Kansas Jayhawk News and Notes 1.16.12
by Owen on Jan 16, 2012 4:00 AM CST
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Another win for the women. Now sitting 3-1 in the conference and 14-2 overall. NCAA tourney in the future here?
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Can't wait for this one tonight.
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Keegan talks about the big game.
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Recap of yesterday's recruiting Bonanza!
A couple of quick notes from the football team. As expected both Darrian Miller and Jordan Webb were absent from the initial team meeting. No big surprise there. The other two names that weren't necessarily expected, Adonis Saunders and Brock Berglund.
There were several reports since the Weis hire that indicated Berglund would return to Lawrence and join the team. That might still be the case, but I would say step one is showing up to the first team meeting and that didn't happen. Hopefully it's an excused absence for one reason or another. My hunch would be that this staff won't have as much tolerance for the lack of participation.
Either way, Crist is probably expected to be the guy this year with Heaps after that so maybe it's a non-issue.
UPDATE: Got an email, looks like Tait tweeted a week ago that Berglund would report on the 17th. Obviously that is tomorrow. Hopefully that means this is an excused absence and we'll have some competition behind Crist who has to be the frontrunner.
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Paterno talks a little more.
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Eli really carving out himself a little legacy alongside his bigger more highly publicized brother.
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Big win for the Buckeyes.
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2 predictions:
1. KU beats Baylor tonight, but then goes to Austin and lays an absolute egg and loses.
2. Syracuse-Pitt goes late and those of us watching at home join the KU-Baylor game at about the 13-minute mark of the first half.
Criticize FHOFNCHCBS at your own risk...
8:30 start tonight
Perhaps ESPN has finally figured out that college basketball games aren’t 2 hours long.
by De-Freeze on Jan 16, 2012 10:24 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Problem is, the Syracuse-Pitt game starts at 6:30.
Still a 2-hour block.
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Have you seen the Longhorns play this year?
They’re about like Oklahoma, IMO. Fans in Austin will be more excited about the game than those in Norman were (and all students will be back) but I don’t think the Jayhawks will lose there.
Just saying it would be a little bit like KU
to get super hyped up for the big game, only to experience a significant let-down the very next game against a far-inferior opponent. Think Texas Tech of about 3-6 years ago.
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Doesn't everyone expect 1 L on the road to an inferior team?
Sounds like a classic setup around a big game. Think the flip of ISU only without the home support.
I expect two or three road losses
Just don’t think Texas will be one of them
by jayhawk1996 on Jan 16, 2012 11:54 AM CST up reply actions
Who's #2?
No, not thinking of the BB in this case.
Who will be the #2 QB this year? the next 2 yrs? Or another way of looking at it, who has an accurate enough assessment of their skills to want to learn from an NFL master while waiting their turn?
It would be nice to think that maybe BB was interested. Any word on what happened in court recently?
Sounds like the court case is resolved...
I was told Berglund was not at the meeting yesterday which raised a red flag in the mind of the person that informed me. More than anything I think it’s just a trend that raised an eyebrow.
Now Matt Tait tweeted recently that Berglund was reporting on the 17th so at face value this would appear to be excused and the person I spoke with just wasn’t aware of it and none of the absentee’s were really addressed by the staff which isn’t a huge surprise.
So in a perfect world you have Berglund, Cummings and Jablonski competing for the backup spot this Fall and then those three competing w/Heaps for the starting job the following year.
Questions, Comments? email me at denverjhawk@hotmail.com
For all the crap that Tait gets
it is reassuring to hear about that tweet. Nicely reassuring to think that all 3 will be competing – even if just for #2. I’d be excited to learn the O from Crist, a built in tutor of sorts. Who is it that’s rooming with him this year? A new WR?
w/Crist?
I believe McCay is said to be rooming with him.
Another point on the meeting…apparently Weis really commanded attention. Many of the players are really excited about the added emphasis on discipline and in general everyone came away very impressed in the way that they feel like they are going to be challenged and better in the long run.
