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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
FIVE YEARS AND COUNTING
Jayhawks seek first win on the road since 2009
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The season might still be new, but one question remains from years past. Kansas has not won a road game in almost five years. The pressure builds, and it will continue to do so as long as Kansas football continues to lose on the road.
The lajahawks last won on the road on Sept. 12, 2009, against University of Texas-El Paso. This was before Charlie Weis was coach. This was before the Turner Gill era. The victory was from Mark Mangino's final year.
Weis said his team has a good chance to win when it visits Duke on Saturday, Kansas' first opportunity this season to snap the streak.
"I think that our players have visual evidence on tape that they have a legitimate chance at winning," Weis said.
Coach Charlie Weis looks onto his players during the game against Southeast Missouri on Sept. 6. Kansas plays its first away game this Saturday.
However, it is easy to say Kansas has a chance to win on the road. On paper in the last few years, the Jayhawks have had opportunities to do so on the road.
Last year in week two, Kansas traveled to Houston to take on the Rice Owls. About halfway through the fourth quarter, the Jayhawks were ahead 14-13. By the end of the game, the Owls had scored 10 more points, including three on a go-ahead 56-yard field goal, and won the game 23-14.
execute a little bit higher."
Kansas offensive coordinator John Reagan, who was the offensive coordinator at Rice last year, said why winning on the road is more difficult than winning at home.
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"Really to win on the road, you have to do the same things you have to do at home, just better," he said. "You have to execute, but you have to
The change in scenery and atmosphere usually means the visiting team has less room to make mistakes.
After Saturday's victory against Southeast Missouri State, in which Kansas lead 24-0 after the first quarter and finished with a 34-28 victory,
"I think that our players have visual evidence on tape that they have a legitimate chance at winning."
"The margin of error goes down a little bit on the road," Reagan said. "You don't have people behind you. You don't have the comforts of what you're used to."
CHARLIE WEIS Kansas coach
Weis said the Jayhawks might not be used to winning in general.
The Jayhawks have won four games total the past two seasons and Weis said success, especially the quick start against SEMO, might have caught the Jayhawks off guard.
Not being used to winning at all doesn't boast well for winning on the road, but visiting Duke early in the season and coming out with a victory could do a lot for the team and its confidence.
“[Ending the losing streak is] one more thing to put behind us and not worry about anymore,” Weis said. “The season doesn't end with a win or a loss, but this would be a big win for our program.”
— Edited by Lyndsey Havens
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Kansas defense faces tough matchup in Duke
The Blue Devils have arguably the best receiver unit Kansas will see all year. They are led by the dynamic duo of senior wide receivers larnison Crowder (5-foot-9, 175 pounds) and Issac Blakeney (6-foot-6,225 pounds).
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Duke has two of the best wide receivers in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Kansas has an experienced secondary that had three interceptions last Saturday.
Something has to give on Saturday as Kansas takes on Duke at 2:30 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, N.C. This will be the Jayhawks' first road game of the season.
"It's a problem. You know, this is a legitimate good group of wide receivers," Weis said. "It's not like you say, well, let's just take Crowder out of the game and not worry about the other ones because you just can't do that."
"The people most dynamic on their team are the wide receivers," coach Charlie Weis said. "That also happens to be the position that we feel the best about on our defense.
Crowder caught 108 receptions in his junior campaign and is off to a
"I wouldn't put out anything in particular, we just need to bring our A game like every other game," senior safety Cassius Sendish said. "If we do that like we know we can, we will come out victorious."
The matchup between the traditional blue-blood basketball programs also includes a clash between coaches who were called upon to rebuild struggling football programs.
rast start this year with 14 receptions for 163 yards and a pair of scores. Blakeney's size could provide matchup problems for some of Kansas' smaller defensive backs.
Luckily for the Jayhawks, the secondary is arguably their biggest strength. Dexter McDonald is the reigning Big 12 defensive player of the week after recording two interceptions against Southeast Missouri. If Duke lines up the way it has, McDonald (6-foot-1, 200 pounds) will be on Crowder and senior JaCorey Shepherd (5-foot-11, 195) will match up with Blakeney.
Duke coach David Cutcliffe enters his seventh year with Duke (77-73) and is most known for mentoring the likes of Peyton Manning in his days at Tennessee. Cutcliffe has been able to build this football
program from the ground up. For Weis, Cutcliffe's tenure at Duke is the model of that he wants to do at Kansas. Cutcliffe turned the program completely around but not without some early struggles. In his first four years, he won just 15 games before going to bowl games in each of the last two years.
"I have a lot of respect for the job they've done, and hopefully we cannot only emulate that, but hopefully we can speed up that timetable just a tad," Weis said.
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The Blue Devils are coming off their best year on the gridiron. Last year the Blue Devils had a school record 10 wins including the ACC Coastal Division championship and an appearance in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. A large part of Duke's emergence on the football field is due to its athletic director, Kevin White, someone Weis knows very well.
"Kevin White, their AD, who's also a vice president there, hired me at Notre Dame," Weis said. "One of the finest men that I've ever met in my entire life. He taught me a lot about college football."
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