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Keegan: K-State wins by not losing
Sometimes the best way to win a football game is by not losing it.
Keegan: Reesing’s impact huge
It won’t be until next year, when Todd Reesing is gone, that it will become clear how much of the growth of the Kansas University football program can be attributed to improved recruiting and how much to having a once-in-a-generation quarterback. The answer lies somewhere in the middle.
Mayer: Reesing deserves courtesy
Speculation continues about how many of its four remaining games the Kansas University football team will win. The immediate emphasis should be on bagging that first ONE. End the current slump, now three losses deep, then there might be a reason to discuss a 7-5 or better record and a decent bowl game.
Keegan: Johnson provides suspense
Given the presence of softies on a nonconference schedule that features Allen Fieldhouse visitors Central Arkansas, Tennessee Tech and Alcorn State, the crowd will need something other than suspense to stave off daydreaming.
Keegan: Meier could be answer
If Todd Reesing doesn’t show enough in practice to prove he’s fully healthy, then the right choice for QB, obviously, is senior receiver Kerry Meier.
Keegan: QB playing hurt, and it clearly shows
Kansas University football coach Mark Mangino has his reasons for keeping injuries a secret. Knowing a player is hurt can change the way the opposition prepares its game plan. Dirty players might even want to aim for the injured guy’s aching body part.
Mayer: Texas Tech isn’t a pushover
Prior to the 1965 football season, Kansas traded TCU for Texas Tech on its schedule. Many local fans exuded a huge sigh of relief, thinking KU had found a softer touch to take the place of a dominator. Not even close.
Keegan: Opurum may be equalizer
College football offenses have come so far since the days of the Ohio State teams of Woody Hayes employing the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach. The spread offense makes defenses cover the entire field. Scoring has soared.
Keegan: Mangino won’t take date bait
Fat paychecks make gaining celebrity status in sports all worthwhile, but that doesn’t mean the job is not without drawbacks.
Woodling: Kansas women’s point guards selfless
Competitiveness in the pursuit of a defined goal doesn’t always breed mutual admiration.
Keegan: Machine taps NU in North
The Sagarin predictor says Nebraska should win the convoluted Big 12 North division.
Keegan: Crash and burn
Kansas merely mediocre
That southbound train to nowhere known as the Big 12 North looked uglier than ever Saturday.
Mayer: Aikman stunned by KU
Kansas University football fans are hopeful that Oklahoma’s quarterback situation leads to a repeat of some history in 1984. That’s when OU came here with its top quarterback injured and a promising but untested freshman from Henryetta, Okla., as the only alternative. That sacrificial lamb? Troy Aikman.
Keegan: No time to waste
KU offense’s first-quarter production could use a boost
Finding something about which to nitpick the Kansas University football team’s offense would be akin to winning the Batmobile in a raffle and griping about a scratch on the door, getting selected by Cindy Crawford in the Dating Game and obsessing on her mole, having Eli Manning under center and complaining his name’s not Peyton.
Texas has no place to go but up
If Texas finishes unbeaten, it will play for the national title, independent BCS analyst Jerry Palm said Sunday.
Mark Mangino press conference, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 November 24, 2009
Aldrich must wait months for tooth replacement November 23, 2009
Big 12 colleagues voice support for embattled KU coach November 23, 2009
Morris leads KU women past Michigan November 22, 2009
Huskers sweep KU volleyball November 22, 2009
_r90x60.jpg?781011941c6c07bdfc65b7b14fce7e91909b1ea6 "KU guard Sade Morris battles Michigan guard Dayeesha Hicks for a loose ball during the first half of the game on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at Allen Fieldhouse.")
