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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.

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We’re back bitches!!!

Jhawkmvp
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A lifetime of being a KU FB fan has taught me to have low expectations, but hope for the best. I think Leipold has turned KU into a legitimate team far faster than expected. It is not just being 3-0,

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18 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

KU -7 at home against Duke.  Can you imagine the hype this would have as a basketball game, but it's not. I will be rooting for the Jayhawks to:

- extend the dream
- not lose to a shitty ACC team (and shame the B12 conference with such a stench)
- I'd like to say be undefeated when the horns go up to Lawrence, but I haven't done enough drugs for that
- make Nebraska fans wish they had a team as good as KU
- to keep my posts in the LULZ page thread alive for one more wee,

 

My favorite Wally comment above is "make Nebraska fans wish they had a team as good as KU"

Jayhawks gonna smoke the Blue Devils

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15 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I like Kansas. Like, they might be legitimately good. I’m an 8-4 or 7-5 kind of way. Won money 3 weeks in a row on them. 

Interested to see Kansas next week against Iowa State. 

Kansas is 4-0 but the best team they've played is WV at #65 in FEI. Still, give Leipold a ton of credit. 

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He’s saying all the right things but this was Leipold a couple of days ago…(I mean we’ve all heard coach speak and all that):

Lance Leipold appeared on The Straight Line with Ryan Leaf. He was asked about his being mentioned for other jobs. 

"Just like anything, I think you have to stay in the moment, be where your feet are at," Leipold said. "You know, my wife, Kelly and I we came to Lawrence, Kansas, not to move at this stage of our career. It's flattering. Like you said, it's early, it's early in the season. But our focus is trying to build the Kansas Jayhawks into a winner and a consistent winner for the long haul."

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3 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

He’s saying all the right things but this was Leipold a couple of days ago…(I mean we’ve all heard coach speak and all that):

Lance Leipold appeared on The Straight Line with Ryan Leaf. He was asked about his being mentioned for other jobs. 

"Just like anything, I think you have to stay in the moment, be where your feet are at," Leipold said. "You know, my wife, Kelly and I we came to Lawrence, Kansas, not to move at this stage of our career. It's flattering. Like you said, it's early, it's early in the season. But our focus is trying to build the Kansas Jayhawks into a winner and a consistent winner for the long haul."

Leipold has ties to Wisconsin and Nebraska.  Gonna be hard for jayhawks to keep him... 

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1 minute ago, LTtxfan said:

Leipold has ties to Wisconsin and Nebraska.  Gonna be hard for jayhawks to keep him... 

I know. I think his wife really loves it where they are but again…who knows? His 58 and I think maybe thinking about his legacy so I could also completely staying and building his legacy in Kansas. If they get past TCU and are 6-0 I can’t imagine what his agent’s phone will look like.

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Will Kansas hang on to Lance Leipold? Offensive explosion, 4-0 start will have Jayhawks warding off suitors

By Dennis Dodd       Sep 28, 2022

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LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Lance Leipold knows what's coming. With every game Kansas' coach wins, his appeal increases and his horizons broaden. But first things first.

One-third of the way through the season, a red-hot coach of a red-hot program doesn't want to lose his offensive coordinator. That's Andy Kotelnicki, a little-known 42-year-old whose schemes are behind one of the most innovative offenses in the country.

"Don't write anything about him," Leipold pleaded following Saturday's 35-27 win over previously unbeaten Duke. "He needs to stay right here. Don't give him some $2 million [coordinator's] job."

Too late? Kansas is 4-0 for the first time in 13 years, and there are many reasons beyond the nation's fourth-highest scoring offense (tied with Tennessee, just above Alabama).

Leipold is what they call a grinder, blend-in-the-woodwork developmental type who has won everywhere he's travelled. With three Power Five coaches already fired in September, that also makes him a desirable candidate elsewhere in only his second season at Kansas.

Leipold is one of several coaches who have reignited their programs one-third of the way through the season. You shouldn't have to be told Kansas has hovered around bottom 25 lists for years. The program cycled through coaches like changes of clothes. There was no continuity, even less talent.

The most valued coaching ability these days is turnaround ability. Scott Frost didn't have it at Nebraska. Neither did Geoff Collins at Georgia Tech. Arizona State treaded water under Herm Edwards. All three were fired this month.

Leipold is that turnaround coach. Six Division III championships at Wisconsin-Whitewater got him the Buffalo job in 2015. In those six seasons, the Bulls played for two MAC titles and won 10 games in 2018 for the first time.

"I really would like a month's worth of just focusing on our football team," Leipold said late Saturday. "We've got to try to get this thing in good [shape]."

