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Wow, what a great play for the TD!! This game could go 68-67 or something weird like that.

Surprised there's no thread started. Am I missing something?

PLANVILLE STAND UP

That spot on 4th down was garbage though

@FarmerJayhawk I think I've said it before, my husband was an all-state plainville cardinal!

Where is Plainville?

Our defense is behind our offense #newsflash

@wissox about 20 miles north of Hays

These spots are terrible

@FarmerJayhawk I think that helps, SW Kansas. What is it known for?

@wissox uhhh literally nothing as far as I know 😂

Gonna be a wild one it appears. Glad to see Lance go for it on 4th down.

Tech's tempo is pretty intense so far

just turning it on. Bean playing?

@rockchalkjayhawk said in TTech Game thread:

just turning it on. Bean playing?

Starting. Daniels in pads but I don't think he'll play

Never run it out of the end zone

Bean can flick it

Once again, horrible offensive play calling.

Doink

Missed by a few inches. Damn

Gonna be a long night

Tech’s OL got healthy at the wrong time

Tech running 100 plays against KU's defense is probably not a good thing

Wow, what a tough run

Not sure I liked the play call

Ugh we needed that stop

Do we even need a punt returner. We never force punts.

well, this is a bit of an unexpected result so far. hmmm. crap.

Maybe I can understand why no one started a game thread!

At the very least i thought this game would be competitive.

Had a bad feeling about this one. Very poor matchup for us

Sigh.

JOKES GO KU

We really need to force a punt on this TTU possession

Huge stop. Gonna get great field position

Or not holy roll

Cursed roll wth

Need a long drive and 7 here

Devin Neal is good at running the football

And Tech is kind of shitty at tackling tbh but ya

Entertainment at least even as the techies drive for another score.

A turnover here would be neato

Miracle! 4th down stop! Lets get the lead.

Hell ya let's go Phelps

Call TO coach!

Man I thought he was out

Well not the offensive possession we wanted but I'll take 21-24 with the ball to start the 2nd.

A few inches away from being 24-24 too

Oooo that’s incomplete

Are you kidding me?

Bullshit

Icing the kicker cost us!

Even those announcers saw that, saying a lot

@Crimsonorblue22 said in TTech Game thread:

Even those announcers saw that, saying a lot

Ryan Leaf does know a thing or two about throwing interceptions.

Weird half but the way the D played I’m glad we’re only down 6. Hopefully we can take the lead out of the break

I like the give it to Devin Neal play

Where's Casey?

That receiver was in bounds but was pushed out in the air, I didn't think you could do that.

I think they changed that?

Shit! I knew they should've went for it

honestly with this kicker. c'mon man.

Another Doink? You've got to be kidding me. At first I thought i was watching a replay.

This ain't soccer Borcila!!!

Can we upgrade the kicker this off-season? Borcila can't make anything over 40 and this seems like the 5th or 6th time he's doinked off an upright this year. Upgrading the kicker needs to be pretty high on the priority list for Leipold this off-season.

We gotta get a kicker in the portal. Borcila has gotten worse

Good stop

I don't get nervous til the last minute.

Not a great play on 3rd and 2

Idk how many more stops we can ask for

Need a pick

Penalties are killing us.

tech has been a horrific 4th quarter team. Hopefully it keeps up

@FarmerJayhawk Our offense hasn't been looking like it has what it takes.

@FarmerJayhawk maybe not against us😢😳

That’ll do it

So many penalties

Crappy penalty call

Wow. That’s a good block

Perfect technic

Dang slight overthrow

WHEEEWWWW!!!!!!

Feet in

That holding call was one of the worst calls I've ever seen

That's got to stand

two missed FG's hurting right now

That’s a score. Hell of a throw too

Yeah, xtra pt!

You know what would be great right now? Two field goals

Random, but Embiid 42/10/6/2/2 +22 in a win

Have to hold them to a FG here to have any chance.

Dang.

Well, we have a chance

Down 8 our kicker isn't a factor so maybe that's good

Well that sucks gg

That's game

Sigh.

I can't believe he didn't see him!

Wrap up!

This was such a winnable game! Takes some pleasure off the win from last week.

Oregon on the verge of losing because of a baffling decision to go for it on 4th down inside their own 35 and not getting it.

