Before the fans inside of Allen Fieldhouse had much to cheer about during the Kansas basketball team’s Saturday matchup with Stanford, the athletic department got the 16,300 in attendance on their feet by trotting out KU’s new football coach. At halftime of what proved to be a 90-84 overtime thriller and a victory for the Jayhawks, Les Miles strolled slowly out to half court wielding a microphone. The man ...
The offense was listless. The fans weren’t into it. And a former Kansas basketball standout-turned head coach, Jerod Haase, had visiting Stanford in perfect position to pull off an upset Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. Then freshman point guard Devon Dotson decided to do something about it. At halftime, head coach Bill Self had plenty to address. But for Dotson, two statistics presented to the nation’s No. ...
When Kansas running back Dom Williams first learned, days before the season’s conclusion, that Les Miles had been named the football program’s new head coach it admittedly caught the sophomore off guard. “I was just kind of shocked,” Williams recalled of his initial reaction. “Having him from LSU and not coaching anymore, it was kind of a shock. It came out of nowhere.” But the more he let his mind ...
During his final weeks as the football coach at the University of Kansas, David Beaty hesitated to reveal much publicly about the program’s plans for redshirting certain players this season. As of Thursday, seven days since the Jayhawks’ finale, the team, now coached by Les Miles, has yet to make any official decisions on which players will use 2018 as a redshirt year. Any member of the team who played in ...
Since he first arrived in Lawrence a little more than 11 months ago, Silvio De Sousa, by no choice of his own, has grown accustomed to waiting. The 6-foot-9 Kansas basketball forward, who graduated from IMG Academy in Florida early in order to join the 2017-18 Jayhawks just before the start of conference play, had to wait four games before receiving clearance to play as a freshman. The NCAA, per its standard ...
With the help of yet another Pooka Williams Jr. feat, the Kansas football program, in spite of its 3-9 season, landed three players on the 2018 All-Big 12 First Team. The conference’s coaches evidently witnessed enough overall improvement from the program and unmistakable talent from freshman running back Williams, as well as redshirt seniors Joe Dineen Jr. and Daniel Wise, to vote all three standouts onto ...