DURHAM, N.C. — Though Kansas has an array of problems to address following its 41-3 loss to Duke on Saturday, the most discussed topic next week will likely be this: Do the Jayhawks have the right guy to lead them at quarterback?
Montell Cozart was inconsistent with his throws and decision-making, completing just 11 of 27 passes for 89 yards with two interceptions.
Is that Robert E. Lee Pruitt up at the Campanile at lights out blowing taps for Charles Weis?
I see tears running down his cheeks in the moonlight as he pauses and turns the megaphone away from the Union and toward Memorial Stadium to blow another round of Taps.
Finally, Pruitt finishes and wipes his tears away on his khaki shirt sleeve and walks into the darkness from there to eternity.
Some came running, but they were all Blue Devil ball carriers, not Jayhawks.
The beating never stopped. Duke just ran out of time. KU was saved from death by a whistle.
Last season Coach Weis fired himself as offensive coordinator for poor offensive performance.
This season he has to fire himself as head coach for hiring John Reagan as offensive coordinator and for not changing defensive coordinators.
Or perhaps he will have to fire Sheahon Zenger for hiring him.
This is anything but a merry month of May for Coach Weis; this is like going to the widow maker without a pistol. There is a touch of danger to this season of one long and endless ice cream headache.
It gets to be a thin red line about who to fire.
It's lonely at the top.
Even with the $3.5 M bones per year.
(Note: this is jaybatean 1.0 literary sense and nonsense.)
@jaybate-1.0 yes, this is very depressing!!
Yes, "this" football game IS very depressing.
I fear the next coach will not have enough players left to run off a third of the team to establish his authority.
I also fear KU is running out of religious oriented football sects to try to hire football coaches to tap into. Gill and fundamentalists did not hunt. Weis and the Catholic high school feeder system did not hunt. What is next? A kosher feeder system? Hindu? Shinto Buddhist? Presbyterian? Do we dare try to hire an atheist to tap into the non believers?
It occurs to me that a lot of dog lovers play football and are fans.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
It may be time to hire Cesar Millan.
Or it maybe time to keep Coach Weis and sign KU FOOTBALL up with NIKE! I hear Nike has a pretty good feeder system. Isn't Duke aligned with Nike?
Maybe Adidas makes sense for KU basketball, but Nike makes sense for KU football.
Forget the religious angle.
Maybe recruiting access is all about Petro Cleats!
@jaybate-1.0 Maybe it's time for all of college sports to restructure.
Everyone should stick with one sport. What they do best.
Obviously, Kansas' sport should be basketball.
Alabama can have football.
Who gets baseball? LSU? Arizona St? Cal St Fullerton? Who cares.
A Capella? I don't know, Berklee College of Music. Possibly USC or BYU. I'd personally give it to Berklee for the name of their team:
" Pitch Slapped ".
Kentucky gets Moonshine Brewing.
Missouri - Meth Lab U, what else?
Something for the powers that be to consider.
Go home folks, nothing to watch here. The result was pretty much as expected.
Duke finished last year with 10 wins and a Bowl game, ranked #22 and had most of the players coming back.; it has had top 25 votes this season and might be in the top 25 in the next poll. KU, on the other hand, had a poor last season, lost its top two running backs before the start of the season, has not new impact player coming and it is a consensus bottom 25 team...maybe even bottom 10. It does have some promising young players, but that and 99 cents will buy you a cup of coffee at the QT.
Our secondary got burned repeatedly and as I mentioned before, it is not KU's strength, it is it's weakness. Like I said, no one should be surprised by the result.
All I can say is...bring the other fat man back!!!