The first Kansas football depth chart of the season, which was released on Monday, features a lot less ambiguity than usual. “This time, I tried to make a little decision on this to not list 75 guys,” head coach Lance Leipold told reporters, though he took care to add, “I might do it to you guys next week.” Gone are the 15 instances of the word “or” that muddied last year’s initial depth chart, ...
The first-place ranking that the Kansas volleyball team received in the Big 12 preseason coaches’ poll has a lot to do with what the team accomplished last year, as head coach Ray Bechard acknowledged at a recent press conference. KU went 14-4 in the league last season and brought back many of its most prominent players, including preseason all-conference picks London Davis, Ayah Elnady and Camryn ...
Tristian Fletcher’s long-term prospects at Kansas weren’t the brightest entering the 2024 campaign. As defensive coordinator Brian Borland put it, “he might have been on the outside looking in at some things.” Fletcher took just eight snaps during the 2023 season, according to Pro Football Focus. That was his second year at KU after the Jayhawks flipped him from Sam Houston out of Trinity Valley ...
Ron McGee was slated to arrive at Kansas as a senior when he first transferred to the school. That was in the summer of 2021, and McGee was a defensive tackle. Three years later, he is still in Lawrence and ready to play one more year of college football as a defensive end. “You never know how your journey’s going to start; it’s all about how you finish,” McGee told the Journal-World at KU's media day. ...
The Kansas football team has reaped the benefits of upgraded facilities during its fall training camp, and strength coach Matt Gildersleeve reckons it’s been by far the Jayhawks’ healthiest camp since he and Lance Leipold arrived on campus in 2021. Over the past three weeks in the renovated Anderson Family Football Complex, KU’s players have gotten to take advantage of new amenities like cryotherapy, a ...
The day Quentin Skinner arrived at KU in 2020 is still fresh in his mind, in part because he did it at the same time as fellow wideouts Lawrence Arnold and Luke Grimm and quarterback Jalon Daniels. “I remember that first day we moved in, cheesy, but like it was yesterday, man,” he said on Tuesday. “We moved in all of our stuff, all of our families met each other, and first thing I questioned everyone in ...