What a difference a year makes. Or more specifically, in the case of the University of Kansas football program, what a difference two leadership shakeups seem to have made. A year ago at this time, when CBS Sports rolled out its rankings of Power Five college football coaches, the man in charge of KU football, David Beaty, finished dead last. In the 12 months since then, KU chancellor Douglas Girod fired ...
Thomas MacVittie was only two-thirds of the way through spring football when he plopped down in one of Mrkonic Auditorium’s numerous seats inside Anderson Family Football Complex. The University of Kansas quarterback and his teammates had just wrapped up their 10th practice and MacVittie had yet to take off the wristband he uses not to wipe sweat away from his forehead, but as a convenient reminder of the ...
When Lawrence High baseball coach Brad Stoll and pitching coach Adam Green sat down ahead of the season to map out the Lions’ potential lineups, they were worried about the LHS pitching staff, just because they thought it may be too thin. As they looked at potential starting pitchers, senior left-hander Hank Dobson may have been an obvious choice, but Green suggested going another direction. “Hank is a ...
A regime change can challenge even the most experienced veteran. Just ask University of Kansas offensive lineman Hakeem Adeniji. A starter in every game the Jayhawks played during each of his first three seasons at the collegiate level, the senior left tackle had been asked to do plenty for the program since moving to Lawrence from Garland, Texas. But this was a new one — even for Adeniji. How would the ...
The NFL Draft came and went this past weekend without a member of the Kansas football program hearing his name called. But a few days later not even the first round of the Canadian Football League’s draft had completed before a Jayhawk was off the board. The Ottawa Redblacks chose former KU center Alex Fontana with the seventh overall pick of the CFL Draft. A Toronto native, the 6-foot-1, 298-pound Fontana ...
It’s true that offensive coordinator Les Koenning and his Kansas football boss, head coach Les Miles, won’t know exactly what type of player they have in Class of 2019 signee Jordan Medley until the young quarterback arrives on campus this summer. Both veteran coaches, though, can’t wait to see what the 6-foot-2, 200-pound prospect from Kannapolis, N.C., has in his arsenal. During Miles’ National ...