WTF: Kansas State
Champions You Are Not
Hope theses shirts can find their way into the hands of the needy instead of eBay. Maybe Terrell Owens can take them with him down to Haiti.
Porn Star Hooked Up With BIG Game Tickets From Assistant Coach
Rock Chalk, Jayhawk
Samantha Ryan is a porn star whose film titles include Absolute Ass 3, Crack Her Jack 4 and Lick Between The Lines. Before she took up the sex film profession, Ryan attended the University of Kansas and is a big Jayhawks fan as a result.
Last night, Kansas hosted in-state rivals Kansas State in a matchup of the No. 2 and No. 5 ranked teams in the nation, and happened to fall on Ryan’s 32nd birthday. Naturally, she wanted to attend and fortunately found a connection who could secure her tickets.
Kansas assistant coach Kurtis Townsend evidently came through for her, as Ryan tweeted an encouraging note
“So excited for my floor seats at the KU/KSU game! Coach Townsend kicks major ass!”
Today, she added a “big thanks you know who for gettin me the tix from Coach T!”
It pays to have hook ups.
WTF: Kansas
Racist
College rivalries rarely have any real boundaries when it comes to the students bodies and that’s the latest case up in Lawrence, Kansas home of the University of Kansas Jayhawks. That’s where a local apparel store, Joe College, went all racist in their attempt to make fun of in state rival Kansas State Wildcats head basketball coach Frank Martin who is of Cuban descent; both his parents were immigrants.
But I want to know who lets there lawn get out hand like that?
University Of South Florida Coach Jim Leavitt Hits Player
Lunatic
The folks in Tampa have grown to love Jim Leavitt. They love his passion for the University of South Florida, his crazy antics like following his team’s 34-22 win over Louisville, when the coach reportedly roughed himself up in the process of enthusiastically head-butting players with their helmets on. He has even won some big games that have left some USF homers thinking that there is a Big 4 in Florida.
But Leavitt might not be around the program to see that happen, he might not even be there to see his team play Northern Illinois in the International Bowl on Januaray 2 in Toronto. According to a handful of players and other witnesses, Leavitt was pacing in the Raymond James Stadium locker room at halftime of the November 21 game against Louisville when the coach grabbed a Joel Miller by the throat then struck him twice in the face with his hand. The incident stemmed from Leavitt being upset over Miller’s first-half mistake on special teams.
When Miller approached Leavitt the following Monday, the coach reportedly told him, “Before you say anything, just know I am the most powerful man in this building.”
Leavitt reportedly called Miller to apologize a little over two weeks after the incident, one day after Kansas coach Mark Mangino, a former colleague of Leavitt’s on Bill Snyder’s staff at Kansas State in the early nineties, was forced out for allegedly abusing players in a variety of fashions throughout his tenure in Lawrence.
“You do something like that [on the street], you put them in jail,” Paul Miller, Joel’s father and a former Tampa police officer. “Somewhere Leavitt crossed the line.”
Athletic director Doug Woolard hasn’t commented on the situation and may not been aware of the incident until it hit the press.
Leavitt, who is 67-40 overall and 17-18 in the Big East as the only coach in the program’s 13-year existence, never mentioned the incident to the team. Leavitt is completing the second year of a seven-year contract worth $12.6 million. He will make $1.6 million this year, plus incentives. South Florida finished 7-5, 3-4 in the Big East.
When you look back on the University of Kansas situation involving former coach Mangino, a little verbal abuse doesn’t seem that bad when you compare it to this lunatic smacking players.
Primetime College Football: Wildcats vs Huskers
TALENT
The Nebraska Cornhuskers (7-3) are 4-2 in league action and will close out the regular season altogether with a trip to Colorado on November 27th. The team was on the road last weekend and turned that experience into a 31-17 triumph against the Kansas Jayhawks.
As for Kansas State (6-5), it has alternated wins and losses over the last four outings as the 6-5 team approaches the end of the regular season. Last week, KSU was throttled by Missouri in a 38-12 final, as the ‘Cats dropped to 4-3 in conference.
The Huskers hold a significant lead in the all-time series with K-State at 76-15-2 entering play this season.
