Joe Dineen’s smile grew wider. As the slow-motion video replay played on the laptop computer in front of him, he quickly shrugged his shoulders, flipping his palms up toward the ceiling.
“Hey,” he said with a chuckle. “You’ve got to get it how you get it, I guess.”
In five years with KU’s football program, Dineen has seen some of the darkest times. He’s spoken to reporters not only after blowouts, but also in close losses where unlucky breaks late sometimes made it seem as the football gods might never again smile on the Jayhawks.
It’s why — following KU’s 27-26 upset over TCU on Saturday at Booth Memorial Stadium — Dineen wasn’t about to apologize for his team, finally, getting a bit of a lucky streak at the end of a close game.