KU vs TCU Game Thread

[Cascadia]

He needed summer and spring ball

Yes. I’m all for going with Daniels, but I’m also fine with pulling him occasionally if he’s not doing his job.

[sdoyel]

Tcu has completed 3 passes and has scored 52 points.

[pdub]

What we think the Tech line will be?
KU +13?

[Sparko]

Was having a great weekend and didn't watch, though instagram had the 54-yard TD pass. I saw the score was already 24-0 before the toss. Yow. The NCAA talks about competitive balance, but there simply isn't any. Kansas has been short of people for 10-years and can't get over the hump. It becomes a Prairie View situation. The answer would be to place limits on scholarships based on success (like a salary cap), but the semi-pro league will never do it. The opposite happens actually where only a couple of schools ever compete for a title. Alabama, Clemson, tOSU and LSU pretty much have ruined the game for me. There just isn't much to watch now. A few decent break-out performances a year and humiliation. Something needs to be done, but we are talking shoe companies instead of limiting NFL minor-league sponsors.

When you lose 3-star linemen to service academies (why they have football teams at taxpayer expense recruiting huge people who clearly would not make the cut--there are 80X3 - scholarships other American students are denied- is beyond me), it was indicative of cancer through the sport. If Kansas can turn around its football team, it will have to do it through some miracle or cheat like the rest of the also rans.

[Leawood]

I like the brand of football played at the service academies. And they do have to academically qualify.

[Sparko]

I don’t like they have competitive teams. And they have a prep school to qualify athletes. It isn’t why there are service academies. When you have guys over 300 pounds and a scholarship heavy sport, it makes no sense.

[Leawood]

I have a cousin who qualified to attend West Point and played football in the 70s. He weighed 275 then, got up every morning at 5 to shave and have early morning exercises before class at 7:30 am. Class ended at 1. He was on the practice field shortly thereafter. Practice was short due to the academic requirements. Dinner, study, shower, then bed.

He served our country in Grenada and the first Gulf War.

The service academies don’t recruit dummies and teach them up. It’s bad for morale if they did.

[Sparko]

Different world today than the draft era. We also have ROTC, OCS etc. they need to focus on academics. We all pay for those programs. My dissatisfaction is that they spend a fortune on athletics and recruit BCS athletes these days. They will continue despite my protestations. Would feel better about it if they were in the small school divisions.