KU’s athletic director says the university is already talking about contingency plans in case the coronavirus pandemic that canceled the NCAA’s winter and spring championships affects the 2020 football season, too. “Certainly there’s some question about the September football season starting off,” Athletic Director Jeff Long said during a video conference with local reporters earlier this week. ...
By this point of March, the Kansas football team was supposed to be four practices into its spring schedule. At least that was the plan before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. Instead, spring football as the Jayhawks know it will be lost, and it remains unclear when they will next have a chance to practice again. “It’s really tough,” former KU starting quarterback Carter Stanley told the ...
Kansas Athletics Inc. says it has evidence that former football coach David Beaty broke NCAA rules while at KU, and that it has spent “several hundred thousand” dollars in the court battles tied to Beaty’s lawsuit against the university, according to recently released court documents. In a 66-page memo, which was filed by KU’s lawyers on Jan. 31 but was only unsealed by a judge this past week, KU argues ...
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow, University of Kansas Athletics Director Jeff Long said on Monday afternoon that neither any athletes on KU teams nor staff members within the department have tested positive for COVID-19. “Candidly, I only know of one or two student-athletes that have been tested on our campus because they have shown the signs and whatever,” Long said during a video conference ...
Even before University of Kansas football coaches secured a verbal commitment from hometown Lawrence High prospect Devin Neal this weekend, the program’s 2021 recruiting class looked to be ahead of schedule. In fact, KU had four high school prospects committed as juniors in 2019, more than a year before any of them could sign with the Jayhawks and make their pledges official. “Usually with Kansas ...
Years before he joined the Kansas football staff, Brent Dearmon worked behind the scenes at Auburn as an analyst. Those two seasons are a span Dearmon remembers fondly, and it’s not just because that job helped catapult his coaching career. “I was around a guy named Nick Marshall for two years and those are two fun years for me,” Dearmon, now KU’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, said of ...