A specific series of events had to unfold for Les Miles to become the football coach at the University of Kansas. And if a program near to his heart had ever offered him the head coaching job, it’s unlikely Miles ever would have ended up in Lawrence. A former player and assistant at Michigan in his younger days, Miles recently told Angelique S. Chengelis, of The Detroit News, he would have loved to become the ...
The Kansas football coaches’ 2020 recruiting class already boasted commitments from prospects residing in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan, California, Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio, Missouri and Kansas. Now they can add Florida to the list. Chris Jones, a three-star prep defensive end according to Rivals, announced Sunday night his commitment to the Jayhawks. “I am truly blessed to say that I will be ...
Eight practices into preseason camp, the Kansas football team’s quarterback competition continues to hover in a persistent status quo. Head coach Les Miles didn’t mention any real separation in the race between Thomas MacVittie and Carter Stanley following Saturday’s session at the team’s indoor practice facility. What’s more, Miles suggested he’s in no rush to pick the Jayhawks’ starting ...
With three weeks left before he leads the Kansas football team onto the field for a game for the first time, Les Miles and his assistants spent much of Saturday’s practice in scrimmage mode, trying to gauge how far away the Jayhawks are from being ready for the season. While what Miles witnessed didn’t strike him as flawless, the head coach mostly reported favorable takeaways from the scrimmage. According ...
On an offensive line that Kansas football coach Les Miles professes to be encouraged by during the team’s closed preseason practices, the man at the focal point of it all is catching the head coach’s eye for the right reasons. “Api Mane is probably a little bit ahead of the other group, the other guys,” Miles said of the Jayhawks’ likely starting center, when asked who has stood out on the interior of ...
The first time Dorance Armstrong suited up for a football game and found himself wearing the iconic Dallas Cowboys’ uniform instead of the crimson and blue of the University of Kansas, emotions hit the defensive end from Houston hard. “Man, I was real nervous,” Armstrong recalled earlier this week during an interview with reporters at the Cowboys’ training camp, in Oxnard, Calif. That was a year ago, ...