As intricate as the college baseball offseason already is, it just keeps getting more complicated. As Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald pointed out in a recent conversation with reporters, with one transfer portal window recently closed, and the MLB Draft approaching on Sunday, the NCAA has now enacted a new, one-time portal window that opens Monday. This one, in light of the House v. NCAA settlement, exists ...
As event organizer Brian Hanni, the broadcasting voice of the Jayhawks, puts it, an event like the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic could only really happen at Kansas because of the wide-ranging pool of basketball players available and the high character of those players. “That’s a huge, huge leg up for us,” Hanni said, “that we’re dealing with awesome Jayhawk legends like we are.” It’s been such an ...
Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald is in it for the long haul. “We were so specific in coming to Kansas and had so many reasons why KU was the fit,” he said on Wednesday, “and then as we’ve gotten into this three years, it’s just been confirmed over and over and over. And working alongside (athletic director Travis Goff) and (sport administrator Sean Lester) and my entire staff and the entire ...
One of the Kansas baseball team’s top young players entered the transfer portal right before it could close, but he might not make it to another school at all. Sophomore right-handed pitcher Cooper Moore decided to transfer, as was first reported by Baseball America on Tuesday night. But Moore, 21, is eligible for the 2025 MLB Draft, and KU coach Dan Fitzgerald said on Wednesday that he is likely to get ...
Former Kansas cornerback Damarius McGhee, who left the team prior to the start of spring practice, has entered the transfer portal, according to multiple reports on Wednesday. The news was first reported by 247Sports and then shared by McGhee himself on social media. A former four-star recruit out of Pensacola, Florida, McGhee joined the Jayhawks in 2023 after two seasons at LSU. He lost most of his first ...
Whatever Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald and his staff did last season to plan for KU’s potential losses to the MLB Draft clearly worked. Despite losing a significant chunk of its projected 2025 roster as six players who had remaining eligibility signed professional deals, KU went on to engineer the best season in its recent history just a few short months later. Even with that past experience under ...