The Kansas football team's secondary needs all the help it can get and one of the best ways to help it is to put a steady stream of pressure on the quarterback. And Dorance Armstrong is playing for the Dallas Cowboys now. So who will make the opposing offensive line pay extra attention to him the way Armstrong did? Maybe Azur Kamara. Wishful thinking putting him on this list? Probably, but it's necessary ...
Too many recent college graduates seem convinced that, because they compiled a nearly perfect GPA, piled up the volunteer hours and used just the right blend of colors on the resume, Fortune 500 companies will engage in a bidding war to hire them as their new CEO. The majority don’t take that approach, but far too many do. They just don’t get it. Cassius Sendish gets it. No surprise there. “Even as a ...
It's time for the annual blog series countdown projecting the 25 most valuable players for the Kansas football team. No. 25: Quan Hampton, sophomore receiver As a true freshman, Hampton started all six games in which he was healthy enough to play, an indication of how highly the coaching staff thinks of his talent. A 5-foot-8, 178-pound inside receiver, Hampton plays taller than that, thanks to leaping ...
Rare is the athlete whose developmental curve is a straight line forward, without stalls, setbacks, even regressions. Tyrone Miller came to Kansas as a high school recruit from Michigan and was pressed into duty at cornerback right away. He showed a knack for making plays, but lacked the pure speed to keep up with fleet Big 12 receivers. A position switch was in order. The move to his high school position of ...
Another poll with Kansas on top — this one of college basketball coaches, conducted by CBS — means more fuel will be added to the notion that this will be a disappointing underachievement of a season if the Jayhawks don’t make it to the Final Four. Not fair. No need to look beyond Kansas teams that made the Final Four and others that fell short to be reminded that so many more factors than the talent ...
Catch, drop, kick. Those three phases to a successful punt need to come in the right order. Kansas punter Kyle Thompson earned a full scholarship out of high school based on the strength of his foot, but struggled to execute the three phases of punting in the right order during practice. Too often, it wasn’t catch, drop, kick. It was drop, no kick, oh boy! An unintentional drop came first, which prevented ...