Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - KU Football Big Picture Thoughts + What Concerns Are There Headed Into the Kansas Basketball Season

Episode Date: October 20, 2022

How would we view a 5-7 Kansas Football season at this point? Would it be disapointment for Lance Leipold in year two, or just a big bummer for the Jayhawks? Three biggest KU Basketball concerns headed into the season with Scott Chasen. Plus, Scott's Worst Coaching Decisions of the Week across College Football and the NFL.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!SweatBlockIf you or someone you love is experiencing embarrassing sweat or odor try Sweatblock. Save 20% with promo codeLocked On at sweatblock.com. Also available on Amazon.LinkedInLinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!UpsideDownload the FREE Upside App at https://upside.app.link/locked to get $5 or more cash back on your first purchase of $10 or more.Underdog FantasySign up on underdogfantasy.com with the promo code LOCKED ON and get your first deposit doubled up to $100!SimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnCollege to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's Locked on Jayhawks, joined by Scott Chasen as we go over some KU football stuff, but also look ahead to the KU basketball season. You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. We'll be right back. of Locked on Jayhawks. We're joined by Scott Chasen. You can catch him as well on Booth Review with Kansas City Sports Network. Scott, how's everything going today? I see you got the Phoenix Suns gear on. You ready for the NBA season? A little classic stuff, and it's a little chilly,

so I can break out a hoodie. Derek, I got a bone to pick with you, which, first of all, how about the production value of Locked on Jayhawks moving up in the world? Every week, I have been like, Derek, are we going on YouTube? When do we get to do video? When do we get to do video?

I'm moved, okay? I don't have my decorations, my wall, my new studio set up. I'm also sick. And this is the week that Derek said, let's get you on video. Let's make sure everyone can see what Scott Jason looks like. This man hates me, and I want all of you to hate him too. So great show. Love the content. You know how people say like good writer, better person, great host, worst person. I'm not a Derek Johnson fan. Well, uh, we'll try to get you through the

episode anyway, despite the negative comments to me, by the way, today's episode is brought to you by bet online, bet online has you covered this season with more props odds and lines than ever before bet online where the game starts so on today like i said we're going to talk a little ku basketball i do want to open up with a little ku football here though right now kansas sitting at five and two jason being taken over a quarterback and i think all things considered if you view from a lens of he is your backup quarterback, you're impressed with what he's done so far. But also, if you view it from the standpoint of, well, we were told there wasn't that big of a drop off from Jalen Daniels to Jason Bean, then you would just be wrong because there is a sizable drop off there between the two. Let's just play this out. And I don't mean to be negative, like right off the bat here, because to be clear, I know both of us still think Kansas,

there is another win, maybe two in there for them to reach bowl eligibility. But just hypothetically, if Kansas did finish five and seven this season, would you view it as a successful season? I'd view it as a bummer because that's what it would be. Now, look, I think when you look back on the season,

you would say, yes, it was successful. It was growth, especially if Jalen Daniels does not return. If he does return and you lose more games, I think that would be more of a bummer. But again, you would see the progress the team is making, the better talent, the depth, and say, okay, now how do they get that to bowl eligibility? Because a lot of these guys are going to be back next year too.

So this is really a two-year window for this staff to capitalize on that talent. So, you know, I would say no, I actually will say this would still be successful or no to it being not a success, however you want to phrase that. But it would be a bummer. I think fans would be disappointed, especially with that last game coming against K-State. I think I agree with you though. I've seen enough to think this team is going to get another win. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they wouldn't. But at this point, if you ask me what's more likely, 7-5 or 5-7, I'd probably say 7-5. So I still feel good about the talent on this team.

