As a small crew in the bleachers behind him set up stadium chairs Thursday afternoon inside David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long made clear that the behavior of the fans who occupy those seats on Saturday will play a part in determining what attendance looks like for KU games moving forward. “It’s so key,” Long said, “to the future of what we’re allowed ...
Two games into the season, Kansas football coach Les Miles is downplaying any concerns he may have about the team’s defense. “I think as this continues we’ll continue to build,” Miles said this week, pointing to the defensive unit’s “good character.” While the defense isn’t solely responsible for the 42.5 points per game KU (0-2 overall, 0-1 Big 12) has surrendered, the Jayhawks are still ...
At about 2 a.m. this past Sunday, KU football coach Les Miles was rewatching his team's 47-14 loss at Baylor. He noticed Pooka Williams Jr. watching, too. “He was looking over his head coach’s shoulder,” Miles recalled, “and watching the game on the computer.” It had been a few hours since the Kansas football team’s loss at Baylor, but the junior running back wasn’t sneaking in some shuteye on ...
Depending on how the next few days of practices play out — and the health of one of the Jayhawks’ offensive veterans — the Kansas football team might go back to rotating quarterbacks when it takes on No. 17 Oklahoma State this week. Head coach Les Miles still wasn’t ready to name a permanent starter, even after true freshman Jalon Daniels played throughout KU’s 47-14 loss at Baylor on Saturday. “I ...
College football’s most unenviable streak kept plummeting, reaching a new milestone this past weekend, as the Big 12’s often clobbered travelers, the Kansas Jayhawks, lost the program’s 50th consecutive conference road game. Often more inadequate than competitive when venturing into another Big 12 city, KU football hasn’t won a league game in an opponent’s stadium since its 2008 trip to Iowa State. ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles started and stuck with true freshman quarterback Jalon Daniels in the Jayhawks’ 47-14 loss at Baylor. Nevertheless, KU’s quarterback situation going forward remained more murky than transparent late Saturday night. If an injury to senior QB Thomas MacVittie, who started and subbed in and out during the Jayhawks’ loss to Coastal Carolina, opened the door for Daniels, Miles ...