Kansas football is a rare disaster, and requires a rare fix. You don’t brace for a century storm with a bottle of water and a can of soup, and you don’t attempt to fix a program so laughably irrelevant that Charlie Weis is its most successful coach of the last decade by following the established playbook.
You must swing hard, and you must be willing to swing where others won’t.
This is not a column telling KU athletic director Jeff Long who to hire. We’ll get to that later. This is what he was hired to do.