When the University of Kansas parted ways with Les Miles in early March, the football team’s players didn’t know what the future would hold. And while the coaching transition remains unfinished more than a month later, Sam Burt said he and other veterans did their best to make the process go as smoothly as possible. Initially, Burt told reporters this week, there was some concern about how players would ...
A national search for the next head football coach at the University of Kansas is back on — this time with a different athletic director in charge. Still in his second week on the job as KU’s new AD, Travis Goff announced in a letter emailed to donors Thursday evening that he is initiating a national search to find a permanent replacement for Les Miles. In the email, obtained by the Journal-World, Goff ...
The Kansas football team’s incoming freshman class will have one fewer member than expected. Andrew Simpson, a Class of 2021 linebacker who signed with the Jayhawks this past December, announced Wednesday he had been granted a release from his letter of intent. “I look forward to another opportunity to pursue my academic and athletic goals,” Simpson wrote on Twitter. “Thank you to the coaches and ...
As much as the Kansas football team leaned into getting its youngest prospects onto the field in 2020, only a select few true freshmen, including cornerback Duece Mayberry, actually played in every game. Though he didn’t start at all this past fall, Mayberry is grateful to bring so much experience with him into his sophomore season. “I feel like I made a lot of progress,” Mayberry said recently of his ...
In a program mired in uncertainty, few aspects of the Kansas football team’s 2021 season feel more settled than the running back position — even if the Jayhawks don’t want to reveal the particulars of how new offensive coordinator Mike DeBord wants to make use of the backs. “I can’t really tell all of that,” a grinning Amauri Pesek-Hickson replied Tuesday night, when asked how KU’s running backs ...
It won’t be called “Late Night Under the Lights,” and there will be no postgame Rick Ross concert, but there will be fans at the first Kansas football spring game in two years. KU announced Tuesday night that the May 1 open scrimmage will kick off at 6 p.m. at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, with fans able to attend for free. Seating will be first come, first served, with socially distanced small ...