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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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》 DANCING NACHOS
Kansas defense needs Talib in lineup
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
KANSAN SPORTS EDITOR
MPHILIPS@KANSAN.COM
As the Kansas cornerbacks allowed Louisiana-Monroe to convert a third and 16 on what could have been the game-tying drive, it became painfully obvious what the Jayhawks needed: Agib Talib.
Brandon McAnderson, junior running back, returns an onside kick with just under three-and-a-half minutes left in Saturday night's game against Louisiana-Monroe. The Jayhawks defeated the Warhawks 21-10.
Arlo Kahn The Kansas secondary looked disoriented and out of place all night. There was no leader on the field, and sophomore Raymond Brown proved he is not yet ready to take the field on Saturdays.
JAYHAWKS DEFEAT WARHAWKS IN FINAL MINUTES OF GAME
In the end, Kansas squeaked by with a 21-19 victory that was based solely on mistakes by Louisiana-Monroe, including a missed extra point and a receiver-wide-open-in-the-end zone but miraculously incomplete two-point conversion.
Next week against Toledo,
Kansas will need Talb to come up
big in his return to the lineup.
The sophomore cornerback has the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of Charles Gordon and be at the heart of the new-look defense. He has the talent to intercept anything thrown near him. He has the showmanship to be on the SportsCenter Update at :28 and :58. He's also been conspicuously absent from the first two games.
Talib was suspended at the "coach's discretion" the week before the first game. He spent the game, as he did last week, chatting it up with junior cornerback Michael McCoy on the sideline.
Coach Mark Mangino was elusive on the issue, but hinted at Talib's return to the lineup.
"If I decide to, we'll play him," Mangino said. "I think that he may play; there's a good chance that he will, but we'll see how he does and how things are going for him."
The time for Mangino to send a message is done. Kansas cannot defeat Toledo without Talib anchoring the secondary.
》FOOTBALL
Without him, all Kansas has is senior safety Jerome Kemp. He has performed admirably, but his health is still not at 100 percent.
"I'm banged up here and there, but I'm always ready to go when it comes game time," Kemp said.
The fragile secondary hurt Kansas in other ways, too.
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Jon Cornish, senior running back, struggles to break free from the grip of Louisiana Monroe's defense. Cornish rushed for 103 yards without scoring against the Warhawks on Saturday.
Kansas offense looks 'inept'in game against ULM
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
Mark Mangino talked all week about his team making its biggest improvement between the first and second game.
Kansas squeaked past Louisiana-Monroe 21-19 Saturday, staving off a serious upset bid. The Jayhawks' offense looked inepot for most of the game and the defense was lit up for nearly 400 yards passing. With a national television date with Toledo looming on Friday, Kansas must improve — and fast.
That didn't seem to be the case this week.
Mangino said he didn't think his team overlooked ULM, but that the game was a valuable experience before its first road game.
"I've talked to them all week that I thought this was a good football team," Mangino said. "I thought they had a lot of talented kids, especially at the skill positions, and we learned that we have to earn them one at a time."
Although Kansas never trailed.
ULM had numerous opportunities to at least send the game into overtime and possibly sneak out with the victory. ULM kicker Ragan Walters shanked a 43-yard field goal and also missed an extra point.
Despite the blown chances, ULM had a chance to tie the game with less than four minutes left in the game.
Late in the fourth quarter, the Warhawks drove down the field, aided by Lancaster's 28-yard pass to running back Calvin Dawson on a critical third down and six play. Dawson took the ball into Kansas territory and ULM would score the touchdown a few plays later, making it 21-19. The Warhawks missed the two-point conversion that would have tied the game when Lancaster's pass in the end zone to tight end Zeek Zacharie sailed wide.
With numerous chances tie the game, ULM players knew they missed their chance to upset a BCS-conference team.
"We did dominate the game," Zacharie said. "It was just a few
missed opportunities for points. It's a big disappointment."
Kansas secondary, which is still without suspended starting cornerback Ajib Talib, sophomore, struggled throughout much of the game. Talib's replacement, sophomore Raymond Brown, was burned on several passes, including a 59-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 7-7, late in the first quarter.
Kinsmon Lancaster, the Warhawks quarterback, finished the game 24-of-41 passing for 377 yards and two touchdowns. It was the most passing yards Kansas had given up in nine games.
After giving up 377 passing yards and more than 420 yards of total offense, Kansas' defenders said they had mistakes to correct before their first road game next week.
"We definitely need to pay more attention to our packages, our coverages and to our opponents," senior safety Jerome Kemp said. "We didn't necessarily overlook them, but we were caught off guard."
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》 ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Glitter molestation conviction leads to ban of popular song at KU sporting events
BY DANNY LUPPINO
Fans of KU basketball tradition and '70s glam rock took a hit Thursday when the Athletics Department banned "Rock and Roll Part 2" from all sporting events.
The song, written by Gary Glitter, includes the controversial phrase. "We're gonna beat the hell out of you, and you, and you and you and
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said banning the song was a direct result of Gltitter's conviction.
you" and is better known as "The Hey Song." Glitter was convicted in March of molesting two Vietnamese girls he claimed to be teaching English.
"There's just plenty of other songs we can play." Marchiony said. "We don't need to play a song by Gary
Glitter."
Earlier this year, the National Football League asked its teams to stop playing the popular arena anthem. Marchiony said the decision to ban the song at KU sporting events was not influenced by the NFL's decision. He also said the NCAA had not contacted the department about the song.
Despite Glitter's conviction, some
Tom Stidham. associate director of bands and former conductor of the Kansas basketball band, said he saw the complexity of the issue.
don't think it should automatically lead to the ban.
"It's a decision I'm glad I don't have to make," Stidham said. "Because I don't have much patience for child molestation, but at the same time the song isn't exactly condoning that
Some students said they would miss that tradition.
In past seasons, Stidham had the band play the song at every basketball game during pregame warm-ups and after a Kansas run forced the opposing team to take a time out.
"The song didn't mlest anybody," Tyler Childs, Joplin, Mo., senior, said. "I doubt most people here even have
behavior."
any idea who Gary Glitter is. I think it's just the Athletics Department making an empty gesture and in the process they're taking away a song that the fans love."
Kansan staff writer Danny Luppino can be contacted at dluppino@ kansan.com.
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Edited by Kate Shipley