There were points during Brian Borland’s long coaching career, he admits, when he never thought he would become a coordinator for a Power Five college football program.
In Borland’s industry, countless coaches try to work their way through the ranks, chasing the chance to eventually catch a break in one of college football’s top conferences. More than one could count never get the type of opportunity ...
Andy Kotelnicki has only been at the University of Kansas long enough to have “coffee dates” with many of the football players he’ll soon be coaching. As the Jayhawks’ new offensive coordinator settles in, Kotelnicki plans to make the transition as smooth as possible for everyone involved.
Given the odd timing of Lance Leipold’s hire, with the new staff members arriving in Lawrence at the end of the ...
A second former Kansas defensive lineman has emerged from the transfer portal in SEC country.
Defensive end Marcus Harris announced Friday his commitment to Auburn, less than two weeks after his former KU teammate, nose tackle Da’Jon Terry, decided to transfer to Tennessee.
“Auburn is a great program and it’s close to home,” Harris, a native of Montgomery, Ala., told Rivals. “It feels great to be ...
Lance Leipold’s first season leading the Kansas football program will now include back-to-back Friday night dates to open the 2021 campaign.
KU announced Thursday that both the home opener versus South Dakota and the Jayhawks’ Week 2 road game at Coastal Carolina have been moved up a day, slightly altering the previously released schedule.
Leipold’s KU debut will come Sept. 3 at David Booth Kansas ...
The latest search for the next head football coach at the University of Kansas didn’t conclude with a promotion for Emmett Jones, who led the Jayhawks on an interim basis throughout the spring. Nevertheless, the receivers coach didn’t hesitate to stick around when Lance Leipold took over the program and offered him that chance.
“Like I tell everybody, I want to be a part of the change,” Jones said of ...
The Kansas football program’s transition to a new coaching regime included a tandem setback in the trenches, as defensive end Marcus Harris and nose tackle Da’Jon Terry opted to transfer out of the program.
Yet the position group’s leader, third-year D-line coach Kwahn Drake, downplayed this week what type of blow that might be for the unit.
“This spring, for me, the guys as a group got so much better. ...
