KU is not good at football. You know this, I know this, we all know this. KU hasn’t even been to a Bowl Game since 2008, 10 years ago. Even when going into overtime yesterday they still lost.
Numerous people have attempted to dissect the football team and tried to figure out exactly what went wrong and how to fix it. Now it’s my turn: the person that’s probably the least qualified to talk about football and how to make improvements.
Back in 2008, Kansas Football went to and won the Orange Bowl. This is the last major thing this sports team has done. They keep showing videos of this game in their hype videos 10 years later, so it must be. What else happened in 2008? Disney released its action/animation hit: Bolt, starring John Travolta and Miley Cyrus.
Bolt is about a dog named Bolt, who believes that his life is full of action and that he has super powers. In reality, Bolt is the star of a television show with the same name, and every human is trying to make him believe it. This is very similar to the KU football team because they believe they can win more than four games despite their record for the last ten years.
When Bolt was released back in 2008, life was good and happy and pure. Nobody expected a movie like this to come out this year, and no one expected it to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature alongside the other Disney movie Wall-E, but it did and things were good.
What I suggest is that Disney releases a Bolt 2. I’m not a huge fan of sequels, but if KU is to be good at football again and go to a Bowl Game, it needs to happen. We need the pure joy of Bolt to come back to us again for the first time. We need Miley Cyrus and John Travolta to come back and sing another song together.
Maybe it is the coach like most people are saying. Maybe it’s the fans losing interest. I however, believe that the lack of Bolt is hurting our football team, and something needs to be done about it.
Kristopher K. Online 