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Title: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: BMWJhawk on September 25, 2007, 06:03:21 PM: http://www2.kusports.com/news/2007/sep/25/bye_showdown_could_favor_ku/?football (http://www2.kusports.com/news/2007/sep/25/bye_showdown_could_favor_ku/?football)

Kansas University’s football team is trying to downplay the whole scenario. But history presents repeated evidence that the Jayhawks are benefiting from a fortunate scheduling quirk yet again.

Kansas has this week off before playing rival Kansas State on Oct. 6 in Manhattan. K-State, meanwhile, has a little distraction this Saturday called the Texas Longhorns.

The Oct. 6 Sunflower Showdown will kick off at 11 a.m. from Bill Snyder Family Stadium, it was announced Monday. It will be televised by Fox Sports Net (Sunflower Broadband channel 36).

But here’s an interesting stat that plays into this year’s game: In the last 20 years, there have been five instances where the Kansas State-Kansas game was played with one of the teams coming off a bye week. The team with an extra week to prepare won all five times.

Kansas State prevailed in 1991, ’93 and ’96 with an extra week. ku was victorious in 1992 and 2006 under the same circumstances.

ku coach Mark Mangino said the timing of the bye week was irrelevant to him, though he did concede Monday that it could be a productive week of work with no game to worry about.

“Fundamentally, it’s a good time for us to work on the little nuances,” Mangino said. “The techniques and fundamentals sometimes get lost in the game-planning.”

Still, the Jayhawks didn’t lobby for a week off before the start of the Big 12 Conference schedule. The bye week actually was the result of Kansas and Missouri agreeing to move their annual game to Thanksgiving weekend. The 2006 and ’07 Border War games happened to be scheduled a week before the Kansas-Kansas State game before they were moved.

Mangino said his staff would start breaking down Kansas State film Monday. ku players had Monday off like they normally do, but will return to the practice field today to start the grind again.

“A bye week’s a bye week,” tight end Derek Fine said. “Regardless of when it is, we’re still going to go out and work and do the things we need to do. That’s really it.

“The bye week is not an off week or a relax week. We’re still out there working, getting ready for the next game.”

The Jayhawks will practice today through Friday before taking Saturday off. Many of the ku players probably will watch the Kansas State-Texas game Saturday, which kicks off at 2:30 p.m. and will be televised by ABC.

After this weekend’s action, Kansas and Missouri will be the only two Big 12 teams yet to play a conference game. And if the players are any indication, it will be an impatient wait to get to the meat of the schedule.

“I think we’re ready to go,” cornerback Aqib Talib said. “We had a real good nonconference as far as defense and offense. We’re ready. We’re ready to go on the road and get a good test in a couple of weeks.”
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: 1992 on September 25, 2007, 06:09:36 PM: WHERE were each of those games ("Kansas State prevailed in 1991, ’93 and ’96 with an extra week. ku was victorious in 1992 and 2006 under the same circumstances") played???
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: phicat1448 on September 25, 2007, 06:11:39 PM: :sleep:
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: kcpowercat on September 25, 2007, 06:12:05 PM: rival?
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: steve dave on September 25, 2007, 07:48:23 PM: BMW, we don't have time for you or ku right now. It is rivalry week and you are going to need to go sit in your corner for a while. Thanks.
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: ECN on September 25, 2007, 07:52:30 PM: (he's cute when he craves attention)
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: Bookcat on September 25, 2007, 07:59:48 PM: So if ku pulls the upset....it will be the first time that the opponent with the BYE weeks wins on the road?

Hence, past history is irrelvant because there isn't a reference to draw from?

Damn you're dumb.
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: BostonPancake on September 25, 2007, 08:16:57 PM: worthless article. i am now dumber for having skimmed over it.
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: KSUTOMMY on September 25, 2007, 08:29:21 PM: Quote from: BMWJhawk on September 25, 2007, 06:03:21 PM
“I think we’re ready to go,” cornerback Aqib Talib said. “We had a real good nonconference as far as defense and offense. We’re ready. We’re ready to go on the road and get a good test in a couple of weeks.”

Let me paraphrase this as I minored in Jive at KSU:

“Do I think we’re ready to go?,” cornerback Aqib Talib asked. “We had a real PUSSY nonconference as far as defense and offense. We’re ready?. We’re ready to go on the road and get OUR FU*KING TEETH KICKED IN in a couple of weeks.”

