Kansas Crimson

Watching it in KC. Fox 4. I will always be pissed about the last 12 years.

I felt like Deion!

Shoulda kept Mangino.
4-8, 5-7 sounds pretty good right about now.
( well any football sounds pretty good right about now )

Lew's witch hunt, ugh

Thank god for Bill. An absolute shit show of an athletic department for more than a decade.

Yep. Without Self, the athletic program as a whole has been so, so bad.

KU will never get back to a bowl like that for a long time with the way the current conferences are constructed. They can make a bowl, but it would be something like the Liberty Bowl or the old Tangerine Bowl (When Philip Rivers just DESTROYED KU)

That being said, I think Miles did more in year 1 than Beaty did in his 4 years at KU. KU is making progress. Just going to take a few more years.

I was thinking about the successful programs during the end of Lew era to now, and I think the common theme is having programs where the head coach gets to run things without the interference from the AD's.

Men's basketball, enough said.

Women's track national championship: Coach Redwine had been there for over a decade. Men's track is also pretty consistent.

Volleyball Final Four: Coach Bechard had been there for over a decade.

The NCAA run by Tennis a year or so ago is the only one with a newer guy--a sport that is really built on foreign talent and perhaps a little luck of the draw.

Everything else has been bad to mediocre with nearly all of them being overseen and coaches replaced by the 3 AD's.

Tyrod never struck me as having NFL skill. Reesing was a decade early. Him scrambling around creating was early version of the best of the day. The leadership is under-valued too. Seeing Mahomes get on everyone's ass in a good way was a real highlight of the past year.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... -favorites

"Maisel: 2007. Good choice, but 2007, with all the chaos, was soooooo much better. The season began with Nick Saban arriving at Alabama and ended with LSU becoming the first two-loss team to win it all. In the 369 days between those two events, the sport went entertainingly haywire: Appalachian State beat Michigan, and Stanford, a 41-point underdog, beat USC. Thirteen top-five teams lost to an unranked opponent. Kansas went to the Orange Bowl, Illinois to the Rose and Hawaii to the Sugar. An FCS assistant coach named Chip Kelly took over the Oregon offense and introduced the up-tempo spread. Les Miles didn't go to Michigan. And Mike Gundy turned 40."