Come on KU!

We really just haven’t been able to get out of our own way the last 2 weeks

Why do we throw bubbles to Grimm?

Hot dang🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾💙❤️

Anybody here?

Hey how about that. - -K State has one of the top defenses in the league. Yet Jalen dos good job moving the team down the field - - - TD

@Crimsonorblue22 Thankfully, I'm back from the Mizzou inlaws and watching from beautiful Lawrence, Kansas.

Looks like this is going to be a wild game. Wish we hadn't spotted the kitties 2 TDS

Oops!

I could've caught that, he looked that all the way in.

Dang it - - that's not good , somebody lost their coverage , Welp w just got to come right back at them.

I think our offense looks faster than KSU's defense and JD looks sharp, so we have that. Our D .... and special teams geez... look terrible.

good job purple refs... if there was a hold, it wasn't in the endzone where he just pancaked the guy

Kenny!

Mobility!😂

Well , here we go

Been down before. Stop shooting ourselves in the foot and get back in this.

@DanR said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

I think our offense looks faster than KSU's defense and JD looks sharp, so we have that. Our D .... and special teams geez... look terrible.

they wee saying our special teams have cost us 9 points already. - Hold in the end zone for safety , Special team trying to run our when should of knelt down

Phelps 👀

KU looks unprepared. I did not expect Leipold to have this squad look this unprepared in this game. K-State isn't even outplaying them. It's just mistake after mistake to give the Cats a lead.

@justanotherfan Defensive backs have been bad all year, but have eventually managed to make a few game changing plays to eek out wins. I'm guessing some guys are nervous, but that punt muff and kickoff "return" from the 3 were just flat out stupid.

zebras are working hard

@DanR He held him from the 5 all the way in. You can't negate holding a guy by continuing the hold and then tackling someone!

Let's get a Td here

boom, let's play some D please

Td!

HEY there we go , why to show some stand up - -take it to them , love the fight guys, -NOW the Defense needs to get a stop

For a while, it seemed like our bb team had snuck in. But then we scored, so I knew that wasn't right.

I'm asking for a pic

I'm starting to see the point of not trying to return kickoffs

Happens every time

raining big time now

Phelps 👀

Damn it

that was ugly

MOre time for us to score more

Mercy this defense is just sad

5

Just not talented enough to make mistakes. Our defense has to improve over the off-season

@Kcmatt7 said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

Just not talented enough to make mistakes. Our defense has to improve over the off-season

Agree hoping Coach is big time defensive help this year. - had chances for big stop and let down and they bust 80 yarder - -that just not gonna get it

@Kcmatt7 said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

Just not talented enough to make mistakes. Our defense has to improve over the off-season

Gotta get more athletic on defense. This group has to be assignment perfect. It's tough to operate with no margin for error.

I am going to guess we don't extend the DC or double his salary....

@mayjay probably up to Leipold

Casey time

There's the big guy 47

Casey is such a great blocker too. If he was 8 inches taller, he'd be an NFL all pro tight end someday

Maybe a fb

Softest hands

Better not call that on us, who r the announcers for?

Let it rain! Reign!

This game is within reach. Shut some fans and announcers up

We proud of these guys huh fella's ?

Our O is smacking one of the best defenses in the country.

Just a couple of stops is all we need

You bet

perfect example of the progress w have made. - - acouple of years ago the way K State has went- -it would of been game over a long ime ago. - -we just exchanging blows for blows right now - - love the fight

another stop.... let's go JD

ANOTHER mistake by special teams - -OJ not fair catching that punt just cost us an additional 15 yards like they just mentioned on the KU network

There's probably at least 100 ksu fans from these parts, lol there! One boy has actually bullied me at school. One grad is a cheerleader. Everyone goes to ksu. One adult admitted he's actually happier when KU loses than if ksu wins.

I'd rather #5 not be near the ball, he's not on D

my neighbors are from Hutch are a house divided with one KSU grad (mom) and on KU grad (dad). 4 kids are all good jayhawks!

Bad call

need a boomer punt here

@DanR my boys went to Buhler.

A break!

We are that stupid punt return muff away from being up

We rushed that series

if we can stop the big dumb plays, I like our chances

I'm with ya, we get the ball. Good thing we didn't do what the announcer thought we should've done. Take the ball first.

KU looked shaken in the first half, not ready for the intensity. If they are more settled in the second half, they have a shot.

@Kcmatt7 said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

We are that stupid punt return muff away from being up

ya special teams didn't do us any favors

The O looked ok except on the 1 yd line

you know what though guys. This group of Ku guys compared to the last thirteen years is night and day. -Coach L has really made some progrress with these guys. - Proud of the way they compete. - -Glad we got Coach locked in for some time to come

Not great calls

Get a stop

No catch

On the ground

incomplete. Pretty good d on that possession

Miss you guys!

Nice kick!

Good start for the defense this half

@DanR said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

incomplete. Pretty good d on that possession

pressure on QB

We should try him at 5

no flag on the helmet grab?

U r ahead of me

good grief these announcers are so biased

well, they might be looking at who recovered the fumble

I had hoped to see fundamental mistakes decrease as the season went on 🙃

Announcers:
I'm not sure why we're even finishing playing this game.

Wonder if they know lances name?

seriously is this the Kstate broadcast?

I think it's deuces dad

dude should have caught it. Bailed out by refs

duece clearly tackled unfairly there

go for it, KSU

All these penalities and giving the ball up is killin us

That's where I would have headed

everyone knew where that play was going

@DanR 'cept us

All right. Let's answer and keep the pressure on until they mess up

you would of thought cause they wasn't getting squat against our run D up the middle

What's this crap?