They just got to clean a few things up, be more consistent offensively, have more success defensively like they had the last two weeks leading up to the Oklahoma game, and I think they'll be okay. Yeah, and I do agree with you. I think you're going to be in enough 50-50 games that a couple should go your way some way or another. They're competitive enough in so many ways. I do think, though, if they did finish five and seven, it would be really weird to figure out if we would have, you know, before the season started, said, hey, Kansas is going to win five games. Would you take it? I think you probably would have said yes. Now, I know, before the season started said, Hey, Kansas is going to win five games. Would you take it? I think you probably would have said yes.

Now I know my host on my cohost on Rock Chalk Sports Talk, Nick Springer brought up a good point before the season. He said, I would, I would, was it a good point, Derek? Well, I mean the idea, he said, I would almost rather than win four games than five, because if you win five, you're going to be the entire time wondering oh but if they would have just this happened in that game or they were so close they could have made a bowl they were one win away and it's going to be the what ifs whereas with the four it's still an improvement and everything the most wins that you've had and you know over a decade

all that stuff the five wins would be a success but you're right based on the fact that you would be one away from a bowl and because it would be such as you're right. Based on the fact that you would be one away from a bowl. And because it would be such, as you said, a bummer with the way that you finished the season here by losing the last seven, I think I would have enough in me to be able to step back and say, yes, overall, it was a success. It's just hard to kind of separate those two things. Um, and, and I think that, I guess there still is a situation out there where, hey, five and seven Kansas makes it to a bowl game because there's not enough bowl-eligible teams. I don't know what their APR score is.

I did some research on this trying to find it. The last one that I found up there was from the, I think, 2020 to 21 season, so that wouldn't even apply for this year. That year, Kansas ranked in the eighties in the country. I don't know how much of that carries over from one year to the next, or if it's just completely based on the graduating class and they can completely flip one year to another. My point is there.

Don't just figure that Kansas can make a bowl game at five and seven. You need to get to six and six. So I think more than anything, if you don't get to bowl eligibility at this point, it's more of a, and I feel like sometimes I say this too much when they lose a close game, but it's a missed opportunity because of the momentum you could have had as a program. Making a bowl game in the extra month of practices you could have had for making a bowl game would be huge for this team. That's exactly where I was going to go. And I would just clarify and

say, the reason I say bummer is because you started five and oh, right? Like, I mean, first of all, the fifth win could be that Kansas state game in some fantasy season where you played out. And then you'd say, well, yeah, much rather than five than four. I'd rather, you know, be four and seven going into that last game and win. But even if they got that fifth win against Texas tech, hypothetically with two games to go, you, you still wouldn't necessarily feel like a bummer, right? It would feel that way because they started 5-0. And then to have that lasting image be loss after loss after loss after loss. Now, I will say this is different than the Mangino 5-7 for one obvious reason.

Well, several. But that was the end of an era and of a great team and of great pieces. This is maybe not the start. Maybe it's in the middle, but it's at least early in Lance Leipold's time. It's early in Jalen Daniels' time. And, you know, it's kind of funny. I was kind of the guy before the season saying, hey, you don't get to say that the talent on the roster has improved and it's Big 12 caliber and that Jalen's a top Big 12 quarterback and then pick him to win two, three games. I said that a number of times, a number of places. Those two thoughts don't align.

If you think Jalen Daniels is good, you think the coaching staff is good, and you think the talent is improved, you're kind of a coward if you're picking this team to win two to three games, or you're just lying and telling people what they want to hear. I think what you've seen is a team that's legitimately good, that can win games and has won games can win, can be in 50, 50 games, and then add another year of growth on top of that.

I think there's a lot of optimism still out there for what they could be next year. So, um, that's why I think you have to look at this as the two year window. And that's why I say bummer, not disappointment. Um, just because it wouldn't be disappointing. You would look back on it a month after the season and maybe oh um you know I wish they made a bowl game but you would still be like wow they showed a lot of growth in a short amount of time all right in just a moment we're gonna get on to some KU basketball talk but first if you get sweaty or have body odor or maybe you just accidentally didn't realize that it was going to go from like, you know, 40 to 50 degrees over these last few days and you walked into work all bundled up and then it's 80 degrees like it's going to be every day over the course of this weekend because Kansas weather is weird and you're overdressed and you're sweating and you're worried about how you smell at work. I mean, that's that's happened to a lot of people, and I'm sure it certainly does around here in Kansas.

