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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.

I approve of this thread.

I do not approve of this thread.

The profile of the contented chubby-girl-in-Cheez-It says Rembrandt. But the general palette and range of expression say Bosch. Either way, this is a visual art masterpiece.

In the 12 seasons since Turner Gill's first year in 2010, Kansas has won two total road games: 2018 Central Michigan @ Kelly/Shorts Stadium and 2021 Texas @ DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium. Victories over Texas account for just under 30% of Kansas' total conference wins since 2010 (2/7). This is the first time Kansas has scored 50 points in a road game since beating OU 52-24 in Norman in 1996 (KU also hung 50 on TCU earlier that same season in Fort Worth).

WWII-era Warhawk logo for the Veterans Day throwbacks.

Your first sentence is 100% accurate. But the answer to your question is no. Daniels was clearly our best QB last year, but our O-line was (and really, is) unspeakably terrible. Because Daniels is a sane person, by late season last year he was hearing footsteps and was also a little dinged up, so Miles & staff kept him on the sideline for the last couple of games. This year, because the current staff came in so late and they knew we'd be brutal again, they decided to redshirt him this year. But now both QBs in front of him are hurt (because our O-line actually is terrible, independent of what this game looks like), so he's been forced to play. The hope is that the other guys will be available to close out the year, because the staff really doesn't want to burn Dainels' redshirt.

The clearly surreptitiously scrawled "Gary gets pegged" sign was pretty solid.

Strange thread turn on a football board, but I guess the last few posts are a decent Baylor scout?

Long time lurker, first time poster here. Rather unbelievably, even what you wrote doesn't do how awful KU has been justice. Kansas hasn't won more than 1 conference game in a season since 2008. As far as I've been able to discover, KU has the worst 12-season conference winning percentage in major college football history: 1. Kansas, 2009-2020, Big 12 - 7-98 (.067) 2. Univ. of the South (Sewanee), 1929-1940, Southern/SEC - 4-54-1 (.069) 3. Western State, 1925-1936, Rocky Mountain Conf. - 5-59 (.078) 4. UTEP, 1975-1986, WAC - 8-78 (.093) 5. Kansas State, 1941-1952, Big 6/Big 7 - 6-58-1 (.094) Back in 2017 I got curious about how to illustrate how bad things were, and have tracked the above info on phog.net every year since then. My research may not be completely exhaustive, but as far as I know, these are the only 5 major college programs to ever have a sub-.100 conference winning percentage over 12 seasons, with the Jayhawks "leading" the pack. Definitely deserves a place in a "Kansas is Hopeless" thread.