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Offense:

QB: Michael Cummings (Sr)

RB: Taylor Cox (Sr)

WR: Nigel King. (Sr)

WR: True Parmelee (Sr)

WR: Kevin Thomas (freshman had offers from Neb, Clem, and Wisc)

TE: Kent Taylor (Florida transfer) (so)

LT: Larry Mazyck (Sr)

LG: Joe Gibson. (So)

C: Jacob Bragg (fr)

RG: Junior Visinia. (So)

RT: Jordan Shelly-Smith (Jr)

Defense:

CB: LB Bates (Jr 3 star juco transfer)

CB: Matthew Boateng (So)

SS: Isaiah Johnson (Sr)

FS: Fish Smithson (Sr)

NB: Tevin Shaw (Jr)

LB: Kyron Watson (So)

LB: Jake Love (Sr)

Buck: Ben Goodman (Sr)

LE: Andrew Bolton (Sr)

NT: DJ Williams (rs freshman had offers from ou and Miami of fl)

RE: TJ Semke (Sr)

Special teams:

P: Erik Kahn

Pk: Matthew Wyman

Returners: Derrick Neal, Bobby Hartzog

@TheDrunkenJhawk is cox coming back?

@TheDrunkenJhawk

I was under the impression that Nigel King had only one year since he transferred from Maryland after graduating and did not have to sit one year. I read that he did not play his first year due to eligibility issues, enrolled in January and graduated in 2-1/2 years; pretty impressive for some one with eligibility issues. He will be the top receiver, no doubt, and should vie for conference honors. He had one of the most amazing catches in all of college football this past season...

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@JayHawkFanToo I was excited to read this post but then I realized it was not about next years basketball starters.

@joeloveshawks

Well...the new football coach should get some love...at least until he shows he cannot win.

@joeloveshawks I'm really hoping, for your sake, it didn't take long to figure out! Jk!

@JayHawkFanToo I think Beatty and Bowen will certainly work as hard as anyone we've had lately, to turn this around!

@Crimsonorblue22

With KU football we don't expect much and they don't disappoint. I am really, really, really hoping this time it will be different.

I'm more interested in the starters two years from now. Next year's starters are a transition year. the year after that is when we should start seeing an upgrade in talent and see more RS freshmen and sophomores on the depth chart. If that isn't happening, it means we aren't recruiting well enough because right now KU's talent level is pretty low by Big 12 standards.

@justanotherfan "I'm more interested in the starters two years from now."

That all depends on who our coach is two years from now......

@nuleafjhawk

True dat...as the younger crowd would say.

@nuleafjhawk

If we make another coaching change that soon, we are doomed for the next decade. No matter how bad Beaty is, he has to be at KU for the next four seasons barring something truly bizarre or tragic. A fifth year senior on this year's KU team may have been recruited by Mangino, retained by Gill and Weis and shook hands with Clint Bowen on senior day. There is almost a zero percent chance that a program with that much turnover could possibly succeed.

Beaty has to graduate a class of his own recruits. That's the only way we even have a chance to get out of this hole.

@justanotherfan I agree. We're starting to get a bit of a reputation. Not the reputation we'd like to have either!

Here is a nice bit from the KC Star on Coach Beaty. I am encouraged.

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article4567897.html ↗