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COMMENTARY
Touchdowns won't come easy to team on tricycles
ans can no longer be like the proud parents that
cheer and clap as their children ride off down the street successfully balancing on two wheels. That "big boy" status vanished after last year, and now Kansas football has fallen off the two-wheeler and is back on a tricycle.
The tricycle though, is a hand me down with three dented wheels, so all a parent can say to the kid is: "Pedal harder. It'll be a bumpy ride, but if you want to move forward, that is what you have to do."
The three wheels of this beat up tricycle can be represented by three facets of the Kansas offense. I will let the defense off the hook for this metaphor.
The front, leading wheel is quarterback Jordan Webb. The left back wheel is the offense. And the back right wheel is offensive coordinator Chuck Long. The father figure that should be pushing the bike with words of encouragement is coach Turner Gill.
to be a fine tuned machine, the team needs to learn how to take responsibility off the third wheel and have two working in synchronization. Right now, there are kinks in every wheel.
The problem starts with the father figure coach Gill. How confident would you feel learning how to ride a bike for the first time without the person holding you steady saying anything to encourage you or correct your mistakes?
Whenever the cameras would cut to Gill during the Southern Mississippi game on Saturday there was only one look on his face. A passive blank look that seemed to be out of touch with everything happening on the field.
I would have liked to see some talking, some effort to work out the problems with the coordinators and the players. Instead, punt after
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
punt, Gill remained cross armed and looked to the scoreboard as if it held the answers for the team.
All other problems all lie in communication between the three janky wheels. The offense has talent. Everyone saw bursts of it in the Georgia Tech game. I even saw it on our last touchdown during the Southern Miss. game where our first play of a drive was a deep fade route thrown perfectly to Jonathan Wilson for a touchdown.
The problem doesn't lie in the talent. It lies in how the talent is told what to do. The play calling comes from the back wheel, offensive coordinator. But on Saturday, plays were getting to Webb late and causing delay of games and overall confusion.
There needs to be a simple way to get the play from the back wheel, Chuck Long, to the front wheel, Webb. This would create balance and the third wheel, that is the offense, would simply be a benefactor of this relationship. Webb would then be able to steer and lead the offense on the field.
Under Mark Mangino, a system was set up where the motion of a hand from an assistant coach would call a new play in the middle of a hurry-up offense. And the system ran smoothly most of the time.
Now, Gill needs to mandate the balance that will keep Kansas football on the right path.
Edited by Kelsey Nill
MEN'S GOLF
Kansas golfers struggle with putting problems, illness and a leader's slump
"They really showed some signs of life early," coach Kit Grove said. "We were really looking at putting together a really solid round and moving up there and having a chance to at least finish fourth or third potentially. They put
Jayhawks finish sixth in invitational
Senior Nate Barbee led the comeback attempt. Barbee finished two under par in the
ETHAN PADWAY epadway@kansan.com
Sophomore Chris Gilbert led the men's golf team in scoring as it moved up one spot in the final round to finish tied for sixth place with Kansas State in the Kansas Invitational. The meet was held Monday and Tuesday at Alvamar Public Golf Course, a 72-par course, in Lawrence. Gilbert opened up one under par Monday morning before shooting a 74 and a 75 to finish the tournament tied for 15th place.
themselves in a position to put
a pretty darn good number on the board
and just couldn't get it done."
Sophomore Alex Gutesha started off hot shooting a 71 in his first tournament of the year. He posted
"Doug had a kind of a roller-coaster. He made a whole bunch of birdies and he made a whole bunch of bogeys but that's kind of been his M.O. recently," said Grove. "I know it's frustrating from a player's standpoint. You do all the work and get four, five or six birdies and then you give two or three of them back on the green."
"They put themselves in a position to put a pretty darn good number on the board."
Junior Doug Quinones shot an even par to open up his tournament. After a second round 78 he came back Tuesday to fire another 72, which put him in a tie for 24th place.
KIT GROVE Coach
"I'm happy for Nate" Grove said. "This is a big step in hopefully starting to climb back and get over that hump. He's been in a slump the last couple months and hopefully this is something he can build off
final round to bounce back from an 80 and a 74 that he shot on Monday. Barbee finished in a tie for 30th place.
of. He's been in that slump a little longer than we are used to seeing, and the longer you stay in it the tougher it is to climb out of it."
77 Monday and a 76 Tuesday to finish tied for 30th place.
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Freshman Bryce Brown came back Tuesday with a 76 after he played through a 103-degree
Freshman Bryce Brown, Lincoln, Neb., ponders his putting options in the first round of the Kansas Invitational tournament. Brown tied for 60th place individually, while the Jayhawks finished tied for sixth Sept. 21 at Alamar Public Golf Course in Lawrence.
fever and an upper respiratory infection on Monday. He finished in 66th place.
"He's feeling better. His temperature was down basically back to normal before he teed off, I'm guessing fatigue had a little factor. The 36-hole days take it out of you, especially if you have a fever," said Grove.
Oklahoma City University came
back from three strokes down after Monday's play, shooting a 284 final round to take first, ahead by a commanding eleven strokes. Nebraska finished in second and UMKC finished in third. Gustaf Kocken, of University of Louisiana at Monroe,
placed first individually, shooting four under for the tournament.
The Jayhawks will travel to Erie, Colo. to play in the Colorado Invitational next week.
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Edited by Alex Tretbar