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Kansas coach Charlie Weis briefly picked up another "victory" today when the school's official athletic site counted the spring game as a win, boosting the Jayhawks' 2012 record to 2-11. It was then changed back.

(Max Faulkner/Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Desperate times, desperate measures?

It sure seemed that way for a while earlier today for Kansas football and head coach Charlie Weis. Six seasons removed from an Orange Bowl appearance, the school "counted" its 34-7 spring game as victory on the recap of the 2012 season on its official athletics web site, boosting the Jayhawks' record last year to 2-11.

Against outside competition last season, Kansas went 1-11, with Weis referring to that team at Big 12 media day last month as "a pile of c--p."

The spring "victory" was later removed.

No explanation was given by the school for either decision.

But the intent was clearly there, since Kansas' 1-5 home record last year was upgraded to 2-5 with the spring game victory before it was changed back on the web site.

But the added win sent Twitter-verse abuzz.

"I heard Kansas tried to buy back out (of the game), but fortunately Kansas had put in a tough buyout," tweeted Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times.

Tweeted Mark Ennis, an SBnation football and basketball contributor and co-host of a sports show on ESPN 680 in Louisville: "You can't blame Kansas for being unmotivated to play Kansas in a meaningless spring game."

No explanation was given why Kansas also didn't add a loss from the intra-squad spring game as well.

The desperate move by Weis immediately brought to mind an even bigger spring game embarrassment: When Rutgers, under Terry Shea, lost 10-6 to an alumni team during its 1996 spring game.

The alumni team was immediately dropped from all future schedules.