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Rustin Dodd: Kansas football faces numbers crisis

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43rd Parallel

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AN EXCERPT:

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, (Penn State) began the season with just 66 scholarship players — an unheard of number at the Division I level.

“This really is (like) a six-year sanction,” said then-Penn State coach Bill O’Brien, when discussing the scholarship reductions.

Two years later, another college football program is approaching the fall with fewer than 66 scholarship players. This program is not under any NCAA sanctions. This program has not run afoul of the NCAA rule book — at least not in the last decade.

This program is Kansas, and it counts 64 scholarship players on the roster this summer, a stunningly low number for those who follow college football.

KANSAS CITY STAR
 
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Stunning numbers, even for a program which has lost 37 of its last 39 conference games.

What's even more stunning is that our school somehow managed to be one of the only two stumblebums that Kansas has beaten in that stretch of futility.
 
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I always thought there were enough players out there to fill any schools roster. Whether or not they're good players might be an issue. I guess I was wrong.

Are their facilities so obsolete that they can't recruit to other league team standings ? If so, why ? They've been getting B12 money for a long time now, haven't they ? Or, has the administration just not worked at it because of their basketball success ?
 
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IMO .... There are a bunch of players out there playing at the next level down that Kansas could fill out their roster with who have absolutely no interest in playing for Kansas. And as you should know by now, some of those players are better than decent players. But they would rather be a star at a level down, or just play for a successful program one level down, than play for a football team like Kansas.
 
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Okeyd57 said:
I always thought there were enough players out there to fill any schools roster. Whether or not they're good players might be an issue. I guess I was wrong.

Are their facilities so obsolete that they can't recruit to other league team standings ? If so, why ? They've been getting B12 money for a long time now, haven't they ? Or, has the administration just not worked at it because of their basketball success ?
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It explained it in the article. Charlie Weis cut 29 players off the team when he was hired, because he wanted to "change the culture." He filled in with a lot of junior college players, and a lot of them ended up being ineligible. (They weren't too swift in the classroom to begin with, which is why the went to junior college.)
 
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It's been a problem at Kansas for decades.

When Stan Parrish left Marshall for Kansas after the '84 season, Kansas had 57 players on scholarship. Either 105 or 115 was the allowed total that year as the NCAA progressed towards today's 85 scholarship limit.

Nebraska had nearly three times as many walk-ons as Kansas had players on scholarship that year.
 
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