Already past the halfway mark of his first spring in charge of the Kansas football program, head coach Les Miles admitted following Tuesday’s practice that there has been some dissatisfaction with the Jayhawks’ progress — and that lack of fulfillment isn’t only being expressed by Miles. “I think our team is kind of getting upset with being held back — little penalties, things that stop drives or ...
From the day he first flew to Lawrence and was introduced as the new head football coach at the University of Kansas, Les Miles made clear his intention to recruit as much in-state talent as possible. His plan of attack, Miles shared months later, after KU signed three high school standouts from the Sunflower State in its 2019 recruiting class, was to identify local recruits as soon as possible. “When I ...
Jacobi Lott prefers not to talk about it. The details of the incident, the offensive lineman says, he wants to keep in his past. What Lott, a redshirt freshman from Amarillo, Texas, is focusing on now, he’ll tell you, is his football present and future. Lott and his University of Kansas teammates were in the midst of their fifth preseason practice this past August when the young O-lineman had to leave the ...
Three Class of 2019 signees who project as key members of the offense in Les Miles’ first season as head coach at the University of Kansas already are on campus. If junior college transfers and spring semester enrollees Thomas MacVittie, Ezra Naylor and Andrew Parchment are setting the world on fire during the closed portions of spring practices, when all of the critical on-field playbook and scheme ...
As their college careers came to an end this past November, the seniors on the 2018 Kansas football team closed a chapter of their lives just as a new one was opening for the program. Out went standouts Daniel Wise, Joe Dineen and Steven Sims Jr., and in came renowned former LSU coach Les Miles, their paths barely crossing. “Everybody’s super-busy at the time,” Wise recalled earlier this week, explaining ...
Daniel Wise arrived Wednesday at the Kansas football team’s indoor practice facility with one very specific goal in mind. Sure, the 6-foot-2, 279-pound NFL hopeful wanted to impress scouts with his position drill work, too, but Wise resolved long before KU’s pro day to use the showcase as an opportunity to prove he was faster than he showed at the NFL Scouting Combine. After finishing the 40-yard dash in ...