Leipold's name has already been attached to the Nebraska opening. More may request the coach's phone number in the coming weeks.

"We're not going to sit idle," Kansas athletic director Travis Goff said. "We're not going to take things for granted. We're going to keep building this thing. Basically, we're not going to let some other situation dictate what's best for the University of Kansas."

Goff was not specific, but he understands what's ahead. An undefeated start makes his coach a commodity and therefore a candidate for a raise and extension even if Nebraska never comes calling. Goff already extended Leipold for a year earlier this month as a show of support and way of restarting his original six-year contract. 

It was going to take that long to revive Kansas football. Leipold has sped up the timeline. Kansas shocked the world winning at Texas last season. While it was a 2-10 campaign, it felt like progress. There have been 31 transfers added to the Jayhawks since Leipold arrived in April 2021.

The $3.5 million Leipold will earn in the final year of his contract (2027) doesn't seem like a high hurdle for an interested suitor.

Even getting representation wasn't considered an urgent necessity. For years at Whitewater, he operated on a year-to-year contract. Leipold hired his current agent sight unseen. That was years ago when Leipold determined his career was becoming successful enough to necessitate representation.

"Some things were starting to happen. We talked on the phone," Leipold said. "We had enough common links. There was trust there."

Things just got a whole lot more complicated. Not between Leipold and his agent, Bryan Harlan, but between Leipold and a fawning college football world. The 58-year-old coach has accomplished plenty, including becoming the fastest in NCAA history to reach 100 wins. But little has prepared him for being the accidental next top model of coaching.

Goff was a deputy AD at Northwestern when Harlan negotiated a 10-year deal for Pat Fitzgerald in January 2021. No one is saying Leipold is getting a 10-year contract just yet, but there is a level of comfort among all the parties at KU in keeping him long term.

The chatter is certainly not going to die down. Former Kansas players flocked to town Saturday to witness the turnaround. Former record-setting running back Tony Sands was the first to shake the coach's hand at a private donor event following the game. Sands held the NCAA single-game rushing record for eight years (391 yards), setting it in 1991 at KU. (Playing for Leipold in 2020, Buffalo's Jaret Patterson reset the record -- since surpassed -- of 409 yards vs. Kent State.)

Leipold and Kotelnicki are not married to a single offensive philosophy. There are pistol concepts, but the ball seems to go everywhere. Fourteen players have caught a pass and just as many have scored.

Kansas is tied with Ohio State for most touchdowns scored this season (27). Quarterback Jalon Daniels threw four touchdowns against Duke, accounting for more than 400 yards in total offense. Just as valuable was backup RB Daniel Hishaw Jr. who contributed 61 yards in relief of injured starter Devin Neal.

Kansas Memorial Stadium was sold out for the first time since 2009. That year also was a cautionary tale that could have time traveled to the present. Those Jayhawks won their first five games, lost their last seven and saw coach Mark Mangino fired.

"If we give some things away like this in the next eight weeks in conference play, we ain't going to win anything," Leipold said.  "We'd be 4-8 and people will be talking about us being overconfident or I don't know what the hell I'm doing."

Iowa State comes to town this week adding to the coaching search intrigue. The Cyclones' Matt Campbell is said to be interested in the Nebraska opening.

Leipold himself has deep Nebraska roots. He treasures his time there as an analyst for Frank Solich and Nebraska and as an assistant at Division II Nebraska-Omaha. What he worries about are outside distractions that were never around in Whitewater.

Nebraska is better resourced than Kansas and in a bigger, richer conference, and … well … what else do you need to know? Asked about the opening twice last week, Leipold said he wants to see through what is turning out to be an amazing turnaround. Despite being on campus only 18 months, Leipold has the Jayhawks on the cusp of being nationally ranked for the first time in 13 years. (Kansas is already No. 23 in the CBS Sports 131.)

Nebraska certainty needs Leipold's steady hand and developmental abilities. No less than Duke assistant Trooper Taylor -- an SEC recruiting legend -- went out of his way to congratulate Leipold on the win after the game.

"This place has been starving for so long," Leipold said. "I was like, 'We can't [mess this up].'" 

 

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Interesting...

The Jayhawks are 7.5-point underdogs against the Sooners (the game has an over/under of 63.5 points).

 

Edit:   “Venables: Dillon Gabriel (concussion protocol) is a “full-go” in practice while the program continues to monitor him this week. Says OU will get an update on his status in Week 7 Thursday. “If he continues to stay out of harms way…I expect him to play.”

 

 

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1 hour ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Shitty luck for Kansas.

 

Surprised this was announced today... preparation for the blOU staff just made easier knowing Bean is KU's starter and no chance that Daniels plays.  

 

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