Kansas Crimson

Hayden Hatcher recently had to set his alarm for 5:30 a.m., but he says he only had himself to blame.

The Kansas football defensive end was a few minutes late to lunch at the team’s facility a couple weeks ago. He figured he might get away with it.

Hatcher was wrong. He was put on a list for “Championship Protocol,” which meant his discipline would be helping to clean the weight room an hour before anyone else arrived.

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Each bumper plate — used for lifts like bench press and squats — has a Jayhawk logo affixed to it. When those are returned to racks, they must be done so with the Jayhawk appearing right-side up. Miller says offenders to that rule can be subject to “lots of yelling” and also up-downs.

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[Leipold's] talks to the team at the end of drills require each person to kneel while remaining behind the yard-line that’s in front of him.

“Respect the line,” teammates have said while policing each other.

Other rules have been instituted as well. Players aren’t allowed to wear hats in team meetings, while dirty lockers also are disallowed, meaning unclean clothes need to be cleared out along with empty bottles.

NotGutterGutter wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 8:31 am Well, it seems maybe we have White Turner Gill guiding our players.
I'm all for rules but let's realize discipline comes from within and when rules become obsessive to the point of borderline insanity, I would think some/many players would tend to turn sour towards the coaching staff. Sort of like what happened during the Gill era?

Sparko wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:02 am I even like the logo rule. Attention to detail and a little extra work with the weights. Al Woolard used to run a stop watch IIRC during the halcyon days at LHS in the 50s. Football is doing everything together. Know your assignment. Second nature. McRaven lectures on this as part of SEAL culture.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:09 am

Sparko wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:02 am I even like the logo rule. Attention to detail and a little extra work with the weights. Al Woolard used to run a stop watch IIRC during the halcyon days at LHS in the 50s. Football is doing everything together. Know your assignment. Second nature. McRaven lectures on this as part of SEAL culture.

I'm just saying this stuff shares a lot of genes with the Try Hard Chart.

NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:41 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:09 am

Sparko wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:02 am I even like the logo rule. Attention to detail and a little extra work with the weights. Al Woolard used to run a stop watch IIRC during the halcyon days at LHS in the 50s. Football is doing everything together. Know your assignment. Second nature. McRaven lectures on this as part of SEAL culture.

I'm just saying this stuff shares a lot of genes with the Try Hard Chart.

Well there's a big difference. Everyone has an effort play chart type of thing. Finishing plays through the whistle, sprinting back on defense, whatever it may be. EVERYONE has that.

The difference is I don't think, and I sure hope they won't, mention it the first few seconds into a loss to a rival. Won't say "we kicked their butts on the play hard chart again" If Leipold stands up there and says hey our attention to detail and our playing hard really paid off after this loss by 20 points, then I'll eat crow. But I don't think he's about that. He's about that shit behind the scenes but not much in the public eye.

I think they'll keep that shit under wraps. This was all players saying this stuff. Staff hasn't really mentioned much about it outside of the "dude of the week" or whatever they pushed in the summer.