer using ognized as the”Hokie Bird.” Series opponent that the Hokies a word that people used to express an exciting, sur- It is so popular that it landed an appearance on Ani- EEOE have played in its fi ve championship prised feeling. The word stuck and so did the cheer. mal Planet’s “Turkey Secrets” television show. series appearances. This will be the Stull won the top prize of $5, close to an average Hokies’ second appearance in the FedEx Orange Bowl. Virginia Tech has a 145-120-19 a second-place national ranking late second- collar, lunch-toting, down and dirty record in football games played at in the season, and the school’s fi rst team honors defense. neutral sites. championship series bowl game. the last two Other matchups to watch include Whoever wins, it will be the fi rst Mangino joins Kansas State’s s e a s o n s . Kansas running back Brandon Delivering time that school has won 12 football Bill Snyder and Oklahoma’s Bill The 6-foot, McAnderson, who averages 87.5 games in a season. Stoops in receiving national coach 5 - i n c h , yards on the ground each game. Hospice Since Coach Frank Beamer took of the year honors. 308-pound He rushed for 1,050 yards and 16 over the Hooky program in 1987, The Hokies have played Kansas t a c k l e i s touchdowns. care into Virginia Tech has been ranked in State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Okla- considered Tech’s rush defense is ranked 149 of the last 166 Associated Press homa State, Texas, and Texas A&M l e a n a n d fi fth in the country, allowing just 86 polls. in the past. quick which could pose a problem yards per game. the heart Beamer is 3-2 against Big 12 The Jayhawks placed three play- for the slower Jayhawk defensive KU quarterback Todd Reesing is schools. His record at Virginia Tech ers on the Associated Press All- linemen. Brown will match his ranked 11th in the country in passing of your is 167-84-2. His overall record is American teams. Aqib Talib and strength against 6-3, 250-pound effi ciency, averaging 152.41 yards 206-107-4. Anthony Collins made first team Academic All-American defensive per game. community Key players to look for are Ameri- and James McClinton, second end John Larson. Tech’s pass effi ciency defense is can Football Coaches Association team. Left guard junior Nick Marsh- ranked fourth, allowing an average fi rst team All-American senior line- The Jayhawks last appeared in man, 357 pounds, will pit his skills 97.9 yards per game. s #OMMUNITY (EALTH#ARE AND (OSPICE PROVIDES backer Xavier Adibi from Hampton, the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, 1969, against McClinton. Jayhawk receiver Marcus Henry QUALITY hospice SERVICES RIGHT IN THE COMFORT OF Va., also a third team Associated in the famous 15-14 loss to Penn Hokie center 6-3, 314-pound is 29th in the country averaging 82.8 YOUR OWN HOME Press All-American, and junior cor- State. Kansas’ only other appear- Ryan will be the other thorn in yards per game. He has 994 yards s #OMMUNITY (EALTH#ARE AND (OSPICE PROVIDES nerback Brandon Flowers, Delray ance at the Orange Bowl was Jan. the side of McClinton on the dou- and nine touchdowns this season. hospice SERVICES IN $ECATUR AND 2AWLINS COUNTIES Beach, Fla., who won second team 1, 1949, when they lost to Georgia ble-team block for Tech’s ground Tech is 27th in passing yards al- Walter Camp Football Foundation Tech 20-14. game. lowed per game, relinquishing some s #OMMUNITY (EALTH#ARE AND (OSPICESg PROFESSIONAL honors and second team Associated This will be the school’s tenth Tech right guard Sergio Ren- 207.3 yards per game. EXPERIENCED STAFF WORKS CLOSELY WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN Press honors. bowl appearance. der, 6-4, 314 pounds, will face off Kansas ranked second in the AND FAMILY TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE CARE Virginia Tech ranks third in vic- In their last bowl appearance the against Kansas defensive tackle country offensively, averaging 44.3 For peace of mind, a nurse is on call 24 hours tories in their conference with 156 Jayhawks defeated University of Caleb Blakesley, 6-5, 290 pounds. points per game and scoring 40 or a day, seven days a week. trailing only the University of Mi- Houston 42-13 in the Fort Worth Hokie right tackle is Ed Wang, more points in eight out of 12 games, ami, 165, and Florida State, 179. Bowl on Dec. 23, 2005. a 315-pound converted tight end and topped the 50-point barrier fi ve s #OMMUNITY (EALTH#ARE AND (OSPICE IS *#!