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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
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Sims, Sands to carry forward
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN FILE PHOTO Senior running back Angus Quigley breaks past the Georgia Tech defense during the Jayhawks game against the Yellow Jackets earlier this month. Quigley ran for a total of 46 yards that day.
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BY MATT GALLOWAY
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The Kansas football team's sixth-year senior running back and team captain has lost his starting job.
It now appears he will need to fight just to get the occasional carry.
Angus Quigley, whose Kansas career has seen everything from a conversion to defense and consecutive season-ending injuries, will not receive the bulk of the carries going forward. Kansas coach Turner Gill said at a teleconference on Monday.
"I think at this point in time we'd say James Sims is the back," Gill said. "Probably at this point in time I'd say Sims and (Deshaun) Sands would get the majority of the time there."
Just three weeks after starting the season opener against North Dakota State, Quigley will take a back seat to the freshman tandem of James Sims and Deshaun Sands. Quigley carried one time for five yards in last Friday's 31-16 loss to Southern Miss.
A native of Cleburne, Texas, Quigley missed the entire 2005 and 2006 seasons due to injury but later received two additional years of eligibility as compensation. Last season, Quigley played linebacker under coach Mark Mangino and recorded just three tackles.
The progression of Sims and Sands, who both have a touchdown to their name in two games played, may have made Quigley the odd man out.
For his career, Quigley has amassed 473 yards rushing and five touchdowns in 92 attempts. Quigley seemed to have his legs back under him against Georgia Tech, when he ran eight times for 46 yards and had a pivotal 18 yard carry.
missed a block and allowed a sack on freshman quarterback Jordan Webb during a rare playing-time opportunity on Friday, might not fit into that category any longer.
The coaching staff must evaluate where their offensive assets are, Gill said. Quigley, who
"There are usually going to
"I think James Sims is going to get better and better as he continues to play the game of football here at this level," Gill said. "I think he's done some good things, and he obviously got some improvement, but I like what he's doing."
be two to four plays that usually can define a football game and which way the momentum goes," Gill said. "It doesn't always mean you're going to win or lose the game, but it usually takes the
game in one direction or another and you've got to be able to overcome that moment."
Edited by Sean Tokarz
GOLF
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Nate Barbee, senior, watches his put on the third hole of the Kansas Invitational Monday morning at Alvamar Golf Club. Barbee shot an eight over 80 in the first of three rounds of the invitational.
Team suffers setback after its second-round performance
any nice round than he was 2 under through 14 and he just couldn't quite make it into the house," coach Kit Groeve said. "That's part of maturing as a golfer and as
BY ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
"He opened up with a rea young man playing this game. If he can just do it once, it becomes that much easier to do it a second time and a third time and so on."
After coming out fast in the first round, the men's golf team cooled off and is currently in 7th place after two rounds in the Kansas Invitational. Sophomore Chris Gilbert led the team, shooting one under 71 in his first round, and 74 in his second to put him in a tie for 14th place.
"If he can just do it once, it becomes that much easier to do it a second time and a third ... "
Nate Barbee struggled early to an 80 in his first round. He picked it up in the second, and was the only Jayhawk to improve from his morning score to his afternoon score.
Sophomore Alex Gutesha also shot a 71 in his first round of the day. Gutesha faltered a little in his second round and came in with a 77. Junior Doug Quinones
and an upper repertory infection, Grove said. "36 holes is a long day anyway and we didn't really know he was that sick."
If Brown can't go tomorrow the Jayhawks will be playing 4-on-5, or an Ironman as Coach Grove called it.
Opened with an even par 72 in his morning round. In the afternoon he came in with a 78.
"He turned what would have
KIT GROVE Head coach
"We had a couple of pretty strong rounds on the first 18 and we just couldn't get the fourth piece of the puzzle out there," Grove said.
Freshman Bryce Brown struggled and ended up making a trip to the doctors office after his round.
"Bryce as it turns out ended up at the doctors afterwards, he has a 103 degree temperature
been an aver age round into a number he is not too used to shooting," Grove said. This afternoon he played pretty solid actually. He had a couple of pretty decent shots and just missed the green and then couldn't make it up and down. Golf is a fickle game. When he hits a bad shot he just isn't getting away with it right now."
Nebraska is in first after two rounds, shooting a combined 578. Oklahoma City is in second, three strokes back, and Missouri State is in third, seven stroked back. Kansas is sixteen strokes behind Nebraska after shooting a combined 594.
COMMENTARY
The final round of the Kansas Invitational will start tomorrow at 8:30 in the morning.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Set the bar low for this season
BY MAX VOSBURGH
myosburgh@kansan.com
They're just not that talented.
I keep hearing the same thing from everyone. No one seems to understand the Kansas football team. Why is everyone so surprised that Kansas is 1-2 and has looked terrible in two of its three games so far this year?
They're just not that talented.
Before the season everyone who thought Kansas would go 6-6 or 5-7 forgot something. They forgot that everyone who had anything to do with the Jayhawks' success the last few years was gone.
Former coach Mark Mangino struck gold when he found talented players on his roster that weren't expected to be as good as they were. It's not like Kansas has ever been recruiting the nation's best players. So why expect a team whose skill position players were back-ups to a team that went 1-7 in the Big 12 last year to take any steps forward?
I am not blaming the players. I am just saying that expectations, as low as they were, were still too high for this team. Quarterback Jordan Webb's comments after the lost to Southern Miss offered a nice way to describe the team he leads.
"Some of it was probably us, and some of it was a little Jordan," Gill said. "We were making our calls from the sideline and from upstairs and sometimes we were waiting too long to get the plays in."
"There's just a bunch of stuff we've got to work on and get better at," he said.
I am not even blaming the head coach. Still, the coaching staff deserves every bit of a flunking grade for the way they called plays and managed the clock last week against Southern Miss. Gill wasn't afraid to blame the bad clock management on his starting quarterback and coaching staff after the game Saturday.
Gill is new here and learning just like his players. It's not fair to make comments like, "If only we still had Mangino," because fans just need to let this season go. This is a long-term rebuilding project. We're not playing for this year. We're playing for two years from now when Webb and running back James Sims are experienced upperclassmen.
So Kansas was embarrassed by North Dakota State, looked asleep against Southern Miss but beat Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets actually were only outscored by the Jayhawks in one quarter during that game. Kansas looked out of gas at the end of the game and nearly lost
It was the incredible amount of energy that the Jayhawks had when they started the game that showed everyone they weren't going to be pushed around again. It was that same energy that was nowhere to be found against Southern Miss and it will be that level of intensity that they'll need if they want to win any other game this year.
Still, with 1:45 left in the fourth quarter, down 15 points against the Golden Eagles on Saturday, the Jayhawks gave up, waved the white flag on fourth down and punted the ball knowing Southern Miss would be able to take a couple knees and end the game. I just hope that wasn't a microcosm of this year's season and that Kansas is able to find that spark they had against Georgia Tech again.
One thing that surprised me, though, was that team really does care, even if past performances, like North Dakota State and Southern Miss, didn't show it. I was surprised to see how visibly upset and angry the players looked after the Southern Miss loss.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman