After suffering through repeated road issues a season ago, the Jayhawks would like to avoid in the months ahead the trend that dogged them so thoroughly during the 2018-19 campaign. With just one true road game out of the 11 on the schedule behind them, they have a long way to go to prove those difficulties are all in the past. KU relinquished a 4-point lead with fewer than two minutes to play in this ...
The next chapter in the career of former Kansas football strength coach Zac Woodfin officially began Thursday, as the Jayhawks’ old rivals at Missouri announced the Tigers’ football program hired Woodfin as its strength and conditioning director. The Journal-World and other outlets reported this past week that Woodfin, KU’s football director of strength and conditioning since early 2017, left the Jayhawks ...
Earlier this year, six seasons after leaving the University of Kansas early for the NBA, Ben McLemore’s future within the world’s preeminent basketball league was beginning to look iffy. McLemore never had taken off the way many — including the Sacramento Kings, who drafted him seventh overall in 2013 — figured. And when the organization that seemed to know the 6-foot-3 shooting guard best waived him ...
When the Big 12’s football coaches and a panel of media members selected their respective all-league teams for 2019, only two Jayhawks made the cut. But even more KU standouts were included when national college football writer Phil Steele unveiled his all-conference choices this week. Not only did sophomore running back Pooka Williams and senior left tackle Hakeem Adeniji pick up first-team All-Big 12 ...
As coordinator D.J. Eliot looks to enhance the Kansas football defense for next season and beyond, the hope is incoming freshmen will be able to contribute in some fashion during their first year on campus next year. Actually, that possibility often is a selling point during Eliot’s conversations with prospects. “We’re recruiting young players and we’re recruiting them to come in and play,” Eliot ...
Out of coaching when the NCAA first allowed college football staffs to make use of an early December signing period, Kansas head coach Les Miles got just a taste of the process a year ago, in a hurried fashion, with only a few weeks between the time of his hiring and the three-day window to try and line up recruits. With the class of 2020, Miles got to fully appreciate the format, describing it as ...