The weekend additions for Kansas football didn’t stop when the Jayhawks added two players to their 2020 recruiting class on Friday night — not even close. Four more high school prospects who were among the program’s numerous official visitors to Lawrence this weekend joined KU’s rapidly expanding class before noon on Saturday. A prep offensive lineman from Anaheim, Calif., Nicholas Martinez got the ...
A lively weekend for the Kansas football program’s recruiting efforts kept jetting along Saturday night. Fewer than 24 hours removed from the first commitment of a dizzying span featuring high school prospect after high school prospect announcing his plans to join the Jayhawks, the weekend total for new Class of 2020 pledges hit seven when a defensive lineman from Louisiana added his name to the list. Just ...
An embezzlement case in Louisiana has produced allegations that the father of an LSU football player was paid $180,000 while his son was on the team and coached by Les Miles. Now the head coach at the University of Kansas, Miles told a Louisiana newspaper that he had no knowledge of the payments. LSU administrators have confirmed they’ve turned information related to the allegations over to the NCAA. “I ...
When the dust finally settles on Les Miles’ 2020 Kansas football recruiting class months from now, it’s possible the work currently being done during the summer will go down as the most crucial stretch of the process. Miles and his assistant coaches already have landed seven verbal commitments from rising high school seniors in June alone, and this weekend marks another busy stretch on the recruiting ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/feb/11/328705/ There are far easier paths to an NBA career than the one Dedric Lawson must now traverse. No one expected the offensively gifted forward who spent his redshirt junior season at Kansas leading the Big 12 in scoring and rebounding to become a lottery pick or first round pick in Thursday night’s draft. Most experts didn’t even project Lawson as a second ...
As a midyear transfer enrolling at the University of Kansas this past January, Thomas MacVittie got some crucial acclimating out of the way upon joining the football program. Instead of cramming all that comes with getting accustomed to new surroundings, coaches, teammates and play calls into the summer, as some junior college transplants have to, MacVittie got comfortable at KU in the spring, long before the ...