Accelerated though it may prove to be, the quarterback competition at Kansas football preseason camp remained nowhere near resolved on Saturday. No hints of a leader. No sense of separation. After all, starting QB candidates Peyton Bender, Carter Stanley and Miles Kendrick only had two August practices behind them when players and coaches gathered Saturday inside Anderson Family Football Complex to provide ...
Only a few months remain in Daniel Wise’s college football career. And the redshirt senior defensive tackle at the University of Kansas would like to cram as many successes as possible into them. What does the preseason first-team All-Big 12 defender have left to achieve? “A lot,” Wise will tell you bluntly, especially when considering the Jayhawks’ numerous losses during his time in the ...
David Beaty’s fourth season as head football coach at the University of Kansas officially kicks off in a little more than four weeks. Between now and the Sept. 1 opener, his Jayhawks have no shortage of matters to address, from trying to perfect plays and techniques, to identifying the players most capable of turning KU into a competitive team. It all begins Friday with the first practice of preseason camp. ...
The already minuscule 2019 Kansas football recruiting class lost its biggest and likely most talented prospect Wednesday morning. The first player to give his nonbinding verbal pledge to the Jayhawks back in late February, four-star New Orleans quarterback Lance LeGendre announced on Twitter he is no longer tied to KU. “First off I want to thank the University of Kansas (for) recruiting me, recognizing my ...
As Jeff Long heads into his first official day on the job at the University of Kansas on Wednesday, one of his most visible new employees, David Beaty, looks forward to formally introducing the new athletic director to the ins and outs of the football program. In the midst of the Jayhawks reporting to preseason camp on Thursday and going through their first practice on Friday, Beaty said recently he would ...
Through three seasons of the David Beaty era, the University of Kansas version of college football’s trendy Air Raid offense has failed to yield the type of results that would make the program competitive, let alone turn it around. Even after adding in 2017 new offensive coordinator Doug Meacham and quarterback Peyton Bender, who has experience with the Air Raid system, the Jayhawks’ offense crashed far too ...