Kansas’ football program stinks, again and still, the worst among 65 major-conference schools. No man wears the blame as fully as athletic director Sheahon Zenger. Those two statements are less opinion than objective fact.
This is his seventh year at Kansas, where he was hired to fix football. He promoted himself consistently as “an old football coach.” Somehow, football is worse now than when he arrived.
If first-year chancellor Douglas Girod fired Zenger tomorrow, there would be no tears shed and no passionate objection.
But let’s talk about why that remains unlikely, and, to go one step further, why it should remain unlikely.