Seeing the future

I'll spare you from all of the "If you told me in September that I would be here…" talk because I am still yet to meet that single person that goes around making promises like that.

Of course nobody thought this could happen. But this team is full of "nobody thought" type of players.

Nobody thought Todd Reesing was big enough.

Nobody thought Kansas would plow through it's first 11 games this season.

Nobody thought Marcus Henry had hands that could catch touchdown after touchdown.

Nobody thought true freshman like Chris Harris could play cornerback in the Big 12.

Nobody thought a group of 2-star recruits could lead a team to this much success.

And that's what makes all of this so special. At the beginning of the year the only people that had faith in this team were the students who didn't know better and the old hippies like White Owl who were so baked out of their mind that they didn't know any better.

Need more proof that nobody saw this coming? Las Vegas set lines for each of KU's 11 wins this season and KU beat that line every time. The experts in Las Vegas continued to up their expectations for these Jayhawks and still KU exceeded those expectations and continued to win game after game.

I'm tired of all the "nobody thought this would happen" talk that surrounds this team. Sports are full of unseen heroes and underdog stories. KU is in the Orange Bowl and still people focus the expectations of this season while overlooking what KU has accomplished.

Leading up to this game stories around the country are saying, "KU has never played in a game with this much pressure." Well, KU has also never won this many road games. KU has never scored 76 points on Nebraska. KU has never thrown this many touchdown passes in this season.

This has been an extraordinary season and Thursday night KU will cap that off by playing in its first Orange Bowl since 1969. Experts and fans around the country are picking Virginia Tech, but let's be honest, nobody knows what's coming.