The fake flights were real, there actually was a little deception and it all led to Sunday evening, when KU Athletic Director Jeff Long stood at a podium inside Hadl Auditorium and introduced his good friend, Les Miles, as his newest co-worker.
Kansas football coach Les Miles, to be exact.
Yes, KU fans, it really happened. Miles is really here to coach your football team. And his relationship with Long is, ...
Some things are just meant to be.
And that certainly seemed to be the case on Friday night at Allen Fieldhouse, when Kansas coach Bill Self explained that, purely by coincidence, he had just spoken with the high school basketball coach who was on the bench back in 2005 the day Blake Hoffarber hit a buzzer-beating shot from his butt in the 4A Minnesota state championship game to send things to double-overtime ...
Imagine, for a minute, that you were Les Miles on Saturday night and found yourself in front of a television set around 6:30 p.m.
Wouldn’t you have flipped the tube to FOX to check out the Kansas football team’s second-to-last game of the season at Oklahoma?
Whether with his family somewhere in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, celebrating the first college touchdown pass in the career of his son, Manny ...
Some coaches in their final year on the job enjoy farewell tours that come with gifts and adoration from longtime foes in once-hostile venues.
Former Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart’s final farewell at Kansas is one that comes to mind, and Norm, who for decades had been urged over and over by KU fans to simply sit down, finally did just that, in a rocking chair given to him by then-KU coach Roy ...
Although I’m continuing to hear from people who believe Les Miles eventually will be the next football coach at Kansas, it appears there is nothing doing today.
In the eyes of Kansas fans who were energized and excited by [yesterday’s news of Miles’ settlement with LSU,][1] that has to be a bit disappointing.
Twitter, message boards and various other places have been full of grand plans of Miles ...
It was not quite the same red-hot, lightning-fast start that he had on Monday night against Vermont, but Lagerald Vick sure ended up in the same place.
Good thing, too.
On a night when 22-point favorite Kansas trailed visiting Louisiana by a dozen in the first half, the Jayhawks needed everything Vick could give them to hold off a scrappy Ragin’ Cajuns team, 89-76, at Allen Fieldhouse.
Fire and free throws. ...
