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8A / **SPORTS** / TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
FOOTBALL
Gill sees upcoming games as new season, time to change
BY KORY CARPENTER kcarpenter@kansan.com
After two losses to start the conference season, coach Turner Gill and the Jayhawks are still trying to improve every facet of their game. The improvements, if they occur, are much needed as the team has been outscored 114-14 by their
first two conference opponents. Halfway through the year, Gill sees the next six games as a new season.
"What's happened in the past is in the past," Gill told reporters during his
"What's happened in the past is in the past. And now here is a new season for us."
weekly teleconference on Tuesday. "And now here is a new season for us, and we have to just continue to move on."
Gill said his players haven't quit, and they came to practice this week focused and ready to get better and prepare for their homecoming game against Texas A&M.
time using the strengths of their players. But when the systems are extremely different, teams will hit a few bumps in the road, otherwise known as Baylor and Kansas State.
Throughout the season Gill has tried different rotations and mixes of players on both sides of the ball, and that process is ongoing. Senior Angus Quigley and sophomore Kalo
Many of the current players were recruited to play in former coach Mark Mangino's spread offense system, and the adjustments to Gill more balanced attack made by players and coaches has taken time to mesh. Coaches must try to put their place in place while at the same
TURNER GILL Coach
Pick were two players lost in the rotation shuffle. Pick was benched week two in favor of freshman Jordan Webb, and Webb's Georgia Tech performance solidified his starting
spot. After a leg injury against New Mexico State forced Pick off the field the last two games, the quarterback is returning to 100 percent health.
Webb's lackluster performances the last two weeks have led to questions by fans and media on the quarterback position. Before Pick's injury, Webb was playing great and no one questioned his role as starting quarterback. After Pick went down there was no doubt Webb would remain the starter. Now things have changed.
Webb will start against the Texas A&M Aggies on Saturday night, but
Gill is leaving the door open for a relieve appearance by Pick.
"Jordan Webb is going to start the football game, that's for sure," Gill said. "As far as all the things that take place, we're going to take those into consideration."
Quigley started the season No. 1 on the depth chart. His carries diminished after the first two games however, only getting one carry against Southern Miss and getting shut out of the rotation against New Mexico State and Baylor. When called upon last week against K-State, Quigley answered with a much needed boost to the stagnant offense, getting 70 yards on 16 carries along with the jayhawks' only touchdown of the night.
Angus definitely came in and gave us a spark, Gill said. "He was probably the one good spark we had, as far as coming in and making plays for us."
Gill confirmed that Quigley is in the mix for playing time and a final decision will be made in practice leading up to the 6 p.m. kickoff Saturday.
The weekly mips ups on the depth chart might give these former starters a second chance to breathe life into the Kansas offense as the second half gets underway.
- Edited by Anna Nordling
Coach Turner Gill shouts an instruction to his team during a timeout. Gill faced off against in-state rivals Kansas State for the first time Thursday night, as the Jayhawks fell 59-7 to the Wildcats. Kansas is now 2-4 on the season, and will face Texas A&M Saturday at 6 p.m.
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Michigan State starts season 7-0 for first time since 1966
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
EAST LANSING, Mich. — This is new for Michigan State — history it isn't trying to avoid.
Coach Mark Dantonio told his players in a celebratory locker room that — with Saturday's 26-6 victory over Illinois — they had become the first Michigan State team to start 7-0 since 1966, when names like Duffy and Bubba were synonymous with national excellence around here.
its quite possible that there are MSU players whose parents weren't even born the last time the Spartans reached 7-0.
"When Coach D told us about that and how it's been that long," receiver B.J. Cunningham said, "we just kind of looked at each other shocked. It was like, 'Really? It's been since 1966?' It's a big deal to achieve that kind of history."
"It hasn't sunk in yet," defensive end Tyler Hoover said. "The coaches told us that we should be proud of what we've accomplished up to this point, but we can't just sit on what we've done and think
that's it. We're going to have to put this one away and concentrate on next week."
Expectations change when you're 7-0. Definitions of successful sea change
desire running with the big dogs. If they're serious about wanting to be taken seriously, the mission statement for the past five games must be BCS bowl or bust. Simply settling for a secondary New Year's
"It was like,'Really? It's been since 1966?' It's a big deal to achieve that kind of history."
B. J. CUNNINGHAM Michigan State receiver
when you're 7-0. Forget about those preseason projections of a 9-3 regular season being good enough to stamp this as a good year. Anything short of a 10-win regular season gets branded a disappointment.
That's the price when you
Day locale in Orlando,
Tampa or Dallas after
7-0 is now unacceptable.
That's how the big dogs roll,
MSU.
"When you talk about (44) years, I was 11,"
Dantonio said. "That's not a bad deal."
The Spartans have 10-win seasons twice in their 115-year history: 1965 and 1999. Their lone 10-win regular season was 1965, when they won the national championship.
"This is something that we haven't experienced around here," Cunningham said, "but it's important that we don't look beyond the next game on our schedule. Everyone is excited. Every game gets bigger."
It's not just big. It's huge. The Spartans likely will reside among the top 10 in the first BCS poll released tonight. They will get more national attention for their uncanny resilience the past month and now finally must leave Michigan for a road game. They're at Northwestern next weekend and at Iowa on Oct. 30.
The Spartans looked flat early Saturday. They looked ill-prepared. Even worse, they looked cocky. They have become one of America's college football darlings the past three weeks with their recuperating coach and knack for making the right play at the right time. But they cannot afford to
take any opponent for granted.
Let's just say coordinator Pat Narduzzi sang to his defense a few choruses of the four-letter aria at halftime with the Illini up, 6-3.
"Yeah, you could say it got a little colorful there," Hoover said. "The intensity wasn't there. We've had a lot of emotional games lately. But we found a way to crank it back up and make the plays we needed to make in the second half."
They resembled a legitimate Big Ten contender against the Illini, counting on their defense to compensate for the lack of a ground game and a rather passive passing attack.
This is tarried air for MSU football. But just being good shouldn't be good enough now.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Loss despite best game for defense
Ahmad Black knew it wasn't the defense's best game. It was still a Florida loss.
But for the senior safety, it came back to one thing — 10 points.
The Gators had given up a season-low in terms of points scored, but offensively couldn't get enough to beat Mississippi State on Saturday.
The loss dropped the Gators (4-3, 2-3 SEC) out of the Top 25 rankings for the first time under coach Urban Meyer.
"We gave up 10 points," Black said. "Obviously, we didn't play our best. We still got things to work on. We just gotta keep getting better."
Statistically, though, Florida defense remains 16th nationally in total defense.
McClatchy-Tribune
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