Got a Vasko sighting

He looks confident

Leipold looks pissed

Nice run

Dang. Cabledue just whiffed there

Well guys, I know you don't score any brownie points when you lose , however thig is

I still see progress, I mean we get down 24-7 and up until that last couple of minute TD when Bean was flattened -we had come back to out score them 21 -- 12

Another thing is - the 35- 040 --45 point blowout losses are not there anymore - we have always been in the game. - -Devin another huge game - - -190 yards -Bean like 270 yards.

The only question I do have is - - when in the hell are we going to get a Place kicker - I'm so tired of missing field goals - -left 6 points there - -points left on the field again - -DAM - he is so inconsistent. & is Jalon gonna play again this year or not ? - -beenhearing he was right at 100 % and yet nothing. - Give Jason props done rally well in his absence BUT Jalen still needs to be starting

Like I've heard when he is ready he needs to take his position back - -you don't take it away because of an injury. - - Jalen had done nothing wrong until he was hurt - -when he is healthy he should start.. - -just curious - - next week against Texas

Penalities --killed us tonight - -10 - - - Bean 17-28 - -for 320 yards - - Devin 190 yards - - Total yards -KU 534 yards - - TT - -510 yards. - -I think we all know what just has to get better

We should've beat that team.

Missed FG’s seemed to have a huge impact on the team attitude.

@wissox said in TTech Game thread:

Maybe I can understand why no one started a game thread!

Basketball school

I think if JD was back, we win that game. Not taking anything away from Bean, but JD's athleticism would've got him past Tech's option defense into the gaps.Bean was just a tad slow, imo. To be fair, Tech is a hard place to play. There's nothing else to do in Lubbock, so everybody goes to the game. The other factor was we were in a letdown spot one the road after clinching the bowl game, and Tech was fighting for their lives knowing they had to win to have any chance at a bowl game. And our field goal kicker went cockeyed.

Defense was bad, kicker sucks, Bean has some pretty dang good moments. Just didn’t see that guy. I don’t know if JD is better.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in TTech Game thread:

Defense was bad, kicker sucks, Bean has some pretty dang good moments. Just didn’t see that guy. I don’t know if JD is better.

KU wins that game if JD6 is healthy and playing. He's a much better decision maker than Bean is which is why he won the job over Bean. Daniels doesn't make that pass in 4 on 1 coverage at the end of the 1st half that was anywhere from a 3 to 10 point swing in Tech's favor. He also doesn't take that strip sack that sealed the game for Tech. If Bean is our starter all year, KU has maybe 3 wins at this point. With a healthy Daniels, I'm convinced this team would be 8-2 right now with yesterday and the TCU games being KU wins instead of losses.

Does anyone know whether KU is actively looking for another kicker for the future? Borcilla is a 6’2” junior with a not very good record this year. He’s 4/9 outside 30 yards. His misses seemed to take the steam out of the Hawks.

@Texas-Hawk-10 you're probably right, JD doesn't make many mistakes! Bean has made some really nice throws, last night that one to skinner and the throw to Casey, Grimm and Arnold. Also his runs are a plus. I'm not sure we could ask for a better backup. I hope Daniels can come back where he left off.

I have stated that before in that I do not recall seeing a Div 1 QB other than Bean who looks so elite while looking so mediocre in the same game.

Lets finish this game thread from 2022! Maybe we'll get a win this time! I'm not super optimistic but miracles happen. Busy sports evening. I don't like the cubs but I'll definitely watch and while my other team is pretty much sunk, playing Iowa at the same time as baseball and KU tonight means a lot of multiple screen views to try and watch all.

By the way the game from 3 years ago ended up with us not being able to get a stop late, twice actually and led to us losing by 15. Jason Bean and Jared Casey opened the scoring with a 66 yard TD pass! Those were the good old bad days of KU football.

Looking at the box makes me realize as much as Lance has turned around KU football, we seem to be stuck in a fighting for a bowl birth phase instead of fighting for a conference championship phase. That game featured poor defense, poor kicking, lots of penalties. We've got a nice kicker now, and offensively seem to be just as good, but the others, uh, not so good.

Ugh, more than a 2 TD dog tonight. I worry that KU's defense isn't up to this challenge.

Nice 1st down and now 2nd 1st down.

Yards seem hard to come by but they are getting them.

Well, let's hope our defense can get a couple of stops

Well started off well, but the sack was brutal.

That’s OK. The defense is still on the bus.

Lovely.

Well you could script a worse start just not sure how?

Ugly quickly.

May have to switch over to the professional bowling channel.

How is there not a single linebacker up the middle ?

We need to fire our defense coordinator, his secretary, his assistant, his mother, send his kids to timeout, hide his remote control, take away his phone, let the air out of his tires...

