@kjayhawks It’s interesting because we write the same thing on each of his seasons it seems. Our losses are not bad losses, this week excluded. Our losses are close games which the fatal flaw is the struggle to make the play in the last 2-3 minutes of games. 2 of 3 losses this year fit the category. So many what iffs last year. I forget the “Bean Year” where we had fewer losses which games were close calls hinging on mistakes in crunch time but I know there were several.
Well our defense gave us some moments but Tech figured it out with a backup QB. Lance has to figure this out because we have an offense that wins us lots of games.
@kjayhawks I’m not the smartest football mind but the TD’s came off of opening up the offense.
Again Hanni mentioned the 3rd and 1 call but the TE just stepped out of bounds instead of Walter payton like plowing forward to get that first down.
That receiver’s got to fight for the first down. On him that we’re punting now.
Jayhawks +21 in the 3rd quarter this year.
Wow, we have a kicker!! He’s perfect on the year. What a boot!
Jaden is 16-19 for 164 yards or something like that. He’s a nice QB for our team. Here’s hoping Marshall will live up to his hype and keep this excellent QB play going forward.
Had a nice dinner but glad I kept watching.
The game is called TACKLE football. Not much of that happening tonight.
Wisconsin losing 17-0 very early. This night is becoming very forgetful.
@patoh3 Fair point, but IDK, it sounds like a home telecast.
I mean I get the high praise for tt but I’m getting a bit tired of it.
We need to fire our defense coordinator, his secretary, his assistant, his mother, send his kids to timeout, hide his remote control, take away his phone, let the air out of his tires…
Yards seem hard to come by but they are getting them.
Texas upset over OU. Of course about a month ago it wouldn’t have been considered an upset.
Upsets galore. Northwestern beats St. Penn in Unhappy Valley. Indiana whom I didn’t believe in until today is about to knock off Oregon in Nikeville. Of course Oregon’s best win has been winning at Penn State which has now lost 3 in a row so maybe they’re not that great either.
By the way the game from 3 years ago ended up with us not being able to get a stop late, twice actually and led to us losing by 15. Jason Bean and Jared Casey opened the scoring with a 66 yard TD pass! Those were the good old bad days of KU football.
Looking at the box makes me realize as much as Lance has turned around KU football, we seem to be stuck in a fighting for a bowl birth phase instead of fighting for a conference championship phase. That game featured poor defense, poor kicking, lots of penalties. We’ve got a nice kicker now, and offensively seem to be just as good, but the others, uh, not so good.
Lets finish this game thread from 2022! Maybe we’ll get a win this time! I’m not super optimistic but miracles happen. Busy sports evening. I don’t like the cubs but I’ll definitely watch and while my other team is pretty much sunk, playing Iowa at the same time as baseball and KU tonight means a lot of multiple screen views to try and watch all.
Has Self offered him?
@dylans I really am just saying send them in for a play per half. No undermining taking place, just give a little experience. Most players on the field get subbed out during a game, some on 3rd down every time or whatever.
Somehow I thought this was a bye week. However, I turned on the TV around 8 to watch baseball and noticed KU football. Since I record all games, I could watch the whole thing. Glad I did.
Observations. After a slow start Jalen had a really solid game. Avoided the mistakes he’s infamous for. Made some really solid throws.
This defense is offensive. Yet interestingly the defense also won the game for us with the strip and fumble and bent but didn’t break through a high wire act 4th quarter of stop after stop.
That freshman TE Bruhn or whatever his name is can play. So can Groen. So can Henderson.
One little peak at Marshall was enticing. Not sure why QB is the one position that backups rarely play unless it’s in a blowout.
This was a nice win for our bowl hopes but as someone who predicted 8-4 way back in June we’ve got a ways to go.
At TTech next week gonna be a long night the way our defense is playing.
(I’m pretty stoked about all of the great recruiting news coming from our better known team!)
@drgnslayr I’d say the winning teams are winning with older guys still. Not gonna waste time looking it all up but I guess there’s some stat out there of NCAA winning teams and age. Kentucky and Duke are the two exceptions since 2012 I’d guess as they were very young and (tears) beat my two favorite teams which were laden with vets.
