Lance is COOKING
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Lance is COOKING:
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Only had 2 spots and addressed big needs in the portal. Top 300 and top 60 guys in their HS class originally.
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Staffs close rate on transfers is wild.
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@Kcmatt7 do you have 5 kids by now, stranger?
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Big get with Bai Jobe - - we donāt get him or our other get for this coming Season do we ? - -Arenāt they for 25 ?
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@Crimsonorblue22 just the one, but he keeps me busy
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@Kcmatt7 how old? Congrats!
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@Crimsonorblue22 a year and a half now. In the throes of toddler tantrums
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@Kcmatt7 said in Lance is COOKING:
@Crimsonorblue22 a year and a half now. In the throes of toddler tantrums
My youngest is 5, and has just recently become sufferable. Good luck.
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Lance is feeling spicy
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@approxinfinity if heās anything like me, 12 year old KC Matt will be very face punch able unfortunately
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@Kcmatt7 lol, time for paybacks!
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@approxinfinity said in Lance is COOKING:
My youngest is 5, and has just recently become sufferable. Good luck.
That will last about 6 more years, then you have to wait until they are about 26 for some sanity to return to your lives. Enjoy the sweet times!
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The A&M center to KU is gaining steam
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Lance is COOKING:
The A&M center to KU is gaining steam
Someone has to āretireā for it to work out. Very interesting.
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@BShark said in Lance is COOKING:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Lance is COOKING:
The A&M center to KU is gaining steam
Someone has to āretireā for it to work out. Very interesting.
One that would make a ton of sense is Easters. I assume heās really close to graduating and would be a prime contender for a GA spot.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Lance is COOKING:
The A&M center to KU is gaining steam
What level of steam would you say we are at rn?
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@KirkIsMyHinrich said in Lance is COOKING:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Lance is COOKING:
The A&M center to KU is gaining steam
What level of steam would you say we are at rn?
The boiler works but we donāt have the engine cranked quite yet
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We got our punter. STRONG leg- -they said if you were to put his stats in the Big 12 this past yr he would of ranked 2nd in net.-- Several 50 plus , very efficient
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@FarmerJayhawk ermmm i want a steam analogy update here. We need apples to apples.
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@SlimShaddy54 I hope we donāt need a punter
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@SlimShaddy54 said in Lance is COOKING:
We got our punter. STRONG leg- -they said if you were to put his stats in the Big 12 this past yr he would of ranked 2nd in net.-- Several 50 plus , very efficient
Ya, it seems like a clear upgrade over Greaves. Slightly confused if he has 1 or 3 years of eligibility. People are saying one year but heās listed as a true sophomore soā¦ ?
That takes us to 82 scholarship players total. 40 offense, 40 defense, and 2 special teams.
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@KirkIsMyHinrich Ya Iām not sure, all I have seen was Swainās Article and he said one year, I really donāt know bud-- sounds like a nice get though
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I read something saying it is one year because he spent a couple of years at a college in Australia
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@approxinfinity said in Lance is COOKING:
@FarmerJayhawk ermmm i want a steam analogy update here. We need apples to apples.
The engine has taken us almost to the top of the mountain but weāre running out of coal (NIL $).
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@FarmerJayhawk nice! I cant believe I have been excited about KU football for 3 years in a row.
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Is there any crossover in NIL between bball and football? Like a common pool? Showing my ignorance here. does the same agency handle all of KU NIL?
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@approxinfinity yes and no. Mass Street Collective is the āofficialā agency that handles it all. Donors can select which sport their donations support when they donate. Buuuut all that is going under the roof of KUAD this summer when revenue sharing becomes a real thing. Businesses can also reach out to athletes directly, but thatās less common.
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One thing KU has going for it is that I believe we have a very good reputation for paying whatever NIL money we say we will pay. Where other schoolsā¦ well, not so much.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Lance is COOKING:
@approxinfinity yes and no. Mass Street Collective is the āofficialā agency that handles it all. Donors can select which sport their donations support when they donate. Buuuut all that is going under the roof of KUAD this summer when revenue sharing becomes a real thing. Businesses can also reach out to athletes directly, but thatās less common.
A very fun, but very stressful time to be working in KUAD right now I imagine.
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Lance is STILL cooking, we got that commit- - -Hunter Higgins , top De in the state of Kansasā -we have a bright future, they are really building a strong core
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@FarmerJayhawk No need to worry about money. They will come to Lawrence for the city, the camaraderie and love of the game.
Oh, I crack myself up
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Im ready for football season.
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@approxinfinity Me toooo. -Go teem go- - Rah , Rah , Rah, Sisk Boom Bah - -lol.- -No Seriously I really am. Coach and staff really building something nice for the future.
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@approxinfinity said in Lance is COOKING:
Im ready for football season.
The way the portal and recruiting works, itās pretty much always football season.
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@KirkIsMyHinrich I feel like he means when theyāre actually playing and can pull off amazing feats like being the only team in the history of college football to be unranked and beat three Top 25 teams in consecutive weeks, but not be good enough to go to even a crappy bowl game.
