Tuesday’s Kansas football media day delivered the largest collection of individual access that I can remember in a single day in all of my years covering the program. Head coach Lance Leipold and his offensive and defensive coordinators, Andy Kotelnicki and Brian Borland, answered questions for nearly an hour. They were candid about the performances and prospects of those players they were asked about [and ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self announced Monday night that Jeremy Case has been promoted into a full-time assistant coaching role with the Jayhawks. Case fills the seat on Self’s bench that came open after the departure of Jerrance Howard earlier this year. But his addition to the staff hardly qualifies as adding a new face to the program. “I’ve known Jeremy since he was a baby and had the ...
When Kansas fans first caught wind of Jeremy Case as a real option to replace Jerrance Howard on Bill Self’s staff, the reaction was somewhat mixed. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like Case. In fact, most people absolutely love him. But there were — and probably still are — plenty of KU fans out there who were worried that Case would not be able to recruit at the level needed to be a factor in the ...
The very thing that looked like it could save the Big 12 Conference a couple of weeks ago might now be the thing that winds up doing it in. Such is life on the wrong side of the realignment lunch room. If you’re not sitting with the popular kids today, you very much run the risk of getting overlooked when college football passes out its tastiest treats. We’re not there yet. But [a Friday report from The ...
Jake Schoonover has a pretty simple philosophy for how to coach special teams that has very little to do with what takes place on the field. It also lines up perfectly with his run as one of the new assistant coaches working for the first time under new KU coach Lance Leipold. “I say this to our guys all the time: Our special teams is a reflection of the character in the locker room,” Schoonover said on ...
If Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris had it to do over again, he would start his first season as a Jayhawk the way he finished it. “I feel like I could play way better than I did last year,” the third-year sophomore recently said during a break at Brett Ballard’s Washburn Basketball camp earlier this summer in Topeka. “I should’ve been more aggressive (earlier) instead of waiting until later in the ...