If Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold and his staff think there’s a definitive leader in the team’s preseason quarterback competition, he “probably wouldn’t share” that information publicly, Leipold told reporters during a Tuesday video press conference. “Nah, not really,” he replied, when asked whether one of the three candidates had emerged. Just as Leipold figured would be the case — ...
In a group of Kansas football linebackers that doesn’t yet have a wealth of starting experience, their position coach, Chris Simpson, has been on the lookout during the preseason for players he can trust. “Some things are starting to sort themselves out. It’s still a work in progress, and I think it will be for a while,” Simpson said on Sunday, following the Jayhawks’ 15th preseason practice. While ...
As Nick Channel’s third year in the University of Kansas football program began winding down this past spring, the walk-on linebacker from Wichita wanted to find out whether a scholarship opportunity might be in his future. But with the Jayhawks’ head coaching position up in the air at the time, Channel didn’t know what would come of his situation. Once Lance Leipold took over the program, it didn’t ...
Whatever gratifying — or agitating — signs offensive line coach Scott Fuchs saw out of his players during a Friday morning scrimmage, the Kansas football assistant kept those to himself during his first interview of preseason camp. “Walking off the practice field it’s never as good as it seems and it’s never as bad as it seems,” Fuchs replied, when asked about what he had just witnessed inside David ...
When former Buffalo defensive linemen Eddie Wilson and Ronald McGee joined the Kansas football program this summer, one of their new teammates, defensive end Malcolm Lee, could tell both were physically impressive. And Lee also knew from experience that the most difficult adjustment for the veterans might be getting used to KU D-line coach Kwahn Drake. “He’s definitely a jerk,” Lee joked about Drake’s ...
Regardless of the type of practice the Kansas football safeties are having on any given day of preseason camp, defensive coordinator Brian Borland always wants them to do better. And sometimes Borland, the group’s position coach, simply wants them to talk more. “We’ve got to be better communicators back there,” said Borland, the longtime assistant of head coach Lance Leipold. Early on during camp, ...