Blowing out a bad Rutgers team still felt good. The bottom of the Big12 (not counting KU) has been decent and most of the teams have been quite good.

In the final 2017 ranking (Athlon Sports & Life), KUs Big12 opponents were ranked: 4) OU, 11) TCU, 16) OkSt, 30) Iowa State, 36) Texas, 41) K-State, 46) WVU, 64) TTU, 102) Baylor. I don’t know anything about Athlon, it was just easy to find on Google. I’m assuming other rankings won’t be wildly off from this.

My point is, I would be surprised if we’ve played any conference opponent outside of the top 120 the last 5 years. Last year there were 7 teams in the top 50. That means to get 2 wins in conference, you have to be a top 60ish team. My guess is that KU has not been a top 100 team in the past 8-9 years. We could be top 75 and still get only 1 conference wins given the strength of the conference.

The year that KU gets 2 wins in the Big 12, the conference will appear “weak” and all teams will be punished in the rankings.

@Crimsonorblue22 Not yet… but it’s getting there.

@mayjay Well, this was when I returned to KU for grad school, but yeah… I would like to think I’m young

Yea! It’s the start of basketball season! (or at least camp.)

One surprise upset (OU/OSU/WVU/TCU/Texas) combined with at least one more reachable victory (Baylor/KSU/TT/ISU) would be enough for me to believe they have improved significantly (assuming they are competitive in the other games).

Ok… one more that has a cool story… The sports reporter for the Kansan got Dick Vitale to sign this one for me.

All, I’m cleaning out the garage… finding lots of old KU stuff.

Memories.

Thought I’d share a few and see if anyone wants to do the same.

I’ll start with some posters I created back when I worked at the UDK. Let me know if you remember them.

I found a Kansas Ultimate frisbee and my old glass beer mug from The Hawk…

There have been a lot of great QBs in a Chiefs uniform… just very few wore it in their prime.

It’s a long season and I don’t want to get in front of myself, but this is something to get excited about for sure! Chiefs can compete with anyone right now. Could we be looking at Chiefs and Rams down the road?

@KUSTEVE Just fyi-- that’s an April fools joke. It doesn’t actually work.

Very elaborate hoax.