Hanni said some of the group showed up at 2:00 to get good seats.
Leipold said West Virginia was another exciting and challenging game and they knew that road winds are difficult in the Big 12. Thought they played extremely well and came out of the delay and took the lead. But in critical times when they have to play their best unfortunately they have not done that.
They won the turnover battle, had less penalties, and they are playing good but it's not good enough.
They have enough areas to improve they are small things around the team it's just not one thing. If they can shore up some of those small things the outcomes could be different. Some things happened that they aren't responding like they have in the past.
Devin Neal got his fourth straight 100-yard rushing day and got Hishaw back. Hishaw coming off the injury plate as many snaps as they wanted and he's trying to work back into more. They were able to hit some nice perimeter runs and some others in the option game.
They didn't protect Daniel's early in the game like they wanted but they made some adjustments and that got better. They found some rhythm and did some good things. Through the first four games leipold believes Daniels has stayed calm, hasn't been rattled, and is continuing to get better.
Grimm continues to play well and they might need to look to get some more targets to Skinner.
Said Withers played well and one of his better games. He said the interior defensive tackles seem to feed off each other and hasn't had a group that pushes each other like those guys do.
That motivated Tommy Dunn to pick his game up because he did not play well against West Virginia.
TCU is a team that is a year and a half removed from playing in the national championship game. Leipold said TCU had two tough losses back to back and is a good football team. Said TCU will be focused when they come into play. Sonny Dykes is a good coach. They added 24 players from the portal in 16 of those are in the two deep.
Hoover will be the best quarterback they've seen and they have talented wide receivers. TCU wants to go fast and that will be a challenge for the defense.
They do a lot of quick passes to the outside and treat those like running plays.
Leipold said this is the best the defense has played in a four-game span since he's got to KU.
Leipold said West Virginia was another exciting and challenging game and they knew that road winds are difficult in the Big 12. Thought they played extremely well and came out of the delay and took the lead. But in critical times when they have to play their best unfortunately they have not done that.
They won the turnover battle, had less penalties, and they are playing good but it's not good enough.
They have enough areas to improve they are small things around the team it's just not one thing. If they can shore up some of those small things the outcomes could be different. Some things happened that they aren't responding like they have in the past.
Devin Neal got his fourth straight 100-yard rushing day and got Hishaw back. Hishaw coming off the injury plate as many snaps as they wanted and he's trying to work back into more. They were able to hit some nice perimeter runs and some others in the option game.
They didn't protect Daniel's early in the game like they wanted but they made some adjustments and that got better. They found some rhythm and did some good things. Through the first four games leipold believes Daniels has stayed calm, hasn't been rattled, and is continuing to get better.
Grimm continues to play well and they might need to look to get some more targets to Skinner.
Said Withers played well and one of his better games. He said the interior defensive tackles seem to feed off each other and hasn't had a group that pushes each other like those guys do.
That motivated Tommy Dunn to pick his game up because he did not play well against West Virginia.
TCU is a team that is a year and a half removed from playing in the national championship game. Leipold said TCU had two tough losses back to back and is a good football team. Said TCU will be focused when they come into play. Sonny Dykes is a good coach. They added 24 players from the portal in 16 of those are in the two deep.
Hoover will be the best quarterback they've seen and they have talented wide receivers. TCU wants to go fast and that will be a challenge for the defense.
They do a lot of quick passes to the outside and treat those like running plays.
Leipold said this is the best the defense has played in a four-game span since he's got to KU.
