On target

I'm quite fine with Aldrich not getting touches in against Central Arkansas. He's real good, but we need the other guys to expand their comfort zones for when we start playing against teams like, let me see, Michigan, Tennessee, UCLA, TEmple, and of course the Big 12 games against Missouri, Oklahoma, OSU, and Texas, and those are just the toughest in the Big 12 and that doesn't mean the others won't be tough.

November 21, 2009 at 5:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

Coach Mangino, Whats up? Your team isn't performing. Why an almost 2 to 1 ration of pass to run? Where is Deshaun Sands? Why aren't we using these guys we recruited at Defensive End? Where are you at Coach?

November 7, 2009 at 3:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas wins in shootout

Good luck to them. It is nice to see that other sports are faring well with the resurgence of the Football Program.

November 3, 2009 at 1:12 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Meier could be answer

It is time for the intensity level to rise up in this team. For so long this year they have lacked intensity, and maybe that comes with being used to winning, but they got that way by being intense. Those 4 turnovers against Texas Tech killed us. We would have scored at least another 10 points while not allowing any more in that game, but instead those two turnovers in the 4th quarter gave this team some adversity they didn't know how to overcome. For the future, if they learn from it, it can be positive, but its time to learn from it now with some big time turnovers the last 3 games, that cost us at least 2 of them, and it would have kept OU from running up 35. In fact, it could have been the difference in that game. That big int return for a TD that gave OU a 14-0 lead when we were in the red zone, and about to tie it up. That turned the game around and the wind came out of the intensity level that was being played and it showed big time in the 2nd half. This team is under achieving right now, and it is partially due to the coaching staff not making adjustments to the other team's defense. When they start to cheat up on a receiver, its time to make them pay for it. If we don't adjust, we might not win another game this year and will not be bowling.

November 2, 2009 at 11:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opurum may be equalizer

Max, yes he has, and that one against Oklahoma set the tone for the day. Not necessarily the first one, but the 2nd one when if he would have simply just pump faked and then threw the ball away. We would have had at least 3 and the score would have been 7-3 at worst, but instead it was 14-0. That was a big time turning point when we were threatening to score. He doesn't have to make a play every single time to be a great QB.

But this should be something that if the coaches are looking at this on film and see how the corners and linebackers cheat up on one of those plays, design a play that exploits that. pump fake, let the linebacker of corner bite, then throw it right behind him to the same receive and he would have walked in for the tying score.

October 29, 2009 at 1:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Oklahoma overwhelms Kansas, 35-13

Pathetic. Now I will say we have no chance in winning the North. We're done.

October 24, 2009 at 6:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

If you had the choice of these two options for KU's football team, which would you pick?

I don't think so, because last week it would be win over both.

October 24, 2009 at 2:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dugan Arnett’s KU football notebook

Eurehawk, you're right, our guys are quick enough to man up, with maybe 2 deep over the top coverage, because we have at least one Safety in Stuckey that can make plays over the top or make a break on a deep pass to break it up or pick it off. We need to let our defense tee off at least a few times in the game. They seem like they get complacent with playing the soft zones, and then they get tore up underneath. That is because we're not making the adjustments that the opponent is.

Offensively, we need to get Jake Sharp North and South quicker. Middle Screens, shovel passes, and then maybe in order to protect Reesing run a pro set if we get in 3rd and long situations to have to running backs for extra blockers. Give Reesing just an extra second where he doesn't have to scramble as often and let the Wide Receivers come open, which always does happens if the pressure doesn't get to the QB.

October 22, 2009 at 12:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dugan Arnett’s KU football notebook

Kansas 38 Oklahoma 21

October 22, 2009 at 12:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Colorado defeats Kansas, 34-30

Things would have ended differently except for two stupid plays in the first half. One Reesing's INT. Two, the fumble inside the five yard line. That was the game. However, there were many times in which Todd Reesing should have thrown the ball away instead of trying to be a hero, and it resulted in I don't know how many sacks. Without those, We probably would have ran up 55 or 60 points.

October 18, 2009 at 1:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )