Without a permanent athletic director or head football coach in place, the exact path for the future of the University of Kansas football program remained unsettled as the Jayhawks opened their spring practice schedule this week. In fact, the way interim head coach Emmett Jones described his status, even he remains in the dark about what will come next — and when. “I try not to ask,” Jones replied during ...
About to lead the entire Kansas football team through a practice for the first time, interim head coach Emmett Jones hopes his approach this spring will set the wheels in motion for the Jayhawks’ long-term success. The players already have spent much of the semester up to this point doing strength and conditioning workouts, but now the Jayhawks will finally put on helmets, go through drills and run some plays ...
The Kansas football team’s quarterback competition has a new contender. A former starting QB at North Texas, Jason Bean announced Friday his plans to transfer to KU and join the Jayhawks. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 189 pounds on the Mean Green’s roster in 2020, Bean started in seven of the team’s 10 games as a redshirt sophomore before deciding to move on from the Conference USA program. Bean was involved ...
The top-rated prospect the Kansas football program ever signed, Quay Davis, won’t ever play for the Jayhawks. KU announced Friday that the football program “terminated the recruitment” of Davis after gathering information about the Dallas high school receiver’s connection with a battered woman shown in social media photos this week. According to a statement from KU Athletics spokesman Dan Beckler, KU ...
If the next athletic director at the University of Kansas wants a head coach who already has proven for several years that he can win at a high level, the AD likely won’t be able to pluck a candidate away from another Power Five program. Even though the Jayhawks compete in the Big 12, KU has underperformed for more than a decade now, making it a near impossible sell for an already established head coach in ...
The University of Kansas athletic department is “working to gather details” after photos posted to Twitter show a battered woman who insinuates she has a connection to a KU football recruit. The post, which included a “kufootball” hashtag, shows photos of a woman with a swollen-shut eye wearing a hospital gown. In the same thread, the posts also show pictures of Quay Davis, a four-star receiver who has ...