I think we should just close our eyes and enjoy that we’re on national tv today. Then forget quickly.

Well we one up’d ourselfs from last week spotting UCF 14 points so we went with 15 this time. Tech may hang 60 on us

@kjayhawks said in TTech Game thread:

Well you could script a worse start just not sure how?

Apparently you could script a worse start! Ha.

This looks like 2017 KU football.

On the positive side, Ballard had a nice run until the football squirted out of his arms.

@patoh3 ugh

I mean I get the high praise for tt but I'm getting a bit tired of it.

That throw is not helping us get a 1st down.

Life is back to normal. K-State wins and we suck.

@wissox Would you rather they talk about how badly we are doing?

Wisconsin losing 17-0 very early. This night is becoming very forgetful.

@patoh3 Fair point, but IDK, it sounds like a home telecast.

The game is called TACKLE football. Not much of that happening tonight.

@wissox !!!!!!!

Tough to watch this game

Did David Beaty come back and turn this into the 2015 team? My god, I didn’t expect a win but Jesus

Lance’s face is almost the same color as his shirt.

Nice tackle! 133rd?

At least KU held them to a FG this drive.

KSU is gonna dog walk our asses in our own house in 2 weeks.

Nice tackle by Alexander

Yeah Texas Tech is good. We could beat KSU but we arent beating this team.

@approxinfinity 6-6 is looking like the best we can do at this point.

We might if they put in their 2nd or 3rd string.

36 vs 176 yards in the 1st quarter.

The question is if their defense gets tired because their offense scores so fast

Our defense has only been out there for about 6 minutes.

Nice tackle Rawls

They are going to put 50+ on us today

Ooh , nice read Todd. Almost pick 6

It sure would have been nice to get the INT

Tech is playing madden on rookie mode right now

At least this ia taking them 10 plays

Defense waking up

Nice sack!

I think we have players on D and these guys could be something. The gashing 75 yard runs untouched up the middle feel inexcusable. Hard not to question the defense coordinator. Says the guy who never played football in his life.

Finally a TD.

🏈💙❤️🌾🌾🌾🫶🥳

Nice job! Looking good!

Well, well!

Wow. Ok, theres no way we could win this game short of a Behren injury. Lol

A Stop and a score before half and this game is interesting again

Rawls, another nice play

Yes!

I don’t know what the answer is on offense. We can’t block their dudes.

Looked like Daniels got sped up there. Outside block held. But he remembered getting wrecked

Yeah we cant block them.

Woooooooo

🌾🌾🌾🌾🏈💙❤️👏👏👏🤣💪💪🏾🫶🙏

That was beautiful!

Had a nice dinner but glad I kept watching.

Come on D. Don’t let them score any points before the half.

That penalty was hurtful.

What is one thing that someone wouldn’t know about you?
I can sing.

— Lyrik Rawls

Jaden is 16-19 for 164 yards or something like that. He's a nice QB for our team. Here's hoping Marshall will live up to his hype and keep this excellent QB play going forward.

Wow, we have a kicker!! He's perfect on the year. What a boot!

Wowwwww

This would be such a steal of a win. They are going to shoot up that QBs leg at half lol.

He was on Hawk talk this week. Very positive!

I liked how the whistle blew and it looked like he was like “f this! Im getting my practice kick!” And kicked it. Felt like he got the better of TT calling TO

Also Kotelnicki may somehow end up coming out of that Penn State job without a job. Could have been our succession plan. Crazy.

@Crimsonorblue22 Who was on Hawk Talk?

@wissox kicker and 2 others. Hanni has been having 3 guys on. Foster was on and the DE Leroy Harris

I think tech is pretty silly for going to a back up and throwing the ball like crazy. Let’s see what the adjustments are here

Jayhawks +21 in the 3rd quarter this year.

Way to go D

We r wrapping up!

I hate the shotgun hand off on 3rd and less than 1 smh

That receiver's got to fight for the first down. On him that we're punting now.

Call sucked

I haven’t been mad at Coach Z a lot but you either go under center and sneak it or do play action. They are giving us those little 3-5 passes.

How mamy times do we have to fail running it up the middle on 3rd and 1 for our staff to know that it doesn't work?

We can’t keep sending guys when the QB is running leaving the middle wide open

I am proud of Jalon Daniels and Leshon for keeping us in the game

@kjayhawks I'm not the smartest football mind but the TD's came off of opening up the offense.

