Turner Gil being given a hard time, but c'mon it's impossible to win at Syracuse.

My point was that if he HAD gotten the Syracuse Job...... 1. The Cuse would be garbage and 2. The Media would give him a free pass "No way you can expect him to go in and compete in year one without his players, vs. teams like S Fla with coaching stability" Bottom line, Charles Barkley ran his mouth about what a travesty it was that Auburn didn't 'make the right hire' and bring him in. Then Syracuse "blew it" not hiring him. Uh.......looks like it is KU that made the bad hiring move Charles, not someone else. And as for KU being fine in the future, no doubt, as Basketball season is about to start.

I agree with both Fezz and Custer. Yes, black coaches (and Qbs) are often treated with kids gloves by the media, but I also think Kansas has pretty bare bones talent this year. I think Gill will be solid, but fatboy Mangino was pretty underrated. Gill could be a good coach and Kansas could still suck for a while.

Turner Gill may not last long at Ku. By this time next year there will be a new AD and most likely that person would want his own hire. There are several reasons the this Ku football team isn't playing well. Mangino typically recruited 1 star players that worked hard and he coached them up. This current Ku team is mostly recruits from the Orange Bowl win. There are more 2star and 3 star players that got by on talent and so far they have not worked as hard. The final opinion is that this team is one a one year vacation from Mangino and they do not care, they are not playing for Gill. How good of a coach is Turner Gill we may never find out here at Ku.

The emphasis in this country is all screwed up IMO Coalitions with agendas spending thousands of hours trying to get their guys hired. How about a novel idea? SPEND SOME OF THAT TIME AFTER The hire, helping new coaches SUCCEED! AFTER the hire, give them more resources and support instead of moving on..........

The problem is that most black coaches (Gill is an exception) are higher profile players. Most ex nfl players end up bad coaches. If you want good black coaches, the assistant opportunities need to be there for guys that aren't even good enough to start in college, the way those opportunities are there for whites. The current talent pool of black coaches is tainted, and hiring promoting more of them for diverity's sake isn't helping the problem.

There's another glaring issue.... Kansas = Basketball school

Actually, to Kansas alums, Kansas is more known as a Track and Field School. Former greats such as Jim Ryun, Billy Mills, Al Oerter, Glen Cunningham, Wes Santee, Karl Salb, Doug Knop, Cliff Willey, etc.

[QUOTE=Kruger;30626]Actually, to Kansas alums, Kansas is more known as a Track and Field School. Former greats such as Jim Ryun, Billy Mills, Al Oerter, Glen Cunningham, Wes Santee, Karl Salb, Doug Knop, Cliff Willey, etc.[/QUOTE] Jim, Knowing you those names are made up. Surprised Shaun Hess didn't make the list.

[QUOTE=Bleonard;30631]Jim, Knowing you those names are made up. Surprised Shaun Hess didn't make the list.[/QUOTE] BL, Quite surprised. I thought everybody knew the first track and field athlete to win a gold medal in the same event four Olympics in a row, Al Oerter. You haven't heard of Billy Mills, the only American to have ever won the gold in the 10,000 meters? An unbelievable finish: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOj0zjPzg-c[/url] Mills was the second native American to win an Olympic medal, behind Jim Thorpe. Both attended Haskell University in Lawrence, KS. Mills went on to Kansas University. Glen Cunningham was a Sullivan Award Winner (best amateur athlete in the US) and a world record holder in the mile. A movie was made about his miraculous recovery from a fire where the doctors said he would never walk again. I believe it starred Dan Haggerty from the Grizzly Adams TV show. Jim Ryun was the first high school runner to break the four-minute mile. He was Sports Illustrated Athlete of the Year, a Sullivan Award Winner, and a three-time Olympian. There are more grain elevators in the state of Kansas named after Jim Ryun than anybody else, including the 34th President of the US, Dwight D. Eisenhower, from Abilene, KS, and the father of the Interstate Highway system. Wes Santee was the best American miler of the mid-50's and was in a heated quest with Limey Roger Bannister and Aussie John Landy to break the four-minute mile. Wes Santee became the largest Dairy Queen franchisee in the state of Kansas. These are historical stories every elementary student in Kansas is taught. Next week I will talk about how Flubber was originally invented in the state of Kansas. Jim

Great video. He looks like he was shot out of a cannon the last 50 meters. Awesome!!