Memphis Blues

Source: KU Sports

Like the delinquent kid in your 8th grade European History class who you had thought at this point, after all the parent-teacher-student interventions, all the extra attention before and after class, all the hours spent tutoring, cajoling, encouraging, wheedling, and incentivizing, would have made some positive progress, some sign of a pulse, of pride, of self-respect, still failed to turn in his daily assignment--for the SEVENTH year in a row-- Kansas football continues to let its ever-dwindling fan-base down. Which raises the subsequent questions: can things get even worse? Hadn't we already hit rock-bottom? And if not yet, WHEN, for crying out loud? This stuff is old. It smells bad. Find it a home in the dump.

MAC-trucked

Source: KU Sports

Saturday afternoon, Kansas had its teeth kicked in for the first quarter and a half of football. Trailing 25-0 to the 0-1 Ohio Bobcats at home, the Jayhawks would show enough resolve to make the game competitive--trimming the lead to within 14, 28-14 (and then within 10, 31-21 a few minutes later). But ultimately, when given a chance to regain possession on a punt down two scores, a second muffed punt by La'Quivionte Gonzalez, recovered by the Bobcats on the Kansas 10 yard-line, among a litany of other mental mistakes, all but sealed its fate. The hole manifested by KU miscues wound up too big to climb out. And the Jayhawks missed on a monumental opportunity, falling to 1-1 on the season as they head for Memphis, Tennessee to take on the Tigers, KU's first opportunity to lay the 38-game road losing streak to rest.

"Please Leave the Field"

Source: KU Sports

And so I'm back. Back writing about Kansas Jayhawk football. Although, I never left, really. What can I say? KU football has got me by where it counts. That's right, the heart. It's not an equally loving relationship. I'm convinced KU football does not love me back. But you know on my end it's real.