Lance Leipold
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It was pretty full to start the game. My DIL and 2 gkids got box seats-so lucky! They said the nw side left at half. Those seats, were over 200 bucks! Guessing rich parents in town had other things to do. We went last week and not many left!
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To add to my above comment regarding coach failure tales that dwarf any purported LL issues: 4-0 Penn State became the first AP Top 10 team to lose to a team 0-4 or worse (UCLA) since 1985.
Edit: Oops! 3-1 Penn State. Lost last week to Oregon which is what instigated that prior comment. I should listen to myself.
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Lance won a close game. It is time to call off the hot-seat dogs for now.
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@Jhawk69 His seat was never hot DKs probably cooled a bit but he better watch himself. Offensively we have played good enough to win every game, defense is 50/50
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@Jhawk69 Funny how my mind works…I look at your comment and all I see is "hot dogs "
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@Jhawk69 said in Lance Leipold:
Lance won a close game. It is time to call off the hot-seat dogs for now.
FWIW they are idiots. KU football is highly unlikely to ever be nationally relevant, just enjoy maybe being bowl eligible and competitive in most games. Lance is the best possible coach for KU currently. Loud mouth idiots without two brain cells to rub together are far too common on the internet.
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@dylans anyone wanting to fire LL at this point is an idiot. Even if we lost last night they’d still be an idiot. I was the first to scream fire Grimes last year and still believe if we had coach Z we would’ve played for a conference championship. Zero coaches from Gill to Miles won more than 3 games in a single year. LL now has a conference road win in very season he’s coached here. The other guys from 09-20 had zero and the NCAA record for most consecutive road conference losses. I don’t always agree with LL but he’s easily a top 3 coach in Kansas football history and could be number 1 before he’s done.
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Broskis lets just call them ignorant? They have 2 brain cells, 1 is just dormant.
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@dylans Isn’t it amazing how in a short amount of time how things change .Let’s go back down memory lane when we used to have huge Beer busts when we actually win a game ? - - - - didn’t happen a lot , & if we got real lucky and win two- -holy crap Katie bar the door , and now even when we win six – seven games it’s fire the Coach ROFLMAO. i lo ve side line Coaches who neve have or never will lose a game- --must be pure bliss.
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In the “Man Bites Dog” news category: In The Athletic’s Chris Vanini’s latest football rankings, KU at 37 is ranked higher than Baylor, Texas, Penn State, Iowa, Florida, Arizona, Clemson, Pitt, Arkansas, and Boise State, among so many others. Enjoy the moment.
Oh, and Kansas State is ranked more than twice KU’s number (76). Really enjoy the moment.
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@mayjay Buddy surely you ought to know THAT IS JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH, We need and should be 36th AND , AND , AND TRIPLE TRIPLE from the kity’s GEEZ get you head in the game lmao
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@SlimShaddy54 I don’t care just beat them
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The schedule gets pretty rough after the rest of the way though. I’m thinking the good vibes will fade off a bit after dealing with some probable losses.
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ESPN’s FPI has KU pretty heavily favored against KSU and OSU, a small favorite over Arizona, a small underdog against ISU and Utah, and a big underdog this weekend against Texas Tech.
This Saturday is by far KU’s most difficult remaining game on paper and the remaining 5 are absolutely winnable games for KU.
I would definitely say that KU needs to be bowl eligible after the OSU game to guarantee a bowl game this year.
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K-State is not a winnable game. TTU isn’t either. Other than that, I think we’ve got a chance against everyone we play.
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@Jhawk69 lol. what K/State team have you been watching ? They are a VERY WINNABLE game, they have showed next to nothing with their very over rated QB. Johnson is an accident looking for a place to happen. Their program is a really bad spot right now. they are probably one of our better chances remaining for a win
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We don’t beat K-State in football
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We have more times than not.
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If Kansas beats K State in football and wins an NC in basketball I will eat a bite of the piece of wedding cake in my freezer which is from 2008 and has a Jayhawk on it.
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It will be a very interesting Saturday for sure. We will find out if Mizzou is for real with Bama in Columbia. We are heavy underdogs at Tech but I will say this much, we could very well be the best team Tech has faced thus far. We have to get the run game going and control the clock from the opening kick to have a chance. Techs strength is their d-line, is theirs better than Mizzou or Cincinnati? Idk yet they have only played one team with a pulse.
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@Jhawk69 said in Lance Leipold:
We don’t beat K-State in football
Like you, I look to recent history rather than overall. KU last beat KState in 2008; that’s 16 consecutive wins for KState. That’s what sticks in my mind about KU football and all the KState fans that surround me in Kansas. I was at Memorial Stadium when KU finally stopped the Nebr streak in 2007.
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@stoptheflop I agree. The way I think about our competitiveness is how many wins have we had against a team since the freshmen arriving on campus were in Kindergarten. (That’s since 2012 as of now. And right now, KU vs K-State = -3 wins)
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@bskeet -3 wins? Hasn’t KU lost all those games? Or are you combining all sports? Kansas has lost 15 straight football games to Manhattan. 28/31 or some nonsense. KSU must’ve been absolutely wretched in the early days for KU football to still have a winning record against them.
