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TRASH TALK: KU

In order to allow commenters plenty of opportunity to share their own trash talk, this week’s installment is going to focus mostly on facts about KU’s football ineptitude over most of the past decade.

In 2009, the Kansas Jayhawks started the year 5-0, climbing to No. 16 in the AP Poll. That was actually expected of KU in 2009. Mark Mangino had dramatically improved the team during his tenure, even winning an Orange Bowl two years earlier (although that hinged largely on the imbalanced Big 12 schedule that let them dodge all three ranked teams from the South Division).