Quotes from Mangino and players following opening week win

Bedore gives his observations on the KU team's performance during their Canadian trip player by player. He loved Aldrich:

The 6-foot-11 sophomore appears primed for a breakout season. A rebounding machine, he grabbed 18 rebounds versus McGill, eight against Carleton and seven in just 13 minutes against Ottawa. He had two of the most exciting plays of the trip, catching a lob from Brady Morningstar and jamming to open the Carleton game and plucking a midcourt steal and racing in for an vicious dunk again versus Carleton. Pretty agile stuff for a 250-pounder.

All his write-ups are pretty optimistic making the evaluation a bit too rosey.

Close one...

Yesterday evening the Kansas Jayhawks recieved there 15 commitment for the 2009 recruiting class in Mulvane Kansas Linebacker Huldon Tharp. I am a big fan of keeping in state talent and can't argue with this one.

Markieff Morris, an incoming freshman basketball player at Kansas, is facing a battery charge after allegedly firing a BB gun from his dorm window.
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Here is a seemingly ironic quote on the matter by Bill Self: "We take this matter very seriously," Self told the Journal-World on Wednesday. "Poor judgment was used by bringing an Airsoft gun, (one) that can be purchased at Wal-Mart, on campus that can shoot plastic BBs."

Not sure if I should be concerned or not he's a kicker that hasn't played yet...but the kicking game is probably an area of concern.

espn.com is running a blog for each conference. Pretty general stuff but it does have some nice insight to other teams around the league, injury reports, etc.

I went last year and I'm going this year, but I got to say this story doesn't make me feel any better about my chances of getting out alive again.

Just another tidbit our recent loss...

Too bad, don't think he was a big contributor this year but certainly added depth and a nice sized back for down the road.