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Kansas State imposed on itself a $5,000 fine paid to the Big 12 on Tuesday, Sept. 8. KSU also suspended band director Frank Tracz for the Nov. 28 game against Kansas in Lawrence.
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director Frank Tracz for the Nov. 28
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K-State imposes penalties after NSFW marching band halftime performance
Kansas State issued a news release on Tuesday morning announcing that the school would be imposing numerous internal sanctions, including a self-imposed $5,000 fine to be paid to the Big 12 Conference for violation of the league sportsmanship policy and a single-game suspension for the university director of bands. This suspension would take place during the Nov. 28 game against the Jayhawks.
"Good sportsmanship is part of the Wildcat way; we do not want to do anything that takes away from the tremendous
efforts of our student athletes and the award-winning Pride of Wildcat Land marching band," Kirk Schultz, the president of Kansas State, said in the release.
Despite rumors, Kansas athletics said it had no intention of filing a complaint with the Big 12 over the halftime performance.
"I know that KU did not file any kind of complaint with the Big 12 and we don't intend to," said Jim Marchiony, the Kansas associate athletics director. Over the past weekend, the Kansas State marching band caused a stir on social media when videos and pictures of its halftime performance during Saturday's game against South
Dakota went viral
Kansas State has since apologized for the marching band formation, which according to K-State, was intended to depict the Starship Enterprise attacking a Jayhawk.
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Defense improvements will be crucial as Kansas prepares for Memphis
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Disappointed, but not discouraged.
"There's a lot of things I'm disappointed in, but there's 23
That was David Beaty's mindset after his first game as head coach of a Division I football program.
Of course, disappointment was the best way to characterize the jayhawks' opening game of the season, which started with a host of missed tackles and turnovers and ended on a botched snap. It was Kansas' first loss to an FCS program since 2010, when the program was under Turner Gill.
new players out there on the football field for the first time," Beaty said. "They are going to make mistakes, and I think the thing that was kind of a ringing tone all the way across all of our positions was just trusting your training and playing with technique and not getting out there and abandoning your teaching or your training."
But it was not discouraging for a handful of reasons: It was the best game of Montell Cozart's career (he admitted it this week), the offense looked revitalized and the Jayhawks' blitz packages started getting pressure on the quarterback in the second half. Considering the number of Jayhawks playing college football — or Division I football — for the first time, it wasn't a bad outcome.
The misdirection is a huge
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"We've got to do a better job stopping the run." Beaty said. "We've got to do a better job of holding gaps. This team we are about to play can run the ball effectively. They can out leverage you, they can out-gap you, they can misdirection you if you eye is in the wrong place."
Beaty's team will have another week of training — a week to improve on what it saw after the disparities in its week 1 loss before coming up against its first FBS opponent, the Memphis Tigers (1-0) on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Kansas coach David Beaty paces the sideline on Saturday, Sept. 5.
piece of Memphis coach Justin Fuente's offensive arsenal. The team brings four running backs to the table — junior Sam Craft, sophomores Jarvis Cooper and Doroland Dorceus, and freshman Jamarius Henderson. All four should be involved equally in the run game, though Craft — first on the team's depth chart at running back — can line up all over the field and is listed on the roster as an "athlete."
The biggest improvements will need to be made on the defensive side of the ball, where the Jayhawks gave up 463 yards against South Dakota State.
"If your eye is in the wrong place with these guys, with Justin, you're going to be in for a long day, because they will be in the end zone and you don't even know who has got the football." Beaty said. "He will misdirection you; he will option you; he will drop back and become a drop-back pass team."
Kansas' offense just might be able to hang with the Tigers despite being 13-point underdogs. Cozart is following a
Add 6-foot-7 quarterback Paxton Lynch and his 13 rushing touchdowns from 2014 to the mix and it's sure to be quite the battle for the Kansas defense.
game where he passed for almost 300 yards and rushed for a career-high 94 yards. Running back Ke'aun Kinner, who averaged 5.8 yards per carry on 27 rushes last week, is a threat that Fuente has talked up this week as well.
"They've got a quarterback that can run it and throw and his incredibly dangerous. They have a tailback that looks extremely quick on film and rushed for 157 yards." Fuente said in his press conference this week. "They will run it and throw it going as fast as humanly possible; we're going to have to be able to defend that."
Defensively, too, the Tigers' 50 scheme is uncommon and deceptive.
"They like to do a lot of different things to try to confuse the quarterback." Cozart said. "They blitz, move guys around a lot, they run that type of defense where guys are dropping all the time, or rushing three
and dropping eight."
Fuente also noted another huge part of this Kansas offense: the tempo. Kansas ran 90 plays last week, which was good for seventh most in the NCAA, and offensive coordinator Rob Likens said the team can run even more — up to 100 plays in a single game. If the Jayhawks can tire down the defense and keep their own off the field, they might just be able to pull an upset against Memphis.
"We've just got to get the ball snapped a little bit quicker," Likens said. "Everything comes down to whether you're getting first downs with it. If you go three-and-out really fast, it actually is counter productive, and it helps them, hurts you. It all goes along with drives.
"We're going to try to do better this week," he said.
— Edited by Abigail Stuke
Former KU point guard will join men's basketball team as an assistant director
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AARON MILES
Former Kansas point guard Aaron Miles is back with the team, according to a University news release.
Miles will join the staff as the assistant director of student-athlete development although the move could be short term.
Miles, who is dealing with a torn labrum, said his playing career may not be over, but the "golden opportunity" to work alongside Bill Self was too much to pass up.
Miles attended the University from 2002-05 where he finished atop the boards in
numerous guard categories. Miles holds the Big 12 Conference record for career assists with 954, which is ninth in NCAA Division I history.
With Miles on the team, the Jayhawks finished with a fouryear record of 110-28, going 54-10 in Big 12 play. In Miles's first season, the Jayhawks went a perfect 16-0 against conference foes and advanced to one of two Final Fours that Miles would play in during his four years.
Since that time, Miles has spent time in the NBA D-League, NBA and Eurole-
AARON MILES
ague. Right now, though, he said he's focusing on learning and helping out the players.
"I love helping people, I love basketball and I love the University of Kansas."
"I love helping people, I love basketball and I love the University of Kansas," Miles said in the release. "This is an ideal situation for me to be able to
do all three of those things."
He added: "Everybody in this office is special, and I can learn from them all."
At 32 years old, Miles is far from being the most experienced member of the basketball staff, but he isn't the youngest. Director of Basketball Operations Brennan Bechard, who graduated in 2009, holds that distinction. Miles is also younger than assistant coach Jerrance Howard, 35, who played for Bill Self at Illinois.
- Edited by Christian Hardy
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