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Co Harris! First of many picks for Co!

@Kcmatt7 You sound like BShark now, stop that!

Why take the timeout there? Back it up 5 and give the punter more room.

Nice run by Kendrick

Schadler has to catch that one.

I like seeing Kendrick to start this half.

I'll feel much better about this game if KU scores a TD on this opening drive.

@kjayhawks I'm happy we have the lead, but it could easily be 45-7 now and the game would be over.

@BShark What about the Colorado game KU made the huge comeback against under Gill?

Looks like a quite a bit bigger crowd than two weeks ago. Might actually be close to 20,000 in the stands today.

Pooka is gonna help Dom and Herbert all year long. Once they start incorporating the option with Kendrick and Pooka, the KU run game is going to be really good.

@Kcmatt7 Holding them to FG would be huge.

This looks like the normal Bowen defense.

@stoptheflop Bender has no touch on his passes and that's his biggest weakness at QB. Kendrick showed good touch on his fade passes and it's just a matter of time until Kendrick takes over the job.

I believe that the reason Jeff Long hired Mike Vollmar was Vollmar's connection to Les Miles. That's who I believe will be the next coach at KU. Miles isn't going to get an offer from a top program at this point, but he's a young 65 and could probably go 10 more years if he really wanted to. Les Miles has done a rebuild in the Big 12 and still has enough connections that he could put together a really strong staff. He's also done enough that I would trust him to pick his own coach in waiting when the time is right.

@Kcmatt7 Littrell isn't coming to Kansas. If Tech goes with Brown, Littrell would likely be a top choice at North Carolina which may come available if Fedora doesn't right that ship this year.

@Kcmatt7 Texas Tech is going to have their choice between Brown and Littrell.

Just think, this game could very easily be 38-0 right now.

@nwhawkfan I love that Bowen is a loyal Jayhawk, but I don't want him as a head coach.

Clint Bowen has looked like a good coach the past 2 games. Where has this been the past 6 years?

BShark said:

Hot take: this Rutgers QB isn't very good.

He's a true freshman, but he's also why this was considered a winnable game for KU.

@stoptheflop That's the difference between good teams and teams like Kansas. We weren't creating turnovers last year though so I'll take just creating turnovers for now. The next step is to get more points off of those turnovers.

Holder botched that one.

Missed the facemask ref

Facemask

Pooka's knee caused that fumble. That was impressive ups by Pooka though.

3 turnovers in the first quarter, nice!

@BShark When you have tall receivers like Booker, the fade is a good play because the receiver has the height advantage to jump over a DB.

@kjayhawks Kendrick's first pass was good. Kerr Johson looked over the wrong shoulder. Had he turned over his outside shoulder instead of his inside one, he catches it. That was on Johnson, not Kendrick.

Booker did a great job positioning himself there to allow only himself to catch the pass or force a pass interference.

That's how you throw a fade route

I like that formation with Kendrick in the inverted wishbone. Lots of options with him in that formation.

There's the Kansas we all know

That's Bender's biggest weakness, lack of touch on his passes.

Have to hit that throw!

@Kcmatt7 Need a TD to demoralize Rutgers.

Torneden having himself a game today!

KU actually looks competent so far today.

@wissox Fox Sports Go should have it and it's free as far as I know.

When did Clint Bowen learn how to coach against anybody?

That incomplete pass by Bender was a good decision. It's also nice to have a reliable kicker with good range.

@Kcmatt7 The buyout isn't an issue to me. I'd have no problem if someone like Les Miles came here on a 5 year/$3 million per year deal and KU fully guaranteed it.

If it was someone like Jason Candle at $3 million per year, I'd have a problem with that, but him at $2 million per year base salary plus incentives for on field performance that was fully guaranteed is something I wouldn't have an issue with either. The buyout needs to be structured in a way the discourages the coach from leaving and forced the hiring school to pay that buyout.

@Kcmatt7 10 years is a long time at a place like Kansas and I don't see that being an incentive to attract a quality coach. That's the type of deal that would attract a Charlie Weis type coach.

