Anyone can make a coaching candidate list. And if you look right now you’ll find no fewer than 25 such lists out there that correspond to the suddenly vacant football job at the University of Kansas. We’ll have our list, too. And it likely won’t be the last one we make, depending, of course, on how long the process of [hiring a replacement for Les Miles][1] takes. Could be weeks. Could be months. A lot ...
It’s been 18 years since the University of Kansas was in pursuit of an athletic director and head coach to fill one of its most high-profile coaching offices at the same time. And that search, in 2003, led to the hiring of future Hall of Fame hoops coach Bill Self in April and Lew Perkins in June. Things are different today, and it’s a football coach and AD that KU is searching for this time around with ...
Plenty was made, in 2018, about University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long so quickly zeroing in on Les Miles and conducting yet another KU coaching search with Miles as the shiny, fancy focal point. Today, [with Miles and KU parting ways][1] in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment during Miles’ days at LSU, Long wholeheartedly believes he is the right man to find a quality replacement for the ...
One day after being named the Big 12's Most Improved Player, Kansas junior David McCormack earned a second team all-Big 12 nod from the Associated Press. McCormack also was named second team all-conference by the coaches on Monday. The 6-foot-10 forward from Norfolk, Va., was the only Kansas player named in the AP's postseason honors, making this one of the few years of late that the AP's first team all-Big ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self announced Tuesday that the Jayhawks will be without junior forward David McCormack and sophomore wing Tristan Enaruna for this week’s Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Self said both players had entered into COVID-19 protocol but did not reveal whether either tested positive for COVID-19 or was in the protocol for something else, like contact tracing. Enaruna and ...
Kansas forward David McCormack was voted by the conference’s coaches as the Big 12’s Most Improved Player for the 2020-21 season. McCormack is the second ever recipient of the newly created Big 12 postseason honor, and he was one of five Jayhawks to receive some love from the Big 12 coaches on Monday. A junior from Norfolk, Va., who has started 27 games for the 11th-ranked Jayhawks, McCormack led the Big ...