{"id":39706,"date":"2015-11-30T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=39706"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:14:55","slug":"kansas-football-being-bad-isnt-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/11\/30\/kansas-football-being-bad-isnt-so-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Football: Being Bad Isn’t So Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

We can now close the book on the 2015 Kansas Football season and the Jayhawks failed to win a single game. Frankly, I\u2019m not surprised.<\/span><\/p>\n

After going 0-3 in non-conference play my hopes for this young Jayhawk squad\u00a0began to fade. Since Mark Mangino left, KU football has gone 11-60 over the last five years and that number could contunue to get worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week in and week out, we’ve\u00a0seen this team go out against some of the best teams in the country and get smacked in the mouth. Most fans can\u2019t even stay in Memorial Stadium past the first half; but why do we have to look at this as a negative? Why should we sit around and wait for it to get better? Let\u2019s bask in this horrific situation and look at why being bad, has actually been pretty good. <\/span><\/p>\n

Every year when football season rolls around, KU fans just want to get through the long\u00a0months until basketball season begins. I say\u00a0try to enjoy this time off while you can. Kansas Basketball is one of the best programs in the country and because of this we have extremely high expectations. All of these expectations create\u00a0more stress in our lives. When it comes to football, there is no need to stress because you know KU isn’t\u00a0competing for a BCS bid or\u00a0the playoff.<\/span><\/p>\n

Could you imagine if they were? KU fans would have to deal with constant stress from August till March and I personally\u00a0couldn\u2019t handle that. Take this time off and stop stressing about when KU is going to be good again, and just go enjoy a football game. Let’s not be this guy: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Another aspect of KU not being so great is that we have the opportunity to enjoy being the underdog. No one expected us to play well\u00a0against TCU, but sure enough this team showed they had fight.\u00a0Those are the moments we take for granted. As a young and winless team it is hard to expect to win, but when they do it’s so\u00a0much better. Everyone cheers for the underdog. <\/span><\/p>\n

This team will be good again and that is something I can promise. It may not be next season or even the one after that, but it will happen. They have the coach, the players, the will, and\u00a0all they need is experience. Enjoy this time of being bad because it may not last long. In the words of Ferris Bueller:<\/span><\/p>\n

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We can now close the book on the 2015 Kansas Football season and the Jayhawks failed to win a single game. Frankly, I\u2019m not surprised. After going 0-3 in non-conference play my hopes for this young Jayhawk squad\u00a0began to fade. Since Mark Mangino left, KU football has gone 11-60 over the last five years and that number could contunue to get worse. Week in and week out, we’ve\u00a0seen this team go out against some of the best teams in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4507,"featured_media":36841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3262,610],"tags":[4046,1260,3478,4049,3825,1474,131,109,87,123,4048,264,3903,1283,4047],"class_list":["post-39706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-sports","category-sports-articles","tag-bad","tag-bcs","tag-beaty","tag-chalk","tag-david","tag-failure","tag-football-2","tag-jayhawks","tag-kansas","tag-ku","tag-losing","tag-ncaa","tag-playoff","tag-rock","tag-terrible"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FullSizeRender2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}