Of course Kansas quarterback Carter Stanley left the Jayhawks’ season opener pleased about winning the starting job and leading a must-have touchdown drive in crunch time. At no point during Stanley’s postgame discussions with the media nor in his interview session on Monday, however, did the fifth-year senior come across as a QB elated or even satisfied by his performance. In his first time entering a ...
The Kansas football defense had only been on the field for six snaps on Saturday when starting cornerback Hasan Defense took a seat on the bench. Defense wasn’t winded. Nor had the senior corner committed some egregious mistake. This was not a case of his coaches trying to teach him a lesson. In fact, Defense’s most recent contribution at the time was a 57-yard interception return for a touchdown. When ...
After coaching his first football game at the University of Kansas without the team’s All-Big 12 running back, head coach Les Miles is prepared to play Pooka Williams Jr. “without limitation” this week versus Coastal Carolina. While some may have wondered whether Miles might ease KU’s leading returning offensive playmaker into the rotation following Williams’ one-game suspension for an offseason ...
As Hurricane Dorian slowly headed toward the southeastern Atlantic coast on Monday, its coming impact was on the minds of members of both the Kansas football team and the Jayhawks’ next opponent, Coastal Carolina. The Chanticleers, based in Conway, S.C., had to pack up and relocate on Labor Day, according to a report from The Sun News. Two days after dropping their season opener at home 30-23 to Eastern ...
From the time Les Miles stepped into the Kansas football facilities this past winter, the veterans in the program began anticipating how the 2019 season could play out differently for them. With Miles’ seven seasons of double-digit victories, plus the two SEC titles and the national championship he won at LSU, KU’s players suddenly found themselves answering to a head coach of high college football ...
While running onto the field before a game for the first time as the head football coach at Kansas, Les Miles felt relatively calm about what was to come. Sure, it had been close to three years since he coached a college football game, but Miles reported a steady heart rate for the minutes leading up to his debut with the Jayhawks. Miles wouldn’t leave David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Saturday without ...