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Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:32 am
by holidaysmore
I'm not sure if it is 'conventional' that doesn't work here more that bad, to really bad coaching hires don't work here.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:37 am
by NewtonHawk11
Spread doesn't do it. Everyone does spread.
Pro-style offense doesn't work because you're expected to ground and pound.
Option might because you can kind of run a flex-bone. Put in Pesek-Hickson as the RB behind the QB and Hishaw and Gardner as the 2 RBs on the wings and you are working with something here.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:37 am
by NewtonHawk11
I mean, I'm not 100% serious, but it's something worth considering.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:56 am
by PhDhawk
NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:07 am
So I’ve read some National thoughts today on Kansas football.
I’m all aboard the Triple-Option Offense train. Give me Jeff Monken.
He held a Kyler Murray offense at OU to 21 points in regulation because he barely got the chance to get the ball.
If KU wants to win games, do the triple option. You can’t do this conventionally. You have to do it with something different that your conference opponents cannot prepare for on a weekly basis.
I've been saying this for years.
Not specifically about the triple option, but doing something different. We can do what everyone else does and get the 200th best dual threat QB or 200th best pro style QB.
Or we do something different, that's still relatively common in HSs and get a top notch prospect at QB, and as you mentioned, do something unique from everyone else and make preparation for the opponent more difficult.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:00 am
by CrimsonNBlue
I can hear my Kansas junior high KU-fan football coach screaming to bring back the ol' single wing.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:04 am
by jfish26
PhDhawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:56 am
NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:07 am
So I’ve read some National thoughts today on Kansas football.
I’m all aboard the Triple-Option Offense train. Give me Jeff Monken.
He held a Kyler Murray offense at OU to 21 points in regulation because he barely got the chance to get the ball.
If KU wants to win games, do the triple option. You can’t do this conventionally. You have to do it with something different that your conference opponents cannot prepare for on a weekly basis.
I've been saying this for years.
Not specifically about the triple option, but doing something different. We can do what everyone else does and get the 200th best dual threat QB or 200th best pro style QB.
Or we do something different, that's still relatively common in HSs and get a top notch prospect at QB, and as you mentioned, do something unique from everyone else and make preparation for the opponent more difficult.
Or just do things in a consistent, quietly competent way, for the first time in 15 years. The bar is so low - five or six wins on average, some outliers either direction. You can get there by just not shooting yourself in the dick at every possible juncture.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:11 am
by NewtonHawk11
This is the most probable way. Get a guy who is content with being at Kansas. Does recruiting the right way, and focuses on how to make Kansas a consistent .500 program.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:18 am
by NewtonHawk11
A lot harder to say then do, I realize. But this will be very interesting hire.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:39 am
by holidaysmore
From Bruce Feldman...
I'm hearing that there is real interest from some proven good Group of 5 head coaches in the Kansas job. There's also one former KU assistant that some boosters like who also might get a look.. Here is how I see the Jayhawks coaching search shaping up:
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:40 am
by Deleted User 89
stupid pay walls
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:42 am
by CrimsonNBlue
holidaysmore wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:39 am There's also one former KU assistant that some boosters like who also might get a look..
https://twitter.com/DLawrenceKU/status/ ... 71331?s=20
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:49 am
by holidaysmore
Cue the Michael Scott *NO! NO! Please, God NO! gif*
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:59 am
by Deleted User 89
fuck it...hire David Lawrence
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:05 pm
by CrimsonNBlue
Interesting tweets here. 1. at least some players are wanting to stick around, 2. Some kind of announcement tonight?
https://twitter.com/swimdad61/status/13 ... 27360?s=20
https://twitter.com/swimdad61/status/13 ... 26337?s=20
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:06 pm
by jhawks99
Who is keepsawinwood? What's his/her record?
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:09 pm
by Deleted User 89
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:12 pm
by jhawks99
We should totally hire a female head coach.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:15 pm
by NewtonHawk11
Matt Tait mentioned he's heard some names and they have been surprising for sure. Not sure if better than expected or what..?
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:16 pm
by Deleted User 289
Give me a fricking break if they "promote from the inside".
In the God damn announcement last night stating that Miles and KU have parted ways, Long claimed they "will begin the search for a new head coach immediately with an outside firm to assist in this process".
If they feel a need to hire an outside firm to hire someone who is already on the "inside" - then they sure as shit need to fire Long, and I say Girod might as well leave too.
Re: Goodbye Les, we hardly knew ye...
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 12:19 pm
by jfish26
I took Grunhard's second tweet to refer to his weekly evening radio show, on which this will be discussed.