**** 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.

[DeezNutz]

He clearly meant ESPN's official Twitter feed in the Virgin Islands. Rarely get Mizzou coverage there.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

KU looks pretty good against the College of Northwest Nowhere A&I on ESPNU while Mizzou's playing in MSG.

Call me when your strength of schedule dips below triple digits. You're just barely under 200 as it is.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Silock

Call me when your strength of schedule dips below triple digits. You're just barely under 200 as it is.

We've only beaten #18 Cal by 39, Notre Dame by 29, and Villanova by 10.

Congratulations on playing (and losing to) Duke and Kentucky while beating up on a bunch of fish.

[Braincase]

Spoke with a friend very close to SZ tonight. If he's got somebody in the pocket he hasn't said anything to anybody. I mentioned the Tim Fitzgerald "It's Patterson!" fiasco, and this person asked me if I knew Tim (yes, he was class of '82, I was class of '81, and we worked together for 3 years at the Salina Journal).

I guess SZ was very aware of that mess, and that's why he is going to extremes to prevent leaks.

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by Silock

Call me when your strength of schedule dips below triple digits. You're just barely under 200 as it is.

Didn't we already play at MSG? Congrats to Mizzou on our sloppy seconds.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Braincase

Didn't we already play at MSG? Congrats to Mizzou on our sloppy seconds.

I guess you did. Nice job. I think you mean Kentucky's sloppy seconds, though.


Kentucky outshines Kansas in Madison Square Garden

Season to season, the Kentucky Wildcats ooze flamboyancy and supremacy. Whether they win it all or not, any team coached by John Calipari consistently frightens opponents and amazes oglers.

"There's no kid on our team other than Tyshawn that's played a big boy game like this," coach Bill Self said.

On Tuesday night, Calipari’s high flyers matched the glitz of the shining hardwood at Madison Square Garden and trumped No. 11 Kansas 75-65. At first, the theatrics didn’t resemble a fairy tale. Shots were swatted, not celebrated. Crossovers led to tumbles, not easy baskets. Both Jayhawks and Wildcats hacked arms freely.

"We didn't take care of the ball like how we practiced," Taylor said.

In his team’s final possession of the first half, senior guard Tyshawn Taylor dribbled the seconds away, deked toward the hoop, then fell flat to that shining hardwood. By halftime, the score was tied at 28, but from there, all of Kansas’ momentum died and never returned. At the start of the second half, the Wildcats blocked, sprinted and dunked their way to an 8-0 run.

The Jayhawks either turned the ball over or watched their shots skip to the sideline following a block. Taylor drove to the hoop but repeatedly met the same fate in freshman forward Anthony Davis, who deflected nearly everything he could reach. Senior guard Conner Teahan, the team’s best shooter so far in the young season, went cold from deep. Junior forward Thomas Robinson fouled too often and missed layups that he usually dunks at Allen Fieldhouse.

"We got beside ourselves on a couple of plays," junior guard Elijah Johnson said. "We felt it."

Once the Wildcats got going, all normalcy dissipated. Any time the Jayhawks found a sliver of rhythm, their superior foe topped it with a 3-point swish or a powerful dunk.

Self was far removed from the glory of his 2008 national championship victory over Calipari, who then coached Memphis. Self tried to stall Kentucky with timeout after timeout, but the Wildcats never stopped running. He tried to find lineups that could score effectively against the length and speed of the defense, substituting players back and forth like boomerangs.

It just never worked. As a slowly increasing deficit tip-toed into the reality of a loss, Self could do nothing but stare at the dominance of some of the players he once failed to recruit.

Kentucky, flush with NBA talent, was meant for the glamour of the night. Kansas, still scattered with mystery, faltered under the lights in an early chapter of what may be an atypical ride.

[Braincase]

Giggle.

[Reerun_KC]

NOW MU fans are hanging banners for FL's run a few years ago...

SEC POWER!!!!

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Braincase

Giggle.

Ummm, okay. We're playing in a bowl for the 7th straight season. Kansas has played in 7 bowl games in the past 35 years. You have 6 bowl wins in your school's 121 year history.

Your last coach didn't win enough games in his career at KU to become bowl eligible. In your last 31 games, you have one more win against BCS conference teams (2) than you have losses to FCS teams (1). Cute giggle, though.

[|Zach|]

Some KU friends of mine that are usually in the know say it is Malzahn. FWIW.

[Braincase]

First tweet I've seen stating a new coach has been selected. @KansasSports being told new coach has been selected wife to be flown in fri...

I have no idea who it might be. Malzahn?

[Braincase]

Malzahn. Lot's of action around the name on twitter, maybe there's fire around this smoke.

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by Braincase

Malzahn. Lot's of action around the name on twitter, maybe there's fire around this smoke.

Wiki info

Gus Malzahn (born October 28, 1965) is the current offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Auburn University. Malzahn is a high school coaching legend in the state of Arkansas and the former offensive coordinator at University of Arkansas and the University of Tulsa. He has been described as "one of the sport's most innovative offensive minds, not just in the college ranks, but in all of football."

[ArrowheadHawk]

Not sure if I like that or not.

[Al Bundy]

KU fans.. you should tune into ESPNU... The Experts are on right now.