hey 'grades, think about it this way...
you're being pulled towards a black hole and you've hit the event horizon. nothing that you or anyone else does can rescue you at this point. the boundary in spacetime has been crossed and your fate is sealed, singularity awaits you.
this is ku football. there are so many forces (gravity) working against them that they've hit the event horizon. they are so far behind the schools which they're trying to compete against that they cannot ever catch up, it's actually impossible.
if physics isn't your thing, there are a lot of business analogies that work as well and the harvard business school would be well served to do a case study on ku's football program.