Three would-be starters for the 2021 Kansas football defense instead will compete in the SEC this fall. Former KU cornerback Karon Prunty announced Saturday evening he has committed to play at South Carolina. Prunty’s relocation to the football-crazed Power Five conference in the southeast followed similar decisions from former KU nose tackle Da’Jon Terry and former defensive end Marcus Harris, as all three ...
A former reserve defensive back at Virginia Tech who most recently started at Missouri State, Jeremy Webb announced Saturday night he’s transferring to Kansas. “Let’s work,” Webb posted to Twitter, along with a graphic that featured the Jayhawks’ logo, photos of the cornerback and the word “committed” in all caps. Listed on the Missouri State roster at 6-foot-4 and 205 pounds for his recently ...
Less than two weeks after Jake Schoonover joined the Kansas football staff as an assistant coach earlier this year, the man who hired him, Les Miles, was out of a job. Schoonover didn’t know in March who would become the team’s next head coach, but between his ties to the area and his belief in what the program could become, the new assistant knew he didn’t want to go anywhere. So once KU hired Lance ...
Before Lance Leipold and several of his assistant coaches left Buffalo to take on a rebuilding project with Kansas football, a search to replace a third-round NFL draft pick led them to Zion DeBose. As Leipold and his staff got to KU and determined the Jayhawks needed some reinforcements on the defensive line, they circled back to DeBose, a former backup at Virginia Tech who had committed to them at UB as a ...
The Big 12 won't be offering Lance Leipold a friendly initiation process this fall, when the path toward victories figures to be onerous for Kansas football during Leipold’s debut season as the head coach. According to various projections, including some posted this week by Sports Betting Dime, the Jayhawks are expected to play one of the most difficult slates in all of the FBS. SBD’s strength of schedule ...
It didn’t take much deliberation for Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold when he decided to invite Rich Miller out of the transfer portal and onto the Jayhawks’ roster. During Miller’s first two seasons playing college football, the linebacker from Detroit may not have made a start for Buffalo, but according to Leipold — his former and current head coach — Miller made a name for himself at UB ...