Turner Gill hasn’t been around all that long, so forgive him if he doesn’t quite understand what Saturday night meant.
Oh, Gill issued KU a butt-kicking or two during his days as the Nebraska quarterback. But he wasn’t here year after year as the depressing results piled up and a fan base tuned out its football program.
Those same fans were paying attention on Saturday night, even after the Jayhawks lost their last seven games of the 2009 season. They hoped that nightmare finish was an aberration, that their program did in fact have some staying power. Gill’s debut was supposed to be about moving on. Instead, it made KU fans want to live in the more recent past once again.
North Dakota State 6, Kansas 3.
The Night The Wheat Stood Still.
As shock and horror sat in around Jayhawk Nation in the moments after, Gill was busy trying to rationalize his team’s behavior, and his words likely won’t be very comforting.
“One game,” Gill said. “It’s one game. That’s the way I look at it. It’s the first game, too. That (puts) it in a different perspective. It’s the first ballgame. Again, until you play a football game, you don’t know where you’re at.”
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