Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Secondary just beefed up

Some good news after the turd of a game by the hoops squad last night save Cole.

Dave Clark a stud CB is coming to Kansas, signed this afternoon.
He was wavering a little bit after the fat man got booted but he'll be on campus in a couple of weeks and if healthy he'll be a starter at CB and a damn good oneat that.

TG needs to lock up Geneo Grissom and Keeston Terry and all will be well, well and a beating of temple.

Rock Chalk
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Lunchtime thoughts

Looks like Gill wasn't jacking around about using a FB because they just offered one from Texas. And as far as I'm concerned this is awesome news, it'd be real nice on 2nd and 3rd and short if we just ran the ball right up someone's ass.
That'd be nice.

TG's staff is also shaping up nicely and today Rivals.com reported that he had hired the former S&C coach at Iowa State, who was an assistant at Texas for 9 years to be an assistant at KU with the S&C program.
The whole staff should be released in the coming days.

Over on the hoops side, Cole, I thought looked a lot better against sans the fouls and that's damn good news.
Hawks will be tested this weekend and next at Temple and Tennessee and those are the games that get you ready for March when it really matters.
Thinking bout doing some end of the decade and year stuff.

Rock Chalk


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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Football staff and hoops

Now that TG has hired Reggie Mitchell from Illinois and Darrell Wyatt from So Miss its pretty clear that KU football should be able to recruit.

I'm still on the fence about the TG hiring but he's off to a good start, let's see how recruiting ends up and what the win column looks like this time next year.

Hoops is in the first week of November-

With Pajamas coming back and the health of Cole being lackluster, the squad is just starting to mesh.
The positives are that Brady Drunken Car already looks pretty solid and TT is playing like foreign car.

The fact that Self's elves are undefeated is not surprising, the margin of victories isn't either. And the silly thing is that they will be way better once a couple of things happen.

1- cole is able to breathe like a normal human, I mean dude had 10-10-5 in 22 minutes and hardly ever got the rock- that's AA stuff right there.
2- roles are more defined, with BDC coming back and the talented T-rob on the front line the roles are a bit ambiguous but Self will get that figured out in the next 2 weeks and we'll be rolling.

Have a merry christmas
Rock Chalk
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X and Pierce

http://www.lostlettermen.com/2009/12/now-then-xavier-henry-paul-pierce-are-birds-of-a-feather/

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Actually some good news

So far TG has hired 4 guys, some dude from Buffalo, Chuck Long as OC, Torbush at DC and now Reggie Mitchell as RB coach and recruiting coordinator.

Other than the buffalo dude, who I know nothing about, the other 3 are pretty strong hires, guys that can recruit their balls off, so TG gets a little love here.

Rock Chalk

Saturday, December 19, 2009

More super news

Trayvon Henry, former OU LB recruit who verbally committed to KU in the fall was the prize jewel of the LB class.
And in case you missed every game this season, KU's LB's were horrid, slow and out of position, save Huldon Tharp.

Well anyway, Henry got caught with a piece at school, got arrested and hasn't been contacted by the new staff, so he's probably out.

Super news.

Rock Chalk
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Gridiron looking for hope

Well so am I.

TG has been on the scene for less than a week and we have already lost our only OL recruit who was highly toughted to boot.

So that leaves us with ZERO OL guys with less than 2 months til signing day.

What a mess this is. I figured there would be some attrition but this is maddening. Especially considering the immense talent that just graduated or declared for the draft.

Let's dominate in AFH

Rock Chalk
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Monday, December 14, 2009

TG era begins- judgement being withheld

Right off the bat, I hate this hire. But the more I think about it maybe I hate(d) it because I thought we were going to get Harbaugh and then shit was going to get really real.



Obviously that didn't happen and now we are stuck with a guy that has been described by some, LJ, as the "black terry allen"



So help me god if that is the case, we're all screwed.



A little bit of time has passed since the news broke and here's where we're at now.



So far TG has done the following- Hired 2 former HC's to be O&D coordinators. Chuck Long, has some good ties to Texas and Oklahoma so that should be good. And while I don't know a lot about Torbush, other than he has a sweet porn stache he seems like a good hire.
Torbush and Long have already started to get after it on the recruiting trail so that's good since there is no bowl game to prepare (drinks battery acid) they should have oodles of time.



We know that there will only be one guy from Buffalo which is good, as far as I'm concerned.



No one on the current staff has been retained, which is kind of upsetting and gives me the impression that this recruiting class could go to hell in a hand basket pretty quick.



I though Gill's presser was great, really warmed me up to the guy, then he didn't retain any staff and I thought well what the flip.
TG has said he will have all of the staff except one in place by Jesus's B-day Bonanza, so I'm going to wait and see who he hires before I weigh in on that, but as of now it doesn't look good.

Dave Clark, top rated corner and Geneo Grissom, freak DE from Hutch, need to be relocked up ASAMFP. If that happens I'll start to feel a little bit better about the class. And while one class won't make or break you if this class shits the bed, we're in trouble.
KU football fan is fickle so one more year of us getting our brains beat in and Memorial will be used more for basketball celebrations than winning football games.

