Kansas starts boot camp early. Hm ...
Posted: Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:43 PM
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Things are back to Defcon 5 in Lawrence. Well, maybe Defcon 4 or 3. Tempers may still be running a little hot from the Tuesday/Wednesday scuffles. A longer recap is here.
Both Bill Self and football coach Mark Mangino made the rounds for apologies, general statements and trying to paint a picture “one big family” on campus. (Some weren’t buying it.)
Self, who was out of town on Tuesday and Wednesday, was part annoyed, part pissed off. And hey, why wouldn’t he be?
“I’m embarrassed because of the situation. It’s a situation that none of us should have gotten into. We embarrassed our campus, our university, both teams, and it’s just a situation that shouldn’t have happened. Looking back at it, it was just really stupid. I wish I could take it back.
“We don’t act like this. To me, somebody asked me how did Tyshawn dislocate his thumb? My reply was: I don’t care. It doesn’t make any difference to me. The fact is that it happened. The reason it happened was because a really small group of individuals put selfish motives ahead of what was really important.”
So what’s the best way to get rid of any extra aggression? Run it off.
Self started his basketball boot camp a little early. Like Thursday. Sure, it still officially starts on Monday, but Self was on hand Thursday for a “semblance of boot camp.”
If there are any more fights, Kansas is going to be the best conditioned team in the country…