(/ CER- This will be the team’s 15th Kansas lost to North Carolina who is coming off a broken fi bula times including 76 points against TIFIED AND LICENSED WITH -EDICARE 4HEY ALSO WORK straight year to play in a bowl State University 56-26 in the Tan- during early team workouts last Nebraska. WITH MOST INSURANCE COMPANIES game. gerine Bowl on Dec. 22, 2003, summer. He started the last seven Tech’s defense allowed 20 or more The University of Kansas is led before that. games, taking over 500 snaps from points just four times this season. A visit from Community HealthCare and by 2007 Associated Press National Experts say the game will depend scrimmage. He will face Academic The Hokies held their opponents Hospice can provide these hospice services: Coach of the Year Mark Mangino. on Virginia Tech’s offensive line All-American, 6-4, 240-pound to 10 points or less five times in In his six years as head coach, Kan- and Kansas’ defensive line. defensive end Russell Brorsen who 12 games. They are also second in s 3KILLED .URSING #ARE s (OME (EALTH !IDE sas has gone 36-36. Statistics show the Hokies gained was the Jayhawks’ pass rusher this scoring defense, allowing just 15.46 s -ASSAGE 4HERAPY s -EDICAL 3OCIAL 7ORKER Mangino took over a Kansas just 3.4 yards per carry and allowed season. points per game. s 0ASTORAL #ARE s 2EGISTERED $IETICIAN program that was on the rocks. He 43 sacks during the regular season. The Hokies will drag the famed The game will be broadcast on fi nished 2-10 his fi rst year, then fol- Kansas gained 5 yards per carry and “Lunch Pail” to the Orange Bowl, Fox Television, and the radio on lowed with a 6-7, 4-7, 7-5 and 6-6 allowed 21 sacks. a symbol of the 1995 record-setting KLOE-AM 730 out of Goodland record before this season. Duane Brown, Virginia Tech’s defense which travels to each game and KKAN-AM 1490 in Phillips- The Jayhawks have an 11-1 record, left tackle, earned all-conference as an inspiration that Tech is a blue- burg.
Coaches followed different paths 308-344-8356 7EST TH 3TREET s McCook, NE s 69001 A lot of water has gone under Stephen McGhee and from where www.chmccook.org the bridge since I last saw Dennis he was forced to resign after the Franchione. football season. “This Institution is an Equal Opportunity Provider, and Employer.” When I fi rst met him he was one Hopefully, Franchione will land of few students at Kansas State on his feet after this season’s tur- College of Pittsburg, now Pittsburg The Jayhawker moil. State University, who was enrolled By Jim Merriott The last time we saw each other Use up to in coaching football. [email protected] he was an assistant coach at Kansas About 98 percent of the class were State. At the time, I was teaching at members of the Gorilla football St. Mary’s/Colgan in Pittsburg. That 50% LESS team and taking the class because the impression that he wanted to be and track at Colgan’s Elementary/ was 1978. it was required. Franchione was in successful. Middle School, St. Mary’s, then Franchione epitomizes the slogan the other 2 percent. The following summer, Fran- moved on to coach in the Cherry “Be all you can be,” and I am proud Fertilizer & H2O in Prior to the class, we both tried out chione and Coach Broyles played Creek High School district in Engle- to say that our paths crossed some- for the soon-to-be defunct Gorilla on a semi-pro baseball team out of wood, Colo. where down the line. My only regret varsity baseball team. The program the small town of Mulberry, where I heard that Franchione had taken is that I hadn’t sat in Franchione’s 2008 was on the skids. both had grown up. over the football program at Pitts- seat instead of next to him. Head Athletic Trainer Al Ortolani, I played for a team called the burg State and overhauled it from Maybe things would have turned former head coach of the baseball Arma As. the ground up, building it into a na- out differently for both of us. team, had handed the program over Most members of each team were tional powerhouse in Division II. When I retired from coaching to an assistant graduate coach, Char- either college students or players He would finish his career at in 2001, Coach Lester’s class had lie Broyles, who had played football whose eligibility had run out. Pittsburg with a 53-6 record and helped me help my teams cap- at the college and had a short stint in One Saturday afternoon Arma then go on to become one of the ture over 400 victories and have the National Football League with traveled to Mulberry