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Photo by Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images Mrs Simpson: while we were rescuing your husband, a lumber yard burned down The Rock Chalkboard Andrew Parchment wants to lay foundation for Kansas footballThere's no doubt Andrew Parchment's senior season isn't going perfectly. Even if you removed his numbers, Parchment — known as one of the vocal leaders in the … [Read more...] about The Daily Mauling: 10.21.2020

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Hasta la vista, Abey The Rock Chalkboard Bill Self pleased with maturity level of KU basketball"Our mindset is good," Self said. "I think mentally we’re really in a good place right now. I think our guys have handled everything very maturely. … I’ve been amazed at how they’ve handled things and how they’ve also handled being … [Read more...] about The Daily Mauling: 10.20.2020

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images KU’s star player has left the team to tend to family health issues back in Louisiana. Pooka Williams is leaving KU to move back to Louisiana, per his own tweet and statements from KU and Les Miles. Pooka’s statement reads: Today I made the very difficult decision to opt out of the rest of the season to be closer to my … [Read more...] about Pooka Williams Opts Out

Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports Not good. Kansas hung around for a half, but the second half was an unmitigated disaster - at least offensively. Sure, Kansas covered a 22-point spread, but the Jayhawks had 8 yards of total offense in the second half. Eight. For the game, Kansas had six 3-and-outs in 16 possessions. No drive went more than 45 yards, no drive lasted more than 7 … [Read more...] about A (semi) statistical recap of West Virginia

Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports Few teams have put up less yards through the first four games of a season. If you read our predictions heading into the game, there were two major beliefs: the Kansas defense would be unable to contain WVU and the offense would struggle to put up points. The 38-17 score line reflected this, though I’m not putting this loss on the defense. The … [Read more...] about KU’s Offense is in Rare (Bad) Company

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Look, I didn’t steal that copper wire. I just thought they were throwing it out! Here, take it The Rock Chalkboard 10of12 Top 10: Mountaineers get the lone winSaturday was full of excitement around the college football world, but within the Big 12, we only saw two teams in action. Kansas State, Iowa State, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and … [Read more...] about The Daily Mauling: 10.19.2020

Andy Facemire of The Smoking Musket joins the podcast to preview the West Virginia Mountaineers No matter how much you are looking forward to it (or not), there is a game today for the Kansas Jayhawks against the West Virginia Mountaineers. Last night, I did a last-minute preview of the opponent with Andy of The Smoking Musket. Topics Include: Neal Brown Year 2 Expectations … [Read more...] about Podcast: Previewing KU-WVU

Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images If you don’t learn Roman numerals, you’ll never know the date certain motion pictures were copyrighted The Rock Chalkboard KU basketball sets date, time for virtual Late Night in the PhogThis year will mark the 36th annual Late Night, the KU Athletics release said. Per usual, it will involve skits from both the … [Read more...] about The Daily Mauling: 10.17.2020

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The crew gets together to tell you what is going to happen today. The Kansas Jayhawks are getting ready to kick off against the West Virginia Mountaineers, and I’m betting many of you are trying to decide if it’s going to be worth watching. To help you figure that out, there crew got together to tell you what to expect … [Read more...] about Predictions: WVU