Three wins. Two wins. One win. No wins. In a decade dominated by losses, those are the only season win totals the Kansas football program has known. And if the current Jayhawks who haven’t experienced the entirety of KU’s struggles firsthand didn’t already know, they now understand going into this year’s finale what one more victory would mean. It was during a team meeting just over a week ago that ...
Carter Stanley didn't have to play his final college season at the University of Kansas. At one point, the quarterback wasn't even sure he wanted to. Earlier this year, Stanley had just wrapped up his fourth spring in the KU football program. Weeks away from graduating, he wasn’t certain whether it would be worth his time to go through another August QB competition. Even if the circumstances had changed, ...
Just more than a year ago, Les Miles took over the Kansas football program. And once he moved into his office and hit the ground running, the new head coach had to make sure the program’s veteran leaders were on board with him. To hear Miles describe it this week, ahead of KU’s Senior Day and season finale versus No. 11 Baylor, that might have been the easiest part of his transition. The former LSU and ...
Head coach Les Miles couldn’t say that he personally saw his Kansas football team’s star running back grow frustrated when the Jayhawks could not get Pooka Williams on track three games in a row. “I could understand it though,” Miles conceded. KU’s preseason All-Big 12 rusher wouldn’t be impeded for a fourth consecutive outing, however. After a three-game span during which he totaled 156 yards on ...
This Saturday Carter Stanley will play his final game at the University of Kansas. Once it’s over, the Jayhawks will have to replace a senior starting quarterback leaving the program ranked second all-time in touchdown passes (37). As much as the focus this week for head coach Les Miles and his players will be on the season finale versus Baylor (2:30 p.m., ESPN), Miles obviously is aware that the QB position ...
Though his impact this season has proven minimal, a man who knows Torry Locklin better than most observers outside of the Kansas football program thinks highly of the young athlete. Head coach Les Miles reiterated Monday that Locklin will not play in the Jayhawks’ finale so that the 6-foot-2 freshman from Rockdale, Texas, can use 2019 as his redshirt season. But it remains to be seen exactly where Locklin, ...