Kansas Jayhawk Links
Jon Kirby at Jayhawk Slant writes about the trip to London for the football team:
Linebacker Quincy Davis said the players were introduced to an app that will guide them through the trip.
“We actually had a meeting about all this, so they got a whole app ready for us just for jet lag,” Davis said. “So, we’re going to have certain times to sleep, certain times to be up, eat. They got it all planned out for us.”
Davis has never traveled overseas. His mother and aunt are making the trip and will meet him
in London. He said he is looking forward to experiencing a different culture, including the food.
I’m sure the players will listen to whatever the app is telling them but I do find it a bit funny that he’s talking about how the trip is all planned out. Wouldn’t you think every road trip taken by the team is basically planned out with times to eat and sleep?
Joshua Schulman at SI carried by Yahoo! points out the struggles of the offensive line last weekend:
Of all the position groups on the roster, the offensive line is the one with the most to prove entering this week’s matchup against Arizona State. According to a graphic posted by 247 Sports’ Cody Nagel on X, the Jayhawks are allowing a pressure rate above 45.0% in the trenches, which is by far the worst among all Power 4 football teams.
Connor Mardian at Through the Phog picks out three storylines for this week’s game against Arizona State:
No one is expecting Marshall to sling for 300 yards and 5 touchdowns agains Arizona State, but what fans need to see is the promise that won him the starting job in the first place. Meaning its up to him to put the past in the past and help lead KU to a landmark win.
Dillon Davis at SI has an update on Tre White’s attempt at getting another year of eligibility:
“The complaint takes issue with the NCAA rule change that allows athletes who graduated from high school after 2022 to compete in five seasons without having to redshirt, and finds it exclusionary to the class of 2022 athletes who didn’t redshirt. Not only that, but the complaint notes that not allowing these athletes to be eligible keeps them from being able to earn money through NIL or revenue-sharing agreements. It’s one of a number of court cases that the NCAA has been facing.”
It seems like the NCAA has done a bit better recently in court but that part about keeping the 5th year guys from being able to earn NIL and revenue sharing payments has been a tough one for the NCAA.
Other Links!
Matt Norlander at CBS Sports has a really good writeup on the Big 12 and the direction the conference has taken under Bretty Yormark. The whole piece is worth a read as it discusses the basketball talent in the conference, the LED court, and the new partnership with Monster Energy. However, this snippet below left me a little chuffed:
The league is coming off a prideful 2025-26, having placed three teams on the top two seed lines of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003. The best of the bunch was No. 1 seed Arizona making its first Final Four showing in 25 years. And from a talent perspective, the Big 12 is fresh off its best season ever. It set a conference record with 13 NBA Draft picks in June, including four in the top 10, led by No. 1 overall selection AJ Dybantsa.
Man, I really hope Tyran Stokes is as advertised.
Scott Hines and his Action Cookbook newsletter did a great job of capturing the feeling I get almost any time I see a commercial for a new product these days:
— MY VOICE IS COMING TO YOU THROUGH YOUR SMART LIGHT BULBS. IT IS A CONVENIENT FEATURE THAT YOU WERE UNKNOWINGLY OPTED INTO
[shaking head] I was never on board with those light bulbs.
— REJOICE, FOR I BRING YOU NEWS OF A NEW PRODUCT
Oh, no. No thank you. I am good, actually.
— EVERYONE LOVES NEW PRODUCTS. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE COMING FROM BIG TECH
I don’t believe that’s an accurate assessment of the situation at all.
In something you should have seen coming a mile away, QB Arch Manning has apologized for laughing about an AI video showing Sark slapping Holly Rowe during a Q&A with the press this week:
“I’ve seen a few AI edits of stuff, but that’s about it. I saw an AI edit of Sark’s interview,” Manning said, laughing. “Have y’all seen that one? That’s a good one. Of him slapping Holly Rowe? It’s hilarious.”
One day later, amid backlash for his reaction, Manning issued an apology on Instagram Story.
Last link of the week is a review of Nicholas Russell’s novel “Observer”:
Observer is a couple of different kinds of mystery: Its characters are groping around for comprehension, both of the disaster and wreckage above McNairy and of one another, but Russell is disciplined in his doling out of information, resisting the temptation to swoop down with huge blundering author hands and scratch clues into tree-trunks and so forth. Remoteness, that specific gritty and standoffish remoteness of desert habitations, is so essential to Observer‘s narrative that it might as well be a named character; if it’s hard and thorny to reconstruct a complete understanding of some of the most spectacular and studied disasters of modern history, imagine trying it in a forgotten and decaying Southwestern town where everyone, human or otherwise, wants to be left the hell alone. It’s a real strength of the novel.
QOTD: What was your favorite class in high school? Was it the teacher, the subject, or the classmates that made it stick out in your mind?
