Doerr did an excellent job vs. the Hawks.

[Pett]

Kept putting ku inside their own 15 yard line. Made them go on some long drives where they melted a lot of the clock and most of the time came out of it with zero points.

P.S. - This was just an observation of mine but as ku went on those long offensive drives with the no-huddle did it kind of hurt the? When they got into our territory they seemed very tired since they had to convert on many third downs, etc. It seemed like it tended to hurt them because they were just dead tired when it mattered the most inside the red-zone. All pats on the back for our defense though putting them in that situation and not being tired. We looked really condition yesterday which is great to know as the season winds down. Especially with MU and their fast paced offense coming up...

[Dirty Sanchez]

They were tired.  Lack of conditioning.  Their coach inspired them.

[MOKSUAZ]

the special teams were great outside of Cherry's kickoff after his FG and Pomele's semi-signaling for a fair catch on ku's kickoff after their td.

their drive that lead to the FG in the 4th quarter was amazingly long for a team running the no huddle.  it took almost 8 minutes off the clock and amounted to little.  

the thing that surprised me the most was our offensive gameplan in the first half.  we came out looking like a RP coached team passing the ball on every first down.  i was all   because everyone in that stadium knew we could run all over them and yet we proceeded to pass the ball like it's our bread and butter.  wasn't hard to notice the last two drives of the first half and all of the second half that that was the offense that has gotten us to where we are this season.

[Big Sam]

the special teams were great outside of Cherry's kickoff after his FG and Pomele's semi-signaling for a fair catch on ku's kickoff after their td.

their drive that lead to the FG in the 4th quarter was amazingly long for a team running the no huddle.  it took almost 8 minutes off the clock and amounted to little.  

the thing that surprised me the most was our offensive gameplan in the first half.  we came out looking like a RP coached team passing the ball on every first down.  i was all   because everyone in that stadium knew we could run all over them and yet we proceeded to pass the ball like it's our bread and butter.  wasn't hard to notice the last two drives of the first half and all of the second half that that was the offense that has gotten us to where we are this season.

Not to disagree with you that the team didn't play to its offensive strengths in the first half on Saturday (I was p.o.ed that they didn't cram it down ku's throats and instead got cute and screwed up).  However, the last drive of the first half was all passing to Lamark Brown.

Just a note.

Sam S.

[GoodForAnother]

I liked the idea of coming out throwing.  ku's secondary is atrocious and I think Snyder wanted to catch them off guard with a lot of passing.  It would have worked but Gregory was a little too jacked up and made some poor throws to open receivers and of course Banks dropped a sure TD.  I remember thinking at halftime that we should have been up by 20+.  Good gameplan, just poor execution by the players.

[kcchiefdav]

I liked the idea of coming out throwing.  ku's secondary is atrocious and I think Snyder wanted to catch them off guard with a lot of passing.  It would have worked but Gregory was a little too jacked up and made some poor throws to open receivers and of course Banks dropped a sure TD.  I remember thinking at halftime that we should have been up by 20+.  Good gameplan, just poor execution by the players.

I kind of agree with you. I think we stuck with the pass a bit too long after it was obvious that GG wasn't having a good throwing day. However, he finally got it right on that last drive of the first half. Running the ball all over the place when it was obvious their D was tired was a great move though. kudos to DT on his conditioning. He runs the entire f'n game, takes big hit after big hit and still has the strength to overpower people at the end of games.