Fresh off his first signing class as head football coach at the University of Kansas, Les Miles announced Monday some more additions to his support staff that figure to help the Jayhawks on the never-ending recruiting front. Miles announced that Dirk Wedd will move from an analyst job to director of high school relations, while Drew Hixson has been hired as KU’s director of scouting. Entering his second ...
When Les Miles took over the long-struggling Kansas football program this past November and began making decisions about the roster’s most pressing needs, it became clear to him where to get started. “Offensively, it was we needed to have a quarterback,” Miles shared during his “Hawk Talk” radio show this past week. “And Thomas MacVittie is that guy. He’s mobile. He can run it and throw ...
Fort Worth, Texas — Ever since it became clear that winning away games could no longer be considered the foregone luxury that it typically is for Bill Self-coached teams at Kansas, the Jayhawks have searched for one of their role players to drag them out of their road stupor by becoming more of a leading man. As good as Dedric Lawson has been this season for KU, the redshirt junior big needed a wingman. All ...
While head coach Les Miles and his assistants seem genuinely enthused about the Kansas football program’s 2019 signing class, no one in the crop of incoming Jayhawks is as touted as four-star talent Steven Parker. A dominant defensive end at South Oak Cliff High, in Dallas, Rivals ranked him as the 20th-best weakside defensive end in the nation, as well as the No. 40 overall prospect in the state of Texas. A ...
It doesn’t appear Justin Ford will end up joining the Kansas football program after all. One of the 11 early signees in Les Miles’ first recruiting class this past December, Ford tweeted out a note this week to make known his future plans. “I will like to announce that I will be reopening my recruitment, looking to transfer out in May,” Ford wrote in a note accompanying his post on Twitter. That ...
Ochai Agbaji wasn’t supposed to play this season. The Kansas basketball team, it appeared, didn’t need the freshman guard from Kansas City, Mo. Sure, KU’s coaches loved his long-term potential. But Agbaji could take a redshirt year and the Jayhawks would be just fine without him, what with their McDonald’s All-Americans and returning players with Final Four experience. That was the line of thinking ...