On several occasions during his introductory press conference, new University of Kansas football coach Les Miles mentioned the number 85.
It’s an important figure for FBS programs, because it represents the maximum total of scholarship players a team is allowed to carry in a season.
And it is a number KU has been chasing since long before Miles even thought about joining the Jayhawks.
In the course of his ...
As Les Miles looks ahead to Year 1 of the massive rebuilding project he agreed to take on when he signed a five-year contract to coach the Kansas football team, he doesn’t appear to be a man ready to temper his expectations.
Speaking on the latest episode of his “Les Is More” podcast for The Players’ Tribune, Miles reflected on his first season as a head coach, back in 2001. At the time, Oklahoma State ...
Udoka Azubuike, Lagerald Vick and Dedric Lawson won’t be losing any sleep with Monday’s news that Gonzaga vaulted past Kansas to the No. 1 spot in the new AP poll.
Neither will their coach, Bill Self, whose list of things to worry about doesn’t include any mention of how many votes his team did or didn’t receive.
Perhaps we should follow their lead.
Sure, rankings can be a fun way to track the ...
Former Kansas football coach David Beaty hasn’t traded in his crimson and blue gear for burnt orange.
But, according to Texas head coach Tom Herman, Beaty, who spent his final days with the Jayhawks preparing to try and defeat the Longhorns, now will at least play some small part in helping them out.
During Monday’s Big 12 Championship Teleconference, Herman was asked about a report from Orangebloods.com ...
On Friday afternoon inside the Kansas football locker room, David Beaty had the floor one final time.
Fired 19 days earlier, the outgoing head coach had plenty to tell his players after their final game together, a home loss to Texas. But Beaty also asked every assistant on his staff to speak, too. And while the messages from the head coach and his staffers included words of gratitude and love, they also urged ...
As the 2018 season concluded for the Kansas football team on Friday, with a 24-17 loss to Texas at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, it proved difficult in the raw aftermath of a disappointing campaign that cost head coach David Beaty his job for the Jayhawks to fully ponder what’s next.
Even though the Jayhawks suffered three one-score defeats during their 3-9 season, the time for considering how close ...