Quarterback Grant Gregory hit on 21-of-30 passes for 239 yards, adding 32 points on the ground, while Daniel Thomas checked in with 79 yards on 23 attempts against Missouri. KSU ranks last in the conference and 105th in the nation at the moment with only 170.9 ypg passing. As a group the Wildcats have just 7 passing scores and 7 interceptions thus far. Thomas has been the top performer for the squad this season with his 1,166 yards and 11 touchdowns on the ground.
Coach Bill Snyder’s Wildcats have trouble tackling for loss as they rank second-to-last in the conference and 99th in the nation with just 4.7 per contest. Sacks are also somewhat of a rarity for the group with just 1.64 per outing, ranking K-State 10th in the Big 12 and 84th nationally this week. Emmanuel Lamur, who leads the program with his 61 tackles, has three interceptions and a pair of blocked kicks to his credit thus far.
Roy Helu finished last week with 28 carries for a game-high 156 yards and 3 touchdowns. The team’s rushing attack accounted for 214 yards on 42 attempts, while Zac Lee converted 13- of-21 passes for another 196 yards as well. Although he didn’t make it into the end zone, Niles Paul had 4 catches for 154 yards and leads the team with his 29 catches for 567 yards, while Helu handles the ground attack for the Huskers with his 962 yards and 9 touchdowns, averaging almost six yards per attempt for a team that is averaging less than four and a half yards per rush and is coming up with only 152.4 ypg.
Coach Bo Pelini’s Huskers currently own the top scoring defense in the conference and the third-best squad in the nation this week, permitting a mere 11 ppg. Five times this squad has given up less than 10 points on the campaign, turning the trick three times in the first four games of the season. Leaders on the unit include Jared Crick 9 sacks, 14 tackles for loss and Ndamukong Suh 5 sacks, 13 tackle for loss, three blocked kicks.
PICK: University of Nebraska Cornhuskers
Primetime College Football: Wildcats vs Sooners
TALENT
The Sooners look to build off a dominating victory while trying for a fourth straight win over visiting Big 12 North leader Kansas State.
The post-Bradford Era begins against Kansas State (5-3, 3-1), the North’s surprise leader which has dropped three straight to Oklahoma since a 35-7 win at Norman on Dec. 6, 2003. Road dates against Nebraska and Texas Tech, plus home games versus Texas A&M and No. 13 Oklahoma State follow on the Sooners’ schedule.
Third in the Big 12 South, Oklahoma (4-3, 2-1) rolled to a 35-13 victory at Kansas, moves on with improving freshman quarterback Landry Jones, who’s thrown for 1,363 yards and 13 touchdowns with six interceptions in six games. Receiver Ryan Broyles is one of his favorite targets and the team leader with 36 receptions and eight touchdowns.
Jones benefits from a dominating Oklahoma defense, sixth in nation allowing 264.9 yards per contest. Though coach Bob Stoops Sooners allowed 550 yards in a 58-35 win at Kansas State last season, the Wildcats are averaging 15.5 points per game while going 1-3 on the road, compared to 38.0 at home where they’re 4-0.
Offensively, running backs Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray hope for another big game against Kansas State. While the pair has combined for 830 yards this season after each rushed for more than 1,000 yards a year ago, Brown ran for 142 yards and Murray 104 with two TDs versus the Wildcats last season.
Oklahoma has averaged 44.0 points during its three-game winning streak over Kansas State, which begins a rough final stretch that concludes with games against Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Though coach Bill Snyder Wildcats have allowed 44 total points at home this season, it’s giving up an average of 32.3 on the road. Since early losses at Louisiana-Lafayette and UCLA, the Wildcats have won three of four. One week after a 62-14 rout of Texas A&M, Kansas State beat Colorado 20-6 last Saturday to take a one-game lead over Iowa State in the North.
After allowing 739 yards in a 66-14 loss at Texas Tech on Oct. 10, Kansas State has dominated the first half the past two weeks, leading Texas A&M and Colorado by a combined 58-6. The Wildcats have forced 10 turnovers and recorded nine sacks in those contests after getting six the first six games.
Kansas State’s running game has been a big part of its recent success. The Wildcats are second in league averaging 186.5 yards on the ground and 218.0 in their last two games. Averaging 101.8 yards per game, junior Daniel Thomas rushed for a career-high 145 yards and a TD on 20 carries against Colorado.
Kansas State, which hasn’t started 4-1 in league play since 1999, has lost four in a row against ranked opponents since winning 41-21 at then-No.7 Texas on Sept. 29, 2007.
PICK: University of Oklahoma Sooners
