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Can't blame him, he wants to go somewhere that competes for championships, has an excellent tradition, and produces NBA players.

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Yes, there are a few schools like that. Unfortunately, he can only chose one. Fortunately, there are more good players.

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I don't agree with you just yet. I'm leary on his practices off the field...like the curfew and all of that. Especially how it might turn off recruits but I'm actually happy with what I've seen off the field. However, I remember reading a ton of literature about how his players at Buffalo absolutely adored him even AFTER he left for Kansas.

I didn't expect this team to win more than 1 Big 12 game, and I think they will win at least 2. Crossing my fingers...

Gill says team policy on women not causing a negative reaction from players

J-W Staff Reports

October 4, 2010

Kansas coach Turner Gill talked publicly about his team’s curfew policy Monday morning, saying he didn’t believe it was an issue on his team.

As the Journal-World reported on Sept. 24, a rule in the KU football players’ manual states that KU’s players cannot be with women past 10 p.m. on any night.

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“We’re just teaching them discipline,” Gill said Monday during the Big 12 coaches’ teleconference. “I’m not going to go into all the details of what we have on our team policies and all those things, but everything that we do is all about disciplining our guys and preparing them for life with football and preparing for them for life without football. It’s just part of our makeup.”

Gill was then asked if he believed the policy could affect recruiting.

“I guess it could, but we can explain (what it is),” Gill said. “It’s not that big of a deal. It’s really just a situation of trying to teach guys how to do things in the proper way and be respectful to women and be respectful to everything that we do in our society. It’s teaching people all about things about life.”

Gill said that he didn’t believe the policy had affected his players.

“There hasn’t been any negative reaction to anything,” Gill said. “We’ve just been inconsistent in playing the game of football, just like any other teams.”

Gill also was asked how he would feel if his college coach at Nebraska, Tom Osborne, had implemented a similar curfew policy when Gill was a college football player.

“How would I respond to it? Oh, it’s a policy that I understand what the purpose is,” Gill said. “I explained to (the players) what the situation was all about. That’s what it has been all about, and I explained to our players, and we’ve done things in the right way.

“I understand the situation, what you’re talking about, but again, we’ve explained everything to our players, and we’re teaching them about discipline and about life and discipline also with football.”

:doh!: Teaching them discipline? Discipline from not being able to enjoy a date with a female after 10pm? Is this dude stuck in the 50's or is he just that deep in to his christian beliefs?

Maybe I missed something, but where does it say this is a religious policy?

Wrong. It's every night. The 1 night a week was in reference to the confiscation of cell phones.

Add me to the group that was against the hiring of Gill from the very beginning. It's like hiring Trey Hillman. Hiring nice guys to read bible verses to the players doesn't result in a winning program.

He's just a fcking idiot who can't beat North Dakota State and gets blown out by Baylor.

Hopefully when KU hires a new AD the first thing he'll do is hire a new coach. Mike Leach's offense would look pretty good in Lawrence.

Turner has a 5 year contract. We just paid Mangino to leave. No way can the school afford to payoff another coach.

Well that was a nice parting shot from Lew Perkins.

I agree. When I saw his MAC record I knew this wasn't going to end well. Track record = everything to me. I'd rather hire someone with zero experience as a head coach than a known loser.

:doh!:

So were stuck with major fail for 5 more years....

So you're saying there's a chance?