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@dylans You must be relatively young - within a few blocks either way of 40. The reason I say that (and the reason a loss to KSU antagonizes me so much) is that back in the day the roles were reversed. We absolutely dominated them. But then again so did everyone else. They were LITERALLY the worst team in college football. That wasn’t an opinion, it was fact. There was a lot of serious talk about them just shutting down the program. Then Bill Snyder showed up and ruined the party.
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@nuleafjhawk Yeah. I remember that, but I was a kid. My entire adult life KU has sucked at football outside of a couple outlier years and KSU has owned KU football, just as KU basketball has owned KSU.
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Bill Snyder and Tom Osborne are models for a program like KU. Lance is as good as it gets, he’s in that mold.
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@nuleafjhawk said in Lance Leipold:
They were LITERALLY the worst team in college football.
I believe it was some season around 1978, '79 or '80 when the Playboy preseason football ranking had KState as the worst college football team, with KU close behind. After Nolan Cromwell left, it was just sad in our little state.
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@mayjay Oh, you just got that for the articles, eh?
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@patoh3 I probably got around to reading it long after football was over.
Seriously, though, the PB football issue was very highly respected. Their preseason All Americans were flown for a big photo shoot, and they made predictions for lots of awards, etc. Not the same level as SI but they had quite a run.
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@mayjay But PB’s benefits were better
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I’m not saying we should fire Lance. But if we keep him we have to accept that we will never beat K State
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@dylans Sorry-- what I was saying is negative 3. As in Zero and then you can go back three more years of losses. My son is a sophomore. He was 3 years old the last time KU beat KState in football. (He doesn’t remember it.)
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Honestly, what does it matter who coaches KU? Doesn’t seem to matter much.
But, we at least seem respectable at times with Lance. I’m in no hurry to rush him out the door.
(I do think he should have given other QBs a chance to right the ship today)
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Im just shocked how bad we weren’t ready to play. KSU blitz’s a high percentage of the time and we seemed shocked. They did it all game last season vs us. Jalon Daniels may have turned in the worst QB performance I’ve ever seen at any level. Unfortunately my sons team lost the championship game today as well and I’m sure our 5th grade QB had a better passer rating than JD. I hope we never see JD in a KU uniform again. X is exploding with people thinking he threw the damn game thats how bad he was. I hope the team corned him in the locker room and said your done loser.
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@kjayhawks I’m not a JD superfan, but what would be his motive for throwing this game?
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@nuleafjhawk Sorry to say but that same thought raced through my mind for a second myself but then I thought NA surely not. Yet his play was so atrocious some them was like WOW it looked like that’s exactly what he was doing
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Yeah its not logical that he threw it. His head wasnt in it, the pressure got to him, and he had a really bad game. Cant kick JD to the curb. He has done a lot for this program. But man, that was rough.
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@approxinfinity Logically he didn’t throw the game but man that was bad like the worst KU performance I’ve seen in my lifetimes. That says a lot @nuleafjhawk money would be the gain lol. Question becomes can we even beat Okie lite? Not with today’s performance
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@kjayhawks I definitely think we can beat OK ST. If we use our cheerleaders instead of our so called football players.
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Hard to imagine the weekend going worse than it with Volleyball getting upset Friday to start and likely ending their B12 title hopes. Between today and the rain its depressing
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I wonder if the Indiana coach would like to move to Lawrence? It’d be fun to ruin another good coach…
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The coach is only going to take you as far as the QB will go. The QB will only take you as far as the line will allow. The skill players have to complete the plays. None of it works without the other parts.
JD is probably maxed out - this is what we get this year. Hopefully the next QB seizes the job early and leaves no doubt.
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@nuleafjhawk said in Lance Leipold:
I wonder if the Indiana coach would like to move to Lawrence? It’d be fun to ruin another good coach…
He just signed an 8 year, $93 million extension to keep him from going to Penn St.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Don’t take everything I say so literally. I just like to think out loud sometimes.
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Well, Brian Kelly is now available to coach.
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This cycle is going to be especially insane. We’re probably looking at 25ish FBS openings. Which drives me nuts about the fire Lance crowd. Where do they think we fall in that ranking, especially in a year where there aren’t really many great candidates out there?
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I went to a lot of games during the Gill, Weiss and Miles era. Lance is so much better! There is always hope to win. There was zero chance back then. Maybe some changes w/ast coaches.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in Lance Leipold:
This cycle is going to be especially insane. We’re probably looking at 25ish FBS openings. Which drives me nuts about the fire Lance crowd. Where do they think we fall in that ranking, especially in a year where there aren’t really many great candidates out there?
I think a lot of people forget how hard it is to win here. And even if they do, keeping them here long enough to actually build a program.
I do think making bowls with his own guys is important. If he can’t do that, we do need to move on. But he absolutely should get another season at the very least. Probably 2 considering the buyout.
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Give him a lifetime contract. Changing coaches isn’t going to help KU football. It’s a moribund program. It’s like expecting the Cleveland Browns to be good - maybe make the postseason, but to truly threaten for a title - not going to happen.
I’m enjoying winning 4 maybe 5 games this year. Way better than previous years. It helps that the Big12 lost all the good football teams - no Texas, Oklahoma, Texas AM, Missouri, or even Nebraska. That’s the disappointing part for me - no good team in the Big12 and KU still can’t capitalize. I know they’re not good, but I was hoping for an inflated record due to the competition sucking hind tit.
The best thing about this football season is that basketball has started and we no longer have to pretend like we genuinely care about KU football!!!
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I do care about KU fb
