Thank you Head Coach Bill Self, not for getting KU hundreds of wins on your way to 600, but for changing the lives of so many young men across literally the whole world. Jamari Traylor was once homeless living in car, Bmac was stuck in a low income house hold sleeping in the same room as all of his siblings to stay warm. Cole Aldrich’s dad was laid off and not able to support his family anymore. Joel Embiid was just a tall dude from half way around the world trying to make a name for himself to get out poverty. Just a few examples of many while Self is a great coach, Congratulations 600.

I wasn’t able to watch the first half of yesterdays contest. It was my wife’s birthday so we went out for lunch. With that I listened to the pregame and most of the first half via radio. During the pregame they interviewed Zenger our athletics director. He told a story about Frank. It was last year during the first 0-12 season in KU FB history, the Hawks were being handled by KSU late in the second half. Mason was still sitting out in the freezing drizzle lonesome to support his university and stayed til the final seconds ticked off the clock. Character, not that we have questioned Frank’s, I just thought it was neat story about our PG and his loyalty.

Not sure if anyone has heard but after a long battle with cancer KJ lost him mom today. Prayers for the Adams family. Not really any thing else to say other than she raised a terrific young man.

With a loss tonight Scott Drew will have more losses in AFH than Bill Self.

In all honesty it’s a little ludicrous that we as fans (myself included at times) are giving these guys such a tough time. We just won our 20th game for the 29th season in a row (NCAA record). We are pretty much guaranteed another tournament birth for the 29th straight year (NCAA record). Even if we don’t win the conference I think we’ll be okay friends. Did I mention that Self has signed the 3rd best recruiting class and could add to it with Langford plus our transfers. Let’s all get to the field house Saturday and support the heck outta these guys. It will be a special day with the 08 team as well as game day in town.

Kansas was at home for the final time this year celebrating senior day vs Texas. Texas started early scoring a TD on their play from scrimmage on a 75 pass. The defense put the clamps on after that as Senior Brandon Stewart got a pick 6 to start KU scoring. They Created 4 turnovers in the second quarter, but only lead to 10 points on the board, so KU held a 10-7 lead going into the locker room. The second half started bad as Stanley thru a pick just 3 plays in that lead to a short field and easy score for Texas to take the lead 14-10. We pretty much traded punts til the fourth quarter until a costly fumble bye Quv at mid field after a 19 yard catch that left texas again with a short field and a TD. It was was half way thru the 4th when the offense which had struggled all game and being down 21-10 finally showed up. Hiebert dived into the endzone on a 80 yard drive engineered by Stanley, then steven sims ran in a 2 point conversion to put KU back to with in 3, 21-18. The Kansas defense once again came up huge with 58 seconds left stopping Texas on a 4th and 5, and man this defense played unbelievable most of the day 6 turnovers, 4 sacks and 8 TFLs. The offense worked its magic as Stanley started the drive off with a 21 yard scrabble, aided by a Texas late hit. Matt Wyman tied the game with 7 seconds to go on a 35 yard FG. Then came overtime with Kansas winning the toss and going on defense first. A bright young freshman DB Mike Lee intercepted Texas to end their possession. With Kansas knowing they needed only 3 to win Senior RB Kinner held on to the ball and took us to the 3. A false start moved us back to the 8 but it didn’t matter nor did the attempt to ice Wyman bye the Texas staff, his kick sailed thru the up rights and WE BEAT TEXAS for the first time in 78 years. Just unbelievable guys, other than winning the orange bowl and NC in 08 idk if I have ever teared up after a game and seeing coach Beaty’s emotion after the game, it just moved me on how hard these guys are trying to win. A wise man once told me that sometimes the team that loses works a lot harder than the team that wins and I think that’s been the case for much of this year. I’m really speech less on how proud I am of these young men that flatout play their asses off every stinkin week, I love the fight they have, proud to be a KU Football fan. RCJH.

Kansas wins on Monday and Thursday with Trae announcing he’s a Jayhawk.

@stoptheflop it will be weird to see where it goes on price I feel like basketball tickets were the same last season with the price going up with less seats but it was harder to sell out. Felt like I seen more empty seats in Allen than ever before. I remember getting football tickets for $15 10 years ago. To me if you don’t have a full stadium you open it up for free in the second half.

Sounds like they have a mural for the bowl victories in the stadium. Which is nice, I know we don’t have a lot of bowl wins but we have never really had them on display. Kansas Athletics just announced the game is a sell out so that’s positive

I’m not super worried about the running back position myself. Especially if Hishaw can stay healthy I think him and Williams will be a solid 1-2 punch pending on the lines play. I’ll definitely miss Neal out there but an average RB can look pretty decent behind a solid line. Which is a big question mark to me right now. But id say our guys are above D1 average in the back field

@Kcmatt7 said in FRESNO STATE BULLDOGS:

Did no research. $100 on the hawks -12.5

I think the game will be settled by less than 10. Fresno is hard to get a reading on with a new coach and QB but have won 9 games 3 of the last 4 years.

It is officially game week my friends. Lots of questions will be answered on Saturday or clues as to how they will be answered. Can JD and Hishaw stay healthy as the heart of this offense? How will the offensive line fair with lots of uncertainty outside of the center position? Who will emerge at the wide receiver position? How will the secondary shake out having several key players that have moved on?

Nice to see KU receivers ball out tonight in the preseason. Skinner had a nice one hand TD for the jets and Grimm took back a punt for the chargers. Will miss the talented WR corps we’ve had the last few years.

@BShark @nuleafjhawk the owners claim preseason games still make them good money they will always be there. I really hope the chiefs don’t keep Sky Moore after repeated drops for one good punt return against the practice squad

@wissox Right if you think about how great Bean was in 2023 and JD beat him out in camp. He looked better early in 2022 as well.

People forget JD6 was as listed as a heisman hopeful by several media outlets just a few years ago. He seemed to be overthinking quite often last season and scared to run the ball when he had 15 yards of green right in front of him. Football is a game you can’t play scared

I just want to make a bowl game and beat our rivals on the gridiron. I think a bowl game is a must with the current state of the football program and the money dumped into it. I’m excited to see our new offensive coordinators in action. Old news of course but I was not even remotely impressed with Grimes at that position. I loved coach K and how he had so much going on presnap to bait the defense. We went from that to just hike it and run the play. I screamed at my TV repeatedly at the play calling and begged them to include Neal in the passing game much of the year. The last 4 games they finally did and we went 3-1 in those contest. I’m sorry but that’s not gonna work at Kansas maybe Texas or Alabama when you have the best athletes on the field every week. I’m gonna go 7-5 this year as my official prediction. We need JD 6 from a few years ago, he showed flashes last season but wasn’t the same.