Let's give the guy some time and see what happens, as difficult as that is. There will be a lot of change between now and spring ball with kids transferring, Max Oneygbule probably not getting another year of eligibility and losing and gain recruits plus filling a staff. Right now we just have no idea.

Rock Chalk

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Updates- some clarity?

It looks like this is going to come down to Turner Gill and Skip Holtz, so it better be Holtz if that is the case, I'm hoping that its someone else besides these two guys but I don't believe it will be. I know there is some chatter about Butch Jones but he ain't coming here.

Ed Warriner interviewed for the HC job at Akron- he didn't get it.
I like EW, hope he stays, but realize some assistant coaches are gonna leave.

Bill Miller is out there for DC at Louisville, he won't get that gig.
Keeping Miller- way more important than Warriner, just from a recruiting standpoint, and I think Miller is coaching a position (defense and LB's) that we need more help in than on the O.

Bowen is going to get a lot of looks for DB coach at some serious places- let's hope like hell he winds up doing that KU. He's not a DC and that's fine but he can recruit and we need that, check this.

KU's best OL verbal commit, has visits set up to 5 schools now, including Kansas, so we very well could lose him.

KU's best DE prospect and in state 4 star stud, Geneo Grissom is going to visit LSU, another great thing for us.

Lew did send every committed recruit a letter tell them that their scholly will still be here. But in the meantime, KU's lone QB commit, Jacoby Walker, is looking around, if he leaves, we'll have 2 QB's on scholly, Kale Pick and Jordan Webb as you'll remember that Christian Matthews was moved to WR.

KU's best CB, who would start from DAY 1, Dave Clark, is a JUCO so he is signing very soon, and if we don't have a coach, he'll go somewhere else, everybody wants this guy.

So its getting very ugly and since Lew was at the UCONN-UK game at MSG last night, I doubt we have a presser today so we're looking at Friday at the earliest, but most likely this is going to drag into next week, hope Lew's patience pays off.

Rock Chalk

Monday, December 7, 2009

Coach drama- UPDATED 12/8/9

First off, congrats to the hoops squad for putting it on UCLA.

At a later date we'll do a season recap for football, but we're looking at coaches now-

What do I want in a coach?
Someone that can recruit their balls off. I'm talking about bringing in playmakers on both sides of the ball.
One the biggest problems with the latest installment of KU football was that we couldn't turn teams over and we didn't have that guy on offense that when he got a crease you did, oh my god I might shit my pants dance, so we need that.

So being that Kansas is located directly in the middle of the world per google, we need to recruit locally and in Texass and Oklahoma, we should not for the most part be worried about coasts.

We need someone that is a little zany after the snore that Mangino was, yep we sawed all that wood and it got us at hope with our families during the holidays.

Here's a list of guys being tossed around and what I think of them- agree or disagree with me-

Charlie Strong has a presser to be the next coach at Louisville tomorrow, so he is officially out and Houston Nutt backed out today as well, so there goes 2 guys that would have me excited for the future of KU football, the rest are below.

Randy Edsall- HC Uconn- he got a guy killed at a campus party and he has a losing record in conference in the big east, which as a conference is the hoops equivalent to C-USA. Plus he's from UCONN where Lew was and its a pussy hire, tells the fans you aren't trying. Still no word on whether or not he has interviewed

Skip Holtz - HC East Carolina - was hired at UCONN by Lew, so again a pussy move. Plus he has no ties here locally so his recruiting would not be good unless he dire some amazing assistant hiring or retaining. Plus ECU hasn't really done anything that makes my pants snug and make me think he would have a shot to get us to the next level, so he's out too. Suposedly has or had an interview with LP.

Turner Gill- HC Buffalo- best thing he ever did was prove that in the land of corn the forward pass is a new thing by botching that 2 pt conversion. He's a bible beater and while that's all fine and dandy, that isn't going to fly in lawrence so he's out too. Has interviewed, has me worried sick that he will be the coach, like fetal position crying worried.

Jim Harbaugh - HC Standford - Yes please, no need to explain, whatever it takes to get the guy that's what you do. He'll get that Gridiron club built and he'll run the ball when we're up 3 on our rivals with a bowl birth at stake and less than 3 minutes remaining, but everyone one do that, right? Looking less likely to go to ND, which can only help KU. He won't want to show up Gerhart in his quest for the Heisman on Saturday so we probably won't here anything on him until next week, so a presser gets announced this week, that means it ain't JH.

Tommy Tubbervill and Phillip Fullmer are broadcasting right now, but both are available and both have good track records, however neither has local connections or Texas connections.
These guys might be a poor man's Harbaugh and an older version at that. The would bring stout D and a power running game, which might sound boring after the aerial attack of the last couple of years, but you know what's fun? WINNING and D and running the ball wins games, ask Herm Edwards, kidding.
Also these guys have the same agent as Houston Nutt, so the agent, Jimmy Sexton, might have been trying to make the KU job sexier for his other clients, whatever is clever.

Larry Fedora from So Miss- wants the job and has a lot of connections to Texas, so he might not be bad as a back up plan. He has not been contacted by KU, so that'll make it kind of hard.

I'm not including Kevin Sumlin from Houston on here because if he gets hired my brain will implode

There are others for sure, so let's see what happens.
Rock Chalk