Kansas strength coach Matt Gildersleeve likes to stress that his conditioning program adapts to the needs of individual players — as he says, “you meet them where they’re at.” In the case of defensive tackle Marcus Calvin, when Calvin entered the program in 2023, that meant meeting a player at the point of coming from a high school that didn’t have a barbell in its weight room, as Gildersleeve has ...
Former Kansas guard Noah Shelby is transferring to Texas A&M, The Athletic’s Tobias Bass reported on Sunday morning. Shelby shared the news on his social media accounts. He spent one year at KU as a walk-on and redshirted, and will now play for his fourth school in four seasons after beginning his career at Vanderbilt and then moving to Rice. He will now become the third former Jayhawk to move to A&M ...
Friday night's practice presented the first chance for the Kansas football team to spend any significant time in the revamped David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, but it might not necessarily have felt that way for at least some of the Jayhawks. The “EA Sports College Football” video game is “a little bit too correct” in its depiction of the yet-unopened venue, redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Marcus ...
Former Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. has signed with the Kortrijk Spurs, the team announced on Sunday. The Spurs, also known as the House of Talents Spurs, play in the BNXT League, the top basketball competition for Belgium and the Netherlands. The team is located in Kortrijk in the Belgian province of West Flanders. This is the first overseas professional contract for Harris, who is coming off a brief ...
Kansas offensive coordinator Jim Zebrowski equates what running back Leshon Williams might have been experiencing when he came to KU to a “midlife crisis” — even as he acknowledges that Williams is too young for that sort of label. “Take football out of it,” Zebrowksi said. “I think sometimes in life, people need a reboot. Sometimes you just need a new job … You’ve seen it all over. I think he ...
In an interview on the “Inside College Basketball Now” podcast with CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self weighed in on the hypothetical hiring process for his eventual successor at KU whenever he chooses to retire from coaching. The interview, which was filmed on July 21 prior to Self’s two-day stint at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, includes KU’s 23-year coach supplying ...