I could be wrong... but it seemed to me that Melvin had his hands outward to defend while he was running to get inbounds and the Colorado guy literally threw the ball into Melvin. I think Melvin was as shocked as anyone that he was hit with the ball.

Fran was delusional on Tuesday night. Not sure what his issue was but he needs to review that broadcast and reel it in a bit.

Four people are on a plane (a doctor, a lawyer, a schoolboy, and a priest) when it starts to go down. The pilot jumps out with the first parachute, saying "Good luck!". The doctor grabs one and says, "I save lives, I must live!" and jumps. The lawyer shouts, "I am the smartest person in the world, I deserve to live!" and grabs the next parachute. The priest turns to the schoolboy and says, "My son, I have lived a full life. Take the last parachute." The schoolboy smiles and says, "Relax Father. The smartest man in the world just jumped out with my bookbag"

Sounds like precautions were taken given what was happening (and his past), it was ultimately the right decision. Sounds like he will coach Saturday which is a good thing to hear.

@mayjay #42

@Jayhawk_69 said in 2025-26 Portal Thread: Edwards is now officially onboard. We also secured Rice QB Chase Jenkins. I wonder if he was brought in as a depth piece or if he is supposed to compete for a starting role. I think we have 3 guys that could end up being QB1, you need the competition imo

@wissox83 that seems to be the Ringer’s take. I love the idea that he was winning too many games for them. Svi for 3!

K/State was hitting the threes in the first half anyways. Castillo made five , couldn't miss just bam , bam , bam like that which we defended lile warm dog doo last night wide open threes.= = = Look out , as you know they are going to be jacked a they sure the hell not making the NCAA .That place going to be insane , and they will play like Bryant , Jordan Jabbar & Curry lol

The city cleared out the camps months ago. The only one left is on the KDOT right of way near Centennial Park.

@Jayhawk_69 said in Other Football Games Of Interest: There is an article on ESPN breaking down why 2026 Indiana is a better team than 1894 Yale. Sports journalism at its finest! They have to get creative the SEC is out and the ACC isn’t looking like the conference they once were in CBB.

We are about to find out if we only play well while unranked

@FarmerJayhawk Johnson and Moore are getting ripped here for their failures in that game. Johnson for not kicking FGs early on and Moore for lazy play on the last interception. Johnson is a little too haphazard with his risking it on 4th and he really could have tried a throw in short yardage a couple of times I thought. On that other hand that throw from Caleb! Wow!!

That 15 day window will be pins and needles. It's going to the worst one yet.

Analytics loved the KU win over Iowa St. Moved up from #23 to #17 on Kenpom. Offense jumped from the 50's to #34 so that offensive performance was well above expected. Defense has dropped nearly 10 spots this month

@approxinfinity Sadly yes. Accountability, not a word the big companies know

@approxinfinity Even in our 2018 FF run this holds somewhat true. While Devonte Graham was our best player throughout the season, Malik Newman emerged as our best player in the postseason allowing Devonte to shift into the roll of a secondary star/facilitator.

@BeddieKU23 Self has a lot of ridiculous records but that doesn’t pertain to much with this group. I’d like to see those numbers from both 03-22 and from 23 to now. I know we have a losing road record by over 10 games in that span and I’ll bet it’s a losing record vs ranked opponents.

@kjayhawks2.0 @tyohawk you all are too kind!

In an effort to distract thought from this year's basketball team, here's another "look back." The '80s is an era that is difficult to write about. It’s difficult because I was as close to the program as anyone could be who was not on the University payroll. I saw first-hand how difficult it was to compete in athletics without the support of the University’s administration. (Gene Budig) In the early 1980’s, I joined a local KU support group in Kansas City called the Hawks Club. The main purpose was to sell KU football season tickets. Heading into the 1984 season, I had become president of the Hawks Club and took the leadership position seriously. As a club, we sold the most season tickets ever. My involvement in the Hawks Club was my first opportunity to get close to the program and the players. My son, Jason, was a budding little league quarterback and placekicker. In the spring of 1983 I met Bruce Kallymeyer, the K.U. placekicker. That summer, Bruce volunteered to work with Jason. Because Bruce was from the Shawnee Mission area, I drove Jason across town to Shawnee Mission East to meet on their football field. Bruce was 20 minutes late, apologizing because he had been helping to complete the harvest of his parents’ asparagus crop! Opening up a big net bag full of footballs, Bruce and Jason kicked, and I shagged balls! I wanted to pay Bruce for his time, but he was adamant about not jeopardizing his eligibility. Bruce, by the way, kicked 78.6 percent of his career field goals and in 1981 set the K.U. single season record of 85.7%. A year later, we worked with kicker Dodge Schwartzberg. His dad was president of Lawrence Paper Co. In 1985 the K.U. kicker was Chase Van Dyne, again from Shawnee Mission. Jason had a chance to work with Chase, too. That winter, at halftime of a K.U. basketball game, Chase spotted us and came up to our seats to say “Hi.” I was so often impressed with the quality of young men on the K.U. football teams. Unrelated to KU, but a good kicking story is one involving Jan Stenerud, the All-Pro kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs who had retired in 1985 after finishing his career with Green Bay and then Minnesota. While on a business trip to Green Bay, I stopped by a Packers practice and was standing outside a chain link fence. Jan was off kicking by himself. I yelled, “Hey, Jan, I’m from KC.” He walked over to the fence and said, “What the heck are you doing here?” We had a brief conversation. Back in K.C. the following summer, I was in Jan’s office to buy a kicking tee from him for Jason. (Jan had developed and was selling his own branded tee.) Jason was a left-footed kicker, and Jan didn’t have in stock a standard left-footed tee. So he gave me a taller, non-legal, 3” high tee saying, “The refs will never notice. Heck, I wore baseball cleats on my plant foot in Green Bay and the refs never noticed!” And the high school refs never notice Jason’s 3” tee!