**** OFFICIAL 2012 Kansas Football Repository Thread ****

[ArrowheadHawk]

New Coach, New year, new thread.

Sat, Sept. 1 SDSU at Kansas Memorial Stadium
Lawrence, KS at 6:00p.m. CT Jayhawk IMG TV Network

Sat, Sept. 8 Rice at Kansas Memorial Stadium
Lawrence, KS FSN at 2:30p.m. CT Fox Sports Net

Sat, Sept. 15 TCU at Kansas Memorial Stadium
Lawrence, KS at 11:00a.m. CT FX

Sat, Sept. 22 Kansas at No. Illinois
DeKalb, Illinois

Sat, Oct. 6 Kansas at Kansas State Bill Snyder Family Stadium
Manhattan, KS

Sat, Oct. 13 Okla. St. at Kansas Memorial Stadium
Lawrence, KS

Sat, Oct. 20 Kansas at Oklahoma Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
Norman, OK

Sat, Oct. 27 Texas at Kansas Memorial Stadium
Lawrence, KS

Sat, Nov. 3 Kansas at Baylor Floyd Casey Stadium
Waco, TX

Sat, Nov. 10 Kansas at TT Jones AT&T Stadium
Lubbock, TX

Sat, Nov. 17 Iowa State at Kansas Memorial Stadium
Lawrence, KS

Sat, Dec. 1 Kansas at West Virginia
Morgantown, W.V.

[phisherman]

Now I'm really confused.

[Fansy the Famous Bard]

me too

[Braincase]

Link

New Addition.
Bishop Ward's Golubski commits to KU

Add a second Wyandotte County Division 1 football player to the list.

Bishop Ward Cyclones quarterback Michael Golubski committed to the University of Kansas a little under an hour ago.

Golubski announced his commitment over Twitter.

During his career at Bishop Ward High School, Golubski played several positions - quarterback, fullback, tight-end, punter and linebacker.

In Ward's last winning season during Golubski's sophomore season, his overall ability and athleticism was displayed as he ran for over 400 yards, averaged over 8 tackles a game, earned two sacks and punted four balls inside the opponent's 20 yard line.

This past season, most of Ward's offense was generated by Golubski, who served as the starting quarterback for the Cyclones.

While the season was rough for Ward, Golubski and his team fought hard and did not quit. Golubski nearly engineered a shocking upset against St. James Academy near the end of his senior campaign.

http://youtu.be/7fl7PZ5cQ_s

[Fansy the Famous Bard]

preferred walk-on?

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by Zeke

preferred walk-on?

Seems to be. I guess he's quite an athlete. Talk he'll be slotted as an LB.

[Bambi]

Looks like Texas is getting Swoopes

[Braincase]

Rod Jones, former NFL lineman, returns to Kansas as a Graduate Assistant.

Link

When Skyline High School hired former NFL offensive lineman Rod Jones as its varsity football coach last spring, he said he'd be there "as long as you'll have me."


After just one year on the job, a change of heart will take Jones back to alma mater to be a coach on Charlie Weis' staff at the University of Kansas.
Jones said his goal is eventually coach in the NFL, where he played offensive line from 1996-2002 as a member of the Cincinnati Bengals, St. Louis Rams and Washington Redskins.

"I’ve had the opportunity to play a the highest level and hopefully one day I can coach there," Jones said.

Jones will be at anything but the highest level next year as a graduate assistant and assistant defensive line coach for Weis, who replaced Turner Gill in December. Graduate assistant jobs are notorious for long hours and low pay in the form of university stipends and free tuition toward master's classes.
It's dues Jones knows he'll have to pay if he wants to move up in the coaching world.


"This is the path you have to take, there’s really no other way around it, unless you’re a big name," Jones said. "Offensive lineman, you kinda have to prove yourself."


NCAA rules state graduate assistants must be less than seven years removed from receiving a bachelor's degree. Despite being 16 years removed from his playing days at Kansas, Jones, 38, was eligible because he didn't receive his degree until 2010.


"My last semester, with agents, the NFL Draft, the Senior Bowl, I just never ended up finishing my degree," Jones said. "If I had finished up when I planned, when I walked and everything, I wouldn't be eligible. ... It all just worked out."
Skyline recently closed the application process and plans to begin interviewing candidates at the end of February or beginning of March.



Jones' replacement will be the school's third varsity football coach in as many years. Jones took over for Randy Hutchison last season after Hutchison-- who built the Eagles’ program since the school consisted of only freshmen -- resigned to devote more time to his full-time job.


Jones led the Eagles to their first-ever varsity win in their season opener last fall. The team finished 3-6.



Jones, who worked as a teaching assistant at Skyline, said telling his players he was leaving was tough.


"Some of them were pretty disappointed, pretty disheartened. They were really looking forward to playing for me and it’s unfortunate," Jones said. "I got some pretty sad emails."

[HolyHandgernade]

Fantastic article on Crist:

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...#ixzz1mwn8NI7X

[Bambi]

Weis is bringing in tons of recruits for Saturday.

Let the beatdown commence.