for a game. It winningest coaches in National Col- a 43-game winning steak in bas- the Pittsburgh Steelers. pitted Franchione and myself, both lege Athletic Association Division ketball. I never was sure just how much on the mound, against each other. II competition. I am proud to say that in 27 years Broyles knew about baseball, but He’s probably forgotten that day, He would move on to Southwest of coaching junior high and high - 200 bushel corn needs 230 lbs Nitrogen I did know that he wanted athletes but for five innings Dennis and I Texas State where he developed school sports, Coach Lester taught who wanted to win. threw against each other with nei- Denver Bronco running back Reg- me to be a winner. - 2000 lb Confection Sun ower needs 115 lbs Nitrogen Former major league manager ther team scoring. gie Rivers. Then he stepped up to the My hat goes off to “Turkey” Tom - 200 bushel corn needs 60 lbs Phosphorous of the Chicago White Sox Don I was pulled after the fi fth because University of New Mexico. Lester, and Dennis Franchione and - 2000 lb Confection Sun ower needs 30 lbs Phosphorous Gutteridge, who lived in Pittsburg, they wanted me to be a reliever for That’s when I wrote him about my Pittsburg State University. helped Broyles with the team for a the second game of the double- training program at Loveland High - 200 bushels corn needs 24-28” water in season month before the athletic depart- header. in Colorado, and about two athletes - 2000 lb Confection Sun ower needs 12” water in season ment pulled the plug. Mulberry and Franchione went who might fi t into his program. On the fi rst day of the coaching on to win the game 3-0. Over the years, “Coach Fran” and Basketball class, Head Coach Tom Lester as- That was 1973 and I learned that I conversed by mail. signed each of us to create a com- day Franchione was a winner. His next step would be Texas plete football program including He started coaching at Miller, Christian University, where he de- tournament scouting opponents, setting up a Mo., and moved on to Mulvane, veloped LaDainian Tomlinson. 52-week conditioning program and then Peabody. Then on to the University of planned season practice schedules, game I got my fi rst teaching job coaching Alabama and Texas A&M, where The 14th annual Holdrege, Neb., preparations, game plans and play junior high football, basketball, he developed junior quarterback Becton Dickinson basketball tour- book. All from scratch, no help. nament will be held Friday and Under Coach Lester students Saturday, Feb. 29 and March 1, for were taught the Ohio State Woody boys and girls in grades 5 and 6. Hayes offense and defense since Last college bowl games The seventh- and eighth-grade Pittsburg ran a similar program to tournament will be held Friday and Hayes’. scheduled for next few days Saturday, March 14 and 15. The offense, two yards and a cloud The entry fee is $80, with three of dust out of the slot formation, is Sit back and enjoy the end of the bowl season. 2008 contracts are $30/20 for irrigated Wednesday, Jan. 2, Fiesta Bowl at Glendale, Ariz., West Virginia games guaranteed. Medals will be a 5-2-4. awarded for the fi rst three places. Each class, Franchione sat next (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (11-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) For information on contracting for 2008 call Mike or Larry: Thursday, Jan. 3, Orange Bowl at Miami, Kansas (11-1) vs. Virginia For tournament information con- to me and never spoke a word. At tact Rod Ridenoue, 1107 Maberly 1-800-742-9259 the time I found it strange, but now Tech (11-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 5, International Bowl at Toronto, Rutgers (7-5) vs. St., Holdrege, Neb., 68949 or call I realize he had the wheels turning (308) 955-6620. www.sunopta.com in his brain all the time. Ball State (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) I remember Franchione as soft- Sunday, Jan. 6, MNAC Bowl at Mobile, Ala., Tulsa (9-4) vs. Bowl- spoken and well-groomed. He ing Green (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) didn’t dress like we did in the ’70s Monday, Jan. 7, Bowl Series National Championship at New or wear his hair long. Orleans Internet Tonight! I never ran around with him, but Monday, Jan. 7, Ohio State University vs. Louisiana State Uni- I knew he was a great competitor. versity (11-2), 7 p.m. (FOX) He dressed like a coach, leaving 475-2206
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