@nuleafjhawk said in What KU Football Cannot Overcome.:
I'm usually the Negative Nellie here so I'm not sure what to think. The game I watched had Marshall throwing for 330+ yards and we were about 3 or 4 stupid penalties and a couple of boneheaded play calls from beating one of the best teams in the country on their home turf.
If I’m being a 100% honest this team is more competitive than I thought they would be. That’s what makes the bone headed penalties and give aways more frustrating. Saturday is a big day for Lance. Find away to win this one and everyone suddenly will get a lot of patience back. Lose and the seat starts to get warm. I don’t think he gets fired but there will plenty on that wagon.
@Texas-Hawk-10 Self sure sounded definite when he said he was done after 15. But if he could, I'm certain he'd love to add Trey. What a roster if we added him.
Maybe he can be a second semester add on, meanwhile practicing with the team if he's living on his NIL.
@AsadZ said in 2026-2027 NFL Season:
ATL is looking dangerous, great running attack.
Oline is truly special there as well I think. A great WR as well. Just need okay QB play.
@Jayhawk_69 as is KU football the last 3 years if we could just not make ridiculous errors we would be fine. We should be 3-1. The close games I watch and just wait for the ridiculous play that costs us the game. Utah is hard to get a reading on with their powder puff schedule but we have to go there and they had a by week to get ready. I swear the conference hates us with the schedule we get most the time. I remember 3 years in a row we played KSU when they were off a by and we weren’t. Just watch us, we don’t need help shooting ourselves in the foot.
MTSU isn’t a great team but they came in with a .500 record and lost those two games by a combined 12 points. I was honestly surprised we were favored by 21.5 points. I figured we would win like 27-10 but wouldn’t be super comfortable til late. First shutout since 2008 and idk if I’ve ever seen Kansas beat an FBS team like that.
Football is such strange game in comparing scores. Missouri maybe be better than expected spanking Florida today. ASU is obviously a very bad team as they are getting pounded by Baylor 21-6 as the writing of this. Just crazy to think about us making about 10 plays over these last few seasons. LL would be a god in Lawrence, multiple wins of KSU, a win against Missouri and 4 straight bowl games.
I must say I 2nd @bskeet's rec for getting your PSA test. A couple of you i know don't have prostates but it's the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths for men which may surprise you but so many men get it, by percent it's not horribly deadly. I had it, kept an eye on it for about 3 years, but then my PSA started going up and a biopsy showed it advanced to a gleason 7 which is like stage 3 prostate cancer and they yanked it out one day. My dad who just passed had a very slow growing prostate cancer for about 25 years and didn't die from it but from other things. Easy blood test.
@DCHawker said in Border War:
@Jayhawk_69 said in Border War:
That game went about as expected. The good news is our season is far from over. If Marshall can start playing like a serviceable starter I think we have a shot at a bowl game.
Was there anything in the game that has you believe that Marshall is a "serviceable" P4 starter? 13 of 30 (and one of those was a wing and a prayer). 2 INTs. 4 fumbles (only 1 TO). 20 rushes for 23 yards. Really undersized.
Some of the ineffectiveness is due to O-line woes, but definitely not all. Multiple really bad throw/decision-making. I really question whether either of our QBs is capable of winning games for us against quality competition...
I honestly am scratching my head pretty hard at this point as to how in the heck he won the job. Cole is obviously a good leader and respected by his teammates or he wouldn’t be a captain. He also played well enough to beat KSU in his only start IMO. Honestly hoping he isn’t hurt because the way this line looks, I see no chance of us making it all year without someone getting hurt at QB.
Marshall I think is a great athlete but we look like a highschool program just putting the ball in the hands of the best athlete and hoping it works out. It was the same story with Ryan Willis and Montell Cozart under Beaty. Willis was much better at decision making and throwing but Cozart was a good athlete. Obviously any comparison to the Beaty coaching isn’t going to be positive.
IMO if we aren’t going to move Marshall to RB or WR, which is likely where he would be at most P4 programs. We need to burn the play book and start running the triple option. The option came about for teams that gave up too much penetration up the middle. I’m not sure if our Guards came from Haskell but they sure hell look like it.
I’d also like to see Dylan Edwards get more touches. I agree he is small but he is very shifty and quick. He is averaging 5.9 yards per carry. Willis has not impressed me in the slightest so far between seeming to run right into the defense and have holding calls against him, mainly because his blocking form is similar to my sons 5th and 6th team. We have to find ways to get Edwards and McMillan the ball in space. I’m just not sure that’s possible with Marshall throwing it to them.
We obviously have a long journey ahead with the ASU game. But I’ve always felt like weird game circumstances favor the underdog which is obviously us. We likely won’t be favored in another game this season outside of middle Tennessee. I do think Mizzou is a much better team than ASU so all we can do is line them up and see how it goes.
@Jayhawk_69 yep literally 4 calls or missed
calls in the final minutes that insured the Michigans win. Not sure Michigan even gets the ball back at that point. The face mask, roughing the kicker, they added a second with 9 seconds to go and added one at the end there. I know the MAC has announced they agreed with it but what else could they do, the B10 pays them a million and half for that game along with others. We also know from errors like CMU vs Okie Lite game they won’t change the outcome.
@rockchalkjayhawk I've been waiting since about last Wednesday to watch the Chiefs on Monday Night Football only to finally figure out they don't play until a week from tomorrow. Yay.
@wissox83 1952 NCAA championship, 1952 Olympic gold medal, and 3× NBA champion ('54, '63, '64). First player to ever win an NCAA title, NBA title, and Olympic gold medal.
