NEWS FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS:

Oh my how things are wild in the state that is home to Dodge City, Miss Kitty, and more than just a few headlines about Wildcats and Jayhawks.

First, let's look at the headlines out of Lawrence, KS--home of the Kansas Jayhawks. Can you say Lack of Institutional Control? The NCAA can and is saying it about the University of Kansas right now. "Most of the football violations centered around coaching assistants arranging test help for prospective students, which the NCAA termed "academic fraud.""

KU's head football Coach Mark (FAT) Mangino said that he did not know that his assistants were helping KU students and/or prospective students with tests. Mangino added that help didn't occur at the student athlete dining hall because if it had, he would have seen it first hand and would have either put a stop to it, or simply ate it.

More penalties are expected to come for KU after the meet with the NCAA in August.

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Mean while just up I-70 the college town known as Aggieville have been renamed Huggieville as fans and student go wild over Bobcat Huggins and his pied piper like recruiting success. Huggins has shown no hangover from his DUI and has quickly signed a top 5 recruiting class. Huggieball was the big attraction at the KSU Foundation's Spring Game Auction over the weekend. They raised 80k more than last year--mostly on increase demand for basketball related items like a trip to an away game with the team--$11,000, up for $1124 last year.

However, the big news in Manhattan is the fact that 32,000 showed up to watch the spring game on a glorious day in the middle of Kansas. KSU fans are quick to admit that more people were at the spring game then attended Bill Snyder's final regular season game, although the official count was 46k for the MU game last year.

After 2 years of KSU fans trashing the WCO at NU, they have embraced it as their own under first time Head Coach Ron Prince. In another twist, the KSU assistant coaches 'drafted' players for the white and purple squads. (Who had to tell one time starting QB Alan Webb that he was the third QB taken in the inter-team draft?) With the assistant coaches running the scrimmage from the sidelines, Coach Prince was up in the broadcast booth offering color commentary and doing his best Adrian Fiala imitation as he read copy for Touchdown Herbicide---"It helps you score at harvest time!".

Finally, Coach Prince may have to rethink his policy of letting the players select the pre-game music as 32,000 were treated to several f-bombs within the rap tunes the young kids are so found of these day.