KU Should Offer Horak

From the Capital-Journal:

After an historically bad 0-12 season, Kansas football coach David Beaty has apparently hit the recruiting trail pretty hard, securing several key additions in the past week or so — including Isi Holani, a three-star, 315-pound juco defensive lineman from Riverside College in California who orally committed Monday, and Stephan Robinson, a 5-foot-11 athlete from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M who committed Sunday night.

However, the Jayhawks could do themselves a big favor and take a stroll down the road to Rossville, where one of the most dominant high school football players in state history currently resides.

I'm talking, of course, about Tucker Horak, who posted eye-popping numbers at Rossville with 12,834 total yards (good for No. 6 in the nation for career total offense) and 186 touchdowns over the course of his career with the Bulldawgs. His 79.2 percent completion rate this season helped propel the Dawgs to a Class 3A state title as he became the first player in state history to rush and throw for 2,000 yards in a single season.

Horak, who admittedly has received some attention from Kansas and Kansas State as a potential walk-on candidate, has been heavily pursued by Wyoming, according to an article by The Topeka Capital-Journal's Brent Maycock.

“I loved everything about (Wyoming), except the altitude,” Horak said in the article. “I love their facilities, their field was nice and their coaches were super-easy to work with. I really liked it there. ... Overall, I think I was pretty happy with how I competed and performed at their camp.”

I'm happy for the kid, and getting a chance to play early on at Wyoming would be a great opportunity for Horak. However, the lowly Jayhawks could use all the help they could get, and pulling in a kid like Horak would put them a lot closer to the ultimate goal of winning the in-state recruiting battle against Kansas State.

Sure, he's only 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds. But keep in mind that's only an inch shorter and about 20 pounds lighter than Todd Reesing's listed dimensions (chances are good he wasn't as tall as advertised), and he was the Jayhawks' greatest quarterback of all time. Not that every short player is a Reesing-calibre athlete, but after seeing Horak put up huge numbers all season, I have to believe if anyone has that sort of potential, it's him. If a kid can complete 79 percent of his passes in a season at high school while passing for more than 2,000 yards, I have to think he'd be able to perform better than some of KU's current quarterbacks.

That being said, there's no guarantee Horak would even want to sign with the Jayhawks if they did offer him a scholarship. Kansas football is anything but an easy sell.

However, the Jayhawks could do far worse than at least offering a scholarship to this kid. Like the DJ Khaled song, played so often by the pep band at Allen Fieldhouse, all he does is win. At the very least, he could be a great special teams player for the Jayhawks or offer depth at a different position like running back or defensive back. Winning starts with talent, and Horak has plenty to go around.