Though much of the conversation revolved around the Kansas football offense when head coach Les Miles and a handful of players had their first media session of the preseason earlier this week, some defensive assistants provided a slight peek at the progress on that side of the ball Friday. Heading into his second season as the defensive coordinator for the Jayhawks, D.J. Eliot shared during a KU-produced ...
Before preseason practices began on July 31, Kansas football coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon told the team’s quarterbacks they were about to embark on an open competition for the starting job. And so it remains at this juncture, with three weeks to go before the Jayhawks are scheduled to kick off their 10-game season. During KU’s scrimmage earlier this week, every QB took live reps ...
Suspended from the Kansas football team since January, following an arrest, cornerback Corione Harris’ future with the program remains unresolved. Fielding questions from reporters for the first time since the team got started with preseason practices on July 31, KU head coach Les Miles said Thursday Harris is “working to untangle himself in this legal web.” According to court records, Harris was ...
Though Kansas football coach Les Miles reported Thursday during his first virtual press conference of the preseason that nobody in the program is currently suffering from a COVID-19 infection, the Jayhawks spent much of the past couple of months dealing with the virus. Miles revealed that since testing began on June 8, 117 people with KU football have gone through virus testing and 40 of those tests registered ...
Ask Les Miles about what he saw in his team’s first preseason scrimmage and the Kansas football coach will intentionally keep his answer vague and broad. You know, just to be sure no one outside of the closed practice somehow discovers some nugget or piece of insight that would provide a glimpse at the Jayhawks’ plans, strengths or weaknesses. “Offensively I think we moved the football well,” Miles ...
When the Pac-12 decided against playing college football this fall, the conference cited “evolving information regarding potential serious cardiac side effects” in athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 as one of its primary reasons for shutting it down. But on the same day that the Pac-12 and Big Ten announced there would be no football in 2020 for their conference members, the Big 12 didn’t follow ...