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 ...
Before Mike Novitsky became a starter as a redshirt freshman at Buffalo, his head football coach, Lance Leipold, doesn’t mind admitting now that the coaching staff was more than a little concerned about the state of the team’s center position at the time. It wasn’t that Leipold — Novitsky’s coach then at UB, and now again at the University of Kansas — and his assistants doubted Novitsky’s talent ...
Six of the newest players on the Kansas football roster already know what it’s like to play for head coach Lance Leipold and the assistants who followed him from Buffalo to Lawrence. And much in the way Leipold envisions staff familiarity helping the Jayhawks in his first year in charge of the program, because Leipold also is aware of what he can expect out of the UB transfers, KU’s new head coach thinks ...
In a Kansas football secondary where experience will be scarce entering the 2021 season, cornerbacks coach Chevis Jackson still sees some promise within the young group. While recently discussing the depth on the back end of KU’s defense, Jackson presented his opinion that although some of the underclassmen players didn’t see much game action this past fall, that didn’t mean they were ...
The Kansas football offense no longer boasts a playmaker as hyped as former standout rusher Pooka Williams. However, running backs coach Jonathan Wallace not only likes the depth the Jayhawks have within the position group he oversees, Wallace also thinks highly of the players’ methods of going about their business. “Man, there’s a lot of potential,” Wallace said recently. “And I think that these ...
The additions of several new players to the Kansas football team are now officially official, as the program updated its published roster this week. With both incoming freshmen and transfers arriving on campus for summer courses and workouts, the Jayhawks’ list of players for the 2021 season now looks more complete than it did in the spring. The latest version includes eight new players with varying degrees ...