Two of the assistants Les Miles hired shortly after becoming the head coach of the Kansas football program are officially coming back for a third year on Miles’ staff. KU announced Monday that defensive backs coach Chevis Jackson and defensive line coach and defensive run game coordinator Kwahn Drake had their options picked up. Both Jackson and Drake signed deals in 2018 that were guaranteed through their ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles and his staff proved in 2020 they don’t mind starting freshmen. But it may still be a while before Miles is ready to make any proclamations about how specific members of the Jayhawks’ 2021 signing class could make an impact next year. In the recently completed second season of Miles’ rebuilding project with KU, 11 different true freshmen started at least one game. No ...
Luke Grimm showed up at the University of Kansas this past summer with reasonable expectations for his freshman year with the football program. What Grimm didn’t know then was his work ethic and some unexpected opportunities would allow him to finish the year as one of the Jayhawks’ most promising receivers. When preseason camp began on the last day of July, Grimm recently recalled, he thought if he was ...
Kansas didn’t win its top 10 matchup with West Virginia Tuesday night at Allen Fieldhouse just by making 3-pointers. The No. 3 Jayhawks actually found a way to beat the No. 7 Mountaineers with missed 3-pointers, too. Sure, an assertive 16-for-37 display from beyond the arc set the stage for KU to comfortably win its final basketball game on the 2020 calendar, 79-65. But so did the Jayhawks’ newfound ability ...
Assembling a conclusive list of all the factors that led to the Kansas football team going winless in 2020 would be time consuming. But one component that surged to the forefront was the staggering lack of continuity with the roster. Back when this strange, pandemic shortened season began in September, with the Jayhawks taking on soon-to-be college football darling Coastal Carolina, KU’s starting lineup ...
There haven’t been many larger games this college basketball season than Tuesday night’s Big 12 matchup between No. 3 Kansas and No. 7 West Virginia at Allen Fieldhouse. Eager for the very first December meeting in a combative series with the Mountaineers and fiery coach Bob Huggins, KU’s Bill Self speculated earlier in the week it would be “one of the five biggest pre-Christmas games of the college ...