Topeka — When Kansas junior Christian Braun says his summer agenda includes improving “everything” he brings to the court, his fellow Jayhawks believe him. A teammate of Braun’s since the guard from Blue Valley Northwest arrived on campus two years ago, senior David McCormack said he has seen “an aggressive mindset” out of the 6-foot-6 Braun during the Jayhawks’ offseason workouts of ...
The number of commitments in the Kansas football team’s 2022 recruiting class shrank to three this weekend, as Xavion Brice announced he will be looking to play elsewhere. “After having a long talk with my head coach, I have made the decision to decommit from the University of Kansas,” Brice wrote in a note he posted to Twitter on Sunday night. The decision to back out came during the same weekend in ...
Ask KU safety and special teams returner Kenny Logan Jr. what he accomplished on the field in 2020, and he'll make it simple. “Not enough,” Logan said during a media session this spring. “Not enough.” The Jayhawks’ leading tackler during his breakout sophomore year, Logan intercepted two passes and returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown. He had a defense-leading 58 total tackles, plus three ...
Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold announced on Friday the hiring of three new members of the Jayhawks’ support staff, as well as a new role for another staffer. Two of the program’s newest employees, director of scouting Scott Aligo and director of recruiting Greg Svarczkopf, will play key roles in KU’s behind the scenes recruiting efforts. Leipold also hired Stephen Matos as a senior offensive ...
Kansas football offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki doesn’t take a dictatorial approach to play-calling. A longtime Lance Leipold assistant who coordinated the offenses at both Wisconsin-Whitewater and Buffalo before joining Leipold at KU, Kotelnicki recently explained he prefers working jointly with other assistants when he’s compiling a play sheet for any given game. During his introductory KU press ...
As Kansas football players get initiated this summer into what head coach Lance Leipold and his staff expect of them, a handful of Jayhawks already are getting noticed. The team’s director of sports performance, Matt Gildersleeve, tabbed veteran quarterback Miles Kendrick KU’s first “guy of the week” for all that the QB has done during the Jayhawks’ strength and conditioning workouts so far. “Guy ...