Jon Kirby, who covers Kansas football for Rivals, said hello to Kansas punt returner Kwamie Lassiter II and told him he remembered watching his father play for KU as a defensive back. “He’d hit you,” Kirby said. Responded Lassiter II: “He said he was a hard hitter. I believe it.” He has heard it so many times about his father he can’t help but believe it. He even heard it while standing in the ...
A former engineer for NASA and then a high school football coach in New Orleans, his hometown, Kansas associate head coach/running backs Tony Hull does more than instruct ball carriers for David Beaty's football program. He heads up The Boot Experiment, Beaty's plan to develop a Louisiana pipeline of recruits who choose Kansas as a place to continue their educations and football careers. That enormous task ...
Former Lawrence High football and baseball standout Darryl Monroe has a long history of competing for the winning side. Monroe was a key member of a Lawrence High state champion in football, a Lions baseball team that finished third in the state and the only University of Kansas baseball squad to make it to the College World Series. Given his on-field success as an athlete, it shouldn’t come as too much of a ...
The early scouting report that I received on first-year Kansas athletic director Jeff Long included high marks for hiring football coaches in stealth fashion, so don’t necessarily take his decision not to fire David Beaty after the coach’s egregious mismanagement of the overtime loss to Nicholls State as inaction on the AD’s part. For all we know, Long’s people could be talking to Les Miles’ people as ...
So you think you want to make a career of coaching college football, do you? Well, take a look at the work background of Kansas defensive line coach Jesse Williams and then think about the stress involved every time you have changed addresses. Williams has coached in nine different states: California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Kansas at nine different schools: ...
A pair of curious substitutions that took starting quarterback Peyton Bender out of the game, as well as ill-timed timeouts, repeated troubles with the snap from center, a drop in the end zone by the team’s best receiver, Steven Sims Jr., and several other tough moments during Saturday’s season-opening loss to Nicholls State cranked up the heat on fourth-year Kansas coach David Beaty’s seat. It’s not ...