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Texas-Kansas Football Preview: Scouting The Kansas Defense/Special Teams
It's a rare thing when you get to witness a college football team do something so historic, so epic, that it will live forever. The Kansas Jayhawk defense has embarked on just such a mission. KU defensive highlight film: Through 7 games, the 2-5 Jayhawks are allowing 50.4 points per game and 550.9...
2011 Kansas Football Preview: Jayhawk State of the Union
If it isn’t obvious who lost the BC office Game of Thrones, then go read texags.com and leave me the hell alone. Someone had to stage a coup d’état to steal my Baylor assignment from me. Now I feel like some stupid third world dictator that didn’t know he wasn’t king until the bullet passed...
Big 12 Media Day: Turner Gill
Turner Gill is now the head man in Lawrence. And Kansas football players are heartened that Head Coach Piggyback Tuesdays just got a lot easier. Turner Gill rubs the media the right way during Big 12 Media Days. I got a good smile on. It's great to be here. I got a smile because I just got my...
Lew Perkins Makes Almost As Much As Mack Brown
Perkins is the Kansas Athletics Director, and the Kansas City Stars reports that thanks to a one-time retention bonus, Pekins made 4.4 million in 2009. Most of the bonus came from Kansas Athletics Inc a non-profit corporation that oversees University Athletics. Only about $200,000 of his 2009...
Turner Gill hires his coordinators at Kansas
It's going to be Chuck Long as offensive coordinator and Carl Torbush as defensive coordinator. Positives: They're familiar with the conference, and they've recruited the region. Negatives: Oklahoma wasn't sad to see Long go (unlike ChrisApplewhite), and Torbush didn't exactly tear shit up with...
KU Football Job Search
KU has completed their interviews and I'd expect them to make a move within the next three weeks. Our friends at Oread Boom Kings have the skinny on the replacement for the Fat Man. According to the estimable HipHop, the preferential public pecking order appears to be: Harbaugh Holtz Gill I like...
Turner Gill Lands On His Feet At Liberty
It's not Buffalo, and it's certainly not Kansas but it's a Division I head coaching job. Rather than take a year sabbatical and enjoy life, Turner Gill is getting right back into the coaching game with Liberty University of the Championship Subdivision. (Take note, wise stallions: the Akron job is...
Turner Gill Has Been Fired. It's Been A Good 14 Years.
So many streaks have been broken this weekend. Toledo basketball has a winning record in November. Michigan State hoops went to a MAC venue. Temple has stopped beating up on MAC opponents. And on Friday, either a 28- or 43-year streak will be broken when NIU or OHIO wins the MAC Football...
Browsing The College Football Coaching Bargain Bin
Yesterday, A.J. took a look at USA Today's comprehensive college football coach salary database, noting that Boston College has paid Spaz roughly $359,000 per win this season. This sounds like a lot of cash, until you take a look at other coaches salary per win figures. As it turns out, BC is still...
Kansas: It's Not North Korea!
Kansas Football is going through some rough times right now. The 2010 season wasn't pleasant, but 2011 proves just how bad it can get. In fact the site FireJerryKill.com goes through a somewhat rigorous statistical exercise to prove just how bad Kansas is, and concludes not only are they worse than...
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