Currently going through his third preseason with the University of Kansas football program, safety Mike Lee feels better about the state of the team this August. Looking back at camp practices that ushered in his freshman and sophomore seasons and comparing them to those of the past week-plus, Lee thinks he has picked up on an important difference. “My first two camps, really, there was bad communication on ...
Six practices into preseason camp, the Kansas football team still has a three-man quarterback competition on its hands, with Thursday morning marking just the second session in full pads. As repetitions remain split between Peyton Bender, Carter Stanley and Miles Kendrick, their head coach, David Beaty, is eyeing an upcoming scrimmage as a likely moment of separation. “After Saturday, we should know a whole ...
A day removed from seeing offensive lineman Jacobi Lott leave practice in an ambulance, his Kansas football head coach and teammates shared Thursday what they could about the scene. David Beaty reiterated the program’s previous statement on the undisclosed injury the freshman suffered around the midway point of Wednesday’s practice, noting that, due to “privacy concerns,” all the coach could share was ...
As Kansas football head coach David Beaty and his staff led players through their first few days of preseason camp, they learned a man with a long history of working with successful Power Five programs will soon join them. KU athletic director Jeff Long announced Monday the hiring of Mike Vollmar, a former associate athletic director for football at Alabama and Michigan, as KU’s senior associate AD for ...
An injury marred the Kansas football team’s fifth preseason practice, its first in full pads, on Wednesday morning. An ambulance was called to the practice fields adjacent to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium when offensive lineman Jacobi Lott suffered an unspecified form of trauma that was deemed a code red due to its critical nature by paramedics who arrived on the scene. Lott left the practice in an ...
As the Kansas football team continues its preseason camp schedule, defensive coordinator Clint Bowen looks forward to having an essential inspirational factor of sorts at his disposal this season. If a defensive lineman, linebacker or defensive back fails to carry out his responsibilities one too many times, Bowen, unlike during some recent years at KU, expects the threat of demotion will come in handy. “The ...