:twobirds:
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: cyclist on September 25, 2007, 08:39:35 PM: Quote from: KSUTOMMY on September 25, 2007, 08:29:21 PM
Quote from: BMWJhawk on September 25, 2007, 06:03:21 PM
“I think we’re ready to go,” cornerback Aqib Talib said. “We had a real good nonconference as far as defense and offense. We’re ready. We’re ready to go on the road and get a good test in a couple of weeks.”

Let me paraphrase this as I minored in Jive at KSU:

“Do I think we’re ready to go?,” cornerback Aqib Talib asked. “We had a real PUSSY nonconference as far as defense and offense. We’re ready?. We’re ready to go on the road and get OUR FU*KING TEETH KICKED IN in a couple of weeks.”

:twobirds:

Did you have any classes with Barbara Billingsly ?

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: JohnBrown on September 25, 2007, 08:44:19 PM: Quote from: steve dave on September 25, 2007, 07:48:23 PM
BMW, we don't have time for you or ku right now. It is rivalry week and you are going to need to go sit in your corner for a while. Thanks.

Just because UT fans hate KSU fans does not mean UT considers KSU a rival. They just find KSU fans as annoying.
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: 1992 on September 25, 2007, 08:52:45 PM: Quote from: JohnBrown on September 25, 2007, 08:44:19 PM
Quote from: steve dave on September 25, 2007, 07:48:23 PM
BMW, we don't have time for you or ku right now. It is rivalry week and you are going to need to go sit in your corner for a while. Thanks.

Just because UT fans hate KSU fans does not mean UT considers KSU a rival. They just find KSU fans as annoying.

Don't you have a "bi-week" parade to go to? :kugayfight:
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: steve dave on September 26, 2007, 08:42:57 AM: Quote from: JohnBrown on September 25, 2007, 08:44:19 PM
Quote from: steve dave on September 25, 2007, 07:48:23 PM
BMW, we don't have time for you or ku right now. It is rivalry week and you are going to need to go sit in your corner for a while. Thanks.

Just because UT fans hate KSU fans does not mean UT considers KSU a rival. They just find KSU fans as annoying.

LOL, they have proclaimed this the biggest game in their teams history. We didn't decide to black out their stadium. This is one of, if not the, biggest rivalries in college football, HELL, in all of sports! We don't have time for your whinny little team right now.
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: LimestoneOutcropping on September 26, 2007, 10:37:03 AM: Quote from: JohnBrown on September 25, 2007, 08:44:19 PM
Quote from: steve dave on September 25, 2007, 07:48:23 PM
BMW, we don't have time for you or ku right now. It is rivalry week and you are going to need to go sit in your corner for a while. Thanks.

Just because UT fans hate KSU fans does not mean UT considers KSU a rival. They just find KSU fans as annoying.

LOL. You sound like a Baltimore Oriole fan the weekend before the Yankees and Red Sox play for the pennant.

The eyes of the Big XII are on the 2:30 game in Austin. You will get some attention when ku plays in Manhattan. Until then, just be quiet and enjoy a historic rivalry.
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: steve dave on September 26, 2007, 11:19:19 AM: Quote from: LimestoneOutcropping on September 26, 2007, 10:37:03 AM
historic rivalry.

QFT Limestone QFFT
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: ArchE_Cat on September 26, 2007, 12:14:42 PM: Can I get this story from kusports.com in a print version? Preferably on a two-ply, double roll? :flush:
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: BMWJhawk on September 26, 2007, 01:36:04 PM: Quote from: Bookcat on September 25, 2007, 07:59:48 PM
So if ku pulls the upset....it will be the first time that the opponent with the BYE weeks wins on the road?

Hence, past history is irrelvant because there isn't a reference to draw from?

Damn you're dumb.

I've just got to LOL @ the irony of calling someone else dumb, when you're not even capable of spelling "irrelevant."

Also, when did you morph into the bitter, angry K-State fan that can't handle the fact that ku is better than your school in every aspect of life? I thought most K-State fans got the memo after last year's Blackout.
Title: Re: Nice article from kuSports.com
Post by: sonofdaxjones on September 26, 2007, 02:26:00 PM: BMW . . . if ku really is that much better than KSU (LOL!! :lol:), than why do you have to run around our board, and phognet telling it to everyone who will read your posts??