Texas tech
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@nwhawkfan I’ll be there to help for KState!
What a great game.
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What A GAME, one crazy ending.
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Time to break out the good stuff, fellas !
Damnedest finish I’ve seen in a while.
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Sweet victory. Finally. RC
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After what happened in the Big 12 today, every one of our last four games now seem winnable.
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Hell yes!
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I was going to stay up late to watch World Cup rugby, but that last play looked close enough.
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nwhawkfan said:
Damnedest finish I’ve seen in a while.
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KSU will be super tough but OU ran all over them, they just had no defense. You gotta credit our defense without one of the key guys in Bryce. How about Carter Stanley 725 yards, 7 touchdowns and 1 pick in the last 2 weeks. Easily the best 2 game stretch since Ressing. I’m ready for next now, it wont be easy tho. Gonna be a war!!
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We are bowl eligible if Dearmon is the OC all year. CHANGE. MY. MIND.
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@BShark Just need three more wins !
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@BShark we are probably bowl eligible right now with Dearmon and fair officials last week.
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Will be an up hill battle to get there this late in the year and minimal room for error. Either way I’m very proud of this team and how they have battled every second.
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How pleasant. Almost November and we’re still talking KU football ! (In a good way.)
Nite all !
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Harbaugh is finally gonna get a top 10 win over Notre Dame who really shouldn’t be in the top 10 lol.
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Unreal win. Went to the game. Last week we deserved it. This week we didn’t.
But proof the program absolutely is legit. Competing like this two weeks in a row has been a treat.
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@Kcmatt7 I’m not sure why you would say we didnt deserve it. The first block kick should’ve been a penalty be the guy was clearly on someone’s back. The announcers pointed it out plain as day in the replay on TV. The defense rose up to the challenge and got big stops. We had more yards in less plays. I hate to be a dick but why didnt we deserve that one?
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That poor boy from TTech that fumbled the blocked FG is the kid from our town in Louisiana whom my daughter graduated with 4 years ago. He’s actually a very good player, but I suppose he’ll be the subject of look how TTech lost this game stories.
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kjayhawks said:
@Kcmatt7 I’m not sure why you would say we didnt deserve it. The first block kick should’ve been a penalty be the guy was clearly on someone’s back. The announcers pointed it out plain as day in the replay on TV. The defense rose up to the challenge and got big stops. We had more yards in less plays. I hate to be a dick but why didnt we deserve that one?
Outside of the long TDs, it took until late in the game to actually move the ball. 1st half offense was a joke outside of the two big plays.
Top it off with the lucky recover fumble…
I could get into it more, but I thought the win had more to do with a terrible game plan with no adjustments by Techs D than I did us executing. They were predictable and refused to make adjustments. Good job by Dearmon and Stanley to pick them apart though.
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stoptheflop said:
@jayballer73 I looked at Tech’s stats and they rely on the pass way more than rushing. Their passing yds is twice the amount of rushing yds. So, if our doggone secondary will show up, maybe our rushing offense will outscore Tech.
ummmmm ,psssssst - - guess what? – they killed us running the ball. – - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@Kcmatt7 I agree that the offense was stagnant in the first but 2 drops were killer and we was open deep all night long. Stanley missed too long twice. I feel like we didnt execute easy plays early and Tech was fortunate on several plays. Two fairly even teams IMO. If KU starts better and doesnt lose Bryce, it’s a 10 or 14 point KU win.
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@Kcmatt7 that and Tech continued to throw the ball late with a lead and averaging 5 yards per carry. That’s asking for trouble, two eaches own my friend.
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Guess who saw a fun game?🥳
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Feel bad for the kid that Leon Lett’d this thing.
BUT! My lord. This team fights like hell. We would’ve folded down 17 in years past. But did we? No! We took it to them. We scored 37 in 35 minutes of game time. Was it pretty all the time? Nope. Did it almost give me a stoke and damage my liver? Yep. But did we come out of it 1-0? ABSO FORKING LUTELY.
Les and Dearmon are the new power couple in college football. /scene
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@FarmerJayhawk Marinated crow! Good thinking! It does taste better!
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@jayballer73 pretty awesome prediction!
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bskeet said:
@FarmerJayhawk Marinated crow! Good thinking! It does taste better!
Omg it’s amazing. I made tacos from it for good measure.
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@FarmerJayhawk you deliver??
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kjayhawks said:
@FarmerJayhawk you deliver??
Man I’m way too many beers deep. But I’ll bring some next time I’m in Lawrence and we’ll have a go at a bird!
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@wissox If I was a student, I would make a banner of Coleman Jr and put it up in the ring of legends.
That was an incredibly improbable ending.
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For anyone interested, there is already a “highlight” video on YouTube:
and of course it includes the end of the game!
