Interesting choice. Les better not bring his SEC offense with him or this could get real ugly real quick. At any rate, I like his quirkyness. I hope it works out for him.
I don't think anyone can succeed there. Even when Mangino had his **** together and they won the Orange Bowl, their football success still took a distant back seat to basketball. They can't recruit the football areas they would need (KC, Dallas, Tulsa) to stay competitive with the likes of the better teams in the conference. Miles will pull off the occasional upset, like beating us, but Beaty did that too so I don't think that's anything special. He'll probably have a Charlie Weis type experience there.
If Bill Snyder can work miracles at KSU, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Les succeed at Kansas. I’m glad to see it. It’s good for the conference.
Easy paycheck and has no pressure. Good for Less. Kansas: recycling middling coaches doesnt work. After he fails, go hire a young hungry coach with success from a d2 or sunbelt team.
If I remember correctly, the fat man was fired for being mean to his players after making Kansas football relevant. Therefore, hiring a caring, sensitive Miles is a great choice.
Wow! For his sake I truly hope he is okay. That lapse is troubling but hopefully it is an isolated case.
I agree with something I heard on the radio. They should have gone after the coach at Army. Install a system that no other team in the B12 is prepared to defend on a weekly basis. Hell, he almost beat OU this year.
I heard this on the radio but they cut it off before the end. I like his save at the end on the video ... things Kansas needs to schedule Washington State, the pressers would be epic
If we aren't playing that day, may be the first time I've worn red. Maybe get some of those little WSU flags for my truck windows. Somehow "Hook em Coogs" just doesn't sound right. Maybe t-shirts that say - "Texans for Leach"
It’s good for the conference but dumb. Playing Kansas has never been any fun. Nothing to gain and everything to lose and it seems like we always get them late in the season and have more trouble with them than we should.
He was obviously struggling with how to say the players would be recognized by the Courts and that they would be in the community performing their community service hours...
Debatable if he was a coach with success at lower levels. He went 2-10, 5-7, 8-6, 5-7 at Buffalo before KU hired him. Not a bad idea, although I might rather stay at Army than come to Kansas if I'm him.
Well Weiss was a hungry coach, maybe not a hungry YOUNG coach, but a hungry coach. And he is twice the coach Miles is --- literally. Well, twice the PERSON Miles is.
Pretty hungry, but not as hungry as Mangino. Mangino was a very, very hungry coach. I wish they would have brought Mangino back. I miss that guy. "You've got to try a double order of the fettuccine alfredo with extra sauce at Paisano's." Mangino looks over the concessions catering menu on the sidelines:
Yeah, thanks for posting that; got my Weisses and Manginos mixed up. But both were hungry coaches, one a Domer, one a Jayhawk.
The BIG (and I mean BIG) guy was an excellent coach, especially when it came to offense. He worked wonders for football at KU. So what if he's from the Woody Hayes school of coach-athlete interactions--this is football, it's a tough game. So what if he's a REALLY fat guy--do you want a coach or a fashion model. KU won't do any better. Mangino was a worthy opponent, and just a hilarious guy to have around for comic relief. The Big 12 didn't know what it had when Mangino and Leach coached in the same conference... "Yeah, good idea, I'll run a reverse. And while you're at it, send a grad assistant down from the press box with another dozen donuts."