@approxinfinity , please correct me if Iām out of line.
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@nuleafjhawk lol! Nailed it!
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Lance is running a border line shit show and everyone here is ready to give him a raise and pronounce him a saint for sticking around. Meanwhile a coach that has won at the highest level for 2 decades and won a national championship 3 years ago while his recruiting pipeline was impeded by the NCAA is the one folks want to run off? KU fans are so damn entitled itās disgusting.
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I donāt know if I can agree that Lance is running a borderline shit show. Even with last season not going how we expected he is still way ahead of schedule. But yes, KU fans are comically entitled when it comes to basketball.
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Sure we are entitled. Its easier than muddling through mediocrity in silence when your GOAT coach seems to be losing the midas touch.
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Since winning the title in 2022 we have had:
2023: a season where we won the Big 12 and earned a one seed but got bounced early
2024: our worst season under Bill Self but we lost our best player due to injury and were still ranked all season and never in danger of missing the tournament
2025: mostly TBD but right now looks like a borderline top-10 team that is a long shot to win the title
That is nowhere near bad enough to panic. If you donāt believe me look at the history of every other program in college basketball. If we have a couple more below-average seasons or ever miss the tournament then there might be cause for concern.
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@Jhawk69 said in Lance is COOKING:
Since winning the title in 2022 we have had:
2023: a season where we won the Big 12 and earned a one seed but got bounced early
2024: our worst season under Bill Self but we lost our best player due to injury and were still ranked all season and never in danger of missing the tournament
2025: mostly TBD but right now looks like a borderline top-10 team that is a long shot to win the title
That is nowhere near bad enough to panic. If you donāt believe me look at the history of every other program in college basketball. If we have a couple more below-average seasons or ever miss the tournament then there might be cause for concern.
Also,in 2023 something else pretty serious happened right before the tournament.
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@Jhawk69 Far from a shit show, if people canāt see the overall turnaround this program has made the I donāt know what to tell them other then they are just lost.- -He is killing it in the 2026 recruiting and the transfers he has coming in-- -Come on.
Before Lance got here we were so far down in that bottomless pit, nobody knew what the meaning of light was unless they looked it up in Websters.-- If anyone can stand here and look me in the face that five years ago and back w would be getting kids the caliber from Schools such as Alabama - - -Auburn ā Florida St- - S Carolina and say different I would call BS.
Before Lance came in those types of kids if we tried to recruit them --they would hardly acknowledge us little lone commit to us. Now we are in recruiting wars with some of the Big time Schools for some of these kids and actually getting those commit ā No where close to a shit show, you want a shit show go talk to Weis.
Lance got us to back to back bowls and how long had that been before Lance- -What was our roster count BEFORE Lance showed - low enough one year we couldnāt even have a spring game
These kids before didnāt want to come to play for some crappy low football program and be part of a laughing stock of College football.- -Now they see commitment from the staff, look whatās getting done Weight room huge upgrade- - New stadium instead of what the hell ever that thing was- -we are starting to be able to get into the Kansas recruits win them over, where before wasnāt even going to the Schools to try and recruit high quality players- - ya we had a bad Season but wasnāt because of a shit show, it was where the defense couldnāt maintain leads for one thing- -Iām telling you this defense is on the verge of being nasty from the efforts and results Lance is getting ā -Iām ready for football, good to see a competitive team again, be able to go watch College football in Larwrence again instead of a circus where the Captains use to say OK name your score at how bad we were getting our ass kicked on a weekly basis- - Lance is doing just fine
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2026 class is already good and it has a chance to be special. This will be an important weekend.
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Iād rather watch the football at this point and see what crazy play or rule kills in the last two minutes of a game. Iāll take that over the Lazies which my new nickname for the basketball team. They donāt seem to want play and put forth minimal effort. If we donāt spank KSU tomorrow Iām done with these over compensated losers.
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@KirkIsMyHinrich Huge weekend. Just watched pod cast of ranking of 2026 Kansas players- -just came out with up dated rankings. So far Ku has verbals from # ( 1 0 player J J Dunnigan ā - The # ( 4 ) player Hunter Higgins- - & the # ( 9 ) player Jayden Mason
Huge , Huge weekend on this Jr day ā the other scouting service has Premer as the # 1 ) player and Dunnigan 2nd - -But he is coming and he is going to be with our three in state commits Higgins-- -Dunnigan ā & Mason - -rumor has it we have a GREAT shot at this kid , Synder coming in- -Several big time recruits coming in
The talk has been for some time that we are on the verge of a top 25 class for 26 and been said people saying this is the year that KU has been mentioned for just cleaning up with a great class- canāt wait.- -Thing is long time till December of 2025 going to have to hang on to guys once committed but looks great.- ā K ? State absolutely thinks they still can flip Dunnigan I donāt think so
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My Goodness. Lance and the staff really our just killing it sounds/looks like in 2026 recruiting-- - rumor has been spreading that 2026 was Laneās year in recruiting especially local in State kids which has been lacking in past Coaching staffs. ā Not in 2026 , KU at this point I checked had a top 20 ranking for their 2026 class.
