A couple of former Kansas football players who left the program months ago finally have come out on the other end of the NCAA’s transfer portal. Both defensive back Davon Ferguson and tight end James Sosinski announced their future football plans this week, with Ferguson heading to Bowling Green and Sosinski off to Nevada Ferguson, a starter in the secondary for the KU defense in each of the first four games ...
Lance Leipold won’t have to worry about disrupting the status quo at quarterback as he takes over the Kansas football program. There is no incumbent. No preordained starter for the Jayhawks. Not even a QB who made a claim for the No. 1 spot on the depth chart during the spring. The status of the competition remained static from the beginning to the conclusion of spring practices, just before Leipold was ...
It didn’t take long for another Power Five program to welcome in Da’Jon Terry once the former Kansas football defensive lineman opted to leave the Jayhawks. Four days after Terry announced he was entering the transfer portal, the athletic young tackle committed on Sunday evening to play at Tennessee. A redshirt sophomore who completed the spring practice schedule with KU, only to transition out of the ...
When Lance Leipold took over the Kansas football program, the new head coach inherited a roster without many local or in-state scholarship players. He plans to change that. Leipold, during his introductory press conference, described recruiting locally as “extremely important.” “It needs to be our foundation and become the backbone of what we are,” Leipold said of finding high school prospects from the ...
The first Kansas football team coach Lance Leipold leads onto the field in the fall won’t include one of his predecessor’s most promising young defensive linemen. Da’Jon Terry, who would’ve been a redshirt sophomore and was a near lock to start at defensive tackle for the Jayhawks in 2021, announced Wednesday his intentions to enter the NCAA’s transfer portal and leave KU. Terry, a 6-foot-4, ...
In successful runs at his previous two stops as a head coach, at Wisconsin-Whitewater and Buffalo, Lance Leipold and his staff established a winning culture. A buzzword throughout college football and the rest of the sporting universe, culture is a concept that coaches and players alike often reference as a less tangible measure of a team’s success. Days into his first venture as a Power Five head coach at ...