Barking Carnival

Outstanding.

Mark Mangino praised and insulted our staff simultaneously with these comments today.
The money quote:
I thought Texas put a lot of new things on the field they had not showed. A lot. It’s a little unusual, when you watch Texas over the years and then you see their game plan with regard to last week’s game.”
Believe […]

The Kansas City Star has a list of the worst fires and best hires in the Big 12 since the conference formed.
Worst Firings
1. R.C. Slocum, Texas A&M, 2002
Probably. Blame Mack Brown for taking over the recruiting rackets, but the writing was on the wall since Texas won in College Station in ‘95. The Aggies […]

The Kansas City Star, a once venerable newspaper that like all others has had trouble adapting to the internet age, ran a great piece today about Kansas and Missouri’s trek to the Preseason Top 15.

Mark Mangino, Oklahoma assistant and Kansas coaching candidate, had to be convinced when he met the Jayhawks job interview contingent led […]

While the rest of the college football world went about their business last year, things were clandestinely happening in Kansas. The clues were there to any sports reporters who were paying attention. Raw materials from Texas being shipped to Lawrence. Intellectual know how taken from the breakaway Republic of Oklahoma. And a whole helluva lot […]

Unfortunately, Greg Davis’ firing didn’t make the list.

Here are the ten best current coaches presented in an inarguable top ten list:

Great coaches usually hire great assistants. Kansas coach Mark Mangino was an assistant at both Kansas State and Oklahoma, and he learned from both Bill Snyder and Bob Stoops how to be successful as a head coach.
“When I got to Oklahoma I thought they would have some rituals, rubbing some rock, everybody touch the Sooner […]

Missouri - Nothing about Missouri that we didn’t know before the season. Great offense, bad defense. They’ve yet to lose one they shouldn’t, but Gary Pinkel is still their coach. At Oklahoma this week should tell them how good they really are. They get Tech and A&M at home in what will be shootouts, but […]

First Game Jitters for the new starting QBs?
Breaking in a new QB is supposed to pose problems early in the year. The four newcomers were 4-0 and won by a cumulative margin of 159 points.
Sam Bradford Oklahoma 21 for 23, 363 yards, 3 TDs, W by 69
Todd Reesing Kansas 20 for 29, 261 yards, 4 […]

Kansas Football has been electric of late. Electric. The kind of electricity you get from rubbing flannel pajamas together when you’re jumping on a nylon trampoline. Touch a car door? You want no part of that. That’s Jayhawk football flannel pajama electricity. Just like NaNa used to make. […]