The next coach needs the standard 5 year deal with on field benchmarks being the method to earn an extension year.

@Kcmatt7 At this point, I'm much more interested in the actual on field results of hires rather than whether they appear to be a good hire or not. Kansas football is in a position now where they need someone to actually deliver results on the field because we're getting close to another round of realignment and the Big 12 is going to be the conference that's in the most trouble when that happens.

I thought Gill was a good hire at the time and still think he was screwed over and not given enough time here to establish his culture here. Say what you will about his time here, but KU is the only place he didn't leave a program in better shape. Buffalo was where Kansas is now and ge won a conference title their in 4 years. He's had Liberty in the FCS playoffs just about every year he's been there so there is clearly something about his way that works when given the proper time.

Weis was a bad hire from the get go. Weis sacrificed character in his recruiting and crippled the depth trying to win immediately to get one last good job.

I wasn't as high on the Beaty hire as I was the Gill hire, but nowhere as against it as I was the Weis hire. On the field, each hire has been progressively worse so it'll be incredibly hard for anyone Long hires to be as bad as Beaty has been to this point.

The guy I would personally love to see come here is Les Miles. Miles is a proven winner in the B12 at OSU and was frequently Nick Saban's biggest challenge in the SEC. He may be 65 when he would potentially take over in December, but is a young 65 that could probably go another 10 years or so. I would also allow Miles to name a successor himself when he knows he's a tear or two away from retiring.

@Kcmatt7 Good hires don't get you fired. Bret Bielema didn't do anything for Arkansas except lose and piss off donors. There's no way to spin that as good hire.

Jeff Long was fired at Arkansas because he made two bad football hires and wasn't trusted to make third. Now why does that sound familiar?

@KUSTEVE The way Petrino handled his departure from the Atlanta Falcons to take the Arkansas job was a huge red flag on Petrino's character. He quit the Falcons before the season was up, didn't notify his players he was leaving and just basically handled that situation as poorly as possible.

The mistress situation is why he had to fired at Arkansas because he put the school in a position to be sued under Title IX and firing Petrino is what saved the school from that potential lawsuit.

@FarmerJayhawk Bielema would be a terrible hire for Kansas. Bielema is why Jeff Long was fired from Arkansas in the first place. Aside from that, Bielema didn't make Arkansas any better and the Hogs finished in last in the SEC west 3 out of his 5 years and only finished in the top half of the division once.

Bielema didn't build Wisconsin, he inherited that. What he took over at Arkansas is much closer to what he'd have to do at KU and he failed to make Arkansas better.

On top of that, from a PR perspective (very important here because of the fundraising needed for the stadium), how do you justify hiring a coach at your new school that is the reason you were fired as an AD from your previous school?

At the end of the day, Jeff Long was fired from Arkansas for the same reason Zenger was fired from KU. Long hired two football coaches that had to be fired, granted Petrino was not fired for non field issues but was still fired nonetheless, and wasn't trusted to make a third hire.

This is why I'm still not totally sold on Long as KU's AD because there is something flawed in his ability to evaluate football coaches. He ignored character issues with Petrino and ignored that Bielema was not a cultural fit at Arkansas at all and that their boosters were never fully behind Bielema.

Arkansas has been good to great at a lot of other sports under Long, but the bottom line is that Long was hired to fix the football program and his track record of football hires is not very impressive. That worries me about who he'll hire at KU.

@Kcmatt7 Tom Keegan did an article last week about potential replacements for Beaty. Seth Littrell was the one young guy who has already said no to the KU job. KU is a coaching graveyard and Littrell knows this. KU has been a springboard for 2 coaches in the last 50 years I believe. Most KU coaches never become head coach at an FBS school again, including Mangino.

Graham Harrell is Littrell's OC, not Kingsbury, my bad on that one.

Kliff Kingsbury is his OC, Littrell is going to end up replacing Kingsbury at Tech if they falter again this season.