Sunday, January 31, 2010

Great week- even bigger week ahead

So let's see what happened this last week.
We smacked missery on Monday and then took care of biz in the Hawktagon of KU winning.

While Bill Self was winning games, Cole was coming back to his former awesome self and Sherron Collins was making another case for being in the rafters, TG was killing it in a big big way.

First TG announced that he personally will be speaking at multiple recruiting roundups across the state, which is a lot more than Mangino ever did plus its great for fan support and season ticket sales.

Then TG took a 3star CB from mizz and a 4star RB. TG and staff also picked up a 3star DE from Houston and appear to be one of the favorites to land a massive OL from Chicago. All things considered he couldn't have done a better job of hiring a staff and getting some good recruits late in the game.
Kudos to TG.

Let's hope we get a couple more wins on the hardwood and TG can snag one more surprise by Wednesday.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

So far a great week in KU land

And a bad one for Missery fan- first they got kicked in the mouth by KU in hoops then we stole one of their cornerbacks, Dexter McDonald a 3Star CB from Cockhurst in KC.

This is a good move for multiple reasons, one being in good at Rockhurst never hurts as they have D1 talent every year, KU needed a CB after losing Dave Clark and we stole from missery.
(kudos to LJ for the lead on this one)

Also late last night with less than a week until signing day KU dipped into Houston to get a DE recruit, 6-3 250, might slide down the line, but also fills a need with talent, which this close to signing day is very hard to do unless you are the elite of the elite.

If TG and company can snag one more OL or another surprise commit this class all things considered will be strong and next year watch out, there's a lot of great RB's in Texas and this staff will go get one.

But all that really matters is doing work this Saturday and getting a big W.
My take- no way Sherron lets us lose, Cole is playing better, we have more depth and Brady is an upgrade over TT.

Also- here's some stalker info I lifted from some dude on Phog - little player insight for you gridiron heads- My comments in red

Spoke with Toben and his leg is healed up to the point where he can do light weight workouts, but he says there is still some mild lingering pain. he's also up about 15 pounds, all upper body, mostly muscle as that's all he could lift the past 2 months. He;s noticeably bigger than he was last year and even prior to winter break. Hope he's healthy, although I see Rell Lewis playing a much bigger role and wouldn't be surprised if James Sims plays as a true frosh

Kevin Young and Quintin Woods were giving each other hell in the computer lab about weight, Young says he is up to "240 solid and Woods said he is up to 235. Young was busting his chops about "you're supposed to be 250 by now dog!" Hopefully between these two dudes one of them can go hit the QB, if Laptad improves a little bit and these guys step up, that will help the D a lot. Also need Jamal Greene to stay out of trouble and on the field he is our best pass rushing threat at DT

Dedeaux said the offense is going to run quite a bit more 2-TE sets and that competition for the other TE spot has been "fierce". (I'm assuming Biere has one locked up). This guy assumes Biere has one locked up? Biere is a fucking stud, that catch against Mizz, huge- guy is a player, hope and bet he gets used more this year and winds up playing for pay someday

Steve Foster has moved back to Fullback. Good

Lastly, a couple guys I spoke to said Prinz Kande is going to be a stud, he was stellar on scout team and his individual workouts have been increasingly impressive. Duh, Kande was the jewel of the recruiting class last year and how he didn't play over Strozier is beyond me. Kande and Lubbock Smith is a sweet safety tandem, I'll take those 2 any day, through McDoogs out there a bit too and that's a really good defensive backfield

Rock Chalk

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Football happenings -EDITED 1/20/10

Dave Clark apparently is too stupid to get his paperwork right and therefore the 4 star shutdown corner will not be attending KU. Just another shot to the balls of the KU football program.

Prize jewel of the class, Geneo Grissom a FREAK DE from Hutch is going to OU now, so if you are counting at home that's the top 2 kids that we had that are now leaving and both a huge positions of need and both on the defensive side of the ball.

With conference play starting for the hoops squad there's still a lot happening on the gridiron as signing day is about 3 weeks away.

Leach locking that kid in the closet has given KU a chance a a big OL (currently KU has ZERO pledges from OL) and a stud corner.

Now Kiffin is leaving Rocky Top for USC, which has given KU a sizeable advantage to land a 4star safety commit. This kid will not qualify, so KU has backed off.

I was kind of upset that our kicker commit, Justin Castor, because I thought he would upgrade our special teams and we might be able to get a touchback on KO's. I guess here's to Branmuffin having a great offseason.

There are 2 very big weekends left for the staff, this weekend and the weekend of the 29 (the last weekend before national signing day on February 3rd).

There's a couple of key parts that still need to be locked up , OL, DE, DT and LB, so we'll see what happens.
The staff did an okay job last weekend, in the fact that they got some bodies, including an OL, LB and DE.

Lewandowski at DE from BV could be a nice sleeper and contribute down the road, the OL is a prospect, and I don't know enough about the LB commit that we stole from SMU.

The WR, Brian Maura from Dade County, gansta FL, is a burner at WR and KR, took 4 kickoffs to the HOUSE last year, so I like that pick up very much and I think this might also be a sign that either Keeston Terry or Bradley McDougald could be getting a lot of time at safety, but we'll see.

And hopefully the basketball squad will find their winning ways again to make it a more enjoyable ride to signing day.
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Thoughts

Watching the Bill Self show and I feel worse about our squad.

Sherron in that game was enormous, just HUGE, but hey "that's his shit!"

And a big problem is screens, both defending them and setting/using them.
I just really hope Self gets through to these guys, there's so much talent on this squad it would be a shame to see them fall short of their ultimate goals because some of the sophmore class doesn't understand one of the most basic facets of the game.

We'll see what happens this week, because now we're playing for jewelry.
Going for that 6th ring
Win the final 6
And playing for the 6 letters on the front

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Shitty weekend ends shitty

I didn't watch the second half but I have a pretty good idea of what happened.
We have a point guard who loves to score (collins) he prolly took some shitty shots.

Why?

Well we have center who struggles to score and a 2 guard (TT) who can't shoot and makes some the fucking stupidest turnovers ever (see 1st half, shitty passes and traveling) so that would make a competitive senior take some stupid or forced shots.

Then there is the Morris twins, honestly- Fuck those guys.
They are beyond stupid, mentally soft and they foul and miss bunnies that's what they do.
Oh big deal Marcus posterized some dude.
That dude plays for Pitt St (see not D1 and not even a basketball school at that)
Then Markieef is weak too, nice turnover when the little white dude pushed you out of bounds, pussy. Good thing they have a lot of tats so we all can know how tough they are when in reality they are soft.

This team is not as good as last years team and that should worry some people.
Cole has regressed offensively, boards and D he is good.
Brady has regressed.
TT has shown minimal if any improvement.
Kieef is the same as last year
Marcus is better but very inconsistent and he is flat in front (see has no dick)

So even though we have a stud FR it doesn't really seem to matter that much.

I knew temple wasn't that good and poof looks like I was right because you don't lose to the Vols when they have 6 dudes on scholly and their big guy gets 3 whistles in the 1st half.
You win that game if you're a top 20 team, let alone what everyone thinks we are.

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