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So we have some KU basketball football crossover questions that I want to get to here in a little bit. But the first things first, the three biggest concerns for KU basketball in 2022 to 2023. I'll let you go first. What's your biggest concern for this team? Yeah, if anyone's wondering why I'm laughing, by the way, it's because I'm a psychopath and came up with a joke in my own head and I thought it was so funny. But when you called it a KU football basketball crossover, I was like, yeah, that's how Dylan Gabriel fumbled the ball

literally in the last game. So I thought that was kind of funny. Okay. Three biggest concerns. Number one to me is the five spot. And it's the five spot a number of different ways. I think KU has good players who can play the fives. Zach Clements returning a couple of freshmen, but they're so drastically different stylistically. And think about Bill Self. I heard Nick Schwert talking about the most important positions for Bill Self, point guard Bill Self. I heard Nick Schwert talking about the most important positions for Bill Self, point guard and center. I'll take it a step further. Bill Self sets his identity based around his five spot. And you only have to look into the history of KU teams to figure that out. Whenever KU has had a dominant team that has a good big man,

they go through that big man, no matter what you could point to last year's team. Everything started with Doak went outside from there. You could go to that team that had Doak and Dietrich together. When Doak got injured, they were number one in the country. Then after that had kind of a mediocre year, they had Quentin Grimes, they had Devon Dotson, a lot of hype coming into the season. Bill Self said after the first game, Doak is the first option of the K offense. Or he said that after the champion classic. So the big man sets the tone for how Bill Self's offense is going to work, whether it's someone more in the Landon Lucas mold or a different one. Okay, that guy

doesn't score, then it's going to be more guard-oriented, whatever. I don't think he knows what it has right now with those big men, and they're so different stylistically. Zach Clements, are you going to design an offense to get him the ball out on the perimeter? Are you going to have rim runners like Zuby and Ernest that can get to the basket? Where does Cam Burton fit into this? And then defensively, who can emerge as that rebounder, rim protector, paint presence, maybe even lane protector if you can't get a rim protector. I just think there are so many questions and it's not like you can come up with one answer or if for any answer you choose, it drastically changes the style of which KU plays. And I think that's a big deal. And that's why you heard that Bill self-quote the

other day where he said, it's great to have a bunch of guys who could play. I'd rather have one who I can count on for 30 minutes and then know who that guy's backup is, because then you can decide on a style. So I would say it's not necessarily the five spot, but it's letting the five spot dictate the style that the team wants to play on both ends. I think that's a huge concern for KU right now. Yeah, I actually asked Bill about how he envisions the five spot going this year. And one thing he brought up he

said uh at big 12 media days he said you know we could have four guys play 10 minutes each and then get them all on the floor and we could figure stuff out but then you probably have four unhappy guys or you could have one guy play 25 and one guy play 15 and you'd have two unhappy guys but you'd have two happy guys you know so um i thought it was kind of interesting how he uh coined that i had that originally in one of my three so i'll just create a new one uh but the number one question i have is honestly shooting i i think that grady dick could be really good as a shooter but it is it going to be just as good as ochi was right are you really going to count on a freshman to come in and shoot 40 from three on six six, seven, eight attempts per game? What if it's only 35% and he's your go-to three-point shooter?

