‘We left Kansas bleeding again’: Eli Drinkwitz admits Missouri wanted to ’embarrass’ Jayhawks after hype video

On the ever of its Border War rivalry game against Missouri, Kansas dropped a rather unique hype video, and it went viral. The video made its way to the feed of Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz, and that's why he tried to twist the knife at the end of Mizzou's 38-21 win Friday.

"I was embarrassed for them, to be honest," Drinkwitz said. "That's why I tried to embarrass them at the end."

No. 23 Missouri's late-game strategy caused some pushing and shoving among players and coaches from both teams when the game concluded.

"We left Kansas bleeding again," Drinkwitz said.

In the video, Kansas harkened back to conflicts of the Bleeding Kansas era. The Jayhawks held up revolutionary abolitionist John Brown as an avatar for Kansas, and it pointed to pro-slavery guerrilla leader William Quantrill as an avatar for Missouri.

"There's right and wrong," the narrator says. "There's Kansas and Missouri."

It is that deep. pic.twitter.com/4BEcdbLv7S

When asked about the video after the game, Drinkwitz condemned not only its content, but the timing as well.

The video was published hours before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and Drinkwitz didn't feel it was appropriate to reference the past divisions between Kansas…

Original source: https://www.cbssports.com/