If you forgot to turn on the tv last weekend, were in a coma, or like me, live on the west coast where the wonderful people at Disney chose to show the USC-Cal game on ABC rather than the KU-OK State game, then you missed a great one (from what I hear). From the updates I received on the computer and the sporatic updates on ESPN and ESPN News, it was a great game. Jayhawks were victorious 43-28.
Prince Akeem: Sir, did you happen to catch the professional football contest on television last night?
Cleo McDowell: No, I didn't.
Prince Akeem: Oh sir, the Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. And in the end, the Giants triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big "H". It was a most ripping victory.
Cleo McDowell: Son.
Prince Akeem: Yes?
Cleo McDowell: If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.
Prince Akeem: Yes.
So Kansas is now the ONLY D-1 university in the land with undefeated football and basketball teams. KU football is now 10-0 and the basketball team is 2-0. And while it might not seem like a feat to be 2-0 in basketball so early in the season, Hawaii - the only other underfeated D-1 football program - lost their seasoner opener to San Diego last friday night. The Rainbow Warriors have begun the basketball season 0-1.
So cheers to you old KU!!! You have placed yourself squarly at the center of any and all basketball AND football national championship debates. A feat which I am not sure I had the guts to even think possible before this year. Keep it up and soon KU will no longer be just a basketball school where the inventor of the game perfected it, had legendary coaches, had some of the greatest players in the game, and can trace the success of other "storied" programs to the Phog (Dean Smith is a Jayhawk). A few more years of this kind of football success and the school will soon be a full athletic machine. Maybe then the athletic department will bring back the many men's olympic sports it has dropped in the last decade.
On a separate but related topic all the crap that people are spewing now about the weak strength of schedule that Kansas has ripped through this year is just that - crap. Kansas' SOS is 75th out of 119. Granted not the best rating. But everyone is so hung up on good wins - let's talk about bad losses; nay, just LOSSES.... KU does not have any. Oklahoma is 69th in SOS and USC is 74th. But no one trashes Oklahoma for their schedule. In fact, they are - even with one loss - ranked just behind Kansas in the BCS and ahead of Kansas in the AP and USA Today polls. Bottom line is that it just won't matter anyone says because the argument that "KU hasn't played anyone yet and shouldn't be in the BCS Championship game" will never have anything to do with if they get into the championship game. KU still has to play #5 Missouri and, if they win, #4 Oklahoma. No other team in the country will finish the season with a schedule that tough. So if they win out then they WILL be in the BCS chmapionship game.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=3106287
Cleo McDowell: No, I didn't.
Prince Akeem: Oh sir, the Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. And in the end, the Giants triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big "H". It was a most ripping victory.
Cleo McDowell: Son.
Prince Akeem: Yes?
Cleo McDowell: If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.
Prince Akeem: Yes.
So Kansas is now the ONLY D-1 university in the land with undefeated football and basketball teams. KU football is now 10-0 and the basketball team is 2-0. And while it might not seem like a feat to be 2-0 in basketball so early in the season, Hawaii - the only other underfeated D-1 football program - lost their seasoner opener to San Diego last friday night. The Rainbow Warriors have begun the basketball season 0-1.
So cheers to you old KU!!! You have placed yourself squarly at the center of any and all basketball AND football national championship debates. A feat which I am not sure I had the guts to even think possible before this year. Keep it up and soon KU will no longer be just a basketball school where the inventor of the game perfected it, had legendary coaches, had some of the greatest players in the game, and can trace the success of other "storied" programs to the Phog (Dean Smith is a Jayhawk). A few more years of this kind of football success and the school will soon be a full athletic machine. Maybe then the athletic department will bring back the many men's olympic sports it has dropped in the last decade.
On a separate but related topic all the crap that people are spewing now about the weak strength of schedule that Kansas has ripped through this year is just that - crap. Kansas' SOS is 75th out of 119. Granted not the best rating. But everyone is so hung up on good wins - let's talk about bad losses; nay, just LOSSES.... KU does not have any. Oklahoma is 69th in SOS and USC is 74th. But no one trashes Oklahoma for their schedule. In fact, they are - even with one loss - ranked just behind Kansas in the BCS and ahead of Kansas in the AP and USA Today polls. Bottom line is that it just won't matter anyone says because the argument that "KU hasn't played anyone yet and shouldn't be in the BCS Championship game" will never have anything to do with if they get into the championship game. KU still has to play #5 Missouri and, if they win, #4 Oklahoma. No other team in the country will finish the season with a schedule that tough. So if they win out then they WILL be in the BCS chmapionship game.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=3106287
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