Some of you may not know this, but I live in Lawrence, Kansas. I proudly walk around Massachusetts Street with my Arkansas Razorbacks gear on. This is a town that, for all intents and purposes, does not give a crap about football. And yet, the day after it was announced that Reggie Mitchell had been hired by Bielema, I had more than one person stop me on the streets to express their sadness that he was leaving KU after 5 years.
Mitchell’s running backs unit at KU was, consistently, the best thing about the Jayhawks football team. His success at a place like Lawrence, where football is secondary and secondaries are nonexistent, shows that he knows what he’s doing when it comes to putting a running back corp together.