Love how happy the guys are for Mbiya

Flory MVP for making Toppin his biotch though.

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Alright fine, I'll take my 1st weekend exit glasses off. Now, I see your point.

I actually think the real indictment of the staff is they haven’t evaluated talent well enough in the NIL era.

Gone after big names instead of grinding the tape.

I thought they kept playcalling purposely bland to keep things hidden for next week.

I still hate the quick no huddle near the goal line when you don’t do that anywhere else on the field. Got a false start on that, and we’ll do the same thing 5+ times this year guaranteed.

Marshall was the right guy to start, but there were balls thrown that are turnovers against real opponents. He will have to be better next week.

Edward’s looks good in this offense and will break a few this year.

Defense was stout, but not saying much considering the opponent.

I expect us to do much of what we did last year against Mizzou. Play close enough all game, but just get warm down by the end. Need the offense to either score almost every drive or have a lot of sustained drives that eat up clock.

Looked like a 5+ win team to me though.

I HATE the switch everything defense. Causes us to rebound poorly and double team too much in the post.

Offensively I’m not sure we shoot it well enough to get much better. Offense for this group has to come from defense in a sense.

I still think they will get better as a team. But we are certainly not a good team right now. Incredibly lucky to not be 0-3 in conference play.

+16 with Mbiya on the floor and +11 with DP. The rest were basically even

@kjayhawks2.0 said in Previewing the 2026 season:

Wahoo 6-0 silly to go for two but okay

They did it to waste Mizzou time to have to prepare for it. Nothing more than that.

Imagine being UK and firing Cal and sucking even worse

Only KU would have both QBs get hurt in one play

At the game - DP got up okay.

@kjayhawks2.0 said in What KU Football Cannot Overcome.:

@Kcmatt7 I don’t disagree with that assessment and don’t believe he should be fired after this season even if we have won our last game of the season. I predicted 2 wins and still feel pretty good about that. But we may steal another one at some point. The points you make are why we will never be taken seriously in CFB. I don’t have stats on every coach in the country but I’d bet a high amount of money a coach in his 6th year at a power 4 school isn’t returning for a 7th if he hasn’t made the post season for 3 straight seasons. Look at Aranda at Baylor, people have been screaming for his job for the last 3 seasons and he has won a conference championship in 2021 and made bowls 2 of the last 4 years. Before Briles and RG3 their program mirrored ours on most levels. At this point in time it’s a hard sell that KU football will be any better the day LL leaves to the day he showed up.

Well at the very least LL is the reason for the major facilities improvements. He definitely made an impact.

@kjayhawks2.0 said in What KU Football Cannot Overcome.:

@nuleafjhawk said in What KU Football Cannot Overcome.:

I'm usually the Negative Nellie here so I'm not sure what to think. The game I watched had Marshall throwing for 330+ yards and we were about 3 or 4 stupid penalties and a couple of boneheaded play calls from beating one of the best teams in the country on their home turf.

If I’m being a 100% honest this team is more competitive than I thought they would be. That’s what makes the bone headed penalties and give aways more frustrating. Saturday is a big day for Lance. Find away to win this one and everyone suddenly will get a lot of patience back. Lose and the seat starts to get warm. I don’t think he gets fired but there will plenty on that wagon.

I don’t think athletics has the money to replace him and hire someone and find the NIL budget to become competitive.

Good or bad I think we have LL for a bit.

Wow. Should have 14 more. Such a Jayhawk football loss

If there is one bright spot out of this Marshall may be figuring out the speed of the game. If the offense can get clicking we may win another game or two.

@wissox83 said in What KU Football Cannot Overcome.:

Wow, our defense is still uh, porous.

I thought the D looked better so far this year, but man this was not the showing I was expecting

Just glad they’re putting up a fight

@Jayhawk_69 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

I could get behind the feeling that Melvin does not raise our ceiling, but to say he lowers it is categorically false. Many many great teams, including some that have won national championships, have started guards who are not good 3-pt shooters.

He is inefficient on offense as a whole. I could live with the 3pt shooting, it’s the 4/17 games with 12 missed floaters.

IMO he has to take a major step forward in shot selection (or shot making).

They need a big man more than a PG if you have to choose.

If they find a way to get both bending whatever rules, than Melvin starts and plays a ton and it is what it is. Lowers our ceiling imo, but he would be the heart of the team.

I still think Rosario starts over Kinney. But minutes will definitely have to be earned either way

Went to the game. Wasn’t expecting a win.

But LL should not finish the season unless something major changes next couple of weeks.

I appreciate what he did but he isn’t a P5 coach. Playcalling was a mess. Decision making was even worse.

Disappointed but not mad.