And what if the shooting for Kevin McCuller and Jalen Wilson, which should be improved, it should be better, but what if it's not? What if it's just the same as the last couple of years, inconsistent and hovering around the 30% mark? What if DeJuan Harris doesn't really add to his three-point game? We know he's capable of hitting them, but can he, like, I don't think he's ever going to be a guy who's hitting them like off movement running around a screen catching and shooting but can he be like what frank mason was over his final two years or if a guy went under

a screen frank would pick up his dribble and he'd shoot in the three and he shot it at high percentage so maybe you don't have to shoot you know 45 or whatever frank did shoot as a senior but to that yeah can you at least like do similar stuff on maybe 35 percent right something like that um and then you look at the center position what we're talking about there with the interior presence if zach clements isn't the guy that takes off one three-point shooter that you were kind of counting on from the floor like earners do day and zuby edgifer aren't going to be three-point shooters for this team so three-point shooting to me is is kind of the biggest question that I have

for how efficient they can kind of be on the offensive end. And if you're not a team who can dump it down in the post, there's going to be more pressure on you hitting outside shots. Yeah, I'll add on to that and say shooting was going to be one of mine. I'll say dynamic scoring because you're right. Look, Grady Dick, first of all, this is going to be a KU team. They're going to win a lot of games, but we're talking about the margins, the things that take you over the top to have those really special seasons. And one thing you need is an advanced

shot maker. And freshmen don't always, you know, they often struggle with that, especially three point shooting. And usually they make that big jump their second year. And the reason why, I mean, it's pretty simple. The players are athletic, bigger, they close out a little bit faster. Your rhythm changes. You might be tweaking your shot a little bit or doing something different with your release point. You're, you're in a different weight program. You're, it's a different schedule. There's just a lot of stuff there, um, that sometimes makes it a little bit harder. Now, Jalen Wilson, Kevin McCullough haven't shot it well from three. Jalen Wilson spent more time under 30 than over 30. That's a problem.

Both of those guys need to be better. And if you listen to Bill Self on the late night broadcast, when Kevin McCuller took a two-point jumper, he was like, it's not a good shot. He can make those. We kind of need to get him making threes. That was kind of, again, I don't want to say alarm bells, because again, we're talking about concerns.

And again, it's the things on the margins, but it raised a little bit of concern i would say for me and then there's the one here so i think the one here is a very good player i think the one here is a very steady presence um but bill self is telling a story at media day where he dominated a practice and didn't score a single point um that again you you don't necessarily need one hair shooting 20 times a game but you need somebody to take on that dynamic scoring role um i don't necessarily need one hair shooting 20 times a game, but you need somebody to take on that dynamic scoring role. I don't know if MJ Rice could maybe be that. I don't know if there's another guy on the roster. Maybe Joe Yesufu can do a little bit more,

but they've got to find it. And, you know, it's not a problem until it burns you. And maybe this will just be an elite defensive team and they'll have to win games ugly. But the two or the core Bill's self principle, right? Get easy buckets and stop your opponent from scoring easy buckets. And then I think he's added to that in recent years where he said, who's that guy that can go get you a shot. Okay. I'm struggling to see this early in the season. How can you gets the easy buckets now other than Bill's scheming up great place. I do think we'll be able to the easy buckets. Now, other than Bill Scheming up great plays, I do think he'll be able to prevent easy buckets. I think this team will be great defensively by the

end of the year elite. And then who is that guy that can go and get you a shot? Is that Grady Dick? If it is absolutely fantastic, he's a great, you know, obviously a high school prospect, but if it's not, and if it's, you know, maybe Jalen Wilson has some of that, but can he do it consistently? Can he shoot the ball? Well, I think they need dynamic scoring and I don't totally know who that comes from. I think they're going to be really good in transition. And I think that I think Jalen is going to be that guy for them. So I'm not as worried on that, but I do see what you're saying. Like it's, it's a very short list of how you get to that point where you're questioning

that similar to what the KU team was, I think two years ago, right? That was kind of the question for that team. My next one I would go with, I would just say the youth in general. Bill Self's teams have tended to be better when they're older as are most college basketball coaches and college basketball teams. I kind of could see this being a team that has kind of a slow start to the season. They pick it up and then maybe it's, hey, you had kind of a down freshman season, but that means instead of you being a one-and-done, you're back for year two, and now you're going to be an All-American in year two, something like that. I can see that being the case for a couple of guys for KU.

