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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When the Kansas football team was going through spring practice, Dean Miller’s weight-gain plan included a requirement of consuming no fewer than 5,000 calories per day. “Now in fall camp,” he said recently, “I literally just eat ‘til I can’t eat no more.” Miller may have the most critical strength and nutrition program of any player on the Jayhawks’ roster. The onetime JUCO transfer, who has ...
It was a night of firsts for the Kansas soccer team on Thursday, as freshmen Jillian Gregorski and Shea Ryan each scored in their collegiate debut and the Jayhawks took down South Dakota State 2-1 in the season opener under new coach Nate Lie. KU goalie Sophie Dawe stopped all four shots on target from the run of play as the Jackrabbits scored their lone tally on a free kick by Laney Murdzek in the 20th minute. ...