The Sports Pod — Episode 10
In this edition of the Sports Pod, Telegram sports editor Brett Marshall sits down with new GCHS boys football coach Brian Hill to discuss the upcoming 2010 season.
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Telegram sports editor Brett Marshall sits down with GCCC Broncbuster football coach Lucas Aslin to discuss the upcoming 2010 football season.
Garden City High football progresses
Watching the Garden City High School football team go through a 90-minute scrimmage on Saturday morning was enjoyable and educational.
I’ve been able to spend a little time with new coach Brian Hill to get a sense of what he hopes to bring to the Buffaloes’ program.
TURNOUT HIGH
Certainly if the numbers are any indication, GCHS football fortunes may be on the rise. More than 120 players greeted Hill and his staff two weeks ago and the bulk of those were still on the practice field after one week of nearly two-a-day practices.
SCRIMMAGE
The Buffs will go through their annual Brown and White Scrimmage on Friday night (Aug. 27) at 7 o’clock at Memorial Stadium. It will be the last opportunity to see what this year’s team looks like before they open the 2010 season on Sept. 3 at home against Scott City.
Most of the rest of the GCHS sports teams are well into their second week of practices and begin competition closer to the 1st of September.
It should be an exciting season for the fall sports teams at GCHS.
GCCC fall sports season nears
It’s the last full week of August and fall sports teams are preparing for the beginning of their seasons.
VOLLEYBALL
Garden City Community College gets things started this weekend when the women’s volleyball team travels to Lamar, Colo. for a two-day tournament in which the Lady Busters, under new coach Amber Jay, will play five matches.
Coach Jay has an all-freshman squad with all of them coming from Kansas high schools.
FOOTBALL
The Broncbusters football team kicks off its regular season on Saturday with a home game at 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. Head coach Lucas Aslin’s team will be looking to regain its winning ways this season and from preseason drills and the Brown and Gold scrimmage last Saturday, the Busters appear to be better and deeper than a year ago.
SOCCER
The Broncbusters’ men’s soccer team travels to Great Bend and Barton County this weekend to play Saturday against North Iowa Area CC at noon and on Sunday at noon against Iowa Western. The Busters are preseason ranked No. 12 in the NJCAA poll.
It’s time for Perkins to leave Kansas
When the Kansas City Star’s reporting staff broke the story on Sunday about lavish plane trips by Kansas University athletic director Lew Perkins, it always raises the ire of everyone who is affiliated with that specific university.
ABOVE THE REST
It would appear from some of Perkins’ comments, that he feels he is entitled to these types of travel arrangements, some to the tune of more than $10,000, when most people, including his own athletic teams, travel by bus to nearby Big 12 opponents.
I’m not sure how anyone with their mind in the correct place, could say that this was the ethical way to conduct business on behalf of the University athletic department.
Perkins was already under fire for not taking care of the office when the KU ticket scandal broke earlier this year. While perhaps off on one of his jet junkets, many of Perkins’ hirelings were scamming tickets to the tune of perhaps more than $1 million. Who knows what the bottom line will be after the IRS and FBI are done with their investigations.
Time to Go
In lieu of all the unseemly conduct by Perkins, I would suggest that it is time for KU’s chancellor to send him off to an earlier than planned retirement. And perhaps if the contract is not so well-written to benefit Perkins then I would hope he would get less than originally agreed upon as he exits the door.
People could put pressure on by contact members of the Board of Regents or sending a communication to the university’s chancellor.