Again Hanni mentioned the 3rd and 1 call but the TE just stepped out of bounds instead of Walter payton like plowing forward to get that first down.

Their QB should run more often

@approxinfinity like I said they were fools for sending out and passing repeatedly. Better go get some points here

Anyone else notice the tech guy holding a tire?

Yep

Jd come on

Oh man.

If we don’t get a stop here, it’s all done but the crying

Oh what was that play call? Awful

Smh I like the PA but someone has to block

have we gotten stuffed going up the middle 3rd and 1? Why the aversion?

We just saw the difference between the two teams. 3rd and 1 for them is an easy pickup

@Jhawk69 we'll never know the answer to that

Well it wasn’t fun at all, then it was fun again and now it’s not fun again lol

That’ll do it. They gave us hope at least.

Well our defense gave us some moments but Tech figured it out with a backup QB. Lance has to figure this out because we have an offense that wins us lots of games.

@wissox said in TTech Game thread:

Well our defense gave us some moments but Tech figured it out with a backup QB. Lance has to figure this out because we have an offense that wins us lots of games.

They just don’t have the bodies on the DL. Was hopeful we did but they’ll need to evaluate this offseason.

This is not a bad loss. Tech is very good. That said, our DC should be out a job. When Tech's QB went down all we had to do was stop the run and we didn't even come close

The only reason it was close is they got cute and tried to throw the ball. They only average 9.2 YPC and have 312 yards on the ground. This defense is so bad there isn’t a team left on our schedule that can’t beat us. Kamara and Rawls are good but the rest are slow and stinky

Boy, these massive runs are inexcusable.

Alexander is good

The frequency of the giant runs up the middle feels unusual.

These fans are punks

The main issue is with this offense, we just can’t get the run game going consistently

That’s not even close to a fumble

This tech defense is damn good folks

Targeting?? We have been called for worse

You should avoid overusing smelling salts or holding the smelling salt too close to the nose. Concentrated exposure can damage the upper airways and lungs and cause allergic reactions.

Mark me down as scared shitless Dylan Edwards and Avery Johnson run for 350 yards on this defense

I want us to invest heavily in an offensive line. Getting outrushed 300-10 is getting old

Dye is out and mason Ellis

@Jhawk69 yes that 300 million needs to be invested in the trenches. That’s where the games are won and lost. I could’ve ran for 150 with the holes our defense is giving up. If don’t make first contact til 7 yards in front of the line, it’s gonna be a rough day.

I hoping we can get a score here I put $5 on us at +14.5 lol

Looks like we just quit smh

Ok. I don’t think we are going to win this one guys. Maybe next week.

At least they are saving JD and playing Ballard.

That is a bad sign. For next season's sake we need to be seeing Zeke Marshall as QB2

@patoh3 JD played a solid game IMO for getting sacked 9 times. Tech is top 5 in nearly every defensive statistical category for a reason. Just wish we had a defense to keep us in some of these games. It’s the exact opposite of last season where we couldn’t do anything on offense much of the year but defense kept it within a score or two. DK has to go at this point.

@Jhawk69 I'm easily confused. Isn't it Isaiah Marshall?

Isiah is right

Isiah is his name but yes it is surprising Ballard is above him on the depth chart. We haven’t seen him throw much but he is an elite athlete no question

@nuleafjhawk Yes. I'm pretty sure I have heard Brian Hanni call him Zeke Marshall though

Zeke is a nickname for Isaiah/Isiah and started with Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons which also happens to be where Isaiah Marshall is from.

Texas Tech is one of the best teams in the country and showed why tonight. They are a good team and with their remaining schedule should reach the Big 12 title game at 12-0.

@Texas-Hawk-10 I don’t see Tech getting tested from here on out. I hope Morton is okay for their sake

@Texas-Hawk-10 Huh. And I always thought it was short for Ezekiel.

@Jhawk69 You are correct, Zeke is not short for Isiah. Isiah Thomas was called Zeke by his teammates and apparently a handful of folks have carried that on to other people. Isiah’s being called Zeke now are mostly done due to a misinterpreting of that. It would be like calling all Michael’s Air or LeBron’s King - it was a nickname for a specific person that got applied to others. 🤷‍♂️ I suppose you could call any and all folks any random thing your heart desires and see if it sticks - it helps if you start with a famous one though.

@dylans I don't care if they call Marshall Hezekiah, Bocephus or Jim. I'd just like to see him play. I'm not dogging Daniels. I just don't think he's great. I have a feeling that Marshall could be really special. 🤞

@nuleafjhawk If he can’t beat out Daniels, it’s likely he’s like any backup QB - a fan favorite until he gets extended minutes. Then the new backup is the fav!

