Kansas Football Stays On Brand, Misspells Starting Quarterback’s Name On Jersey

What a weekend for the Kansas football team. The Jayhawks managed to lose to Coastal Carolina again — also lost to the Chanticleers at home in 2019 — and misspelled the name of starting quarterback Thomas MacVittie on his jersey. That’s what the industry calls Kansas football being Kansas football.

It wasn’t just any loss. The Jayhawks were losing 28-3 at half. MacVittie, in his second year with Les Miles in Kansas, was 5 of 9 for 20 yards and an interception before getting hurt and leaving the game.

Les Miles is in year two of his attempt at rebuilding Kansas to where it was long ago – 2007 – when Mark Mangino somehow got this team to 12-1 and a win in the Orange Bowl. There are accomplishments in college football and then there’s the miracle Mangino pulled off that fall. By 2009, Mangino was let go after players claimed Mangino said “hurtful” things and the program proceeded to take a deep dive down a dark college football road.

The program hasn’t won more than three games since 2009. Now here we are with the Jayhawks losing back-to-back games to a team that’s playing in its fourth year of DI FBS big boy football after being started in 2003.

And misspelling the starting quarterback’s name on his jersey. Kansas can go out and drop a big chunk of money on Les Miles – 5-years, $2,775,000 annually – but at the end of the day it’s still Jayhawks football.

Kansas is down 21-0 to Coastal Carolina and QB Thomas MacVittie’s name is misspelled on the back of his jersey. pic.twitter.com/p3p16yXfXT

— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) September 13, 2020

And then Coastal Carolina did this in the visitors’ locker room. Kansas football is officially dead:

ROCK CHALK CHICKENHAWK #GetTheWheatReady pic.twitter.com/IYoVxzzJd0

— teddyg (@teddyjgallagher) September 13, 2020