In David Beaty’s first game this season serving as head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, the Kansas football offense never put his team in position to challenge Texas Tech on Saturday. While quarterback Peyton Bender’s 221 passing yards marked KU’s second-highest total this season, behind Carter Stanley’s 247 against Oklahoma State, 161 of the Jayhawks’ passing yards at Tech came ...
A lack of change actually represented a shift in one offensive approach for the struggling Kansas football team in Saturday’s road loss at Texas Tech. For the first time this season the Jayhawks navigated an entire game started by Peyton Bender without rotating the quarterback from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in and out of the lineup or going away from him completely. A senior, Bender, as planned, returned to the ...
Long before their final season in Lawrence began, Kansas football’s standout redshirt seniors, Daniel Wise and Joe Dineen, learned they ranked among the program’s all-time best in career tackles for loss. And with Dineen, a linebacker, leading Wise, a defensive lineman, by 3.0 TFLs, the race to the top, and former KU linebacker Willie Pless’s record of 41 (from 1982-85) was on. It’s feasible for both ...
Lubbock, Texas — A midseason change at offensive coordinator did little to spark the Kansas football team in its first game since head coach David Beaty fired Doug Meacham and named himself O.C. and quarterbacks coach. The Jayhawks’ offense only produced one field goal by halftime, setting up a 21-point intermission deficit on the way to a 48-16 road loss. Senior quarterback Peyton Bender, in particular, ...
Lubbock, Texas — At various stages of the fourth quarter during another Kansas football loss, some heads on the Jayhawks’ east sideline hung low. A few Jayhawks, with their hands on their hips, watched in disbelief. Others stared defiantly into the late afternoon sun, doing their best to stomach the final minutes of a 48-16 defeat at the hands of Texas Tech. All of the looks were suitable for a day on ...
Lubbock, Texas — After missing the Kansas football team’s trip to West Virginia due to injury, junior Mike Lee returned to his starting spot in the defensive backfield Saturday at Texas Tech. But the return proved to be a brief one for the hard-hitting safety from New Orleans. Lee, who already had come up with nine solo tackles and a forced fumble, was ejected with 32 seconds left in the second quarter at ...