Week 8 News & Games
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
you wonder if losing to us made them go sour and the whole season took a turn
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Followed right up by a similarly devastating late loss against UNLV at home.
Illinois and UNLV was supposed to be an easy-ish slate for them, but both of those teams are unusually good.
No Illini fan can look at this Kansas season and not feel recognition and empathy. We've been in that exact scenario multiple times.
And their schedule gets even more difficult from here. A 2-10 type catastrophe is possible there. Absolutely gotta have it at home against Houston on Saturday
Also note that KU is playing their home games at Arrowhead (... which is in Missouri) this year while their stadium is rebuilt, and their fanbase has basically given up on them. So expect roughly the same amount of Houston fans for this game, and probably a 3 to 1 ratio of Iowa St to Jayhawkers for their next "home" games.
Also, playing across the border in your rival state for your home games is wild to me. It'd make me feel terrible knowing that a portion of the taxes on my beer purchase at a HOME GAME would be going to fund Mizzou and their NIL fund.
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
I do get what you're saying, but so many KU alums live in Kansas City that I'm not really sure the stadium being in Missouri is a major deal. Having gone to KC many times for my kid's soccer events, I drive by the Truman Sports Complex (Arrowhead and Kaufmann Stadiums), and it's just a few miles from the Kansas border.
There just isn't a more suitable place for KU to play football and get crowds above 20,000 if they made the decision to completely close down their on-campus stadium like Northwestern has done. Children's Mercy Park (on the Kansas side of the KC metro) only seats 18,000 or so. I highly doubt Kaufmann Stadium (also in Missouri) could convert to a football stadium. Just a wild guess, but I don't think KU has an interest in playing games in Manhattan, KS (86 miles away and the home of their in-state rival).
How does this close the loophole? all you have to do is look like you're trying to run off the field as the 12th man
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
I'm trying to look at this from an official's point of view. In the case of keeping the 12th man on the field, it's possibly/likely a deliberate attempt to gain an unfair advantage. I fully admit that this could simply be a mental mistake on the part of a coach or player, but Dan Lanning kind of eliminated that benefit of the doubt.How does this close the loophole? all you have to do is look like you're trying to run off the field as the 12th man
If the player is running off the field, then it really is an "uh-oh, we have 12 and have to get someone off the field." So the overall spirit of playing with 11 is pretty clear.
In a rare moment of me agreeing with the NCAA, I do agree with this interpretation. If you play with 12 for the whole play, you must be assumed to be attempting to deliberately gain an advantage. If you're running off the field, you are trying to play within the rules.
If people don't like this, they can blame Dan Lanning.