Blau’s Two Cents: Week 3
By: Alex Blau So, here we are again. Charlie Weis is already finding himself in a tough spot as the Jayhawks dropped their first game of the season last weekend to Rice. Things for this week are looking rather bleak as well. The Jayhawks are facing a TCU team that is ranked in the top 25 with a very good quarterback and an above average defense. The Jayhawks are 26-point underdogs coming into the game this weekend. I am by no means expecting a win this week but am very interested to see how this team is going to respond. The past 3 seasons when the Hawks start to lose, they continue…
Bear Cave: Uphill Battle Ahead for Weis and Company
By Andrew Curtis It’s time to take a step back and assess the damage. Just two weeks ago, the Kansas football team was in good spirits and more confident than it had been heading into the season in the past 3 years. Kansas opened the season with a win that wasn’t anything to write home about despite wins coming few and far between recently. Now, after blowing an 11-point 2nd half lead in a crippling loss to an underwhelming Rice Owls squad, things are looking pretty bleak at the Anderson Family Football Complex. The fact of the matter is, Charlie Weis might have bit off more than he can chew, at least for the time…
Jayhawks focusing on accountability after Rice let down
By Trevor Graff Kansas fans left Memorial Stadium after Saturday’s matchup with the Rice Owls feeling a lot like the Jayhawk fans of old. The fans that spent the majority of their time breaking down losses and saying wait until next year. Chris Boswell, the Owls’ Lou Groza Award watch list kicker, blasted a 45-yard field goal through the uprights with two seconds remaining to seal the Jayhawk loss 25-24. The Jayhawks led all but the first ten minutes of the game before losing on Boswell’s last second field goal. “Clearly, my biggest disappointment is that we didn’t finish,” said head coach Charlie Weis. “The whole motto for this week was about finishing games, because…
The Recruiting Trail: Self and staff keeping busy
By Nick Ratliff Welcome to the second edition of the Recruiting Trail blog. There is a TON of information to get into this week, so let’s get right into it: First off, the only real information to give on the football recruiting front is that three in-state players who have already committed to the Jayhawks for the 2013 class attended the season opening win against South Dakota State last Saturday. Quarterbacks Jordan Darling from Shawnee Mission East in Prairie Village (my alma mater, Go Lancers!) and Montell Cozart from Bishop Miege in Roeland Park, KS and tight end Ben Johnson from Basehor-Linwood High School in Basehor, KS were all present at the game, representing…
Bear Cave: Kansas Football Good and Bad in Opener
By Andrew Curtis As a coach, getting your team to perform the way you want them to in the first game of the season isn’t always realistic, especially when it’s the first game of your tenure. This was exactly the case Saturday night at Memorial Stadium, where Kansas prevailed 31-17 over South Dakota State. It was neither pretty nor ugly. We saw the Jayhawk offense put up 263 yards on the ground due mainly to the backfield combination of Tony Pierson and Taylor Cox. We also witnessed the defense providing a horrific flashback to the Turner Gill era, giving up a 99-yard touchdown run to the FCS Jackrabbits in the first quarter. KU also forced…
Jayhawks beat SDSU in Weis debut
By Trevor Graff The first game of the Charlie Weis era ended in a Jayhawk victory, but it began with a missed 35-yard Ron Doherty field goal. The Jackrabbits exploited the Jayhawks slow start. A 99-yard Zach Zenner touchdown run put South Dakota State ahead seven to nothing following Doherty’s missed attempt. Despite the slow start, the Jayhawks found a rhythm early in the second half. “The performance had its highs and lows, but as a coach this is utopia,” coach Charlie Weis said. “What’s going to happen is the guys are going to go out and enjoy themselves tonight, but on the flip side there will be so many things on the tape where…
Blau’s Two Cents: Season Preview
By: Alex Blau As the bells chime from the campanile and the sun starts to set tomorrow at Memorial Stadium there will be a new fresh smell in the air. The Jayhawks are going to be coming out of an NCAA worst 10 game loosing streak, including one conference win the past two years. To sum things up, the Kansas Jayhawk football program hit complete rock bottom the past two years. However, there is a new hope for the program and fans across the nation. This past offseason, Athletic director Sheahon Zenger hired former Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots Offensive Coordinator Charlie Weis. Weis brings a new offense to the Jayhawks,…
“The League” 8.29 Show Archive
The league talks with 1410 KGSO Wichita’s Andrew Hammond, breaks down the KU football depth chart and talks team toughness. The League crew discusses KU football’s focus heading into the season opener. The League crew discusses the recently released KU football depth chart. The League crew talks to Andrew Hammond of 1410 KGSO Wichita about college football’s opening matchups.
Weis, team focused on Saturday’s opener
By Trevor Graff The 6-3 loss to North Dakota State on Sept. 4, 2010 and the slow start that followed remain on the minds of those surrounding Kansas Football. With league-mate South Dakota State coming to Memorial Stadium for the Sat. 6:00 p.m. season opener, coach Charlie Weis is confident in his team’s focus. “They’re well aware of it.” Weis said. “I live in the present and the future. I don’t really live in the past, but I think that bringing back moments from the past, both good and bad, are always good teaching points. I also could talk about a few years ago winning the Orange Bowl.” That focus on executing every play and…
Bear Cave: A New Era Begins
By Andrew Curtis It’s finally that time of year. Three things are inevitable: School is back in session, the leaves are beginning to change colors and the Kansas football program is set to begin its 123rd season. It’s safe to say that the Jayhawks enter the 2012 season with the most optimism since 2009, when Mark Mangino was still at the helm. The Turner Gill era was, well, if you want to call it an era, nothing short of abysmal. In my first three years at KU, the football team managed to get embarrassingly worse. A program that had won an Orange Bowl just a couple years before managed to just 10 wins in 3…