Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Critics of Kansas’ nonconference football schedule might get some off time next year. The 2008 schedule will send the Jayhawks to South Florida to play the BCS No. 10-ranked Bulls.
Kansas also will have home dates against Louisiana Tech, a returning Florida International team and a game against FCS Sam Houston State led by former Oklahoma quarterback Rhett Bomar.
The season will open on Aug. 30 against Florida International. KU Senior Associate Athletics Director Larry Keating cut a deal two years ago to secure two games against the Golden Panthers, in 2007 and 2008, for $250,000 each after the Panthers canceled the 2006 game between the teams.
The next week will bring Louisiana Tech to Lawrence for a $600,000 one-game guarantee. Keating originally called the Bulldogs with a proposal of a home-and-home, which is an agreement that requires a trip of both teams.
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2008 Kansas Football schedule
Aug. 30 Florida International
Sept. 6 Louisiana Tech
Sept. 13 at South Florida (Tampa, Fla.)
Sept. 20 Sam Houston State
Oct. 4 at Iowa State (Ames, Iowa)
Oct. 11 Colorado
Oct. 18 at Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.)
Oct. 25 Texas Tech
Nov. 1 Kansas State
Nov. 8 at Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.)
Nov. 15 Texas
Nov. 29 Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City, Mo.)
Future games:
Duke in 2009-2010 (home-and-home)
Rice in 2010-2013 (two home, two road)
“Louisiana Tech is a pretty good name and that isn’t a big trip,” Keating said. “Believe it or not, I was shocked they said we would rather play a guarantee game, asking how much could you give us, rather than play a home-and-home. We had to make a big decision to even say we are willing to go home-and-home with them.”
The third game of the year will send the Jayhawks to Tampa, Fla., for a rematch with South Florida. The Jayhawks beat the Bulls 13-7 last year in Lawrence.
Keating and Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony expect the Sept. 13 game in Raymond James Stadium, a home the Bulls share with the NFL’s Buccaneers, to be nationally televised. The Jayhawks will complete a home-and-home contract agreed to in 2005. Kansas will receive $150,000 — the same figure the University paid South Florida in 2006.
Kansas will cap the nonconference slate with a $285,000 payment to Sam Houston State. The last time Kansas played Bomar, the then-Oklahoma freshman threw for 206 yards and a touchdown in a 19-3 Sooner victory in 2005 at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Big 12 schedule will switch South division opponents. Baylor, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M move out of the schedule. Home games against Texas and Texas Tech and a road game in Norman, Okla., against Oklahoma move into the schedule.
Keating said he wanted to complete the 2009, 2010, 2011 and possibly the 2012 nonconference schedules by the end of the football season.
Kansas has two finalized contracts currently. The Jayhawks will play Duke during the 2009-2010 season as part of a home-and-home deal. Kansas also agreed to a four-year series with Rice, which will include two home and two road games from 2010-2013.
Keating said he kept recruiting in mind when scheduling.
“Houston is a big recruiting area for us,” Keating said about the location of Rice. “That’s the thing about playing away. South Florida — why is that a good game? Because we get to go to Florida, which is recruiting territory. It’s the same in basketball. We try to go to the West Coast, and we try to go to Chicago.”
Keating said he talked to coach Mark Mangino about future match-ups before signing contracts.
Keating would like to create a formula for the Jayhawks nonconference schedule each year: playing two teams from BCS conferences, one home and one on the road, and paying one-game guarantees for home dates against one lower-tier FBS team and an FCS team.
— Edited by Jeff Briscoe
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