KU hasn’t added player from Nebraska … yet
Chatter heated up Wednesday night that Nebraska linebacker Michael Keenan had decided to transfer to Kansas University.
A Kansas City television station reported Wednesday that Keenan had decided to leave the Cornhuskers and come to Lawrence at the end of the semester.
Not so, apparently. Not yet anyway.
“There’s no truth to that whatsoever,” Keenan told rivals.com Wednesday night. “Right now I’m going through some personal issues and have yet to make a decision about my future.”
Keenan’s high school coach, Keith Ross, told the Journal-World on Wednesday that his frequent talks with Keenan never involved anything about a possible transfer to KU.
“That’s never been mentioned,” Ross said. “I talked to him (Tuesday), and it wasn’t mentioned.”
Keenan, a much-heralded high school player out of Kansas City (Mo.) Oak Park High, picked Nebraska over Kansas his senior year. He took his official visit to KU after already giving Nebraska his oral commitment.
Last year, Keenan won the Simone Award, given annually to the top player in the Kansas City metro area. Rivals.com rated Keenan — a 6-foot-2, 220-pounder — as one of the best outside linebacker prospects in the nation.
Keenan has played exclusively on special teams for Nebraska this season, but he didn’t make the trip to Lubbock, Texas, for Nebraska’s 70-10 loss to Texas Tech on Saturday because of “personal things,” according to the Omaha World-Herald.
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QBs not worried about ‘controversy’If a player wants to go from one Big 12 Conference school to another, they often will take a detour for a year of junior college to be able to continue playing. A direct transfer between conference schools results in having to sit out one year and losing that year of eligibility.