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bskeet said:
@jayballer73 pretty awesome prediction!
thanks - -actually wasn’t that far off 3 points for each side
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Man guys and gal’s - - can you believe it? -I mean decent amount of fans in the stadium again , some electricity , - - can you believe that we still have any interest in a football game heading into the last part of October ?
Can we fully understand exactly just how close this team actually is to being 6-2 instead of 3-5 ? - - Does Coastal Carolina ( No Pooka Williams ) - - - West Virginia - - – Texas come to mind?
Dam I’m proud of these guys - -they don’t give up. - Just to have a OC that has that confidence in his QB - -that QB knowing he has his Coach’s support -Yes his 1st pass of the game was dum - -YET that pass to Robinson hit him right on the money - - full stride - -how sweet was that ?
We looked bad a lot during the game - - mercy we have to some how shore this run defense up - -really bad , BUT guys were coming - -people gonna have to start taking notice - - this is a DIFFEENT KU team - - - - -Were Coming - -
Let me ask what were we looking for this season? - -we was looking for progress right? - - We got that - - We were looking for competiveness right? - - -We got that. - -We have only not been in ONE game - - TCU, - -we coming. take notice
With Les 2nd year of recruits a full class - -guys I’m telling ya guys we got some good recruits coming in - - - -Also - here to tell ya Potter is gonna be a stud. - -It feels so good to at least be able to look forward to a Saturday afternoon and a game - -man it feels good. - - Do we got work to do? - -Hell ya - - a lot of work - -but were coming - -walk before you can run. - -We got a really sweet core of receivers - -It’s nice to watch football – the fans are coming back - awesome to hear those fans cheering again - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Stanley is not that bad of a QB after all
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AsadZ said:
Stanley is not that bad of a QB after all
Has someone posted the QBR thing here yet?
https://twitter.com/jessenewell/status/1185913842716553218?s=21
This was BEFORE the Tech game. It probably went up given Stanley has a 91.5 QBR last night.
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@jayballer73 Didn’t look like a decent crowd to me. Box score says 31,000. Exciting though none the less.
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Like the necessary change at offensive coordinator, isn’t it time to give special teams coordinator, Mike Ekeler his walking papers? There are just too many breakdowns in all phases of our special teams. Maybe it’s too late in the season to improve special teams, but something needs to be done. Liam Jones doesn’t seem to have the leg strength for kickoffs and his FG accuracy is disturbing. Out of 6 KO’s, Jones only had one touchback and if my math is right, averaged kicking only to the 11 yard line on kickoffs. Texas Tech seemed to start each drive on their 30 or better.
I thought Texas Tech was getting improper leverage on other players’ shoulders while successfully blocking our kicks, but our line must block better. I’m sorry to spoil all the good cheer here, but special teams is a really weakness and is costing us W’s.
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Seemed like a pretty good crowd!
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wissox said:
@jayballer73 Didn’t look like a decent crowd to me. Box score says 31,000. Exciting though none the less.
Compared to previous years, a much better crowd. It’s not full, no. But it’s slowly growing.
There were games a few years ago that you’d be lucky to see 10k.
I’d say there were legitimately 20k or more yesterday.
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@Kcmatt7 You say lucky fumble recovery; I would call it fortunate. Even without the fumble recovery and successful FG, the game is tied and we go to overtime. I view the first half offense as our offensive strength, rushing being successfully defended by TT putting 9 defenders at the line of scrimmage. With the focus on stopping Pooka and our running game, that opened up the passing game. KU’s offensive strategy seemed to be show the run, keep running, then take shots downfield. We have really good receivers, who provide a great compliment to our running game.
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@Kcmatt7 Yep, last years average attendance was just over 19,000 and had a few games where the announced attendance was 14,000. This year we are averaging over 32,000.
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@stoptheflop Bottom line is KU shouldn’t have needed to kick a game winning FG last night. KU should have already been winning at that point.
KU has had 4 blocked FG’s the past 2 games (I’m including the two PAT’s in this). I don’t care if that blocked PAT last night was a penalty or not, 4 blocked kicks in two games should be unacceptable and shows a major schematic flaw with the FG unit.
And I will say KU was very damn lucky last night to win. Blocked kicks are huge momentum plays and had KU not been lucky that the Tech player made an extremely dumb play, Tech goes into OT with all of the momentum and probably wins at that point.
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wissox said:
@jayballer73 Didn’t look like a decent crowd to me. Box score says 31,000. Exciting though none the less.
that’s sad. If my dam truck wasn’t broken down would of like to gone. Then again on the other hand - - how many fans do you think we would of had there for this game last year ? – about 1/2 of that. - -Gonna take time I reckon but slowly but surely they will be back. - -This team is bringing excitement back to the field. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Fun to see a field full of students on the field after the game w/the team. Did they show Jeff long in front of the goal posts? The players went over and thanked the band too. Cool to watch! Might have to go next sat. The Vb gals played pretty good against Texas. I kinda quit following them after all the losses. The new place is really nice! Saw a lot of games thurs-sat.
