With his Kansas football team 0-3 in the Big 12 following a 2-1 start during the less challenging nonconference portion of the schedule, head coach David Beaty decided this past Wednesday, during the Jayhawks’ bye week, to fire offensive coordinator Doug Meacham. On Monday, during his slot on the Big 12 coaches media teleconference, Beaty spoke publicly for the first time about what went into landing on such ...
For most of the first five games of the season, Kansas defensive tackle Daniel Wise’s contributions came more schematically than statistically. In the days leading up to the Jayhawks’ Oct. 6 football game at West Virginia, conversations his coaches and teammates had regarding Wise during media interviews centered on his value as a defender who demands double teams. Head coach David Beaty even agreed with a ...
For all but the final months of his high school career, Ochai Agbaji mostly went unnoticed on the cutthroat basketball recruiting scene. Even college coaches who grew to appreciate Agbaji as a shooting guard prospect thought of him as a role player on the AAU circuit. No one perceived him as a star. Still, the time Agbaji invested complementing teammates with MOKAN Elite powered the evolution of his game. It ...
The Kansas football defense spent more time in an opponent’s backfield Saturday at No. 9 West Virginia than it had in any other point during the first half of the season. The Jayhawks, though ultimately unsuccessful in a 38-22 defeat at Milan Puskar Stadium, headed into their bye week having just recorded season highs in both sacks (five) and tackles for loss, sending the WVU offense a combined 79 yards in ...
Six days before the Kansas football team’s road game at West Virginia, junior quarterback Carter Stanley learned on Twitter that he would maintain his newly acquired starting spot for the Big 12 road game. Four series into the Jayhawks’ loss at WVU, senior Peyton Bender took over at QB. But Bender didn’t do enough for head coach David Beaty to say the senior QB had won back the No 1 slot on the depth ...
Morgantown, W.Va., holds more meaning for Carter Stanley than it does for most Kansas football players. Stanley grew up watching West Virginia stars such as quarterback Pat White and running back Steve Slaton, with his mother, Beth, who attended WVU. Before KU’s trip out east this weekend, Stanley spoke of childhood dreams about playing in Milan Puskar Stadium. The Mountaineers’ home even turned out to be ...