The Kansas football team has its Scarlet Letter.
When — if? — the program makes it back to prominence, when a transcendent coach is able to get the team to respectability, the first question asked by those too young to remember will be this: Just how bad was it?
That answer came on a warm and windy night at Amon G. Carter Stadium.
KU is now in the record books with a mark that is unlikely to be broken. The Jayhawks suffered their 44th straight road defeat, tying the FBS record set by Western (Colo.