No teams win with OAD’s these days. The teams that we see in late rounds of the NCAA are experienced, veteran led teams. If what you’re wishing for or saying is our new reality well it’s not a very bright future for us.
Two game losing streak is over. 4-1 blasting of KState.
Vs. Nebraska Cincy gained 271 yards Vs. Bowling Green 439 yards 600 vs NW state in a 70-0 rout. Against us? 603 yards.
Cincy is no high powered offense. But against us? They’re worn out from so much running.
There’s some flaw in this rebuild. Not sure how to pinpoint it. Losing Andy K, the brilliant offensive coordinator may have been the worst thing to happen to this team, but goodness, the mental errors are egregious.
I didn’t get to watch today, but listened til middle of 3rd then followed on game day as we’re travelling and I was hiking, so not sure the mental errors, but a 2nd straight game with a defensive guy lost to a dirty hit is inexcusable. Jalen fumbling on the 1 is beyond inexcusable especially as he’s been prone to fumbles still after ten years running the team.
A defense getting gashed has been the most frustrating part. Missouri destroyed us all day long. Cincy destroyed us almost all day. WVU is bad so I don’t count last week.
A lack of a under two minute minutes offense has to be fixed. I know we scored just under two, but I’ve seen teams get the ball with 30 seconds on the clock get into FG range and we did zero with our last possession.
I’m not ‘fire Lance’ or anything like that. He’s made people pay attention to KU football. But he’s gonna lose a lot of support should these kind of games keep happening. As some have pointed out losing 63-10 is far worse.
Whoa, I watched the first half as we peppered their goal with tons of missed shots and then a 2nd point blank missed shot in the 2nd half and Baylor barely had any good looks BUT connected on them and won 3 nil. Really demoralizing, as balls on frame will rebound and 2nd chances abound, but when you whiff on even hitting the goal from 10 yards and in, well you don’t deserve to win or be ranked.
@dylans Yeah that started a bit of drought at KU hoops with quite a few early exits.
The KU side goes against Baylor tonight at 6. Ranked anywhere from 8th to 14th in the various polls. KU is 15-1-3 in their last 19 matches, pretty phenomenal. It’s on ESPN+ if anyone has nothing else to do.
It’s getting to the point where I want us to sign our guys like 3 days before school starts because guys decommit so often. I’m kind of amazed that Patterson (I hope I got that name right) is still here because I was sure he’d get lured away by some odd SEC school or something. Glad he’s here. Can’t wait to see him play and then hopefully give us a championship in his only year here. If he doesn’t then I really don’t give a rip that he gave us one year here. I want guys who will go through the good and bad and watch them gel like our 2022 team did. I’ll barely acknowledge he was a Jayhawk like Dick and Furphy.
The great Danny Manning, decided that the pros could wait. Look how that turned out. Chalmers decided the pros could wait. Look how that turned out. Braun and Agbaji same thing. Those are the kind of guys I can say I’m proud were Jayhawks. I know others differ on that opinion and that’s fine.
@Crimsonorblue22 Oh I think I remember something about a testy press conference with him. Thanks you and @kjayhawks
@kjayhawks I’m sorry, but 40 and unemployed? Wiki says 58.
Man, I looked up Gundy’s record. Finished 7th in the polls as recently as 2021 and 16th just two seasons ago. Amazing h0w quickly things can fall apart.
Brett Bielema beat Indiana while at UW 83-20. While the coach is new at Indy, I wonder if that result was some motivation for them to pour it on against Ilinois?
@BShark LOL, just checked it out, pretty hilarious over confident tweet.
Forecast looking good so far. Maybe can see how WVU lost to Ohio.
You need a leash on Leshon if you want to contain him!
@rockchalkjayhawk They moved it pretty easily down to that end of the field, confident they could get the first down I guess. It was 4th and short.
@kjayhawks I agree. Get points because no lead is safe when you’re KU football.
Something woke this team up after WVU went down and got the FG.
@kjayhawks Jermaine Dye’s son. I think it was a legit call. Radio guys don’t agree, but i’m not that familiar with what they were arguing.
That was a 50-50 ball Jalen threw up there.
That could be a big injury on their starting center.
Good field position. Lets take advantage.