[Bambi]

Early Heisman Odds


2012 Heisman Trophy Odds @ JustBet Sportsbook (as of 2/7/12):

Aaron Murray (Georgia Bulldogs) 12 to 1
AJ McCarron (Alabama Crimson Tide) 20 to 1
Collin Klein (Kansas State Wildcats) 50 to 1
Dayne Crist (Kansas Jayhawks) 20 to 1
De’Anthony Thomas (Oregon Ducks) 20 to 1
Denard Robinson (Michigan Wolverines) 6.50 to 1
EJ Manuel (Florida State Seminoles) 30 to 1
Geno Smith (West Virginia Mountaineers) 8 to 1
James Vandenberg (Iowa Hawkeyes) 50 to 1
Keith Price (Washington Huskies) 28 to 1
Landry Jones (Oklahoma Sooners) 6.50 to 1
Marcus Lattimore (South Carolina Gamecocks) 15 to 1
Matt Barkley (USC Trojans) 3.85 to 1
Montee Ball (Wisconsin Badgers) 5 to 1
Rex Burkhead (Nebraska Cornhuskers) 20 to 1
Robert Woods (USC Trojans) 40 to 1
Sammy Watkins (Clemson Tigers) 20 to 1
Tajh Boyd (Clemson Tigers) 30 to 1
Taylor Martinez (Nebraska Cornhuskers) 30 to 1
Tyler Wilson (Arkansas Razorbacks) 20 to 1

[Mr. Plow]

Really?

[Mr. Plow]

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_...es-not-results


New Big 12 will miss rivalries, not results

TCU and West Virginia don't "officially" join the Big 12 until July 1.

But nothing happens in July. In March, we have spring football, and in every meaningful sense, the Horned Frogs and Mountaineers have become the first teams to join the Big 12 since its creation back in 1994.

Big 12 teams are showing up on both programs' new film for 2012. Recruiting efforts are shifting.

It's a new world in the Big 12. If you lost track, it still has 10 teams.

Since June 2010, though, it has lost four teams (Nebraska, Colorado, Texas A&M, Missouri) before gaining two more back in October.

The Big East let TCU, which had promised to join the league in 2012, go without incident. Months of legal wrangling and a hard-to-swallow $20 million price tag for leaving were needed for the Mountaineers to make it official.

The Big 12 lost a lot when storied Nebraska left for the Big Ten. It lost nowhere near as much when Colorado left for the Pac-12.

Two big programs with lots of eyes, in Mizzou and Texas A&M, are gone. There's no getting around it: They'll be missed in some ways. You can't replace a century of rivalries without a century of new rivalries. And even then, it's difficult.

Missouri-Kansas? Texas A&M-Texas? You can't replace that, no matter how hard you try. Both rivalries -- annual staples on the college football calendar -- are dead now.

But what you can replace?

Texas A&M and Missouri's modest-to-OK results on the field since the Big 12 began.

TCU and West Virginia will be every bit the teams the Aggies and Tigers were on the field. They'll lack the history, sure. They'll lack the familiarity even more.

But they won't lack the success, however moderate it was for the Aggies and Tigers.

TCU coach Gary Patterson revitalized a historically mediocre program to unprecedented success, winning 11 games in six of seven seasons in the Mountain West Conference, including BCS bowl appearances in consecutive seasons in 2009 and 2010, capped by a win in the Rose Bowl.

TCU won't make winning 11 games an annual occurrence in the Big 12, but would Texas A&M have done much better with a similar schedule?

Meanwhile, West Virginia is 3-0 in BCS bowl games of its own, winning six Big East titles since 2003.

Could Missouri have done much more in the Big East?

Doubtful.

The Tigers have won eight games in six consecutive seasons, one of just a handful of teams to duplicate the feat. It won at least a share of the Big 12 North in three of the division's final four seasons before the Big 12 moved to 10 teams in 2011.

A 12-win season in 2007 was the highlight under Gary Pinkel, but the Tigers have yet to reach the BCS and never won a Big 12 title, getting blown out by Oklahoma in both Big 12 title game appearances.

WVU, though, won 32 games in the final three seasons under Rich Rodriguez and won 27 games in three seasons under Bill Stewart. Dana Holgorsen won 10 games in his first season.

The Big East isn't the Big 12, but Missouri won 63 games in that same span. Add up West Virginia's? The Mountaineers have 70 wins.

Why can't WVU step in and duplicate, if not exceed, what Missouri was able to do?

The Mountaineers can -- and will.

Meanwhile, the Big 12's most frustrating question -- why can't Texas A&M be a national power? -- is the SEC's problem now.

The Aggies have had all the facilities, all the support and all the resources necessary to become one. It has exactly one Big 12 title to show for it and still yearns for the days of R.C. Slocum. The legendary coach won four conference titles, but the program has been blanked since 1998.

TCU, meanwhile, is poised for a rise in the new Big 12. Recruiting will get a boost now that the school has major conference affiliation to offer prospects. Win totals will take a knock from recent totals but stabilize.

For the curious: TCU won 77 games in its past seven seasons. Texas A&M won 47 games in the same span.

Call it a small sample size. Call it a down period for the Aggies.

It's both, but now is now, and TCU looks more than capable to replace every bit of what Texas A&M brought the Big 12 on the field while the Aggies try to swim in the cutthroat SEC West, college football's toughest division.

The Big 12 is adjusting to a new world.

Off the field, the Aggies and Tigers will be sorely missed. To argue otherwise is foolish.

But on the field?

Credit the Big 12 on this one. The conference can easily say "Sayonara" without shedding a tear.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

Really?

yep. I like Geno Smith.

[Bambi]

haha....lets do dis

[Bambi]

no wonder KU ignored Tuberville

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/02/...ommy_tube.html