Questions, Comments? email me at denverjhawk@hotmail.com
There's a honeymoon stage
but the attention wasn’t there for Gill even on Day 1. When he said he wanted a certain % of them to transfer I think that really got kids’ attention.
KU WBB!
A close loss to KSU @ home, and nice to beat UT, but the heart of their schedule (BU A&M) is still ahead. Still seems like this team is past the injury bug and gotten all the pieces together. There was one defection last month (?), but hopefully the chemistry is (finally) coming together.
Weis news conference going on now.
Names will return to the back of the jerseys.
Six players dismissed from team, three others still in class but no longer part of team, and one transfer.
Berglund, Miller, Arps, Dexter McDonald, and Saunders no longer with team.
Several walk-ons being dismissed due to academics.
Man
Some people over at KUSports.com have some serious appoligies to make to Tom Keegan. He was right: Berglund will never suite up as a KU Jayhawk. That guy got crucified for making that comment…..
"No time for questions. No time for games. Start kickin' ass and takin' down the names." - Dave Mustaine.
He was right, but for the wrong reasons
We’ll never know for sure, but it seemed like if Gill was still here, Brock would be too.
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 16, 2012 3:27 PM CST up reply actions
the signs were there from the get go.
I have more Brock Berglund no-show stories in my inbox than you would believe. Keegan was dead on with a lot of that and he really never seemed to want to be at Kansas or a part of the team.
what was worse is that it was perceived that he was receiving special treatment from Gill. There was consistently no explanation given just that he wasn’t going to be participating in different things and he was excused. Let’s just say you don’t earn a lot of respect on a football field with that approach.
I guess I would have liked to see him show up and change some minds, but it wasn’t happening.
Questions, Comments? email me at denverjhawk@hotmail.com
Brock Berglund = JD McCoy
All the FNL fans will get it – felt that way about him from the start.
by jayhawk1996 on Jan 16, 2012 4:40 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Brock Berglund's mom is hot?
"No time for questions. No time for games. Start kickin' ass and takin' down the names." - Dave Mustaine.
Last season?
Unfortunately there is no “next season”.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
Rock Chalk Talk
Yes there is.
(No, just kidding.)
I was just referring to how the McCoys vanish in season 5 so I tried to keep it vague. Joke explained :-|
I always wondered about that.
Just figured they didn’t want to pay for the extra actors to show up for a random episode or two after seeing how inconsequential the family turned out to be in most of Season 4.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
Rock Chalk Talk
I'm kinda bummed they didn't go further with the McCoys
I think the unofficial happening was his QB coach (who becomes Dillon High’s coach in season 4 after Taylor is run off) ends up getting fired. They implied that not making the playoffs cost him his job, then Taylor’s old assistant takes over.
My understanding is since that coach got canned, McCoy likely transfered to go play for him since they were always joined at the hip.
Still, I thought they could have done a lot more with the rift between McCoy and Cafferty/Howard, as well as his abusive father and mother who was fed up with the whole football worshiping. Weren’t we kind of owed that?
Also, one of my favorite moments in the show is when Saracen tackles McCoy at the party because he hits on Julie. You waited for that all of season 3…
Shit happens when you win championships
by Andrew Clark on Jan 16, 2012 8:24 PM CST up reply actions
That show dropped so many plot lines and characters.
I wasn’t surprised by the last season when the McCoys were gone. The writers of that show had a tough job.
Yeah, except McCoy actually played and showed promise
Even if he hadn’t played over Matt Saracen.
Shit happens when you win championships
by Andrew Clark on Jan 16, 2012 6:04 PM CST up reply actions
Keegan's comment about dream scenarios could be interpreted in many ways.
“Hanging out with Hugh Hefner at the mansion pool wearing shades and having grapes ever-so-slowly fed to me.”
I don’t want Hugh Hefner feeding me grapes.
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