WRITER: Benton Smith

Marcus Garrett's defensive versatility makes it easy for KU to shift to 4-guard lineup

http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2018/dec/04/328016/ Your best post player goes down. Time for another to step up, right? Not for this Kansas basketball team. The absence of center Udoka Azubuike, no matter how long the 7-footer’s right ankle sprain keeps him out of the lineup, doesn’t necessarily mean more minutes for the frontcourt reserves who have been backing him up. Head coach Bill Self loved the ...

New KU football OC Chip Lindsey shares thoughts on Pooka Williams, QBs and more

After two years as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Auburn, a historically successful SEC football program that routinely plays in the postseason, Chip Lindsey arrived Tuesday at Kansas, where the Jayhawks haven’t been to a bowl game since 2008 and have won three or fewer games each of the past nine seasons. So how did Les Miles sell Lindsey on the idea of coming to KU? A Journal-World ...

List of FBS assistant salaries includes familiar name near the top

USA Today released on Wednesday its annual list of salaries for assistant college football coaches, and a name that’s now familiar with the Kansas football fan base landed among the top 20 of the highest-paid in the FBS ranks. According to the database, Chip Lindsey, before he was hired by Les Miles as the Jayhawks’ new offensive coordinator Tuesday, made $1.1 million in 2018 as the OC and quarterbacks ...

What to make of Chip Lindsey's hiring, and is KU basketball bad for your health?

Already more than two weeks removed from the day Les Miles was introduced as the Kansas football program’s new head coach, there seems to be no stopping the buzz surrounding the program. This past weekend Miles invigorated the Allen Fieldhouse crowd at halftime of the basketball game versus Stanford by simply strolling onto the court, saying a few words, eating some grass and giving away some Yeezys. The KU ...

KU announces Les Miles' hiring of Chip Lindsey as OC

New Kansas football coach Les Miles officially has his offensive coordinator. As reports from the Journal-World and other outlets indicated Monday, former Auburn offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chip Lindsey was Miles’ choice. KU announced Lindsey’s hiring Tuesday morning. "It is a great day when you can add a coach like Chip Lindsey to your staff," Miles stated in a release. "He has a proven ...

Benton Smith: Jayhawks improve perimeter defense to take down Terriers

Over the past few years, Wofford head coach Mike Young has found senior guard Fletcher Magee to be as steady a shooter as they come. The reigning SoCon Player of the Year, Magee has drained 3-pointers and averaged double digits since he arrived in Spartanburg, S.C., in 2015. But Tuesday night at Allen Fieldhouse, the Terriers’ chances of upsetting Kansas faded as the Jayhawks’ perimeter defenders made sure ...