Blockers in the way

MF is good, probably coming back!

Nice run!

The good hands guy

Hmmm Ky thomas didn't make the trip with the team - - why not ? - -he really han't added as much as he was talked up coming in the portal just hasn't produced when he has been in

WOW what a catch MR Casey

The hands dude!

Plainville cardinal

Catch

dang it no catch - -but 1st and goal at the 3

They call it?

I'm behind

Dang Mason we needed that- - -down 10

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

They call it?

ya that one was a no catch - -we scored anyways but Mason dropped the 2 pt conversion

I got it by now, thx

@DanR where did u go?

just leave the special teams coordinator in Manhattan

The O works so hard

@Crimsonorblue22 the O dominated this game and our D actually did enough to win. Special teams cost us 14+ points today

5 Burroughs yeah

They are talking like K State is going to go for it on 4th down

Total yardage K State 327 KU 303

I think we have given K State all they they would ask for - - competitive - -we are closing the gap

For sure

Glad Neal is not hurt.

You can’t punt there imo. Have to go for it

Especially as long as our O takes

Well Ball Game

Yep

Too many stupid mistakes to win this game. But the dumb play-calling and not going for it on 4th actually has me kind of upset.

Gonna try to run up the score?

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

Gonna try to run up the score?

Oh you know they will

I think everyone here would have taken 6-6 if given the option at the beginning of the season. Definitely something to build on going forward.

@KirkIsMyHinrich said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

I think everyone here would have taken 6-6 if given the option at the beginning of the season. Definitely something to build on going forward.

I know I am fine with 6-6 major progress , still got a bowl , who would of thought that before the Season started

We've been making so many mistake in the last few games. I know the games were tougher but still, they were our own doing. That frustrates me.

Let's get Luke Arnold on the bb team

This KU team has many holes especially on D but I do not think that the team regressed per se.

In my opinion injuries at key positions took a big toll further exacerbated by tougher schedule down the stretch. One has to keep in mind that opposing teams started scouting KU more aggressively after their hot start.

Overall, I am extremely pleased with the year, and I am very optimistic about next year.

Huge improvement overall. He'll have defense and special teams operating much better next year. There won't be anymore losing 6 of our last 7 games next year.

The rebuild is headed in the right direction and a little bit ahead of schedule too because there weren't many who had KU pegged as a bowl team this year, most thought that would happen next season.

At the beginning of the season, the Athletic had an article about what a good rebuild should look like for a team as bad as KU has been. The first step was just building the confidence of the players to where they believed they could compete, not even win, but just compete. The OU game last year was huge for that and beginning of moving into that phase. The UT game obviously was huge as well because it was a breakthrough for this group. The following 2 games were even more important to this rebuild than the OU and UT games because KU followed the win up with playing close, competitive games to close the season. The TCU and WV games last year were the true turning point because usually whenever KU pulled an upset, it was just a one off performance and KU was back to getting blown out the following week. Those last two games backed up the UT win and showed there was real progress being made and a mentality shift happening with KU.

Coming into this season, we all knew the first half of the schedule was where KU's potential wins this season were coming from because it was against teams of similar talent level to KU. We saw that mentality shift in game one against Tennessee Tech where KU looked dominant over an inferior opponent that hadn't happened in recent history. The most important game this season for KU was the West Virginia game where backed up its week 1 performance and managed to win a road game early and built their confidence and KU beat everyone that was of similar caliber to them.

Even when Jalon Daniels got hurt, Bean was a capable back up who kept KU competitive and got the 6th win against an injury depleted OSU team. Most importantly for the rebuild though, even in KU's losses, they were mostly competitive and had a chance in the 4th quarter against everyone but Texas. Only one true blowout this season should have everyone excited for the future of this team.

We know the areas of weakness that need to be addressed and recruiting shows Leipold knows that too as most of the incoming HS players are on defense. I expect to see him keep building depth on the defense which was the biggest issue this year as they would just wear out bybthe 4th quarter because the depth isn't there yet.

We also know special teams needs to be addressed because that unit was a negative factor for KU far too many times and I'm not referring to Borcila exclusively, our return game was well below average most of the time, and our punter struggled to punt more than 40 yards on a consistent basis well so Those are things that need to be addressed in addition to Borcila.

I'm looking forward to seeing who Leipold adds to the defense and kicking game through the portal and what we look like in the bowl game this year as those practices are going to be huge for the future.

More than anything recruiting our own guys back is priority #1 for this off-season. Keep this team in tact. Staff and players.

Then we need to find some upgrades again. I feel like the D is a couple of starters away from being good enough.

I’d like to see us add another WR with the ability to take one to the house on simple screens. I feel like that is lacking. This O could use some track speed added to it.

I’m excited to see what another off-season can be for this group. LL being her long term should really be a benefit in the recruiting trail.

Be nice to know if Hishaw will ever play again. Need an ace kicker! Was talk of Jalon moving to west coast, closer to family. He has gotten back to his old self. I'm hearing BYU, responders bowl?

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU vs ksu 🦃's:

Be nice to know if Hishaw will ever play again. Need an ace kicker! Was talk of Jalon moving to west coast, closer to family. He has gotten back to his old self. I'm hearing BYU, responders bowl?

Jerry Palm of CBS has that projected match up. ESPN's have KU in the Armed Forces Bowl on Dec. 22. One of 247's writers has KU in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Phoenix. Nobody has the Liberty Bowl against Missouri right now.