Winners: Those who lost the channel when the Baylor/TCU game came on, Kansas’ backup QB, Charlie Moore, Gundy’s hat (it’s 1-0), Robert Allen TV time (he’s never more than five feet from Gundy), Sharp’s Groza resume, two straight home games.
Losers: Those who continued to get the channel when the Baylor/TCU game came on, seamstresses in Lawrence (how many days to thread Weis’ clothes?), Justin Gilbert in coverage, Justin Gilbert’s tackling, passes to Blake Jackson, Kansas’ kicking game1.
Best play: The last one.
Worst play: All the ones before the last one.
Best player: Quinn Sharp, as I covered here: 4/5 touchbacks, 2/3 field goals, 5 punts with an average of 54 yards, a potential-TD-saving tackle on a kick return, and exacerbating the last roughing the kicker penalty which sealed the game.
Worst player: Joe Randle was terrible. Partly because he ran poorly and partly because Monken never really got him in space. That kickout semi-screen by Walsh to him is getting tired.
“God, why?!” moment: When we were kicking to Kansas up only six with 2:20 left. I was prostrate under my couch with my iPhone duct taped to my head just listening to the TV…
Uniform Heisman: Great call by @justinsouthwell on Twitter — Sharp wins this too for going gray sleeves under the white top to complement the gray helmet/pants. Great look.
Quote: Gundy – “Wes Lunt could have played if we needed him.” Well crap, good thing we took care of business early on…
Other quote: Monken – “We decided early in the week to go with Walsh and we weren’t going to switch QBs or gameplans during the game.”
Best name: Kansas has a guy named Pick and he’s a wide receiver. Get this though, he’s number 7. As someone on Twitter pointed out2 he should just change his number to 6 and ask Weis if he can play defense…
GIF of the game: Oh DEFINITELY this one…
Tweeter of the game: @scooterandjack were ON FIRE all day for the OU-Texas game. You should definitely follow them.
Joe Randle was the worst player?
Need to add that as your “stupidest analysis of the game”.
Ah I forgot that category this time. I’ll add it next time.
Randle has played 31 games in his career. He’s been over 3 yards per carry for 28 of them. Ran for 2.8 yards per carry yesterday.
While Joe didn’t play great JW played horrible in the 1st half and worse in the 2nd. I would have voted Walsh or just the entire team for lack of ability to make a play (except maybe Charlie Moore).
Just count the defenders in the box.
Joe did it alone. Made most of his yards with no help.
If every team keyed on Randle like KU did, and we continued to run him like we did, his average would be even lower than 2.8 ypc.
Winners…all the Kansas fans who, for a few moments in the 4th qtr, were allowed to forget that they can’t wait for hoops to start.
Losers…all the OSU fans who don’t care when hoops season begins, who can now name the starting 5 for Ottawa University.
In Randle’s defense, that was like watching Pat Jones offensive football. Off tackle, rinse, repeat. Walsh couldn’t keep the defense honest.
With ya Carson. Monken’s on my %&#*$ list for that.
The comment about Pick and his number was also made by Southwell.
* First, clever with the “Pick Six” – thanks for that.
* Agreed that Sharp was MVP of the game.
* I thought Nigel Nicholas played his best game of the year (7 solo tackles – good enough to lead the team). And he’s a defensive end.
* The play calling/ execution was terrible. As Carson pointed out above, it reminded me of Thurman to the left, Thurman to the right, Thurman up the middle. Punt.
* Regarding the criticism of Randle, on a second analysis, I noticed Jonathan Rush and Evan Epstein getting beat on several occasions resulting in Randle being tacked for no gain. On several other plays, Randle had to avoid linebackers in his own backfield and still managed to eke out a 2-yard gain.
Randle is Worst Player? How can you say that when he was DRAGGING players for those 2.8 yards. G-Block said it well on his last line. I think he did a great job with what he had to work with. Worst player(s) should have gone to the O-Line.
I am saying many things about the season so far… But I never thought “the o-line didn’t play very well” would be one of them.
I knew they would have a slow start to the eight game stretch; and the weather compounded this – just happy they got out with a win and Lunt will be back next next week.
We really miss Jeremy Smith. It isn’t good when you only have two healthy RBs and one of those is Caleb Muncreif.
I sat on the 1st row right behind the team and had a few observations:
*Justin Gilbert will go to almost any lengths to avoid sitting on a wet bench.
*Very somber sideline throughout the game. Very little excitement. Just flat. This increased as the lead grew to 20-0.
*Cooper Bassett was the only vocal leader I saw. Before the final defensive possession he was very vocal on the sideline encouraging and imploring his teammates to keep playing hard. Unfortunately this was the only time I saw this behavior from anyone, offense or defense.
*Really liked Nico Ornealas apologizing to almost every teammate after each of his penalties.
Overall we won a conference game on the road with our backup QB and multiple other injuries at key spots on offense and defense while dealing with poor weather and a 1 hour 20 minute delay. We have to get better pressure on passing downs. I would really like for Calvin Barnett to stay in at DT in our speed package on passing downs. In my opinion he has the ability to affect the pocket more than any other lineman we have. Why not use him when we need that the most?