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Texas Hawk 10 said:
@stoptheflop Bottom line is KU shouldn’t have needed to kick a game winning FG last night. KU should have already been winning at that point.
KU has had 4 blocked FG’s the past 2 games (I’m including the two PAT’s in this). I don’t care if that blocked PAT last night was a penalty or not, 4 blocked kicks in two games should be unacceptable and shows a major schematic flaw with the FG unit.
And I will say KU was very damn lucky last night to win. Blocked kicks are huge momentum plays and had KU not been lucky that the Tech player made an extremely dumb play, Tech goes into OT with all of the momentum and probably wins at that point.
Oh well! We had more points at 0:00. There are some issues but this team is frankly well ahead of where I thought they’d be.
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FarmerJayhawk said:
Texas Hawk 10 said:
@stoptheflop Bottom line is KU shouldn’t have needed to kick a game winning FG last night. KU should have already been winning at that point.
KU has had 4 blocked FG’s the past 2 games (I’m including the two PAT’s in this). I don’t care if that blocked PAT last night was a penalty or not, 4 blocked kicks in two games should be unacceptable and shows a major schematic flaw with the FG unit.
And I will say KU was very damn lucky last night to win. Blocked kicks are huge momentum plays and had KU not been lucky that the Tech player made an extremely dumb play, Tech goes into OT with all of the momentum and probably wins at that point.
Oh well! We had more points at 0:00. There are some issues but this team is frankly well ahead of where I thought they’d be.
KU is in the exact same position as last season. 3-5 overall and 1-4 in league play with self inflicted mistakes costing themselves multiple games each season. KU has winnable games the rest of the way this year, but they had winnable games last year as well and lost because of self inflicted errors.
That “Oh well!” is exactly why KU lost last Saturday. It’s an issue that’s cost KU at least one win this year.
If KU wants to win another game the rest of the way, they are going to have to fix the issues in the kicking game because they’ve left 10 points on the field the past two games. These are the kind of mistakes that have a huge impact on the field. KU absolutely has the schedule to try and get to 6 wins, but KU has to clean up their FG unit to maximize those chances.
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Texas Hawk 10 said:
FarmerJayhawk said:
Texas Hawk 10 said:
@stoptheflop Bottom line is KU shouldn’t have needed to kick a game winning FG last night. KU should have already been winning at that point.
KU has had 4 blocked FG’s the past 2 games (I’m including the two PAT’s in this). I don’t care if that blocked PAT last night was a penalty or not, 4 blocked kicks in two games should be unacceptable and shows a major schematic flaw with the FG unit.
And I will say KU was very damn lucky last night to win. Blocked kicks are huge momentum plays and had KU not been lucky that the Tech player made an extremely dumb play, Tech goes into OT with all of the momentum and probably wins at that point.
Oh well! We had more points at 0:00. There are some issues but this team is frankly well ahead of where I thought they’d be.
KU is in the exact same position as last season. 3-5 overall and 1-4 in league play with self inflicted mistakes costing themselves multiple games each season. KU has winnable games the rest of the way this year, but they had winnable games last year as well and lost because of self inflicted errors.
That “Oh well!” is exactly why KU lost last Saturday. It’s an issue that’s cost KU at least one win this year.
If KU wants to win another game the rest of the way, they are going to have to fix the issues in the kicking game because they’ve left 10 points on the field the past two games. These are the kind of mistakes that have a huge impact on the field. KU absolutely has the schedule to try and get to 6 wins, but KU has to clean up their FG unit to maximize those chances.
By record, that’s technically correct. But, let’s take a little deeper look. Scoring? Up 4 PPG. Average game margin? Games are 2 points closer. Total offense is up 50 yards per game. Averaging a yard per play more on offense. Defense has regressed a bit, but that’s to be expected given they lost half the tackling production from last season, including the entire front 7. And all this against a better schedule.
You’re misreading oh well. Not that I don’t care we made mistakes (like I said above, it wasn’t pretty and we need to fix some things). I’m just going to take some time and enjoy a win. Sorry if you can’t.
This team is significantly improved and getting better, especially since Dearmon was promoted. My goal coming into the year was 4 wins, and we’ve got a good shot at that. Any more is gravy. We’ve got enough to hang with KSU, though our lack of depth up front will be exposed by their really good line. We’re going to have to hang another 40 on them to stay in it.
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Breath of fresh air
https://twitter.com/ku_football/status/1188595465593466880?s=21
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Crimsonorblue22 said:
Breath of fresh air
https://twitter.com/ku_football/status/1188595465593466880?s=21Make KU football fun again!
