As all of us would expect, there’s been lots of interest in the job because it’s a high-profile announcing position in the high-profile Big 12 Conference.

Among those under consideration is John Walters, sports director at WOI-TV. Walters has been doing games on the Cyclone basketball network in recent years, and has experience as a radio play-by-play announcer at Drake.

Another announcer who is expected to get a look from Iowa State officials is veteran Warren Swain, who has done play-by-play announcing in the past at such places as Iowa State (before the games were turned over to an exclusive network), Nebraska, Drake, Virginia and Oregon.

"They really don’t have to go any further than Walters and Swain to find a quality play-by-play guy," said a well-known announcer who knows the Iowa State situation well and is familiar with the work done by Walters and Swain.

However, another talented announcer who has shown interest in the Iowa State job is Mark Allen, who is the sideline reporter for football games on the Iowa network and also broadcasts Hawkeye wrestling and women’s basketball.

The word I get is that Taylor’s successor won’t necessarily hold a job in the Iowa State athletic department, as Taylor did. However, the man who gets the job could be someone who works with the coaches and the rest of the athletic staff at the spring and summer Cyclone Club banquets, which is something Taylor handled

Dan McCarney, Iowa State’s football coach, plans to have some input into the decision that’s made on the Cyclones’ broadcaster. One thing McCarney hopes is that his TV show can be videotaped in Ames instead of downtown Des Moines on Sunday mornings because of the time it takes for him to make the round-trip to the studio.

"We watch Keith Murphy, Todd Bailey and Andy Fales regularly," Marv said. "They’re our favorites."

One reason is because the Hiddlesons have seen themselves on Channel 13 in the past. Murphy and his staff have done a couple of interesting features on the Hiddlesons’ "Hawkeye bathroom."

Marv and Ruth, longtime Iowa football and basketball season ticket-holders, invited me to see the bathroom—and I didn’t even have to use it. The bathroom, I mean.

The room is covered with TigerHawk wallpaper and contains all sorts of Hawkeye photographs and memorabilia. It’s quite a place, and Marv and Ruth are very nice people.

The local paper has been so busy carrying stories about Lee Corso, who had a not-so-flashy 10-year record of 41-68-2 when he was the football coach at Indiana, that it hasn’t printed the news that really matters.

Like what went on last night at the Kansas basketball banquet, where Roy Williams came back to cry again.

Williams, of course, has been called a "traitor" by some Kansas fans after quitting the Kansas job and going to North Carolina.

Ol’ Roy, rather surprisingly, received a standing ovation when he showed up at the Kansas banquet.

The AP reported, however, that several people did rattle newspapers in front of their faces, as fans at Allen Fieldhouse do when the opponent’s starting lineup is announced on game nights. As the ovation died down, a man in the second balcony yelled, "Traitor!"

Dave Collison, the father of forward and team most valuable player Nick Collison of Iowa Falls, drew cheers when he stood and told the protester, "You should be ashamed of yourself!"

Nick Collison defended Williams during the ceremony by saying, "This is the same man I said all those nice things about on Senior Night. "I still feel the same way."

Jim, who has coached basketball at Sioux City West for 28 years, has been hired as the boys’ coach at North Kansas City High School.

Why move now that Kirk’s career at Kansas is finished?

Jim Hinrich wouldn’t say, but his daughter, Jill, lives in Overland Park, Kan. Jim told the Star last year that he was interested in moving to Kansas City because he liked the city and he was tired of driving to Omaha to find a large airport.