@dylans JD has had a very solid year thus far not sure why anyone would think he needs benched at this point. The thing is with Marshall is he is a freak athlete but that doesn’t take he is a good QB. We are not at practice every week so if the staff has Ballard above him, there is a reason.

@dylans
Might be some practical use shortening all Isiahs, at least some way:

“Isiah Thomas earned the nickname "Zeke" from a teammate, John Duren, who shortened the name "Isiah" because it was too long to say during a 1979 Pan American team practice. The nickname stuck because a song called "Zeke the Freak" was also popular that year”

Now I have to go listen to Zeke the Freak and see if it applied to Marshall as well

Hmm there are 3 words in that song. It works.

Apparently Lance and Joe got into a heated exchange post game over the tortillas being thrown repeatedly. Maybe this lights a fire under him.

@kjayhawks staff picks are not always the best.

Tech is on another planet. They likely won't have a close game in league play.

Did u read a Swiss Army knife was thrown at a staff member? Our staff. There was a vote before season about throwing things, 15-1 against it, lone vote, u guessed it. Lance got after TT coach after game. Read they ball up those tortillas and also throw lil liquor bottles at visiting players. 🤷‍♀️

Crazy the amount of hawk fans that want LL fired right now in X and Facebook. Insane at this point

@Crimsonorblue22 Was the knife open or just hurtled like a rock? I’ve not heard that fairly important detail yet. If it was open charges need filed.

Didn’t say

@Crimsonorblue22 It really doesn't matter. There should never be a weapon of any kind in a stadium/ arena. TT should have to forfeit the game and the win goes to Kansas. Seriously. The only way to stop BS like that is to administer harsh penalties.

@nuleafjhawk The individual should be held accountable. Just like at any other riot. It’s not a faceless crime - there is a specific person that needs punished appropriately. That whole punish the team for some fan’s action is seriously flawed - you’re just asking for an antler to dress in KU garb and get KU in trouble or something similar.

@dylans C'mon man, I'm trying to get us another "W".....

The knife was turned over to TTPD. Gonna check videos. Wasn’t opened

@Crimsonorblue22 Well that’s better. Makes it more stupid than malicious. A real head shaker - what a genius.

Turns out the knife being thrown was fabricated by Lance. Or perhaps a case of operator gone wrong. 🤦‍♂️

"A pocketknife was thrown and hit one of our staff members," Leipold said after the game. "It's ridiculous. It's supposed to be for safety and things like that, and it's a culture that's been accepted to a point, and it hasn't changed. Eventually, somebody's going to be seriously hurt, unfortunately."

Texas Tech submitted footage to the league this week that proved the claim to be inaccurate.

In Texas Tech's response to the Big 12's sportsmanship inquiry, obtained by ESPN, athletic director Kirby Hocutt wrote that the school combed through all available video footage and interviewed eyewitnesses near the Kansas bench when the issue arose in the fourth quarter.

The video footage Texas Tech submitted raises questions about whether the pocketknife was initially dropped by someone on Kansas' sideline. The video shows a Kansas player reaching down to pick up the closed pocketknife on the field apron near the 38-yard line and handing it to a KU staff member.

The staff member handed the pocketknife to Leipold, who brought it to game officials. Texas Tech was assessed a 15-yard penalty for throwing objects onto the field.

"We believe this video makes it clear where the pocket knife originated, which will disprove all claims that it may have been thrown from the stands, and certainly makes it clear that it did not hit any member of KU's staff on the sideline," Hocutt wrote.

The Big 12 said Tech's fine was for the objects thrown onto the playing surface, while Kansas' was for disparaging comments about the conference and "an inaccurate statement regarding a pocketknife by head coach Lance Leipold."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46605847/big-12-fines-kansas-texas-tech-25k-fan-behavior-dispute ↗

@dylans oops! Wellp guess we need to kick Lance to the curb. I know how you feel about liars ;)

@approxinfinity It’s an indicator that all things may not be as they seem. It is rather disappointing.

So a video showing that a Kansas player picked it up and handed it to a staff member means it wasn’t thrown there in the first place? Did a miss something?

@dylans agreed.

All I know about this story is it’s the dumbest thing I’ve seen in sports for a while and I’m clueless as to why it’s getting all the attention it is.

@FarmerJayhawk If we had won, they could have thrown Samurai swords and hand grenades and nobody would have said a word.