University of Kansas football coach David Beaty didn’t provide many particulars when the team on Saturday kept ballyhooed freshman running back Pooka Williams out of the lineup for the season opener due to a “non-disciplinary matter.” Two days later, Beaty didn’t have much of an update, either, during his weekly "Hawk Talk" radio show, other than to say the coaching staff hopes there “might be” an ...
A 12th consecutive defeat, this one in overtime of the opener to an admittedly successful FCS opponent, on the surface looks like the type of blow that could crash a team’s season. Football players at the University of Kansas who lived through Saturday’s 26-23 home loss to Nicholls State are here to tell you that won’t be the case. Although the Jayhawks who have spent the entirety of their college ...
As of halftime of Saturday’s season opener, the home of University of Kansas football has a new name: David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. The university made it official with a ceremony at the 50-yard line, as new athletic director Jeff Long and Chancellor Douglas Girod presented Booth with a miniature Jayhawk statue shortly after the KU band spelled out his name in formation. It was close to a year ago ...
The long-awaited debut of freshman running back Pooka Williams didn’t go as planned Saturday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. The Kansas football team announced shortly before kickoff of its 2018 opener that the four-star running back from Louisiana was “unavailable for competition.” “He is working through a non-disciplinary matter,” a release from the team stated. “We are fully ...
In a game marred by bad snaps, sacks and no real running threat, the Kansas football team somehow found itself with a chance to open the season with a victory, in overtime at that. But head coach David Beaty’s fourth season opener ended the same as his first, in 2015, with a home defeat at the hands of an FCS opponent. Nicholls State, ranked No. 17 in the preseason coaches poll, entered newly christened ...
When the Kansas football team lost its presumed starting center for 2018, Mesa Ribordy, during the offseason due to retirement, it didn’t take much reflection to realize how dire a situation the Jayhawks would face if they didn’t find a worthy replacement. All one needed to do was recall the two games KU played without Ribordy in 2017. When the center missed back-to-back road games due to injury, the ...