Kansas buck Ben Goodman (93) leads the Jayhawks onto the field against South Dakota on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 at Memorial Stadium.

Kansas University senior Ben Goodman, a defensive end from Beaumont, Texas, was featured on ESPN SportsCenter’s Campus Crawl Saturday morning as sports anchor Matt Barrie’s tour guide of the KU campus.

Goodman and Barrie visited some of Goodman’s favorite spots at his school and around Lawrence, starting and ending with trips to the Anderson Family Football Complex and Memorial Stadium.

After giving Barrie a quick look at what it’s like to walk out of the locker room and take the field for a KU game on Saturdays, Goodman led the hike up the hill to the Campanile Bell Tower, where the recent KU graduate allowed Barrie to pass through the memorial.

“There’s an old curse that says if you walk through this building before you graduate, you will not graduate,” Goodman told Barrie. “But the thing is, I graduated and, (since you don’t) plan on getting a degree from Kansas then we can walk through it.”

From there the two toured Allen Fieldhouse and then made a quick stop at Watson Barbershop, where Goodman and several KU athletes get their hair cut while in town.

While sitting in the chair, Goodman allowed Master Barber and longtime Lawrence resident Tim “Nelly” Nelson to demonstrate the sack dance they came up with together that Goodman hopes to use often during the upcoming season.

“It’s just The Bird. Flap your wings,” said Nelson, moving his arms up and down in the air and rocking side to side.

After checking in at nearby Muncher’s Bakery, where Goodman informed Barrie that a bite of the strawberry knot would change his life, KU’s most experienced returning defensive player did his own version of “The Bird” from Memorial Stadium’s south end zone as Barrie closed down the segment.

Goodman is one of four Jayhawks who will represent Kansas Football on Monday in Dallas at the Big 12 Conference’s annual media days.

He will be joined by tight end Ben Johnson, offensive lineman Jordan Shelley-Smith and, of course, first-year head coach David Beaty.

ESPN briefly caught up with Beaty during Saturday’s Campus Crawl segment, and KU’s fourth head coach in the past seven seasons outlined what his Jayhawks had emphasized most this offseason.

“I think the biggest challenge for us is just staying focused on us,” Beaty said. “Us getting better as a team and the things we can control.”

KU football reunion

Several former Jayhawks who played at Memorial Stadium in the 1960s and 1970s were back in town this weekend for a reunion.

The three-day trip down Memory Lane began with a welcome home gathering at the Eldridge Hotel on Friday night and continued with a full day on Saturday, when the former Jayhawks toured the facilities at Rock Chalk Park in the morning, the Anderson Family Football Complex and then enjoyed an evening reception at Legends in West Lawrence.

Harris re-ups with Nike

Former KU cornerback Chris Harris, who on Friday appeared during a segment on ESPN’s SportsCenter as well, announced this weekend that he had signed a new endorsement deal with Nike. Terms of the deal were unavailable.

Harris, now in his fifth season with the Denver Broncos, joined the NFL as an undrafted free agent before the 2011 season and has since become widely regarded as one of the top cornerbacks in the league.

Last December, Harris agreed to a five-year, $42.5 million contract extension with Denver.