Several true freshmen seized the spotlight during Kansas football’s fall camp. Defensive ends DJ Warner and Dakyus Brinkley have garnered plenty of attention because of their high ratings and their opportunity to play immediately given KU’s lack of depth at the pass-rush spot. Isaiah Marshall has received the natural scrutiny that comes with being an apparent quarterback with the future, and his on-field ...
The ranks of former Jayhawks going through their first NFL preseason have thinned considerably over the course of the month. Namely, the Seattle Seahawks released Mike Novitsky on Aug. 5 and the Los Angeles Rams parted ways with Kenny Logan Jr. the following day. Even with those losses, though — which may not be permanent ones, as Novitsky has already reportedly worked out for two teams in the weeks since ...
Nate Lie wants to tilt the field. “We want to be one of the best pressing teams in the country,” said Lie, the first-year Kansas soccer coach. And therein enters the soccer statistic known as field tilt — what proportion of time does a given team spend in the attacking third, as compared to its opponents? In short, who is getting the majority of offensive opportunities? “We talk about this concept of ...
Kansas head coach Lance Leipold got told early in his career, in particular, that he didn’t enjoy wins enough. “I always felt that that was already over and something new was on the horizon,” he said at the start of KU’s 2024 fall camp. “I think you’ve got to find that balance but stay focused. I’m not always great on all these sayings, so I apologize — it’s why the windshield’s bigger than ...
Brian Borland did not mince words about his defense’s performance last year in the red zone. “We couldn’t be any worse than we were,” he said. He was quite literally correct. Kansas was 130th of 130 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the red zone during the 2023 season; given 50 opportunities to prevent an opposing team from scoring on a drive that reached the 20-yard line or closer, it gave up 35 ...
Zoey Burgess had a conversation with her mother in early August in which she said one of her goals for the upcoming season was to win Big 12 freshman of the year. Imagine her surprise to learn, a few days later, that she had already earned the preseason edition of that award — something she did not previously know existed. “It was a super, super cool feeling,” Burgess said. “... Just to get that ...