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Thanks, you're right. I was going off memory, which is apparently somewhat appropriately faulty for someone of my rather advanced age.

The people I trust near the program say it is his back, and as impactful of a player as he has been for us, given his injury history he may be made of glass. 2020 - Didn't finish the season due to injury (though, he should get a pass for this since KU was basically playing with a bad FCS offensive line). 2021 - Plan was to redshirt him since KU was again playing with a bad FCS offensive line. But Jason Bean and Miles Kendrick both got hurt so they had to play Daniels against KSU. He was such an obvious improvement that Daniels, his parents, and Leipold got on a conference call and decided, go for it - play out the rest of the season (with the major result being the win over Texas). 2022 - Injured vs. TCU and didn't play the rest of the regular season. Returned for the bowl game. 2023 - Back injury in pre-season. Missed the opener, played three straight, now has missed four straight.

Yes. Given the relative financial importance of the two sports, there's an understanding that FB will outpace BB (Self's currently at ~$6MM).

Negative. He's committed as long as KU delivers the salary and facilities goods (Contracts for he and multiple assistants were renegotiated after last season, football complex was renovated this past offseason, and the rebuild of the west and north sides of Memorial Stadium will start at the end of this season). And unlike at any time in my lifetime, our BMDs are ponying up - for him, his assistants, facilities, and NIL. I get the assumption that he's gone given KU's history, but there's not been a time in my life when the wallets have opened up for the program like they have since his arrival. As long as that keeps happening (and it will), he stays.

Kansas put on a Gucci suit and Oklahoma bent over its lap.

It's an Ai-leen.

I am not aware of Kansas always having done this.

It's possible he's not overly interested. Several years ago when he was back in Lawrence for some event or another the local paper published a long interview with him, and a lot of it was about his quality of life/balance after retiring to Florida and focusing on himself. He ascribed a lot of his weight and health problems to not being able to manage taking care of himself while also handling the rigors of college coaching. But if he still has any desire, agree somebody should give him another chance. KU winning a major bowl game has happened exactly once. Dude worked a miracle.

I probably should just let this post go but based on what I've read from the legacy Big 12 fan bases that will still be in the conference, the feeling is a whole lot more sigh of relief and laughing at the Pac 12's incompetence than it is collective essing of Ds. The league is going to be a hodgepodge of schools, no question. And it may (likely will?) fall apart with the next round of negotiations. I think what you're seeing is largely just a feeling of relief that there's some stability for some period of time, and appreciation that it was somebody else's incompetence that caused another conference to essentially fully disintegrate. The last decade plus has not been fun, especially for those of us who came in from the Big 8 side of the conference. But given all circumstances, I think the league is as well positioned as it can be to have an auto-bid, though I wouldn't think two teams is ever to be likely.

No. Oklahomans.

Affirmative. First win over a ranked team since 2010. Potter Lake was due for some goalposts.

This is pretty much where I am. I can imagine a future with 0 additional wins, and I can also imagine a future where Daniels gets a Heisman invite and we go to a damned good bowl. Reality will be somewhere in between, most likely.

As long as Anthony Davis isn’t in uniform.

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