It's just a question of the youth for me. Yeah, I was going to say reliance on freshmen, but I have kind of another backup one that's kind of in my mind. I don't know the real, the truthful answer is I genuinely do not know how big a concern this is right now. But I think it's keeping that backcourt rotation healthy, happy, active, and engaged. And I'm talking about DeJuan Harris, Bobby Petford, and Joe Yesifu. You know, maybe Kyle Cuff comes along and he's a little bit farther along than maybe I think he is, or maybe they think he is. I don't know, but they're obviously very high on Bobby Pettiford, right? How many times have we heard he's the next great Kansas guard? Okay.

But the health has been an issue and it sounds like it's kind of continued to be an issue. Okay. Then let's talk about Joe Yesifu. They went and got him because he was that shot creator dynamic score. And it kind of turned out he was focusing so much on defense. Bill Self had a quote, I've got him so worried about defense. You know, I've messed him up. He can't score anymore. I think that trio, one of the ways to get around some of those shortcomings I was talking about, where maybe you don't have a dynamic score, is to do something differently than your opponent.

One of the ways is get two point guards on the floor next to each other. And in fact, I talked about this a lot last year. You know, when people were criticizing DeJuan Harris and saying, why isn't Remy playing over him? I said, people are looking at this wrong because Remy Martin, if healthy, would have been playing next to DeJuan Harris. And then everyone would love DeJuan Harris because he'd be in that Russell Robinson role,

that complimentary guard next to the streaky shooting tactician or whatever. And you would notice all the little things he's doing. And I kind of think it's the same way. I think they can elevate DeJuan Harris' game by playing him next to another ball handling guard and then rotate three or three wings with Brady Dick, Jalen Wilson, Kevin McCuller, have two on the court at any given time. I think that ends up being pretty huge for this team. I would just say this kind of goes in line with my youth thing too, but in a little bit of like with Bobby Pettiford and Joe Yesifu, what are the year one to year two jumps going

to be for guys who were with the program last year for their first year? What are their jumps going to be in the year two? You're counting on at least one of Yesifu or Pettiford or even Kyle Cuff to step up and be kind of that second guard who can come on and play next to DeJuan or can be kind of his backup throughout the game. KJ Adams, Zach Clements, Cam Martin, what are any of those going to look like? Are they going to be much improved from last year? Can KJ start shooting threes? So I think that's the other question for me. Okay. I do have some either ors, some crossover questions between both football and basketball here. First one, more likely KU football wins seven games or KU basketball makes the elite eight. Oh, that's a good question. I think history would tell you that coming off of seasons where you win a national championship, it's really hard to advance far in the tournament. I know you have a great stat about that. I won't steal that from you. I would say probably with where I'm at with this KU team, I think the bar for them should be what the bar was for the 2008-2009 team,

which is, you know, play to your seed line, maybe get to a Sweet 16, and if you do more than that, great. Again, they won a national championship last year. So, you know, we can be reasonable with how much talent they have to replace. If you can do better than a Sweet 16, totally in the realm of possibility, by the way. They absolutely could. They're preseason top 10.

They're a little higher than I would have them. Totally in the realm of possibility, by the way. They absolutely could. They're preseason top 10. They're a little higher than I would have them. Totally in the realm of possibility. That's great. Man, I think that's really close. I actually think it's super even. I'd probably say, you know, I've talked myself into KU basketball. Maybe it's more likely Elite Eight because you didn't say Final Four. But I think both of those things are possible.

