All former Buffalo starting center Mike Novitsky had to do to grab the attention of his new football teammates at the University of Kansas was introduce himself.
Before he got to campus this summer, the Jayhawks already had heard about Novitsky, a first-team All-MAC selection at UB in 2020. So when the 6-foot-5, 296-pound offensive lineman showed up and said they could call him Dirk, it caught at least a few ...
A week into his first preseason camp in charge of the Kansas football program, head coach Lance Leipold thinks there’s “a lot” his Jayhawks must shore up in order to be successful.
In his mind, Leipold said following KU’s sixth practice of camp on Wednesday, “everything” needs to get better.
And though the program’s new head coach prefaced what followed by saying he wasn’t picking out a group ...
University of Kansas football fans will have a couple of chances this weekend to learn a little bit about where the program is headed now that Lance Leipold is the head coach.
Leipold, the team's first-year head coach, will be one of the featured speakers at the athletic department’s preseason pep rally in Prairie Village on Friday night, and then will welcome fans in for an open practice on Saturday morning ...
Lance Leipold didn’t recruit true freshman Devin Neal, but the first-year Kansas football head coach sure is glad to have the former Lawrence High star running back on board.
At 5-foot-11 and 210 pounds, Neal didn’t look like a typical incoming freshman skill player when he joined the roster this summer. But Neal’s physicality and stature, Leipold said, are just a portion of what has helped the young back ...
A fill-in starter for the Kansas football team’s offensive line a year ago, Garrett Jones announced Sunday he won’t be playing football “for awhile.”
A KU spokesperson confirmed to the Journal-World that Jones is no longer with the program.
A redshirt freshman from Berrien Springs, Mich., Jones opened preseason camp with the Jayhawks this past week before his plans changed.
The 6-foot-2, 295-pound ...
The preseason practice schedule is still young, but Kansas football special teams coordinator Jake Schoonover already has a good idea which specialists and returners he’ll likely be trusting during games this fall.
“There are definitive roles and leaders in those groups,” Schoonover said of the mostly drama-free competitions on Monday, following the Jayhawks’ fifth practice. “But there’s also a good ...
