Roughly nine months from now, when Les Miles coaches his first game at Kansas, the football roster won’t be devoid of talent or experience. With All-Big 12 running back Pooka Williams, three-year starting tackle Hakeem Adeniji, hard-hitting safety Mike Lee and others expected to return from the 2018 starting lineup, the Jayhawks should have a solid core around which Miles and his staff can build. Even so, ...
Ten days after the Kansas football season’s conclusion, a coordinator for new head coach Les Miles’ staff emerged. In a day full of escalating smoke connecting the name Chip Lindsey with KU football, AL.com’s Auburn football reporter, Matt Zenitz, reported Monday afternoon sources told him the former Auburn offensive coordinator is expected to be hired by Miles at KU. A source with knowledge of the ...
Former Kansas football coach Turner Gill announced Monday he is retiring from his position as head coach at Liberty University, effective immediately. Gill, 56, stated in a press release his decision to step away from the profession was tied to his wife Gayle’s heart condition, something she was diagnosed with in 2016. “Both Gayle and I wanted to be here to help Liberty through their transition,” Gill ...
Lagerald Vick’s borderline ludicrous 3-point shooting over the course of the Kansas basketball team’s previous five games had the Jayhawks ranked seventh in the country in long-distance accuracy (43.9 percent) entering the week. Those numbers notwithstanding, on the eve of KU’s seventh game, a home matchup with Wofford, Bill Self wasn’t buying the idea that he’s currently coaching a group of good ...
In his first official move as Kansas football coach, Les Miles didn’t name an offensive or defensive coordinator. Miles began assembling his staff by hiring a position coach he knows well. Chevis Jackson, an All-SEC cornerback at LSU in 2007, when Miles and the Tigers won the national championship, will coach the Jayhawks’ defensive backs, KU announced Sunday night. Jackson spent the past three seasons ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2018/dec/01/327964/ Quick grades for five aspects of the Kansas basketball team’s 90-84 overtime win over Stanford on Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. Offense: B- ---------- KU spent much of the first half failing to find a flow on offense. Twenty minutes into the game that showed in the assist column, where the Jayhawks had only tallied one by intermission. Only 16 minutes ...