I think both could happen. It would not shock me if it ended KU at six wins in kansas in the sweet 16 just because it's it's really hard to rebuild and retool but if they keep a lot of these guys around then i think kansas basketball could again be incredibly dominant you know a year from now yeah i almost view this like rebuilding here isn't the right way they have to retool they'll still be really good they'll be a top 10 team probably get like a top three seed or whatever in the tournament it's just yeah that stat that you mentioned the reason i picked the lead eight the only team who's even made it to the elite eight or further in after coming back as a national champion over the last whatever amount of years was florida since i think like 2002 or something and that was because they returned everyone so

uh it's really hard to do it It is really, really hard to do. I'd probably go with the KU football winning seven games because of that. But Kansas still has a lot of talent. So if they buck that trend, it wouldn't be like overly shocking or anything. I mean, if Baylor has a couple other things go their way after that comeback against North Carolina, I don't know, they're probably in the Elite Eight. Maybe they're further as well last year. So the tournament's just so fickle,

which I think is a point for that and point kind of against that. Will KU basketball ever drop below what the high point was for KU football in the AP poll this year? So as of now it'd be 19th, unless you think they're going to work back above that in football. I don't think so. I think just how they schedule, how they play and their reputation, how good a coach Bill Self is.

Again, I would be surprised if this team ever fell out of the AP Top 25. To be clear, I'm not picking this. It wouldn't shock me if this team ended up as like a 4-5 seed if things didn't work out. Now, obviously, if they did work out, it wouldn't shock me if this team ended as a 2 seed, maybe even a one seed, just based off where they are preseason. And if everything hits the way, you know, Grady Dick is the best freshman in the nation. These are all outcomes that are possible to me. I don't expect Kansas to fall out of the rankings, though, ever.

And by that, I mean, am I expecting them to fall to 20 or below kind of splitting hairs there so i'll say no um i i don't think that's likely i think ku will probably wire to wire be in the 10 to 20 ish range and and kind of settle there which you know for the record is still very fine and gives you a chance to win in march if everything is hitting i think i would take basketball but it wouldn't be shocking if i think they had a week like what if they lose the duke and then they lose in the bahamas like a game or two there? Maybe they drop to 21 or so. I don't know. It's possible.

I don't think I don't think they would. I think if they lost too quickly, I think they'd still I think they'd have to lose another one. Yeah, you're probably right. OK, last one. You have to make a trade of one KU football starter for one KU basketball player to try to keep both teams as competitive as possible. What's the trade? What is, how about for anyone watching and we're listening to this, um, normally when a guest goes on a talk show, um, like maybe you watch late night with James Corden or Jimmy Fallon or, um, Jimmy Kimmel, I guess they're all named Jimmy. Um, they talk

about the anecdotes they're going to go over and the questions they're going to be asked ahead of time and then it's like wow those are great anecdotes they came i'll give you an answer i'm trading yeah i'm trading kj adams of the football team because they already have a lot of wings so you can survive being i do think kj adams is going to play a serious role on this team. So I don't think Adams might be kind of important this year, Derek. Yeah. I think he's gonna be very important.

And I love KJ Adams game. I love what he brings to the table. He does so many like off the ball things, but nonetheless, I think you would be amazing at football, like a defensive end or a linebacker or something. I also think that if you're bringing someone back the other way, they're not really helping basketball in any way.

So I don't think it really matters who you put on the basketball team. Wow. Okay. So that was a cop-out answer. Man, it's really tough. Cause I was like, Oh, Jalen Daniels was allegedly, cause it'll be like James Sistinski. I don't know. I I'll tell you this though. This is like the reverse answer to your question. I would not take KJ Adams off this K basketball team and I'll make, I'll trade you an answer to this question for a super bold prediction. You ready for this one? Yeah, let's do it. I think there's a legitimate chance that KJ Adams is the key to unlocking the very best of KU basketball this year. I see the potential for an elite, elite defensive lineup with KJ Adams, Kevin McCuller, DeJuan Harris, and then you plug in the other two. Maybe it's not Grady Dick. Maybe it's not

