Lance Leipold capped his first weekend as the head football coach at the University of Kansas meeting with most of the assistant coaches from the previous regime who had just led the Jayhawks through the entirety of the spring practice schedule. While Leipold won’t retain all of them, he said he’s open to keeping at least some of the coaches who were on staff when he arrived. One of Leipold’s ...
This past Friday, Lance Leipold boarded a jet to leave Buffalo feeling confident he had delivered on a core value in the football coaching ranks, to “leave it better than you found it,” as Leipold described the saying. The flight took him to Lawrence, where the new Kansas football head coach hopes to engineer a similar turnaround to the one he pulled off at Buffalo. Not that Leipold is in any hurry to ...
Players in the Kansas football program will get to know their new head coach, Lance Leipold, much better in the weeks and months ahead. And the Jayhawks left a whirlwind weekend for the program anticipating what’s ahead. “The impression I got from my new coach,” super-senior Nate Betts said after Saturday’s spring game, “is that he’s ready to go. And that’s what I like.” Not long after arriving ...
Lance Leipold didn’t walk into his new job as the head football coach at the University of Kansas blindly. And in his research Leipold saw a program he felt like he could help. In his first interview since becoming the Jayhawks’ new leader, Leipold said Saturday while sitting down with Brian Hanni of the Jayhawk Sports Network that he’s excited for the challenge of rebuilding the program. So how far away ...
As the Kansas football program transitions into the Lance Leipold era, the Jayhawks lost one of their previous recruits for the Class of 2022. Cory Hendrix, a high school offensive tackle from College Station, Texas, announced Sunday his plans to further explore his options. “After talking with my family, I’ve decided to decommit from the University of Kansas,” Hendrix wrote on Twitter. “My recruitment ...
When Lance Leipold became the new head football coach at the University of Kansas, he signed a six-year contract that will pay him an average of $2.75 million per year. The deal for the Jayhawks’ new coach, which will pay him $16.5 million in total, includes a pay increase each year. So although Kansas Athletics Inc., agreed to pay Leipold $2.2 million for his first year on the job, if the former Buffalo head ...