A few details for the first three games on the Kansas football schedule are now in place, as the Big 12 announced Thursday kickoff times and television plans for the early season slate. The Jayhawks’ nonconference trip to Coastal Carolina on Sept. 10 will start at 6:30 p.m. and air on ESPN2. KU’s Big 12 opener the following week versus Baylor (Sept. 18) will kick off at 2:30 p.m. and be available to ...
The first week that Matt Gildersleeve was in Lawrence, the Kansas football team’s new director of sports performance didn’t leave the facility without talking at length each night with his boss, head coach Lance Leipold, about their summer plans for a program in need of a reboot. Though Gildersleeve already felt confident that he was on the same page as the man he spent the past two years working for at ...
As Andy Kotelnicki attempts in the months ahead to revive the Kansas football offense, the Jayhawks’ new coordinator and play-caller knows whatever level of success the team achieves will depend upon what transpires at the line of scrimmage. According to Kotelnicki, the offensive line is the most important position group in football. “And a lot of people talk about what it takes to win leagues and stuff ...
It will still be a little while before Kansas football coach Lance Leipold feels like he truly knows his team’s personnel. Just as the Jayhawks’ new leader got to campus a few weeks ago, many of the players were wrapping up spring semester finals and headed out of town. So — for now at least — Leipold is waiting to make any judgments about the roster he inherited. “I really can’t say,” KU’s ...
When Emmett Jones wasn’t handling the big picture responsibilities that came with his stint as the football team’s interim head coach this spring, the third-year Kansas assistant also stayed plenty busy in his normal role, coaching up the receivers. What Jones saw from the young group over the course of 15 practices proved gratifying for the position coach. “I sensed unification with those guys,” ...
Lance Leipold’s first game leading a Power Five football program is still months away. But the former Wisconsin-Whitewater and Buffalo head coach arrived at the University of Kansas with a strong enough reputation to outrank 30 of his peers in CBS Sports’ annual Power Five coach rankings. Leipold, who helped turn around UB football before taking the KU job and before that directed Whitewater to a 109-6 ...