MJ Wrights. Maybe it's another guard. Maybe it's Padford. Maybe it's Yassafu. If Jalen Wilson can be, you know, at times last year he got picked on, at times he held his own. I think you start a foundation with those three guys, Kevin McCuller, KJ Adams, DeJuan Harris, and that has the potential to be one of the greatest teams, like in the, you know, statistically in the Ken Palm era of college basketball, like when you look at lineup data, I think that could be up there with those teams. Those three guys are not only elite defensively. DeJuan Harris struggles a little bit when bigger guards post him up, but they are so versatile and they can defend so many different positions that if you told me like a weird

tidbit and you said something like KJ Adams finished third on KU in minutes in the NCAA tournament, I'd say I bet you KU has one of the best five defenses in the nation because that's why he's on the court because Bill Self, maybe he doesn't even like want to play him there, but he can't take him off because he's that good. You know, it was just me theorizing. So that's my, that's my little bold prediction there that I think if, if it all works out, I think you can build an elite, elite defensive lineup with KJ Adams, who I know you're a fan of too.

Yes, Sam. All right. We got to run quick for our worst coaching decisions of the week in just a second. BetOnline.net is your number one source for football betting information this season. Find all of the latest player developments, team matchups, news, podcasts, and in-depth articles and analysis on every game you can find. And as always, BetOnline remains your continued source for all your sport wagering information with live betting and up-to-the the minute scores for every sport out there with bet online right now you can get kansas at plus seven and a half plus 255 money line for the baylor game and over under 58 which is actually

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It all concets. Just on the leaderboard for anyone keeping track, you get three points for being the worst coach of the week. You get one point for an honorable mention. Number three, there's a tie with four people. It's Zach Taylor of the Bengals, Jimbo Fisher, Neil Brown, and Nathaniel Hackett's special decisions coach. So they're tied for third. Matt Campbell is currently in second, number two. He has four

points. And then number one is Nathaniel Hackett, who has seven points. So seven points is lapping the field currently. Here are the three. And for the first time ever, we have a little bit of history. We have two bad decisions that came on the same drive in a football game. So that's very exciting. The first one, Brent Venables at Oklahoma, Oklahoma had a minute left. It was a third down play final drive before the first half. They took 40 seconds off the clock,

let it to 20. I know people wanted to call a timeout, but my philosophy with that is if your opponent's going to let, you know, make a mistake, let them don't interrupt them. I think that's like Sun Tzu, the art of war,

not to go all Andy Kotelnicki and just start quoting people. But so they ran 40 seconds off the clock. Then they got down to the two yard line, ran out of time, didn't get a touchdown. So it hurt them. Um, Brian Borland, KU defensive coordinator, 16 seconds left in the half had kind of a bizarre defense with eight guys on the goal line. Um, Oklahoma still had 16 seconds. So they threw a wide receiver screen, immediately got the ball down to the two, had a couple shots at a touchdown. I thought that was kind of bizarre there. Number three, Nick Saban, uh, in the Alabama Tennessee game, by the way, none of these

coaches are getting fired this week. Um, that's very apparent to me. Uh, Alabama had the ball at the 32. There were 34 seconds left in the tie game. They threw three incomplete passes, no runs, then missed the field goal. Tennessee took the ball and got a field goal as time expired in regulation. You don't have to run every time Derek, you have to run one time. You have to run a single time in that situation. And so those are my three. Do you have a pick? Can we go with Nick Saban just because

it's just, he's never going to be on there again. Probably we're going with Nick Saban, Nick Saban, the worst coach in college football for a single decision that I saw. There were many games that I didn't watch this week. I wasn't feeling great. Yes, we are giving this award to Nick Saban who let me check my notes real quick.

Yeah, that is his first time either being nominated or winning the award. So congratulations to Nick Saban. I'm sure he will take this as motivation. Alabama will not lose another game in the women's national championship. Yeah, perfect. And you know, Nick Saban has won so many awards. What can you give a man that has everything? You can give him an award he doesn't have. So it's perfect. Well, Scott, appreciate the time as always, man. Thanks for having me. Yep. You can check them out as well with booth review on Kansas city sports network coming up on tomorrow's show.

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