KU Football 2007 -- 1/3 Season Report

With four games down, it's a good time to see how the Hawks are doing on my 2007 Wish List published back in July. The question is can I remember to do a 2/3 season report.

--As hyped as he is, it'd be refreshing to see Aqib Talib actually exceed expectations
Check

--A full house for opening day
46,815. Let's call that about 93% of the goal and award an A-

--The front seven rises to the level of the 2005 crew
I'm starting to believe

--Kerry Meier or Todd Reesing make me forget all about Bill Whittemore
5 is one more than 4, right? So far so good, but the Rocket is still young and the Brentwood Bomber was pretty damn good. Looks like the season TD record is going down though. Record = 18. Reesing is currently at 11.

--Derek Fine catches 60 balls
It projects to be 56 right now over 14 games. The seven reception effort against FIU helped, but we're going to need a little extra effort. There have been a few dropped balls.

--Ed Warriner makes the exact right play call on every down
Check

--We don't go for the two-point conversion ever (excepting of course for the win against Texas in the Big 12 Championship game)
Grade: F

--The offensive line doesn't have to go through the usual 7-8 game growth process and is dominant for all 12 games
So far, very good. Looking forward to testing this against the Wild Felines on 10/6

--Pass defense goes from the bottom D1 to top 10 in the nation
No problem

--Marcus Herford plays to his talent level and KU uses him all over the field
It looks like Kerry Meier is filling this role. A nice kick return for TD for Marcus though.

--Jake Sharp -- at least one TD per game 30 yards out or more
Well, he's got three TDs, so let's just revise this to one TD per game. I think he can make up the one TD deficit

--Marcus Henry -- 18 TDs, 1300 yards
Hmm, it's only projecting out to seven TDs at this point. Perhaps, he's saving it up for conference play. However, the current 98.25 ypg gets you 1,375 yards for 14 games

--50,000 plus Jayhawk fans wearing blue at Arrowhead
We'll probably need an impartial KSU attendance expert to stop by and make the call, but it looks pretty good so far.

--14 wins
Still on target