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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 8,2008
quote of the day
"When we score seven points, I'll say we're slow starting. If we score 21 points, I'll say, 'Whoa, we scored a lot of points.' Twenty-one points — that's a lot of points. Thirty points? That isn't even a football game. That's Arena Football. We're talking about real football."
— Kansas City Chiefs coach Herman Edwards in September 2007
fact of the dav
The Kansas City Chiefs, who have scored 65 points in five games, are 30th in the NFL in points scored. They are on pace to score 208 points this season.
Source: KCChiefs.com
trivia of the dav
Q: How many total points did the Kansas City Chiefs score last season?
A: 226. The Chiefs finished 31 in points scored out of 32 teams.
Today Volleyball: Texas A&M, 7 p.m. (Lawrence)
Thursday No events scheduled.
Friday Women's Swimming & Diving: Intrasquad, 4 p.m. (Lawrence)
Soccer: 7 p.m. (Stillwater, Okla.)
How bad is Chiefs QB Tyler Thigpen, really?
Saturday
Football: Colorado, 11:30 a.m.
(Lawrence)
Sunday
Sunday
Soccer: Oklahoma, 1 p.m. (Norman, Okla.)
Thiapen
If you're a sports fan, you've heard this argument. Some lowly NFL team plays at an unspeakably awful level week after week until finally, some Joe Six-Pack offers up the priceless words, "Man, that team is so bad. You think they could even beat USC?"
The worst part is that these people are halfway serious. They actually think USC or Oklahoma
or whatever football flavor of the month could actually hang with, say, the St. Louis Rams.
makes a nerve with me. When I hear it, I begin to feel like an overly anxious mother who just heard her 8-year-old utter his first "word."
Sure enough, I'm reaching for the soap, and it's going right into little Mikey's dirty mouth.
It's just ludicrous. The Rams
It's just ludicrous. The kams — as bad as they are — would hammer any college team by 50
points. It'd be a bloodbath.
Obviously these types of arguments are made by foolish people or drunk people — or foolish people who are drunk at the time.
Now, don't freak out, but I'm going to offer up a similar argument. Seriously, put the soap down and listen.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Tyler Thigpen would be the sixthbest quarterback in the Big 12.
One more time. Tyler Thigpen, a professional athlete who has thrown 85 career passes in the NFL, wouldn't start for five Big 12 teams.
And I'm not talking about 23-year-old, senior in college Tyler Thigpen. We'll get to him in a moment. I'm talking about Tyler Thigpen now. The 24-year-old, second-year pro.
If you lined Thigpen up next
to Oklahoma's Sam Bradford,
Missouri's Chase Daniel, Texas
Tech's Graham Harrell, Texas' Colt
McCoy and Kansas' own Todd
Reesing, young Tyler would be
the sixth-best quarterback in the
room.
You have to feel a little bit for Thiqren. He's had quite the odyssey.
He went to Coastal Carolina in 2003 and became the first quarterback in school history. That's right. The first. Probably not a good omen for young Tyler. I'd wager that most future NFL quarterbacks go to schools that had football programs before, you know, 2003.
But young Tyler wouldn't be denied. He played four years at Coastal Carolina. He had heart and guts, and he finished 30-8 in four seasons and won the Big South Conference Player of the Year Award in 2007. But have you looked closely at the Big South lately?
Most of the schools just started fielding a football team within the last 10 years — and that's at the Division I-AA level.
Still, Thipgen shredded schools such as Charleston Southern, Gardner-Webb and Liberty. Of
course, I use the term loosely. He actually completed just 54.8 percent of his passes during his four-year career.
But somehow, against all odds, young Tyler found himself drafted in the seventh round by the Minnesota Vikings.
Which led us to the Vikings' epic 2007 training camp quarterback battle, starring Tarvaris Jackson, Drew Henson and the artist formerly known as Brooks Bollinger. Unfortunately, the trio was too much to overcome
Thigpen was cut. It seemed young Tyler's impossible dream was over.
And just like that, Tyler's dream had life.
Now, one year later, it seems pretty obvious why Thigpen's numbers at Coastal Carolina were so underwhelming. To be blunt, he's not good.
Not so fast, for there was a man in Kansas City, Mo., named Carl Peterson. And it just so happened that Peterson, the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, was in the market for young quarterbacks who were mediocre in college.
During parts of three games
this season, he's completed 41.8 percent of his passes and thrown four interceptions for the insufferable Chiefs.
Let's just say that if you ever see Thigpen throwing darts at the bar,you make damn sure you stay alert.
I don't know much about football. I mean, I've accidentally started Darren Sproles two weeks in a row on my fantasy team. But I know this: If you gave me the choice between Bradford and Thigpen, or Daniel and Thigpen, or even Reesing and Thigpen — well, let's just say I'm not taking Thigpen.
Edited by Mary Sorrick
A bat by any other name...
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles Dodgers Manny Ramirez smells his bat during batting practice at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Monday. Ramirez said his bat still smelled of champagne after the Dodgers' wild celebration barely two days after from their first-round sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the NL playoffs. The Dodgers and Phillies have the best-of-seven NLCs on Thursday in Philadelphia.
WOMEN'S GOLF
Team doesn't fulfill expectations, finishes 7th in Lubbock, Texas No KU golfers make top slots; some fire season lows
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
Inconsistencies lingered as the women's golf team failed to find the top five at the fourth annual McHaney/Morehead Invitational in Lubbock, Texas. There were
high expectations preceding the showdown after two encouraging fifth-place finishes and a season-low 221 for juggernauts
Powers' performance was
Emily Powers. The Jayhawks, however, took a step backwards in the standings with a seventh-place finish.
Powers
a microcosm to the lackluster efforts of the entire team at the Rawls Course. After preaching a strategy that called for miniscule fluctuation from round to round, Powers sandwiched an atypical round-two score of 79 between impressive 74s in rounds one and three. Her 227 score tied her for seventh place in the individual standings, but it served as an ideal counterexample to a team searching for stability.
Sophomore Jennifer Clark followed a similar trend. After shooting a mediocre 81 in round one, Clark came back and shot a 77 in round two. With optimistic expectations for round three after dropping her score, Clark finished with an untimely 83, giving her 48th place with a total of 241
One positive note from the invitational was sophomore Meghna Bal's strong turnaround. After a round one 82, Bal concluded.
her tournament with a 79 in round two and a 77 in round three, tying for 32nd place with a 238. Knocking down her score with every
Bal
round is what could establish Bal as a fitting complement to Emily Powers.
Arkansas-Little Rock came out on top in Lubbock, and the top four Kansas golfers lowered their scores from the team's last tournament.
— Edited by Lauren Keith
KICK THE KANSAN: WEEK SEVEN
Pick games. Beat the Kansan staff. Get your name in the paper.
This week's games:
1. No. 5 Texas vs. No. 1 Oklahoma (Cotton Bowl) (Pick Score)
1. No. 5 Texas vs. No. 1 Oklahoma (Cotton Boil
2. No. 4 LSU at No. 11 Florida
3. No. 6 Penn State at Wisconsin
4. South Carolina at Kentucky
5. Notre Dame at No. 22 North Carolina
6. TCU at Colorado State
7. No. 17 Oklahoma State at No. 3 Missouri
8. Iowa State at Baylor
9. No. 13 Vanderbilt at Mississippi State
10. Colorado at No. 16 Kansas
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5) To break ties, pick the score of the designated game.
Either submit your picks to KickTheKansan@kansan.com or to the Kansan business office, located at the west side of Stauffer-Flint Hall, which is between Wescoe Hall and Watson Library.
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