Jayhawks focusing on fourth-quarter play

Mangino is the right coach for us. We sure as hell won't get anyone better if he is let go. The coaching staff can't make the players perform during games. Sure, Bowen might need to be replaced but Mangino is trying to win with a team which is very young and inexperienced on the offensive line. That right there is a recipe for struggles. Yet they coaches managed to get that O-line together enough to stand up very nicely to a tough Nebraska defensive front four. That is coaching. Can Mangino help that Reesing is throwing the most wobbly and errant passes of his career? Can Mangino block for Reesing and lessen the defensive pressure coming right down his throat on many pass plays? Can Mangino make the O-line run block better? No, the coaches can only coach up the young players and get them in positions to win and improve.

Next year the line will be better, Opurum will be running hard, we will find receivers to make plays and hopefully the defense will be improved. This is actually a fairly young and inexperienced team at many critical spots. It is understandable that a lesser team or two had great games and grabbed some wins and that the more dominant teams (OU, Nebraska, Texas Tech) had some real success against our defense and stymied our offense.

Mangino is the right coach, perhaps some of you should back away from the torches and slingshots and let him develop the players.

November 17, 2009 at 12:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU AD Perkins meets with football players over concerns about coach Mark Mangino

not enough time to read all of the above posts but unless mangino did something which could land the school in trouble he is not going anywhere. if the players are blaming the coaching staff and mangino for their often sorry play they should not be playing division one football for KU in the first place.

mangino is not going anywhere, we will not be able to get a better or even on par coach with what mangino has to offer. gary patterson is not going to consider KU. mangino is a great coach, sorry the players did not perform on the field this season. i could see moving on to another defensive coordinator and transitioning the offense to something a little more fluid and an attack which gets the run game out of neutral but there is no reason to even consider getting rid of mangino. he can do the job, he has turned this program around, he has taken us to the Orange Bowl. people need to relax and gear up for basketball season.

November 17, 2009 at 12:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dugan Arnett’s KU football notebook

Honestly the offense is still very good and capable but we have run too many plays out of obvious formations. It became very apparent against Colorado and OU that defenses have studied our formations and plays and they are jumping our passing routes. We are telegraphing our plays and making it too easy for defenses. Perhaps we can start running new plays from these formations or mix in some immediate QB roll outs instead of waiting for the D to flush Reesing from the pocket.

Whatever happened to the quick-hitter slant play over the middle which KU used to bust for big yards? I don't see that play often if ever.

The defensive players are skilled and capable, I think it is a question of the way Bowen is teaching them and scheming. I hate to call out a young coach but it looks like KU is suffering from what the Huskers had been suffering from defensively for several years, stay off the receivers, watch the receiver and try to take him down once he has the ball. Nobody seems to attack or look for the ball like they should. I rarely see a KU defender jumping in lanes or trying to cut off a receiver to get the ball. They sometimes jump up with the receiver but they don't seem to know where the ball is and are too concerned with what the receiver is doing.

October 28, 2009 at 8:53 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas will beat Sooners

KU has a great chance to beat OU this Saturday. Can KU win a shoot out? Yes. Does OU have the QB and receivers to score a ton of points? Not really. OU will have to get their run game going and hope their receivers perform better than they have all season against real opponents. There is too much gloom and doom on this page today. KU has a great shot at winning with the offense we bring and if Opurum and Sharp can get into a nice flow we can put up 31 points.

OU's offense is much weaker this year and our defense is weak but improving. Our offense will be much more potent than their offense although we will be going against the best defense we will have seen up to this point in the season. There is no reason KU can't be close enough in the end to pull out a win or hang onto a 3 or 7 point lead and win it.

We have the offensive players and the coaches to scheme our way to 31 points. No coaching staff is better at making adjustments either. I would like to see us sprinkle in more plays as Colorado seemed to be very aware of the plays we ran out of various formations during the first half and at points during the second half.

KU 31 OU 30

October 19, 2009 at 12:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jayhawks two deep, too shallow

The reason Cole and Morris are not as high in the photo is because the ball was thrown for an alley oop over the top of our defense. Cole and Morris were basically jumping backwards and up and they successfully broke up the play. It was not a rebound they were all going for and we got outjumped. Cole pulled down a load of rebounds last night.

As for Keegan calling out Sherron while saying all the blame is not Sherron's, well he needs to lighten up a bit. I think he is a fairly sour person and contributes very little to the actual coverage of the team and what goes on throughout the season on and off the court.

March 28, 2009 at 9:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jayhawks searching for identity

i think doolindalton was dead on when he started off the list of comments. sherron is not good enough, he needs to do more. the real problem is with bill self, i suggest doolindalton the definitive doofus should be the new head coach since he has such a firm and realistic grasp on what is wrong with the team. totally sherron's fault, totally. nice call.

December 30, 2008 at 11:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Aldrich schooled by Hill

one game, young team, move on. cole will get better, he's already damn good. i don't think it is time to give up and be overly critical of appleton and it is certainly not time to criticize bill self. i know people are prone to overreactions and ill informed opinions but the team is developing into something. these players can not replicate what the last two seasons were like at this point. enjoy the ride and watching the team develop.

December 24, 2008 at 6:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jayhawks shop for area families

reed4three, nice post. you really are in touch with what the players do as people and what it is like to struggle as a parent. was his steal and three from the corner against memphis to keep us in the national championship game not enough for you? is it ALL about basketball and what the players performance on the court does for you? did you know we lost some key players like chalmers, rush, jackson, kaun and robinson? maybe sherron is being asked to do a lot for the team and he can't be the star and win every game for the Jayhawks like you probably do in your job on a daily basis and for your family every waking moment. if bill self were to label you it would be "a stud" like kleinsmann who is an architecture major who also plays for the Jayhawks and goes beyond what is asked of him. you and kleinsmann, the studs of lawrence.

December 19, 2008 at 12:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU, Joe-College face new battle in lengthy legal contest

ross is 100% correct. if a copyright is not enforced and defended you can lose your rights to it. this is not an embarrassment to KU and the KU admin and legal team does not need to "STFU". they are doing their jobs by defending their copyright. perhaps a little knowledge would be useful before anymore posters start crying about what KU needs to do or not do.

December 18, 2008 at 4:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Thrown for a loss

i disagree that reesing looked "terrible". he wasn't getting much help from his line, every roll out for a possible scramble had 1 or 2 longhorns shadowing him and texas was all over our receivers. if sharp isn't healthy and meier is running around on one leg and the line is not giving him time what exactly is he to do? especially going into a 25 mph wind. sure, he threw some balls up for grabs but maybe briscoe, wilson or meier can come up with a play and make the catch.it is hardly fair to point to reesing as the problem when he has been carrying the offense for almost the entire season, often having to keep up as our opponents scored at will.

November 16, 2008 at 9:35 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )