The most crucial stretch of Lance Leipold’s first few months as Kansas football’s head coach has arrived. Leipold and his staff will have even longer to-do lists than normal on a daily basis from this point on, as the Jayhawks kick off preseason practices and begin gearing up for the 2021 season. With both staff and roster turnover affecting the program since the end of a winless 2020 campaign, the first ...
A Kansas football team that had to rely on a flawed offensive line throughout the 2020 season is about to find out what adding one of the nation’s better centers can do to help remedy the problem. Mike Novitsky, the starting center at Buffalo for each of the past two years, was one of several former Bulls to follow head coach Lance Leipold from the MAC to the Big 12. In his final season at UB, Novitsky made ...
The race to win the Kansas football team’s starting quarterback job is about to hit warp speed, with the Jayhawks’ preseason practices beginning Thursday morning — just 29 days before the team’s season opener. So candidates Jason Bean, Jalon Daniels and Miles Kendrick only have a few weeks to impress head coach Lance Leipold and his staff. Prior to Leipold finally getting his first chance to coach the ...
Back home in St. Augustine, Fla., over the Independence Day holiday weekend for a brief getaway from the grind of Kansas football’s summer workouts, veteran defensive back Kenny Logan Jr. made sure to stay in touch with someone whom he met only a couple of months earlier. Sure, Logan was on vacation. But that didn’t mean he was going to stop texting — or even FaceTiming — with head coach Lance ...
Over the course of the past several months, Kaleb Purdy picked up scholarship offers from more renowned Power Five football programs than Kansas. But on Friday, the defensive back from St. Louis announced he plans to play at KU. Rated a three-star prospect by Rivals headed into his senior year at DeSmet High, Purdy went with the Jayhawks, despite offers from Iowa State, Michigan, Missouri and Kansas ...
Two of the Kansas football team’s key veteran leaders, junior safety Kenny Logan Jr. and super-senior receiver Kwamie Lassiter II landed on separate preseason watch lists on Thursday. The Louisville Sports Commission announced Logan is one of the 57 players in the running for this year’s Paul Hornung Award, presented to college football’s most versatile player. Meanwhile, Lassiter’s name appeared on the ...