David Beaty almost found the right solution to the Kansas football program’s main problem. In fact, he only missed by one letter. Beaty hired himself again as offensive coordinator. He should have fired himself as head coach. Oh well, the ‘f’ is only two keys to the left of the ‘h.’ Understandable mistake. Unforgivable, to be sure, but understandable. If Beaty worked for athletic directors as ...
Fourth-year Kansas football coach David Beaty engaged his itchy trigger finger yet again Wednesday, firing offensive coordinator Doug Meacham in a two-paragraph press release. Beaty said he will handle in-game play-calling and will coach quarterbacks, duties Meacham handled for the first half of a 2-4 season. Meacham was hired as offensive coordinator before the 2017 season. “None of us are satisfied with ...
Silvio De Sousa was sitting in his assigned seat at Kansas basketball Media Day, fully decked out in his home uniform and sharing his delight at his sophomore season drawing closer. “It’s just super exciting knowing that I’m wearing a jersey that we usually wear for games,” De Sousa said Wednesday afternoon. “And it just makes me feel like the season is about to start tomorrow. It’s a great feeling ...
The switch from primarily using a three-man front to a four-man front for Saturday's game in Morgantown resulted in a far better pass rush. The appreciative secondary responded with three interceptions in the red zone of West Virginia quarterback Will Grier, who had not thrown a red-zone pick in his career heading into the game. Daniel Wise stood out up front and Hasan Defense in the back, but according to ...
Everybody knows the names that inspire many to say that all college basketball roads lead to the University of Kansas. Wilt Chamberlain, the most dominant player in the history of the game, spent three seasons here, one playing for a freshman team that was better than the varsity, and two for the varsity. James Naismith, basketball’s inventor, was the school’s first coach and, to date, the only one with a ...
Morgantown, W.V. — In the wake of Saturday’s closer-than-expected, 38-22 loss to West Virginia, first-year Kansas athletic director Jeff Long accommodated my request for an interview about his impressions of the football program at the halfway point of the season. “You know, we got a couple of wins there, won back-to-back games, which is something we hadn’t done here in a while,” Long said. “We’re ...