The massive recruiting weekend enjoyed by the Kansas football program in late June is still paying dividends for the Jayhawks more than a month later. One of the numerous visitors to Lawrence the weekend before KU’s 2020 recruiting class exploded with nine new commitments in a span of five days earlier this summer, Texas high school receiver Lawrence Arnold announced Monday his intentions to join Les Miles’ ...
Precisely how soon the decision will be reached remains to be seen. But sometime in the days or weeks ahead, Kansas football coach Les Miles will see enough of some specific qualities in one of the team’s two most trusted quarterbacks that the head coach and his assistants will be ready to name a starter. Considered by many to be the favorite in the QB race since the spring, junior Thomas MacVittie hasn’t ...
Early preseason impressions don’t win college football games, but the ones made by Kansas football players on their head coach this week seemed to reveal that the Jayhawks opened camp right on track. Minutes after walking out of the team’s indoor practice facility on Friday for his first camp press conference, Les Miles opened his session with reporters by declaring the Jayhawks looked “a lot better” ...
The Kansas football program’s lengthy list of 2020 commitments shrank by one this weekend. Among the earlier players during a busy June to pledge to head coach Les Miles and his staff, linebacker Kershawn Fisher announced Saturday night on Twitter that he’s now a “free agent,” having decommitted from the Jayhawks. A three-star prospect from Northshore High, in Slidell, La., Fisher declared himself ...
Just as many anticipated when word of his name entering the transfer portal became public knowledge earlier this week, Ben Miles found his new football home at the University of Kansas. Formerly a fullback at Texas A&M, the son of KU head coach Les Miles officially joined the Jayhawks on Thursday, the first day of preseason camp. Following KU’s first August practice on Friday, the man who has known Ben ...
For a man who lost a potential starting linebacker ahead of preseason camp, Kansas football coach Les Miles came across as more upbeat than worried about the position following his team’s first practice on Friday. Although Miles declined to get into what exactly led would-be KU junior Drew Harvey to leave the program and enter the transfer portal, saying all he could divulge was that Harvey isn’t with the ...