Pray em up is back at it

[Jackstraw]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/28/2114679/gill-hopes-to-build-a-successful.html

“We’re gonna go on to some different things, ask them to get deeper,” Gill says, sounding more like a youth minister than a football coach. “Men gotta talk. I want them to talk about deeper issues more than just ‘I like football, I’m this fall, I’m that fast.’ If we don’t communicate, we’re not gonna be successful on the football field.”

With Gill at the podium, KU’s media day session didn’t approach football details. It was about getting to know the new man in charge, and Gill relayed a story from his time at Buffalo that gets to the heart of why he’s here. He was recruiting a player from a broken home, and Gill could sense tension between the boy’s mother and his father and stepmother.

“Long story short,” Gill says, “we all prayed together. In less than 48 hours, they were talking with each other. They felt good about each other. They thanked me, thanked us, for helping them mend that together. That to me, that’s what college football is all about.”

[DQ12]

“We’re gonna go on to some different things, ask them to get deeper,” Gill says, sounding more like a youth minister than a football coach. “Men gotta talk. I want them to talk about deeper issues more than just ‘I like football, I’m this fall, I’m that fast.’ If we don’t communicate, we’re not gonna be successful on the football field.”

With Gill at the podium, KU’s media day session didn’t approach football details. It was about getting to know the new man in charge, and Gill relayed a story from his time at Buffalo that gets to the heart of why he’s here. He was recruiting a player from a broken home, and Gill could sense tension between the boy’s mother and his father and stepmother.

“Long story short,” Gill says, “we all prayed together. In less than 48 hours, they were talking with each other. They felt good about each other. They thanked me, thanked us, for helping them mend that together. That to me, that’s what college football is all about.”

No, that's what that guy with long hair, Birkenstocks, and an acoustic guitar is all about.

[dmartin]

can anyone else picture the backup players making a tunnel with their arms for the starters to run through when they come off the field.  you know, like the parents did in kindergarten soccer?

[steve dave]

Turner Gill is going to make this football season less sucky (still sucky)

[bubbles4ksu]

It's going to be really difficult for my dad to not pull for Gill.

[bakerman]

We're owned in the recruiting now that KU can use the, "Sign with us(touch the screen) and you will be healed!" evangelist recruiting promise....

[The42Yardstick]

I watched his press conference yesterday, and I think he said "developing young men" about 34 times

[bradleigh]

We're owned in the recruiting now that KU can use the, "Sign with us(touch the screen) and you will be healed!" evangelist recruiting promise....

Cripples with Upside!   

[deputy dawg]

“Long story short,” Gill says, “we all prayed together. In less than 48 hours, they were talking with each other. They felt good about each other. They thanked me, thanked us, for helping them mend that together. That to me, that’s what college football is all about.”


Holy crap, have I been all wrong about "what college football is all about".   Bill, make note, you need to be able to "mend that together" when you recruit from a "broken" family.

[OregonSmock]

  

[bakerman]

 

[doom]

 

[Stevesie60]

It's going to be really difficult for my dad to not pull for Gill.

Our Father?

[bubbles4ksu]

^^lol

[kitten_mittons]

  

Does it kill you inside to have to pretend to like that guy as KU's head coach?

[felix rex]

Turner Gill is going to make this football season less sucky (still sucky)

Srsly. I'm so happy that he's KU's coach. It's like taking shots during your own intervention.

[Dugout DickStone]

They dodge OU and UT.  He should win 4 conf games at a minimum or it is a huge failure.

[DQ12]

Still trying to figure out what Stereotypical Football Guy (according to the Rev) means by "I'm this fall."

 

[TBL]

Coach Gill preaches to the troops.

[BigCat]

[steve dave]

Great point by goEMAW legend Levi Wolters:

By all accounts, Gill is a good person. No one ever came close to saying RP is/was. They did say Ron was well-spoken, though

[DOD Take 2]

  

MAC Championship? Isn't that a Division 1-AA conference or something? 

[HugeUpside]

Still trying to figure out what Stereotypical Football Guy (according to the Rev) means by "I'm this fall."

 

From a journalist's perspective sometimes the "f" key can look a lot like the "t" key. It's one of the rigors of the profession. I'd love to explain it sometime if you want to talk about it.

[LickNeckey]

Sounds like Gill has serious mentor potential i hope this doesn't lessen OB's burning hate of all things KU

[Dugout DickStone]

Sounds like Gill has serious mentor potential i hope this doesn't lessen OB's burning hate of all things KU

OB has closed the Kansas mentoring borders against greater threats.  Relax.  He will mentor them from Goodland to Chanute.