Links and 3 fearles predictions

2 quick notes on the recruiting front-
Football recruit Dave Clark from Indy Juco (or community college) tore his ACL and will miss this entire year (first reported by Jeremy Crabtree of Rivals.com) but this will likely scare away other teams that would have tried to pursue him, the negative is that he would of been very likely a 5 Star recruit when it was all said and done.
He will be in Lawrence next year and have 3 to play 3 so that is a MAJOR bonus for us.

In hoops Adriene Payne a top 20 guy and a 5 star Center has an in home visit scheduled with KU for the 14th of September.



http://www.kuathletics.com/view.gal?id=51436 (updated photos of Allen Field House construction)
They got a lot of work to do since Late Night is 2 months from tomorrow, but you Lew will make sure it is done or heads will roll, I'd guess they'll be done even before then so the team can start working out and they can show recruits the Phog (In home visits can start the 9th- so official visits aren't far behind that)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4398914&name=katz_andy
Andy Katz on Player of the Year candidates. I for one really do believe Cole has a great shot at getting this, if he has developed more of a post game his PPG should go up and his boards and blocks should be steady too, playing for a highly ranked team won't hurt him either.

Since its 3 weeks until the start of the football season, here are 3 fearless predictions for the 3 phases of the game-

Offense -
1- Jake Sharp will rush for over 1,100 yards and have total yards (rushing and receiving) of over 1,500
2- TR5 will have less than 10 Ints this year and none in the non conference- he'll throw for another 3,000 yards and at least 34 TD's
3- Tim Biere will catch a lot more passes this year (less than 10 last year- i think 6 or 7) put him down for 25 this year at minimum

Defense-
1- Jake Laptad will have more than 10 sacks this and these 3 players will total 25 sacks - Laptad, Quinton Woods, Maxwell Onyegbule
2- Daymond Patterson will get his first career interception- after switching to corner midway last year he will be fully acclimated and will get the first pick 6 of the year
3- Our rushing defense will be in the top 15 in the country, watch

Special teams-
1- opposing teams average field position will be 3 to 5 yards worse than it was last year. Bransetter had to of gotten stronger in the off season so the length and hang time on his kicks should be better and we've never had the type of athletes we have this year so the coverage will be better. Mostly Mangino isn't going to let what happened last year happen again, he'll have it fixed.
2- Briscoe should return more kicks this year, but someone else will step up and be that return guy. After Marcus Hereford had an Eric Chenowith like collapse next year this will be something that will be improved as well.
3- Alonso Rojas will once again come up big in a big game by pinning opponents and this year it will lead to 3 safeties.

There you have it, if I'm right on all of those, its going to be a good year.

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