After spending the first three years of his college football life at North Texas, Jason Bean made his Kansas debut on Friday by starting at quarterback and leading the Jayhawks to a comeback victory at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. A redshirt junior who joined the program as a transfer this summer, Bean proved to be KU’s offensive star, passing for 163 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for another ...
The rushing attack many expected to be a staple of the Kansas football offense in Lance Leipold’s first season never got rolling in the Jayhawks’ season-opening victory. Quarterback Jason Bean (15 carries, 54 yards) turned out to be the only effective rusher for KU versus South Dakota, and the offense produced just 82 rushing yards as a team. Leipold said a variety of factors led to the Jayhawks’ mostly ...
Even though one of its veteran starters suffered an early injury in the Kansas football team’s season opener on Friday, the Jayhawks’ defense proved to be stout, particularly up front, in a 17-14 victory over visiting South Dakota. With super-senior nose tackle Sam Burt lost due to an arm injury on the second defensive series of Week 1, the Jayhawks’ depth along the D-line — with Caleb Sampson, Ronald ...
Although Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold waited until game day of his Jayhawks’ season opener to publicly announce who would start at quarterback, Leipold said he reached his final decision several days earlier. Reflecting on the job junior Jason Bean did in his first start as KU’s QB, Leipold said during his weekly press conference on Monday that Bean began to take the lead in the race late during ...
When Lance Leipold took over the Kansas football program four months ago, he kept hearing about the potential of a redshirt freshman receiver who only made six catches the previous season. Friday night during, Leipold’s first game with the Jayhawks, the head coach saw why the buzz around Lawrence Arnold wasn’t just hype. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound wideout from DeSoto, Texas, caught both of quarterback Jason ...
With a season-opening home loss to FCS opponent South Dakota very much in play late Friday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in Lance Leipold’s first game as head coach, the Jayhawks survived a scare with the help of their new starting quarterback. Junior Jason Bean found redshirt freshman receiver Lawrence Arnold for a quick hitter on the right side and Arnold did the rest of the work, scoring a ...