In 2026 so far we have the # 1 or # 2 ranked player in the State has committed name is J J Dunnigan ā the # 4 ranked player in the State & ranked as the # 32 player in the Nation has committed name is Hunter Higgins - - -The # 9 ranked player in the State has committed name is Jayden Mason. On top of this read/saw today we have received CB picks for Tgren Parker - -( Athlete ) ā then we have a CB down for Nate Sims -WR ( announcing his decision on the 23rd, & we are the favorite for him WR - -Then the cream from today is A 4 * OL Kayden Synder - - with receiving these CBās means we are in really good shape. These three picks that all came in today came from the K/State analyst predicting these three are landing at KU.
On top of that we are in a really good spot for the # 1 TE end in Kansas- name is Ian Premer, has been to visit KU multiple times and Jr day , Coach is cleaning up in State , no more of out of State Schools coming in and swiping quality players right here out of Kansas under our nose If we land Premer- ā would give us Seven of the top kids from right here in Kansas. - - also in on Josh Galbreath a Rb right here in Lawrence- then the # 1 player WR out of the State of Nebraska Amarion Jackson- - been to visit KU multiple times and Jr day.- -Sitting up to be a massive year in 2026
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Nate Sims commits to Kansas. He is a wide receiver.
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I know guys I just posted on this recently so I apologize here but I canāt help it. Iām so stoked about football at KU anymore , can you believe it?- --Football .
What this staff has done for our once laughing stock in America so called program where we were just happy if we could keep it close for a half. Now - -Now- -what Lance and his guys have done is awesome , Our Coach has come in here and shown that he is really invested to OUR football program. He saw changes and I mean major changes that needed to happen , Weight room , And a remodel almost complete tear down of the old shambled way out of date Stadium & facilities and itās coming to life.
Lance came in and I still remember something he said , he told his wife after a game something that struck him and that was he says ā - Look these fans are cheering for us keeping the game close ā not that we won ( We Lost ) - -but he couldnāt believe we were cheering cause we had kept it close. - he made up his mind those days were over , we are now a competitive program at least. We can actually look forward to going to the game and knowing we can play with these teams - -be competitive and actually win many of these games .
Not only has Lance gotten upgrades done with the Stadium and other pieces BUT he and the Staff has worked their tails off and itās showing we have gradually gotten better talent, better athletes , higher ranked players from all over the Country. Kids that ten years ago even eight years ago wouldnāt even allow us to talk to them - - couldnāt come close to get in their doors,- -Now ?- - - Now- - -Now not only are these higher ranked kids not only listening to Coachās talks- - Some of these higher rated more talented kids are committing/transferring here to us.
Oh and you donāt think the things that are going on here havenāt been noticed by others ? - Think again my friends-- Our little brothers down the interstate at the Petting Zoo are HOT- -dis belief- - -frustration , whatever or however you want to put it , itās ok. Bottom line is the keepers of that petting zoo in Manflattin are NOT HAPPY ā not happy at all. Why ? ā because they know their rein of their winning ways against us are coming to an end and coming soon.
Further proof of our turnaround is getting key commits. Our class of 2026 has a very good chance of being insane.-- Right now a of this point depending where you look we have either the 17 the ranked class in the nation. Or in the other ranking is the 21st best in the Nation for 2026 Another very key point is Lance & staff has finally been able to recruit and get talented kids right here in our own back yard from Kansas.- -No more of Iowa St and K/State just swooping up all the talented kids. The Staff has been able to get back and make that connect with Kansas High School coachās and kids , been a long time from them just being ignored by KU. . As of today w have gotten huge commits from the following Kansas Recruits and they are good : -We have gotten the either # 1 - or # 2 depending which report you look at J J Dunnigan , Dunnigan is a 3 * CB ā We have got the # 4-- -Hunter Higgins a 4 * Edge- - -We got the # 9 player-- -Jayden Mason a 3 * QBā -Then we got Nate Sims a speedy WR - he is ranked in the top 10 but I donāt have it , Think he # 7 - -on top of these guys we are in really good shape with these other kids from Kansas ranked in the top 10
They are : - -Either the # 1 or # 2 rated player Ian Premer you can just flip him and JJ either way good possibility of having the # 1 & # 2 rated both -most have him as the # 1 ranked TE in Kansas- - - then we have # 5 rated Joshua Galbreath r LB another 3 * - -then there is the # 8 ranked player a Wr/Ath --Tyren Parker a 3 *- -then the last one we got the # 10 rated player Kayden Synder another 3 * on the verge of a 4 * player OT.- -If we land these four which again we are in really good shape , that would give us SEVEN of the top TEN players from the State of ?Kansas-- Lance and Staff are COOKING.
K/Stateāsfans response to all of this si either : - -they backed of these players, they wasnāt as good as people think or they really didnāt want them- -or there is questions arehacing the Parents around the entire Season kinda shaddy things not good people they say. They say this after they find out things arenāt looking good for them.- ā Iān Stoked friends-- ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY .
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