Les Miles would like for you to believe that the offense his Kansas football team will run after its midseason bye week won’t be all that dissimilar from the one it used during the first six games of the season. Miles even claimed that after firing offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Les Koenning and handing the offense over to Brent Dearmon. Sure. “I think there's some similarities and some ...
It lasted close to eight months, but as of Wednesday the connection appears to be severed between the first Class of 2020 prospect to commit to Kansas and Les Miles' coaching staff. Keenan Hambrick, a three-star receiver from Athens, Ala., announced on Twitter his decision to decommit from the Jayhawks. Hambrick, who initially sent his nonbinding verbal pledge KU’s way back in February, described his ...
Both before and after his Kansas football team’s midseason bye week, head coach Les Miles spoke of the importance of self-scouting during the Jayhawks’ relative downtime. However, as often is the case with Miles, he didn’t allow outsiders much of a peek behind the curtain in terms of how this past week’s practices benefited KU’s defense. What did the coaching staff learn about the defensive unit ...
The third offensive coordinator Les Miles has hired since taking over the Kansas football program in November of 2018, Brent Dearmon’s contract could keep the recently promoted senior offensive consultant with the Jayhawks through the 2025 season. A copy of the contract, obtained by the Journal-World through an open records request, shows that Dearmon’s first two years — which include the remainder of ...
Carter Stanley doesn’t consider himself a skilled basketball player. The senior Kansas quarterback has spent most of his time since about eighth grade focusing his athletic conquests on football, after all. During the past week, though, when Stanley runs the Jayhawks’ offense in practices, under the guidance of new coordinator Brent Dearmon, the QB can picture himself as a distributor on the ...
Whether it was shortcomings with his game plans, individual instruction or in-game play-calling — or some other reason — that cost former Kansas football offensive coordinator Les Koenning his job, head coach Les Miles didn’t choose to share that information Monday afternoon, during his first press conference since firing Koenning. “I thought the initial hire (of Koenning) was the best hire, OK,” ...