The Daily Mauling 9.9.26
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Kansas Jayhawk Links!
There’s not much out there that I can find relating to the Jayhawks today. SI has a story on a couple players from Missouri that are questionable for this weekend’s BORDER WAR:
The Tigers were without their two most important offensive weapons in their season-opening win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff. While left tackle phenom Cayden Green practiced yesterday and is expected to make his return against KU, running back Ahmad Hardy remains less of a sure thing. There is still no timetable for the superstar tailback to fully recover from a gunshot wound he sustained this offseason.
Kansas led throughout the entirety of the first set, grabbing 13 kills to Wichita State’s six. The first-set bounce-back was much needed after a five-set loss to Florida State on Friday. The road trip also resulted in losses to Pittsburgh and Stanford. The Jayhawks played with much more ease and confidence against Wichita State on Tuesday, though.
The Daily Kansan also has a story on Andy Kotelnecki’s return to the Jayhawks:
Leipold said that even though Kotelnicki’s return was like starting over, he quickly established a relationship and offensive philosophy with this year’s players, especially in the team’s early meetings.
“The meetings we have, he always has the offense engaged,” redshirt sophomore quarterback Isaiah Marshall said in a postgame interview on Friday. “I feel like he’s [taken] time to have a talk with everybody on the offense.”
Other Links!
What a perfect week of stupidity for college football!
Quality over quantity for this section today. First up, an old school blog at Bring Your Champions, They’re Our Meat on the modern era of college football:
If you are a fan of college football in 2026, then you have to hold two thoughts in your head at the same time: the sport has resolved its original sin by allowing players to get paid and ending the fiction of amateurism and the ridiculous facade of rules and investigations that went into maintaining it and the sport feels like it is transforming into something grim and unrecognizable. In the muck and confusion, among the smoking ruins of conferences and the creation of a new class of grizzled 25-year-old ronin who have played for six different teams, and the curtain being pulled back on the NCAA revealing that the hulking dealer of tattoo and hamburger-based retribution is in fact a timid mall cop who is not allowed to pursue anyone into the parking lot, no one at any level of this mess can resolve basic questions such as who is allowed to play college football. As a result, a sport funded and propped up almost entirely by local car magnates and scions of third-generation hot tub fortunes has reached its apotheosis: everyone is just suing everyone else’s ass all of the time.
That link deserves more thoughts than I can give it today. Hopefully I can find some time to get back to it.
Speaking of getting sued, the SEC was/is threatening to kick LSU out of the SEC:
“The SEC and its member universities have the right to establish, through agreed-upon governance procedures, the rules under which they voluntarily compete and to expect those rules to be followed,” the SEC said in a statement. “A commitment to those rules, and to the core principles of the Southeastern Conference, is an essential element of SEC membership.
It appears as though Kiffen and LSU backed down as they did not add any former NFL guys to their roster.
The game was initially delayed after a power surge in the stadium caused a transformer to burst and a power outage. The game was delayed by 90 minutes and started without access to helmet communications, sideline tablets or scoreboards.
That’s not even the best of the college football weekend as that honor has to go the Michigan vs Western Michigan game. In case anyone has been living under a rock the last few days, Michigan succeeded on a second hail mary attempt to beat Western Michigan at home on Saturday.
In a letter sent Tuesday, MAC commissioner Jon A. Steinbrecher said “replay protocol was not properly followed” at the conclusion of the game.
Michigan won 13-12 on Bryce Underwood‘s Hail Mary touchdown pass after the replay official put one second back on the clock. The stadium clock and the one shown on television showed zeros after Underwood’s first Hail Mary was thrown out the back of the end zone.
Dollar signs?
And the last link is The Action Cookbook’s 10 Things I Hate About College Football:
I have long been a proponent of changes that would shift power and money toward the student-athlete. It was ludicrous that, for decades, a player would need to sit out a year for transferring schools when their coaches could change jobs with no such impediment. It was also ludicrous that coaches, schools and TV executives could rake in billions of dollars in revenue while keeping the people risking their bodies to generate that value from even getting a free cheeseburger or tattoo for their efforts. The fact that these things have changed is an absolute good, a correction of a historical injustice baked into the system.
They’ve also created a system of mercenary players in near-perpetual free agency, and it absolutely sucks as a fan trying to figure out who their quarterback is this year or where all the players they liked last year transferred to.
I hate that I hate it, but I do!
QOTD: What’s your favorite college football moment of stupidity?
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