During the most successful year of Les Miles’ career as a head football coach, another program with a far less stellar reputation than LSU experienced the most prosperous season in its history. While Miles plugged away in Baton Rouge, La., in 2007, eventually leading the Tigers to a national championship, LSU’s coach couldn’t help but notice what was transpiring in Lawrence. More than a decade before ...
Ask senior leaders on the Kansas football team which freshmen have managed to impress them during summer workouts and the same two names emerge. Steven Parker and Gavin Potter. Both linebackers and two of the more hyped signees in KU’s 2019 recruiting class, neither Parker nor Potter have yet endured a true college football practice. Still, during conditioning and weigh lifting sessions and other settings ...
One of the first players to commit to Les Miles once he took over the University of Kansas football program late this past year, Jayden Russell won’t play for the Jayhawks in Miles’ first season after all. Russell announced Monday night he was granted a release from his letter of intent with KU and that he is reopening his recruitment. A KU spokesperson confirmed to the Journal-World that the team did ...
Each summer the Kansas football program publishes its annual media guide, and every year the book is stuffed with pertinent facts and information, hitting on everything from rosters, to player and coach bios, to the team’s history. Among the 190-plus pages in the latest edition, few stand out quite like one within the section dedicated to KU’s new head coach. The entry is simply titled, Les Miles versus ...
Former Kansas football offensive lineman Cam Durley went into the NCAA transfer portal and came out on the other side. A Houston native who didn’t play in any games for the Jayhawks during his third year with the program in 2018, Durley announced via social media he has transferred to Tennessee State University. In an Instagram post that included a photo of Durley standing on the field inside Nissan Stadium, ...
Lawyers representing former University of Kansas football head coach David Beaty say Kansas Athletics Inc., “continues to move the goal posts” when it comes to paying Beaty his $3 million buyout. The coach’s legal team filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court of Kansas its response to a KAI motion to dismiss Beaty’s lawsuit against his one-time employer, countering in part that KAI’s argument based ...