Your Opinion on Turner Gill and the Jayhawk Football Program

Gill may not lead us to a Big 12 title but I think he has the possibility to make us a consistently decent team (compared to Mangino’s outstanding success in one season while the rest were mediocre or downright horrendous).

I think the shock for everyone was that they didn’t expect us to fall so far off the map after Reesing, Briscoe and Meier left. Last season may not have been good but we at least had them to provide fodder for some highlight reels. We really did need to do some rebuilding and repairing after the last administration.

This season may be lost but if we can improve every season after, I’ll be patient and hopeful.

1) We don’t have a quarterback. We were blessed the last four years with Reesing, to the point where I think we forgot how rare and important effective ones are. Even if everything else was clicking, the lack of a QB that can drive the team down the field is just killer. About the best you can do without a great leader of your offense at that position is what KState has done this year, IMO. Even programs that are loaded with talent struggle without one— just look at Texas and Florida. Conversely, can you name a truly great college QB that plays for a terrible team right now? I certainly can’t. Realistically, there’s only so far any coach can take this program without either developing one of the QBs we have, or recruiting someone else

2) I will give credit to the staff for finding a way to get Toben on the field and contributing. We’ll never know what his rushing stats would have looked like this year compared to Sims, but at least he’s out there instead of just pouting on the sidelines or transferring. I have to wonder, however, why the staff wasn’t able to figure this out until midseason. Who knows where Toben would be right now if he had been working as a DE all summer and fall.

3) It’s been nice to go an extended period without hearing about off-the-field problems with the football team. I’m sick of hearing or talking about Gill’s rules, but maybe they’re having a good effect.

4) While I do feel like the team has quit in some games when the score has gotten out of hand, I don’t see signs of quitting completely. Every week they seem to come back and at least start the game out with good effort and a positive outlook.

5) I wish it would hurry up and be next season already so that we can start to better evaluate the direction the program is heading. My hope is that we’ll at least be in bowl contention longer than we were this year.

the effort the last three weeks has been good to very good…since it’s pretty much impossible to get rid of the guy anyway (thanks again, lew), all we can really do is hope that recruiting pays off and we get to 6-7 wins a year with turner.

this conference, with the full round-robin schedule, is going to be BRUTAL year in and year out now, especially considering that we lose a non-con gimme every year…assuming we go 3-0 in the noncon every year, we’ve still got to find three wins in conference to get bowl-eligible, and that is going to be one difficult task IMO…there are no more patsies in this league.

you can pretty much figure that OU, UT, OSU and maybe aTm are pretty much guaranteed losses every year…Baylor is on the rise, Old Balls is still coaching at KSU, Mizzou is up and running, and ISU has proven to be a tough out…really the only team I can see going downhill is TT…so, unless parity suddenly takes hold, where are our three (or four) wins going to come from?