Perhaps because he’s spent so much of this season in college basketball’s version of crisis management mode, Bill Self on Friday afternoon turned one question about the at times tedious nature of a season into a nearly 3-minute long public service announcement about the state of the Kansas basketball team. Whether it was the Jayhawks’ four losses in their last six games (with all the defeats coming on the ...
On the second Sunday of December, new Kansas football coach Les Miles got his first commitment for the program’s 2019 recruiting class. By the first Wednesday in February, also known as National Signing Day in the college football universe, Miles was able to laud 19 prospects who will become a part of his debut season in Lawrence this coming fall. During his press conference earlier this week, Miles ...
As the Kansas football program’s 2019 recruiting class grew by nine players on Wednesday, National Signing Day revealed a peek into the mind of first-year head coach Les Miles. All the deliberate assessments and planning that went into Miles’ first recruiting class since re-entering the coaching ranks culminated with the Jayhawks winning over a number of talented high school prospects. “The key is to ...
After his recruitment came down to the wire, Gavin Potter, a high school linebacker from Oklahoma, introduced himself to the Kansas football fan base in grand fashion Wednesday. A three-star prospect who had verbally committed to Kansas State, Potter waited until National Signing Day to reveal whether he would stick with the Wildcats or choose another Big 12 program. And when it was time for his signing ...
Although Les Miles and his staff finished off much of their work ahead of December’s early signing period, a little drama remains for the first-year Kansas head coach and his assistants heading into National Signing Day. The Jayhawks already have 11 signees and a key verbal commitment from four-star Dallas defensive end Steven Parker in place. But the total composition of what will be a small 2019 signing ...
Manhattan — For all that Kansas State had done well this season, particularly while putting together a six-game Big 12 winning streak heading into Tuesday night’s Sunflower Showdown with Kansas, the Wildcats’ offensive prowess couldn’t exactly be considered a point of concern. What the visiting Jayhawks, so often road losers this season, had to worry about, though, was one of K-State’s primary sources ...